Looks like Insider and Stott Outdoor General Manager Jim Moravec are each going to be writing checks to the OAAA Foundation for Outdoor Advertising and Research (“FOARE”). We agreed to donate $500/each to FOARE if anyone produced a current billboard campaign which exceeded the 6 consecutive billboard campaign Stott Outdoor […]
Record your leases and make sure your termination provisions are clear. Two takeaways from Lamar Advertising vs Larry and Vikkie Nicholls. Here are the facts. In March 1990 Frontier Outdoor entered into a 15 year lease to put a billboard on land in Rock Springs Wyoming. The lease had a provision […]
Company: Juggernaut Billboards Markets: Arizona Headquarters: 6029 E Paseo Ventoso, 2nd Floor, Tucson, AZ 85750 Phone: 520-241-6419 Email: rendon@juggernautoutdoor.com Juggernaut Billboards operates a plant in Arizona The company is owned by Chip Tolleson and Rick Rendon. They started the company in 2014. Insider talked with Rick Rendon. How did you […]
Clear Channel Outdoor plans to appeal an adverse court decision in Baltimore that says the city’s targeted tax on billboards does not harm free speech. Clear Channel has challenged Baltimore’s billboard tax, which is based on square footage, since it was imposed in 2013. On February 27, 2018, a Maryland […]
Whoever owns data will own the advertising surrounding driverless cars says Sara Fischer at Axios. Former Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker has formed a Scenic Utah chapter to fight billboards. The Salt Lake Tribune did a fairly even handed piece, quoting Dewey Reagan on the importance of billboards to […]
Insider was in St Cloud Minnesota recently and saw a great looking backlit imprint on a Franklin Outdoor digital billboard. Backlit imprints are a great way to call attention to your company, especially on digital signs. Insider talked with Chris Adams, Formetco’s Product Manager, Outdoor Hardware about backlit imprints. What […]
Scenic Kentucky lost in court, again. The highest court in Kentucky rejected Scenic Kentucky’s appeal in a long-running case involving the state’s regulation of digital billboards and vegetation control. Essentially, the courts said the anti-billboard group lacked standing to sue. Scenic Kentucky sued the Commonwealth after the legislature approved a […]
Did you know: Modern toilet paper, with its perforated sections wound around a cardboard tube, was invented in Albany. Merman Melville, author of Moby Dick, once called Albany home. This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses on the Albany DMA. Infographics for the top DMAs and much more are available to […]
Company: JR Promotions Market: Indiana Headquarters: 430 2nd St, Columbus, IN 47201 Phone: 812-379-2173 JR Promotions owns 1000 billboard faces in Indiana. The company was started by Janeen Sprague in July of 1986. She owned a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that relied on interstate billboards. Janeen saw an opportunity to establish an outdoor […]
Yesterday Insider wrote about damage from Hurricane Michael in Florida. Neil Bell of New South Outdoor was in Florida post-hurricane and gives Insider this report. I went down one week after the hurricane hit with some friends to help a church that was destroyed and saw the devastation. It really […]
