Company: Highway Displays Outdoor Market: New York Headquarters: 404 Maple Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Phone: 845-452-2121 Email: info@highwaydisplays.com Highway Outdoor has over 420 static and digital billboards in the mid-Hudson valley. The company was founded by Louis Schwartz, a Hungarian immigrant in 1918. The company has 15 employees. Sandra Schwartz […]
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Out of the Office: Rebecca Thurman
In addition to being one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, Billboards Etc President Rebecca Thurman is a travel fan. She writes: “I am huge traveler! Anytime I can step away from the billboard business I will always find a trip my son and I can go on. While I […]
Billboard Alerts Generates Client Leads
Evan Metrock of Billboard Alerts gave an update of the company’s direct mail out of home marketing service yesterday at the IBOUSA conference. The Product. Billboard alerts allows you to send out 4X6 postcards to market a billboard (latitude and longitude) to directionally oriented businesses within a certain number of […]
Media Ratings Council Addresses IBOUSA
George Ivie, CEO and Executive Director of the Media Rating Council (MRC), presented how his Industry self-regulatory organization moved to developing audience measurement standards and best practices for data used in decision making for advertisement placement in the OOH Industry at the bi-annual conference of IBOUSA Associates yesterday in Columbus […]
Company of the Day: HB Outdoor
Company: HB Outdoor Market: Georgia Headquarters: 1775 Woodstock Rd, Suite 150 Roswell, GA 30075. Phone: 770-951-8222 Email: billyharvin11@gmail.com HB Outdoor operates forty faces in Georgia including a double sided trivision in Winder, two-sided digital billboards in Buford and Norcross and a double sided static billboard in Norcross. The company is run by Billy Harvin. Billy, […]
Jeremy Male: We have this amazing opportunity
Outfront CEO Jeremy Male was upbeat in remarks at last week’s Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference. You can access his recording at the Outfront Website. Here are the highlights: On the need to improve the out of home buying process At the moment if you want to buy a billboard from […]
Formetco and Marshal Announce New Safety Portal
Jock Gibb, VP of Sales for Formetco, announced a partnership with Marshal Safety to deliver bulk pricing discounts for safety equipment for all IBOUSA Associates in Columbus OH today. “The portal will give the Independents a combined buying power that is equivalent to that of much larger companies,” said Gibb. […]
Company of the Day: Giesken Outdoor
Company: Giesken Outdoor (Ohio) and Giesken Outdoor (Michigan) Markets: Ohio, Michigan Headquarters: 115 Sophia’s Lane, Ottawa, OH 45875 Phone: (866) 443-7536 or (419) 233-71453 Email: tom@gieskenoutdoor.com Giesken Outdoor Advertising operates a billboard plant in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan, mainly Dearborn Heights with both digital and static billboards. Tom Giesken started the company […]
Reilly Preparing for Consolidation and Ad Agency Turmoil
Lamar must be prepared to take advantage of industry consolidation and ad agency turmoil. That’s how Lamar CEO Sean Reilly began his remarks to the Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference last Thursday. Here are the highlights. On changes in the ad agency market There’s great turmoil in the big agency business. Clients […]
Tasty Ad teams with IBOUSA to deliver sales tools
Dave Roland, President of Roland Digital Media and his Creative Director Shane Hutton, announced they have entered into an agreement with IBOUSA to deliver Tasty Ad suite of digital tools to the IBOUSA Associates and tie into their workflow solutions powered by Apparatix. Tasty Ad will be rolling out their […]























