Outdoor land leases and easements are long term agreements. Landowners have a way of forgetting exactly what’s in a lease or easement agreement with the passage of time. Pocono Realty v Lamar demonstrates how a well written easement can protect you when your landlord has a fuzzy memory. In 1998 […]
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Company of the Day: Oliver Outdoor Advertising
Company: Oliver Outdoor Advertising Markets: Pennsylvania Headquarters: 1768 North Main Street Extension, Suite 4, Butler, PA 16001 Phone: 866-669-1333 Oliver Outdoor is a family owned outdoor advertising company based in Butler, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by brothers Jerry and Jaymie Oliver. The company operates an 85 face billboard plant […]
The independent outdoor company guide to national advertising
Here’s a summary of a talk Terry Carmody of Integration Media and Beverly Rothenberg of NYMM gave on National Advertising at the IBOUSA meeting. Agencies control the business on many large national companies (e.g. BP, Sprint, Verizon, Coke, Sams Club, Walmart) and place the advertising nationally for short 4-6 week […]
ArtPop Creates Buzz for Your Boards
How’d you like to use your vacant billboard space to create goodwill with local politicians and the local arts community? ArtPop is a company which promotes the arts by using vacant billboard space to display local art. The company is displaying works by 128 artists in 11 markets in the […]
Jon Odom on Steel Billboard Maintenance
Jon Odom runs Productivity Fabricators, a Richmond, Indiana company which specializes in producing outdoor advertising structures. He was a speaker at the recent OAAA safety meeting as well as the IBOUSA meeting. Insider asked Odom for tips on steel monopole preventative maintenance and this was Odom’s answer: A periodic inspection is […]
OSHA Accident Reporting
Noone wants to have employees hurt on the job. But if something happens you don’t want to make matters worse by failing to report an accident to OSHA. In March 2015 OSHA changed reporting rules. Failure to report an accident in a timely manner could result in a $12,471 […]
Nick Coston: Billboards as Entertainment
By Billboard Insider’s peripatetic correspondent Nick Coston. Nick has 20 years experience as an OOH broker and OOH consultant. Many years ago while growing up on Chicago’s South Side, my family owned movie theaters and drive ins. I always marveled at the size of the big, curved screens. One theater […]
Company of the Day – Munn Outdoor
Company: Munn Outdoor Advertising Markets: Mississippi Headquarters: 772 Highway 49 N, Hattiesburg, MS Phone: 601-264-7446 Munn Outdoor operates a billboard plant in with 119 faces in the following Mississippi communities: Brooklyn Collins Columbia Hattiesburg Lucedale New Augusta Purvis Prentice Sumrall Wiggins The company is affiliated with Munn Enterprises which was […]
Rate This Board By Greg Callaham
Shrimp Rating: 5 (great) Nice job! This makes me love shrimp and tells me where to get it and when. There’s good contrast for the perfect headline and the weathered wood makes me think about the dock, which smacks of fresh seafood. The word count hits the sweet […]
Six Tips For An Effective Outdoor Safety Meeting
Safety is a huge issue if you perform outdoor advertising install and maintenance work in-house. At a recent OAAA safety meeting the President of an independent outdoor advertising company talked about seeing insurance premiums increase by $250,000 over the three years after his company had a large workers compensation claim […]