Month: May 2026

Ari Buchalter on the Acceptance of PerView Impressions

At the Spring IBO show Broadsign Chief Strategy Officer Ari Buchalter was asked a couple questions about PerView impressions..  Here was his response, lightly edited. You can get impressions from Place Exchange or from Geopath. Will buyers accept Place Exchange impressions on the same basis as Geopath? In our experience, […]

Best Practices Workshop at the World Out of Home Conference in London

By Mike Donaldson, Outdoorlink International The WOO Global Conference is one of those events I genuinely look forward to every year. There’s something about getting media owners and industry leaders from around the world together in one place that brings better conversations than you’ll find anywhere else. Outdoorlink is taking […]

Company of the Day – Innovare Medical Media

  Company:  Innovare Medical Media Markets:  Nationwide Address: 3496 US 22, Somerville, NJ. 08876 Email: info@innovaremedia.com Phone:  866-887-2207 Innovare Medical Media partners with hospitals and advertisers to offer cutting-edge digital signage solutions specifically designed for the healthcare sector. Insider talked with Company President and Partner, Nick Lieberman who along with Michael Ricciardi, founded the business. Nick, […]

SignValue’s Lamar Advertising at a Glance – March 2026

SignValue has prepared this analysis of Lamar Advertising’s first quarter 2026 financials.   If you have questions, contact one of SignValue’s experienced analysts for a free and confidential consultation at info@signvalue.com or call 480-657-8400. To receive a free morning newsletter with each day’s Billboard insider articles email info@billboardinsider.com with the word “Subscribe” […]

How Place Exchange Helps Independent Out of Home Companies

Billboard Insider is running excerpts from an interview that Co-Publisher Dave Westburg conducted with Broadsign CEO and Chairman Burr Smith and Chief Strategy Officer Ari Buchalter at the IBO show.  Today, Ari Buchalter talks about how Place Exchange helps independent out of home companies and programmatic pricing (remarks have been […]

Rate This Ad by 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 […]

Company of the Day: Norris Outdoor

Company:  Norris Outdoor Advertising Markets: Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri Headquarters:  115 E. St. John, Girard, Kansas, 66743 Phone: 620-724-4719 Email: jnorris@norrisoutdoor.com Norris Outdoor Advertising is part of Norris Advertising, a multi-media company a multi-media company that provides out of home advertising services, radio, digital sign sales and advertising services.  Norris […]

The Little Logo Business That Could

We’ve all seen them.  The simple directional logo signs along the side of a freeway highlighting businesses at the next exit.  There’s money in the logo business.  Here’s an analysis of Lamar’s logo business, sponsored and analyzed by SignValue.  Listen to what Lamar Advertising CEO Sean Reilly said about the […]

Rothfelder on Cozy Inn vs Salina and “Art” vs “Sign”

  Billboards are among the most heavily regulated land uses, by municipal, state, and federal officials, under statutory and administrative sign, building, and zoning codes. However, the threshold question in every billboard regulation is whether a given structure even legally qualifies as a “sign,” thereby subjecting it to governmental permitting […]

Burr Smith Talks About Taking on an Out of Home Patent Troll

At the Spring IBO show Billboard Insider’s Dave Westburg had a wide-ranging interview with Burr Smith, Chairman of Broadsign, and Ari Buchalter, Chief Strategy Officer of Broadsign.  We will run excerpts from the interview.  Today Burr Smith talks about taking on an out of home patent troll. The entire out […]