Author: billboardinsider

Reilly: Lamar has $1 billion in dry powder for acquisitions

Sean Reilly was cogent as usual at last week’s Wells Fargo media conference.  Here’s a selection of his comments. On the future We’re positioned very well.  It starts with audience.  People are spending more time stuck in traffic…commute times are getting longer…I don’t see that changing any time soon…A little […]

Landmark Marketing Letter

Seeking Alpha may be calling Landmark Infrastructure a “tech REIT” because 65% of Landmark revenues come from telecom and wireless sites but that hasn’t stopped Landmark from trying to grow the out of home leases and easement portfolio.  Here’s Landmark’s latest marketing letter.   Insider’s take: Landmark is contacting your […]

Company of the Day: Keystone Outdoor

Company: Keystone Outdoor Advertising Markets:  New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Headquarters: PO Box 202, Cheltenham, PA  19012-0202 Phone: (856) 767-5028 Keystone Outdoor is a operates a billboard plant which targets bridges, expressways and suburban roads in Southern New Jersey, Trenton and Philadelphia.  The privately-held firm was started in 1977 by Dominick Cipollini when he secured a […]

Out of the Office: Myron Laible

Myron Laible will retire January 1 after 33 years service at the OAAA.  Myron has been a road warrior for the OAAA, traveling the country to help OAAA members understand and comply with local regulations.   Insider fondly remembers dinner with Myron in downtown Indianapolis and breakfast in Chicago.  Myron says […]

Haleigh Powell on Overcoming the 5 Sales Obstacles

Haleigh Powell, a client relations specialist at Huntington Outdoor, is writing a series of articles on how to thrive in sales at an independent out of home company. Today Haleigh talks about overcoming sales objections. Next week Haleigh will discuss how to improve your sales and work on your selling […]

John Miller: “There will always be a place for 1 to many”

John Miller, Lamar’s SVP of Sales did a 7 minute interview on the out of home industry at the DPAA Video Everywhere summit a couple weeks ago. On how digital signs are transformative I’ve seen a lot of innovation.  But sometimes innovation is confused with novelty…What has been true innovation.  […]

Company of the Day: Kentucky Outdoor

Company: Kentucky Outdoor Advertising Markets: Kentucky Address: 423 State Street, PO Box 917, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Phone: 270-842-6828 Kentucky outdoor owns over 100 billboards in south central and western Kentucky.  David Sears is President.  Thomas Connelly is vice President. Sears was named the 2017 small business person of the year […]

Link Media Grows Via Acquisitions

Boston Omaha, the parent company of Link Media reported financials for the 3 months ended September 2018.  Here’s a summary of financial performance for Link Media Outdoor for the 3 months ended 2018. 000’s Link Media spent $136 million on acquisitions during the third quarter of 2018, including Waitt Outdoor […]

Three of a Kind: Copycat Billboards

This month Daily Billboard blog’s ‘3 of a kind’ brings you three examples of movies and TV shows paying homage and leveraging other outdoor marketing campaigns to get attention in the city skyline. First up is one of my favourite copycat spoofs from June 2011, ‘Bridlemaids’, with the animated My […]

Stott Outdoor Employees Lose Homes in CA Fire

Stott Outdoor’s General Manager Jim Moravec tells Insider that Stott Outdoor employees have lost their homes in the California wildfires. Dave, You have not doubt heard about the devastation of the fires in northern CA particularly in Butte County.  As of this writing it appears that Stott has a total […]