3 out of home articles caught Insider’s eye this week. The Brookfield Zoo, the Two by Four Agency and Metromedia Technologies placed a 15′ by 15′ fully inflated greenbottle blue tarantuala on a billboard promoting the Brookfield Zoo. New Jersey 101.5 has a flattering story on billboards in Northern New […]
Company: DDI Media Markets: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee Headquarters: 8315 Drury Industrial Parkway, St Louis, MO 63114 Phone: 314-423-5040 DDI media operates a billboard plant in 8 states with more than 1,200 faces. Vince Miller is the company’s General Manager. Miller is a 28 year out of home veteran […]
New York, NY – Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) (NYSE: CCO), an indirect subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc., today announced it tapped international media sales and marketing veteran Jim Campbell to lead its New York market operations. As the new CCO-New York president, where the company’s Out-of-Home (OOH) assets reach 93 percent […]
Rate This Board allows a billboard designer to rate a random piece of billboard artwork using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently. This week’s rating is provided by Greg […]
July 10, 2018, New York, NY – Branded Cities (“BC”), a premier Out-of-Home and iconic media company in North America, today announced the acquisition of a substantial portion of the Chicago assets of Red Star Outdoor, further increasing its North American footprint. The all-cash deal adds 21 iconic billboard faces […]
Dean Manone has 26 years experience in the out of home business. He’s been a partner in Chicago’s Red Star Outdoor since 2001. Yesterday Red Star announced the sale of a substantial portion of its assets to Branded Cities. Insider talked with Manone about the asset sale and the future. […]
Company: Discover Outdoor Markets: Texas, Oklahoma. Headquarters: PO Box 6351 Paris, Texas 75461 Phone: 903-491-3191 Contact Email: discoveroutdoor@yahoo.com Discover Outdoor was started in 1993. The company owns 200 faces and 3 digital billboards in Northeast Texas and Southeast Oklahoma. Insider talked with James Martinez the company’s founder and President. Tell us about your plant. Cities covered in […]
Vinyl printer Circle Graphics is suing Build-a-Sign over the use of sponsored ads and keywords which violate Circle Graphics trademarks. Trademarking your out of home company name is important as Q Publishing versus OUTFRONT Media demonstrates. In 1976 Q Publishing started OutFront magazine a gay and lesbian publication in Denver, […]
ATLANTA, GA (July 2, 2018) – Adams Outdoor Advertising and Fairway Outdoor Advertising will donate more than 700 billboards in 21 states to bring to life lettering artists’ renderings of positive messages. The designs came from Goodtype’s #goodtypetuesday challenge, in which lettering artists and illustrators from around the world were asked what they would put on a billboard. Entries were posted to […]
This is the second article in a three part series on an independent out of home company’s experience installing its first digital billboard. Comstor Outdoor has a 400 face plant in Ohio and Indiana. Comstor just installed its first digital billboard. We previously interviewed Comstor Marketing Executive Eddie Saunders Jr […]
