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Free Legal Seminar on Billboard Issues

By Kerry Yoakum, OAAA OAAA sponsors a Legal Seminar every other year. Insider asked Kerry Yoakum, Vice President/Government Affairs, to tell us about the 18th OAAA Legal Seminar. What is the Legal Seminar? The substantive agenda features topics that broadly impact out of home media:  the constitutional challenge to existing regulation, […]

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 […]

Salvation Army Transforms Chicago’s Red Line into Rescue Christmas Express

CHICAGO – From now until January 3, The Salvation Army is transforming the CTA Red Line into the Rescue Christmas Express. The exterior and interior of two train cars are wrapped to match the colors of the iconic Red Kettles. The cars will feature messaging on the unprecedented need in […]

Company of the Day: Pro Billboards

Company: Pro Billboards Markets:  Puerto Rico Address: PMB 557, 1353 RD 19, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico  00966 Phone: 787-731-5987 Email: info@probillboards.com Pro Billboards operates a billboard plant  of static and digital billboards in Puerto Rico. Most of the faces are 14′ by 48′ faces.  The remainder are 12′ by 36′.  The principals […]

Out of the Office: Daron Henry

Insider has lots of readers who hunt on their days off.  Here’s IBOUSA Production and Operations Manager Daron Henry hunting Bobwhite Quail on Chris Cowlbeck’s Oklahoma ranch. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Eccleshare: The second wave of the virus is not as scary as the first.

Clear Channel Outdoor Worldwide CEO William Eccleshare, Americas CEO Scott Wells and CFO Brian Coleman appeared at this weeks Wells Fargo TMT conference.  Some highlights. Eccleshare is optimistic about the future. We continue to be optimistic about the resilience of the business because there the lockdowns have been less significant…our […]

Will the Supreme Court take up Austin’s sign code appeal?

Lots of speculation as to whether the US Supreme Court will take up an appeals court decision that the city of Austin’s ban on off-premise digital billboards violates the First Amendment.  The case is Reagan and Lamar versus City of Austin.   Austin has approved a legal services agreement with a […]

OUTFRONT Named One of Americas Most Responsible Companies

OUTFRONT has been ranked in Newsweek’s second annual America’s Most Responsible Companies list. Out of 2,000 eligible companies, 400 made the final list, each across 14 different industries. OUTFRONT is the only out of home company to make the list.  It was ranked #325, the second media company after Disney […]

Company of the Day: Premiere/Art Outdoor

Company: Premiere/Art Outdoor Advertising Markets:  Montana Address: 623 Mountain View Drive, Bozeman, MT  59718 Email: mclyde21@gmail.com Phone: 406-599-5909 Premiere Outdoor operates a 192 face out of home plant in the following markets: Missoula, Great Falls, Helena and Bozeman.  The company was formed in 1990.  Insider talked with Matt Clyde after […]

Link Media: Most of the things we are looking at are tuck-ins.

Alex Rozek (center) and Adam Peterson (right) appearing at the Wells Fargo TMT Summit Boston Omaha’s Co-CEO’s Alex Rozek and Adam Peterson made a rare public appearance at the Wells Fargo TMT conference this week.  Here’s what they said about Boston Omaha’s Link Media Outdoor subsidiary. On why Link has […]