Billboard Insider recently published an article on the 2009 Nebraska Supreme Court case of Lamar Co vs City of Fremont, along with the follow up comments from California attorney Richard Hamlin. Among the several interesting legal issues in the case was Lamar’s allegation of tortious interference, which basically consisted of […]
Month: June 2026
US OOH Revenues up 7% in 2Q 2026
OOH continued its record-breaking momentum in Q1 2026, generating an all-time first quarter high of $2.12 billion in revenue. Extending OOH’s growth streak to 20 consecutive quarters, revenue increased 7.1% compared to the same quarter last year. The strong quarterly performance builds on OOH’s record-setting $9.46 billion in revenue in 2025 […]
The Billboard That Said Nothing and Made People Talk
At multiple locations across Accra, the capital city of Ghana, including the arterial Ring Road East in Osu and in Legon, Out-of-Home advertising is doing something unusual. Billboards normally designed to sell products and project aspiration have been stripped of all commercial content and covered entirely in second-hand clothing. The […]
Company of the Day – Oaktree Outdoor
Company: Oaktree Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 1650 Manheim Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601 Market: Lancaster, PA Phone: 717-368-8074 Email: DEVON@OAKTREEOUTDOOR.COM Oaktree Outdoor Advertising serves the greater Lancaster area with an inventory that incudes 82 digital faces. The Lancaster metropolitan area population is over 500,000. The city is located about 34 miles southeast […]
Richard Hamlin on Permit Rights and Tortious Interference
California Out of Home attorney Richard Hamlin of the Hamlin|Cody law firm comments on Billboard Permit rights run with the land. We are especially interested in his thoughts on tortious interference. This is an issue for all of you who talk to landlords or who are approached by landlords who […]
Geopath Seeks Executive Director
NEW YORK – June 2, 2026 – Geopath today announced the next step in its evolution to advance the Out-of-Home (OOH) industry: the launch of a search for an Executive Director to lead Geopath into a bold, momentum-filled future. Building on meaningful progress and recent pilot of a next-generation measurement […]
Company of the Day: Norton Outdoor
Company: Norton Outdoor Market: Cincinnati, Ohio. Headquarters: 5280 Kennedy Avenue, Cincinnati, OH Phone: 513-631-4864 Norton Outdoor is a private, family owned outdoor company which was started by Jerry Norton in 1949. Norton operates nearly 800 static display faces and 18 digital billboards in the Cincinnati region. Stacey Norton keyes is Vice President. Kevin […]
Debt Trends at Public Out of Home Companies
Moorgate Capital Partners produces an outstanding quarterly report on the out of home advertising industry. Here are some charts from Moorgate’s 1Q 2026 report which caught our eye. Public out of home company valuations are at an all time high. Lamar is trading at 16.8 times forward cashflow (EBIDTA). Outfront […]
Why Billboard Companies Lose Good Employees — and Why It’s Usually Not Just About Pay
By Janea McDonald, Owner, Edge Consulting When good employees leave billboard companies, leadership often assumes the issue is compensation. Sometimes it is. But in my experience, pay is usually only part of the story. More often, people leave because they are worn down by the day-to-day experience of work. The […]
Daktronics CEO Ramesh Jayaraman: When you look up you see Daktronics.
Daktronics CEO Ramesh Jayaraman was interviewed on Marketbeat. Some of the highlights. Where he came from Born in India. Lived in just very different parts of the world. My dad was in manufacturing so we got to travel the entire world…came to Business School to the US and you know […]
























