Company: Lakeland Outdoor Markets: Florida Headquarters: 215 E Bay Street, Suite 7, Lakeland, Florida 33810 Phone: 863-603-0373 Email: koertel@lakelandoutdoor.com Lakeland Outdoor operates a 131 face billboard billboard plant in central Florida including two digital billboards. The firm’s plant is centered on Lakeland, Florida, approximately 45 minutes east of Tampa. Kathy Oertel is the firm’s general […]
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Covid Poll: Revenue within 90% of Normal for Most Billboard Insider Readers
Last week Billboard Insider asked readers how their revenues have been impacted by Covid. 20 of 33 (61%) of respondents say last month’s out of home revenues are 90% of pre-covid levels or better. 6 of 33 respondents (18%) have revenues down more than 40% from pre-covid. Insider guesses that […]
Cox, Leslie and Spartan to Trailhead Media
Williamson and Associates has announced the closure of three out of home transactions. Cox Media has divested its digital and static assets in Easley, South Carolina to Trailhead Media. Cox was formed in 2015 by Kerry Cox, an industry veteran who began his career in Out of Home in 1991. […]
Glyn Williams Promoted to President at Mahlmann Media
Mahlmann Media, Inc. (MMI) announces the promotion of Glyn Williams to President. He will oversee the day to day functions of the company and spearhead MMI’s continued growth as a premier OOH media operator. Drawing on his nearly two decades in the OOH industry, he has already made a tremendous impact to […]
OSHA fines and out of home
Insider reviewed 81 OSHA citations written to display advertising companies (NAICS Code 541850) for the last 24 months (January 2018 to January 2020). Three takeaways. Citations declined in 2019 versus 2018. OSHA wrote $49,000 in fines against display advertising companies in 2019 versus $179,000 in fines during 2018. The large […]
Company of the Day: Leslie Outdoor
Company: Leslie Outdoor Advertising Markets: Milledgeville, Sandersville and Dublin, GA Headquarters: 121 West Mcintosh St, Milledgeville, GA 31061 Phone: 478-456-4747 Email: leslieoutdoor@gmail.com Leslie Outdoor operates a plant of Formetco digital billboards at 7 locations in Georgia. The company is owned by John and Faye Leslie who are experienced outdoor advertising entrepreneurs. Insider interviewed John and […]
Defamation on a billboard can get you in big trouble.
Defaming someone on a billboard can get you in big trouble. That’s the lesson of Anagnost, Crews and Grenier v Michael Gill. Here are the facts. Michael Gill owned three electronic billboards in New Hampshire. He was not in the out of home business but used the digital billboards to […]
Supreme Court Declines to Review Thomas Case
The US Supreme Court declined to review the ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that Tennessee’s billboard law was unconstitutional. The ruling invalidated Tennessee’s sign code. On June 25, 2020 Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee signed legislation to revise Tennessee’s sign rules to fix the […]
Company of the Day: King Outdoor
Company: King Outdoor Advertising Markets: Pennsylvania Address: 304 N Washington Avenue, Suite 201, Scranton, PA 18503 Email: info@kingoutdoor.net Phone: 570-34408250 King Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 32 static and 55 digital spaces in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1966. Jerry Frank is the company’s CEO and President. […]
Out of Home Revenues Coming Back
Revenues at Insider’s Indiana/Minnesota out of home plant have almost fully recovered from Covid declines. Take a look at this chart below. Three quarters of the revenue decline was caused by closed businesses asking for abatement. One quarter of the revenue decline was caused by businesses asking for a contract […]























