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 […]
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Trademarking Your Out of Home Name
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, […]
Adams+Fairway Boards Promote Positivity
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 […]
Comstor installs its 1st digital billboard.
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 […]
Tariffs in effect on Chinese LED’s
If you’re buying a digital billboard soon you might want to ask your digital billboard company what impact, if any, will occur from the imposition of the first round of Chinese tariffs. LED’s, the building block for digital billboards, were on the list of items which faced a 25% import […]
Company of the Day: Inwindow Outdoor
Company: Inwindow Outdoor Markets: New York Address: 636 Broadway, Suite 520, New York, NY 10012 Phone: 212-254-2250 Email: beverly@inwindowoutdoor.com Inwindow Outdoor operates a digital and static billboards, cubes and experience stations in vacant storefronts. Insider talked with Beverly Denice Sparks a senior sales executive at the company. How did you […]
Out of the Office: Kevin Gleason
Fairway Outdoor’s CEO Kevin Gleason is serious about wine. As you read this Gleason will be tasting wine somewhere in the Southern Rhone region. Gleason also owns a winery called Refugio Ranch. The winery is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary in August. Congrats Kevin! Here’s a great video in which Kevin […]
Billboard insider Classifieds July 7
“The response has been excellent. Excellent investment.” Out of home broker Stephen Minnich. “…we have received no less than 15 responses the ad you ran for us to sell our Quad Cities billboard plant…” David Buring “FYI, today we got two requests from out of home companies to sign up. […]
Cincinnati passes Billboard Tax
On June 27 Cincinnati passed a 10% tax on billboard revenues as part of the city’s 2019 budget. The tax goes into effect July 1. The tax was passed over the mayors veto with two days public notice and no hearings. You can read more about the tax at WLWT5 […]
The Nortons on the Cincinnati Billboard Tax
On June 27 Cincinnati passed a 10% tax on billboard revenues to fund the city’s budget. If you are not paying attention you should. Baltimore has a billboard tax and Insider expects to see more cash-strapped cities attempt to pass billboard taxes to fund city services. Mike, Kevin and Tom […]
