Month: July 2022

Geopath Names Chris Luken SVP Product

New York, NY (July 6, 2022) – Geopath, the not-for-profit organization that provides the industry-standard audience metrics for out-of-home (OOH) advertising, has named Chris Luken Senior Vice President of Product. In this new role at Geopath, Luken will focus on accelerating and expanding the suite of Geopath’s OOH audience measurement […]

Company of the Day – Mackay Advertising

Company:  Mackay Advertising Market:  Texas Headquarters:  2221 Clear Creek Court, Weatherford, TX 76087​ Phone: 817-877-1866 Email: Mike@MackayAdvertising.com Mackay Advertising was founded in 1985 and provides outdoor advertising on buses, bus benches, and billboards in the Dallas/Fort Worth market. Mackay also offers graphic design services such as: Logos, Business Cards, Brochures, […]

Rothfelder On Lamar vs TxDOT And Sovereign Immunity

The Texas Court of Appeals, for the 14th District in Houston, issued its opinion on May 12, 2022 in Lamar vs Texas Department of Transportation, holding that TxDOT has sovereign immunity against Lamar’s claims that it’s “officials interpreted the rules incorrectly when more than four years after Lamar last paid […]

Kevin Gephart on Selling in a Recession

By Kevin Gephart Lots of talk whether the Federal Reserve’s efforts to raise interest rates and curb the money supply will put us in a recession. OOH is the Do-More-With-Less medium.  As you meet with clients and prospects, ask the high gain question: “If we slide into a recession, how […]

JCDecaux Acquires Majority Stake in DSP Platform Displayce

JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, has announced the signature of a strategic alliance, including the acquisition of a majority stake, with Displayce, the DSP (Demand Side Platform) leader specialised in the purchasing and optimisation of digital outdoor advertising (DOOH). Displayce, a French start-up […]

Company of the Day: MAC Media

Company: MAC Media Markets: Florida Email: macmedia@cfl.rr.com Phone: 407-805-9238 MAC Media operates an out of home advertising plant with over 150 billboard displays including 90 digital displays in Orlando Florida.  Richard (“Mac”) McHugh is founder.  Richard’s wife Rhonda is CFO.   [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

US Out of Home Stocks Suffer in 2Q 2022

The US out of home stocks suffered in the second quarter of 2022 as investors sold on fears that a recession will hurt ad based companies for than the market.  The S&P 500 index declined 16% on recession fears.  Lamar stock dropped 25% in the second quarter.  Outfront declined by […]

Rate This Ad with Greg Callaham

Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a random piece of billboard artwork using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This week’s rating is […]