Did you know: San Antonio is the second largest city in Texas, boasting a population of over 1.4 million people and a city area twice the size of Chicago! The San Antonio missions are the only UNESCO World Heritage site in Texas. This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses on the […]
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Company of the Day: J&B Signs
Company: J&B Signs Market: Illinois Headquarters: 105 West Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60654 Phone: 312-640-8181 Email: info@JandBsigns.com J&B signs operates a billboard plant around Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded in 1981. Bob Hoelterhoff is the company’s President. Michael Hoelterhoff is project manager. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement
Karl Eller on the least expensive way to reach mass audiences.
Insider recently read Karl Eller’s Integrity is all you’ve got and 7 other lessons of the entrepreneurial life (2005, McGraw Hill). Eller was a success twice in the billboard business: selling Combined Communications to Gannett for $370 million in 1978: and selling Eller Media to Clear Channel Outdoor for $1.15 […]
The Future of Cannabis Advertising: Out-of-Home Media
By Mark Boidman, Managing Director and Head of Media Services, PJ Solomon As cannabis use garners increasing regulatory support, independent advocacy and mainstream public acceptance across the United States, the cannabis industry will continue to experience growth into the future. The out-of-home (OOH) media sector is well positioned to reap […]
Company of the Day: Island Displays
Company: Island Displays Markets: Turks and Caicos Headquarters: Turtle Cove, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, BWI Phone: 770-313-9691 Email: patti@islanddisplays.tc Island Displays operates a plant of sixteen two sided 12′ by 6′ billboards structures which are within the right of way of the main highway on Turks and Caicos. Turks and Caicos is 550 miles […]
Out of the Office: Jeff Lee
Jeff Lee of GEFT Outdoor fly fishes a 16 mile stretch of blue ribbon fly water on the Pere Marquette near Baldwin Michigan each fall. Here’s a King Salmon he caught on this year’s trip. Out of the Office is Billboard Insider’s Saturday column which describes what members of the […]
Fairway for Sale?
Insider has heard from a couple sources that Fairway is now or may soon be for sale. The price tag is $650 million. It may very well be a financial buyer. Possible OOH suitors all might have barriers to purchase. Lamar has the debt capacity and a stock issuance […]
Gag Orders and Out of Home
By Richard Rothfelder, Rothfelder and Falick Since when can a local government pass a huge new tax and then forbid you from talking about it? That’s what Cincinnati tried to do to Lamar Advertising and Norton Outdoor. Judge Curt C Hartman would have none of it in yesterday’s ruling striking […]
Billboards Make Us Scream For Halloween
Reprinted with permission of Clear Channel Outdoor. With fall’s arrival, it gets darker earlier, an eeriness lurks in the air, protruding skeleton bones emerge from lawns across your neighborhood, and creepy clowns are celebrated. Folks…this is Halloween. Halloween is the third largest holiday in the U.S., following Christmas and the […]
Company of the Day: Intersection
Company: Intersection Markets: Nationwide US Headquarters: 10 Hudson Yards, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10001 Phone: 212-644-6200 Email: hello@intersection.com Intersection operates a network of digital and static screens across multiple urban markets in the US including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis, New Jersey, Pittsburgh […]
























