Author: billboardinsider

85% of US Adults Expect to Travel this Summer

WASHINGTON, March 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The overwhelming majority of U.S. adults (85%) are expecting to travel this summer, taking even more vacation time than they did in 2021: nearly half (48%) of Americans who plan to vacation this summer will take two weeks or more, up from (41%) last summer. Driving […]

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: Greyline Outdoor

Company: Greyline Outdoor Markets: New York Address: PO Box 281, Bryant NY  14027 Phone: 716-983-9820 Greyline Outdoor originally formed in 1988 as S&S Enterprises, a small, local sign shop under owner/operator(s) Everett Scritchfield, Jr. and Linda Scritchfield.  1993 marked the first purchase of billboard by the company and set the path […]

Sean Reilly: Right Now Everything is Flashing Green

Sean Reilly was bullish at this week’s Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference.  Here’s a selection of his comments. The outlook It feels great…Looking at Q4 we set records with every financial metric…we’re seeing the same momentum carrying forward…as of right now everything is flashing green. Political It breaks […]

Company of the Day: GreenSigns

Company: Greensigns Market: Chicago Headquarters:  2700 S. River Road, Suite 203.  Des Plaines, IL  60018 Phone:  312-624-8550 Email: info@greensignschicago.com Greensigns operates a network of digital and static billboards in the Chicago area.  Joseph Mancino is CEO.  David Williams is President.    Here are some highlights from our June 2020 podcast interview with CEO […]

5 Things About Lamar

Here are five things about Lamar which Billboard Insider learned from reading all 119 pages of the Lamar Advertising 2021 10K. Record this, record that. 2021 was Lamar’s best year ever for revenues, cashflow, cashflow margin and stock price.  The company used covid as a chance to prune expenses and […]

Rothfelder on Covenants Not To Compete

As readers of Billboard Insider, you’ve undoubtedly seen from the frequent notices in the publication the tremendous amount of acquisitions of out of home assets recently. In addition to asset purchase agreements and assignment of interests, these transactions often include covenants not to compete. More specifically, the purchaser of the […]

OneScreen.ai Earns 2022 Great Place to Work Certification

BOSTON — March 9, 2022 – OneScreen.ai, a SaaS-enabled B2B marketplace provider for out-of-home (OOH) advertising, is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work®. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at the company. This year, all of OneScreen.ai’s 34 […]

RFP for paid advertising in Minneapolis ABM parking facilities and skyways

ABM Marketing Manager Michel Wong writes Billboard Insider that ABM seeks RFP’s for paid advertising in certain Minneapolis parking facilities and skyways. Please see attached Request for Proposals for Leasing and Operation of Paid Advertising Programs in the ABM Managed Parking Facilities and Internal Skyways including RFP Checklist and RFP […]

“A Special Man from Kansas…” Remembering Billboard Champion Roger Kemp

By Mike Hershey, OAAA Government Affairs Roger Kemp, the Kansas dad who used billboards to help find the man who killed his daughter two decades ago, passed away last week. Longtime friend Bob Fessler (OAAA HoF 2007) of Lamar Advertising Company in Kansas City confirmed his passing and will attend […]