Author: John Weller

Company of the Day – Allison Outdoor Advertising

Company:  Allison Outdoor Advertising Markets: North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee. Headquarters: 35 Outdoor Drive, Sylva, NC  29779 Phone:  828-586-2737 Email: claude.allisonoutdoor@yahoo.com Allison Outdoor began in 1958 as a custom sign and billboard company.  Allison has grown to become the largest outdoor advertising company in Western North Carolina and North Georgia with […]

OOH Supports Sustainability Efforts Globally

By Nicole Randall OAAA Communications Senior Director Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, sailed into New York Harbor August 28 and was met by a fleet of 17 sailboats representing each of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on their sails. Thunberg was […]

Company of the Day – American Outdoor Advertising

Company:  American Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 2801 E Camelback Road, Suite 470, Phoenix, AZ 85016 Markets: California, Nevada and Arizona Phone: 602.687.9220 Email:   sales@americanoutdoor.net American Outdoor Advertising is an outdoor advertising company serving the San Diego, Oakland, Las Vegas, and Northern Arizona markets. American offers high profile digitals on high traffic routes in […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds September 21, 2019

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “Thanks to you and your website I’ve hired a General Manager.  We received several qualified applicants in response to our Billboard Insider classified”  Justin Powell, Owner, Huntington Outdoor “I bought my General Liability from Stu at Bassler and Co that I learned about on Billboard Insider.  I told […]

RBX Media Announces Strategic Management of Outdoor Billboards in Nashville

Partners with Wingate Media on management of premium space COLUMBUS, Ohio (September 19, 2019) – RBX Media, a leading out-of-home media company, announced that it is adding to its portfolio in the Nashville market through the acquisition of seven outdoor digital and static boards through a management partnership with Wingate […]

Court Busts Bus Line Ban on Religious Ads

A federal appeals court ruled that a local transit authority in Pennsylvania cannot exclude ads that refer to religion because that violates the First Amendment. The County of Lackawanna Transit System’s policy to ban “speech related to religion discriminates based on the basis of viewpoint,” said the US Third Circuit […]

New & Noted: September 20, 2019

Insider wrote a recent article on the federal governments warnings on Vaping products.  The parent company of Standard Outdoor, Standard Diversified, also has a subsidiary, Turning Point Brands, who is a leading marketer in the Other Tobacco Products segment and includes several vaping related companies.  Standard Diversified’s public traded stock […]

OOH Front and Center at Advertising Week New York

OAAA and OOH will have a large presence at this year’s Advertising Week New York, September 23-26. The event takes place at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 movie theater, which OAAA will dominate and surround with the launch of the OOH industry’s latest campaign. OOH is Real, a re-imagining of the successful Feel […]

Company of the Day – Albert Outdoor Advertising

Company: Albert Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 6510 LBJ Freeway Suite 100 Dallas, TX 75240 Market: Dallas, TX Phone: (972) 239-5800 Email: info@albert-outdoor.com Albert Outdoor traces its origins back to the early 1960s when David Albert began building wooden multi-pole structures in the newly emerging suburbs for homebuilders and other businesses looking […]

Former Prosecutor Klobuchar Calls Out Billboard Power in DEM Debate

By Ken Klein OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs In the fog of the (long) 10-way presidential debate in Houston, out of home media (OOH) got a shout-out as an effective problem solver for crime fighters. “There was a kid named Byron Phillips that was shot on his front porch,” […]