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Geopath Market Spotlight: Wausau-Rhinelander

Did you know: The Wausau Curling Facility is the largest in the United States. Granite Peak Ski Area in Wausau is the highest skiable peak in Wisconsin. This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses on the Wausau, Wisconsin DMA. Infographics for the top DMAs and much more are available to Geopath […]

Company of the Day: Vital Outdoor

Company: Vital Outdoor Advertising Market:  Oklahoma Address: PO Box 2615, Edmond OK  73083 Phone: 405-544-7746 Vital Outdoor Advertising operates 18 digital and static billboard structures in Oklahoma City.   The firm is privately held and was founded in March 1996.  Justin Booher is President, Shannon Booher is CFO.  The firm is […]

Billboard Legal: Cutting Down Trees Can Get You Into Trouble

Cutting down trees without permission can get you into trouble.  That’s the lesson of Blust v Lamar Advertising.  Here are the facts. In Sept 1988 Lamar leased land for a billboard in Miami Ohio Township from James Weber.  John and Jean Blust owned the land adjacent to the billboard site.  […]

Haleigh Powell on Great Creative

By Haleigh M Powell, Client Relations, Huntington Outdoor We like catchy, clean, and bright creative work, right? The best creative work is simple, to-the-point designs. So why is it so hard to work with your clients and create these classic, easy-on-the-eyes designs? The difference between amazing and average designs has […]

3 More Things About Clear Channel Outdoor

Clear Channel Outdoor priced its 100 million share stock offering at $3.50 last Friday.  That means it will raise $400 million if underwriters exercise their shares.  Insider learned three things about Clear Channel Outdoor from the Prospectus. Billboards in the US, Street Furniture abroad. Billboards account for 61% of Americas […]

Matt O’Conner on Performance Based Out of Home

Last week Insider wrote about a performance based marketing trial which the out of home platform Adquick conducted in Los Angeles for food ordering app Ritual.    Insider talked with Adquick co-founder Matt O’Conner about the project. Where did the idea come from? We’ve tested a variety of calls to […]

Rate This Board by Out of Home Creative

Rate This Board allows a billboard designer to rate a billboard ad using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great).  Then the designer recommends how to improve the ad.  This week’s rating is provided by Melody Roberts, an OBIE nominated billboard designerand founder […]

Company of the Day: Waverly Media

Company:  Waverly Media Market:  Florida Headquarters:  4188 Dairy Ct, Suite D, Port Orange, Florida  32127 Phone: 386-322-3600 Waverly Media is a 20 year old company which operates a bus bench advertising business in Pasco County, Florida with coverage in: Deltona Deland Edgewater Holly Hill Port Orange [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

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Insider loves to hear from readers.  You help us make the publication better.  Several of you encouraged us to consolidate multiple emails into a single email for the newsletter.  Others suggested we should ease up on weekend posts so you can take a break.  We’ve written stories on sales commissions, […]

Out of Home a Bargain

Out of home is cheaper than other media.  Look at this chart which PJ Solomon calculates ad CPM’s (cost per thousand ad impressions) for different media.  Only mobile display or online display are cheaper than out of home.  TV, Newspapers, Magazines, Podcasts, Video are more expensive.  Radio costs about as […]