Author: billboardinsider

Company of the Day: Cooper Outdoor

Company: Cooper Outdoor  Markets: Texas, Southern Coast, Southeast of San Antonio. Headquarters:  115 Waco, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78401 Phone:  361-882-3088 Email: coopersales@cooperoutdoor.com Cooper Outdoor is a locally owned and operated family business which was founded in 1981.  The company has 500 billboard locations in Aransas County, Bee County, Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Live Oak […]

Lamar’s Tommy Teepell on Selling Out of Home

Lamar has started an out of home podcast called Digital and Dirt.  Some highlights from Ian Dallimore’s interview with Lamar CMO Tommy Teepell On an early OAAA presentation contrasting out of home with radio and newspapers and TV. I come out there and I am getting blown away by stuff […]

Free DPAA Seminar on Work Life Balance

NEW YORK, November 29, 2021 – DPAA, the global trade marketing association, driving the digitization of out-of-home (OOH) media and its growing role in the Omnichannel mix, announced today its year-end WE.DOOH (Women’s Empowerment in Digital Out of Home) webinar entitled “Work/Life Integration and Finding Your Joy in 2022.” The […]

Bill Lodzinski on Running a Private OOH Company

Bill Lodzinski was named President and CEO of West Virginia Outdoor in May 2021 after a 29 year career in the out of home business including stints at Link Media, Associated Posters, Fairway, Outfront and Lamar.  Bill reflects on his first 100 days at West Virginia Outdoor. What did you […]

Billboards and Property Values – The Rest of the Story

The Scenic America website has a link to  a 2011 study by a University of Pennsylvania researcher Jonathan Snyder which found that in Philadelphia, billboards had an adverse impact on the value of homes nearby.  Billboard Insider has seen references to this study by city planners who are anti-billboard. Correlation […]

GEFT Outdoor Wins Another Case

By Ken Klein, EVP – Government Affairs, OAAA A federal judge in Indiana (nominated by President Trump) issued an injunction against a local sign-variance process as subjective and vague, and therefore unconstitutional. The ruling is a victory for GEFT Outdoor, which sought a digital billboard permit in Monroe County (IN). “The […]

Company of the Day: Connell Outdoor

Company:  Connell Outdoor Market: Las Vegas Headquarters: 5242 Swenson Street, Las Vegas, NV  89119 Phone: 792-795-0555 Connell Outdoor has billboard locations in tourist and local corridors in Las Vegas.In addition to its billboard operation in Las Vegas, Connell Outdoor has a sister company, Shore Sign Service located in Atlantic City, New Jersey.   Jessica Connell is the […]

Happy Thanksgiving from Billboard Insider

Billboard Insider is taking today and tomorrow off for Thanksgiving.  We have lots to be thankful for: To Outfront Media Real Estate Rep Shelli Bergren for being Billboard Insider’s first newsletter subscriber. To SignAd’s Taylor Buckholtz for being Billboard Insider’s most recent and 3,122nd  newsletter subscriber. To Anna Bager and […]

Andy Goodman on Dealing with Native American Tribes

Today out of home development expert Andy Goodman shares his experience dealing with Native American Tribes. I’ve had a couple experiences here in California with the Indian Tribes.  The Agua Caliente Tribe in Palm Springs were very good to work with. We would meet with the Bureau of Indian Affairs […]

Company of the Day: Comstor Outdoor

Company: Comstor Outdoor Markets: Indiana and Ohio. Headquarters: 9016 St Route 117, Box 151 Huntsville, Ohio  43324-0151. Phone: 888-354-2591 Email: office@comstoroutdoor.com Comstor Outdoor was started in 2001 by Jason Duff and operates 400 faces in western Ohio and Eastern Indiana. In addition to Comstor, Duff runs the Community Storage & Properties real estate firm […]