Author: billboardinsider

Company of the day: Roland Digital Media

Company:  Roland Digital Media Markets: Tennessee Headquarters: 2300 W. Jackson St, Cookeville, TN  38501 Phone: 931-528-8100 Roland Digital Media operates a a plant of over 350 digital, trivision and static billboard faces in Middle Tennessee.  In addition the company has a brand consulting and website design business (you can tell because the company’s website […]

Executive Salaries at Lamar, Outfront and Clear Channel Outdoor

Here’s a list of who makes what at Lamar, Outfront and Clear Channel Outdoor based on each company’s SEC filings.  We’ve juxtaposed executive compensation against each company’s yearly and 5 year change in stock price. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Directors Pay at Lamar, Clear Channel Outdoor and Outfront

Here’s how much the members of the board of directors of Lamar, Outfront and Clear Channel Outdoor made last year. Looks to Insider like there’s an inverse correlation between directors pay and  outdoor company long term stock performance.  Lamar stock is up 63% over the past 5 years, Outfront stock […]

Kerry Yoakum on Billboard Property Taxes

On Tuesday Insider ran an article by Paul Wright on a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruling that billboard lease income could be considered when estimating the taxable value of land. This is a big issue for operators because landlords will be more reluctant to allow billboards on their property if a […]

Digital Billboards provide London commuters key information

Insider’s note” :”I don’t want our city to look like Las Vegas” is the trite, unthinking, stale objection which is trotted out to digital billboards.  It completely overlooks how the dynamic programming aspects of digital billboards can provide help consumers as this London digital billboard campaign shows. Clever digital Out […]

Clear Channel Wins 7 Year Philly Airport Contact

Philadelphia, PA  – – Clear Channel Airports (CCA), a brand division of Clear Channel Outdoor  (CCO) (NYSE: CCO), and an indirect subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc., today announced Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) selected the U.S. airport media leader (CCA) for a new seven-year airport advertising contract extending a relationship that began […]

Louisiana House Billboard Bill Defeated

This Baton Rouge newspaper headline says it all: House Concurrent Resolution 4, a draconian proposal to limit billboards in Louisiana, was defeated in a Louisiana State House committee by a vote of 14-3.  House resolution 4 had provisions to: Limit the number of Louisiana billboards to 7,000 Prohibit the conversion […]

New and Noted

The Daily Tar Heel reports that a couple of University of North Carolina students have started a company to recycle billboard vinyl into wallets, purses and backpacks.   One used billboard vinyl makes 200 bags.  The North Carolina students aren’t the first ones to get the idea. Rareform, the Los Angeles […]

Geopath Market Spotlight: Mobile-Pensacola

Did you know: Mobile rings in the New Year by dropping a giant Moon Pie instead of a ball. Mobile is much older than the state which it’s a part of.  It was first settled in 1702, 117 years before Alabama became a state. This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses […]

Rain triggers images in UK billboard campaign.

LONDON, UK Glimpse and the not-for-profit collective We Are Ocean make a clever connection between cities and the seas in an out-of-home campaign which is triggered by rainfall from the ocean. The Sea Is The Sky recalibrates the relationship between inland urban populations and the world’s oceans, using delightfully surreal […]