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Sun Pacific Partners with Premier

MANALAPAN, N.J., July 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Street Smart Outdoor Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of Manalapan based Sun Pacific Holding Corp. (OTCQB:SNPW), today announced that as part of its strategy to expand its local focused advertising outreach program of its outdoor furniture portfolio in the Northeast, it has partnered […]

Company of the Day: Divine Outdoor

Company: Divine Outdoor Advertising Markets: Florida Headquarters: 11415 Harder Rd, Clermont, FL  34711 Phone: 352-394-4850 Email:  ddivine@cfl.rr.com Divine Outdoor Advertising is a privately held billboard company serving South Clermont and the Four Corners area of the Orlando, Florida MSA.  The company was started in 2001. The company’s billboards are located a few miles west of […]

Billboard Insider’s 2018 Out of Home Lender List

  Here is Billboard Insider’s list of lenders to out of home companies.  We compiled the list after reviewing public company filings and talking with investment bankers and out of home executives. Most of the lenders on the list only make large loans ($15 million and more). Landmark Capital makes […]

OAAA Innovations Committee “Summer Camp”

The OAAA Innovations Committee, a group of techie and digital-savvy executives dedicated to the advancement of OOH through ground-breaking technologies, met earlier this week in Washington, DC. The group convenes each summer to discuss the latest in OOH tech trends and evaluate OAAA’s role in promotion and standardization of relevant […]

McWhorter to raise $150 Million for Out of Home Expansion.

Cartersville, GA (July 16, 2018) – McWhorter Capital Partners, a private equity and real estate investment firm, is pleased to announce that it is partnering with Bartow Street Capital, a subsidiary of Greenfield Advisors, to raise $150 million for the continued expansion of Horton Outdoor Advertising. Horton Outdoor is an outdoor advertising company that specializes […]

Readers comment on Lamar v Los Angeles County

Insider reviewed a permitting dispute between Lamar and Los Angeles County yesterday.  Insider wondered whether Lamar took too hard a line.  Most readers supported Lamar’s stance.   Here are the comments. “I was the GM for Lamar on the entire deal. It’s simplistic and short on facts to imply that after that […]

Geopath Market Spotlight: Albany, GA

Did you know: Ray Charles was born in Albany, Georgia on September 23, 1930.  Charles is memorialized with a bronze statue in Front Street Park Radium Springs, one of Georgia’s 7 natural wonders is located in Albany.  Radium Springs pumps 70,000 gallons of water per minute to the surface from […]

Company of the Day: Driggers Outdoor

Company: Driggers Outdoor Markets: Louisiana Headquarters: 1440 Goodwin Road, Ruston, LA  71270 Phone: 318-251-0244 Driggers Outdoor has over 100 sign locations in Louisiana stretching along I-20 as well as I-49 south from Shreveport.  The company is an operator associate of the IBOUSA.   Rodney Driggers is the company’s President. Rodney, how did you enter […]

Out of home legal: Don’t let the best become the enemy of the good.

Don’t let the best become the enemy of the good.  That’s the lesson of Lamar versus County of Los Angeles which was decided on 5/8/18  Here are the facts. In 1967 the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works granted Lamar’s predecessor a permit to construct a billboard in unincorporated […]

Choice Media fights Lubbock TX rules

KSLA reports that Choice Dynamic Media has filed a petition against Lubbock, TX over a subjective sign code.  In April, Choice applied for 5 billboards in Lubbock and was turned down because: adding a billboard may increase traffic permitting a billboard would open the floodgates to undesirable businesses like night […]