By Nancy Fletcher, OAAA President and CEO First, we Get Out of Home. Get Out of Home featuring ad industry legend Stan Richards On October 1, the out of home (OOH) industry will launch a big, sophisticated promotional campaign. With the tagline, Get Out of Home, the goal of the campaign […]
Author: John Weller
Lamar Purchases PA Based Land Displays
To cap off a month of significant acquisition activity, the Reading Eagle reports that Reading, PA based Land Displays sold to Lamar Advertising. Land Displays, from our last Company of the Day, owned 134 structures, including 15 digital faces, 3 trivision faces, 65 bulletin faces and 136 poster panel faces in Berks, […]
Company of the Day – Gilbreath Outdoor
Company: Gilbreath Outdoor Advertising Markets: Southeast Texas Headquarters: 407 South Friendswood Drive, Friendswood, TX 77546 Phone: 281-992-4555 Email: brett@gilbreathoutdoor.com Brett E. Gilbreath of Gilbreath Outdoor Advertising has been in the outdoor advertising industry literally all of his life. His father founded a small billboard company in 1964 and Brett worked […]
Billboard Insider Classifieds September 1, 2018
“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. […]
Link Media Acquires Waitt Outdoor For $82 Million
OMAHA, Neb.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Link Media Outdoor (“Link”), a subsidiary of Boston Omaha Corporation (NASDAQ: BOMN), has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the operating assets of Waitt Outdoor, LLC (“Waitt Outdoor”), based in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1999, Waitt Outdoor has grown to become one of the leading outdoor companies […]
Investors Sue Clear Channel Over $1B Claim
News broke yesterday on the continuing iHeartMedia bankruptcy and its impact on Clear Channel Outdoor. A minority investor in Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. brought suit against the company’s board, majority owners and private equity sponsors in Delaware’s Chancery Court late Monday, seeking class damages for alleged failures to seek […]
Overcoming Zoning Restrictions With SITELINE™
By Cheng Qian, Chief Product Architect You probably have a great digital location opportunity that checks off all the boxes: Great potential lease deal Great impressions count Great approach and read Great fit with regulatory and permitting requirements Except it’s too close to a light-sensitive area… SITELINE™, by Media Resources, […]
Company of the Day – Genesis Outdoor
Company: Genesis Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 25 E Boardman St, Youngstown, OH 44503 Market: Ohio & Pennsylvania Phone: (330) 747-0057 Email: info@genesisbillboards.com Genesis Outdoor operates 37 billboard locations in Youngtown-Boardman, Ohio markets as well as Western Pennsylvania. The Company uses RMG Outdoor to build out their structures. Their inventory includes 5 digital signs. […]
Ashby Street Adds Digitals in Bentonville, AR
Ashby Street Outdoor plans to remove 16 billboards, representing 5,560 square feet of static space to add seven digital faces throughout the City of Bentonville Arkansas as reported by the Democrat Gazette. Bentonville Arkansas first permitted digital billboards in 2010. The ordinance originally stated that to add one digital screen […]
10 Students Receive Scholarships from FOARE
By Myron Laible OAAA Vice President State, Local, and Regulatory Affairs The Foundation For Outdoor Advertising Research and Education (FOARE) has announced the 10 recipients of the Foundation’s scholarships for the 2018-2019 academic year. The scholarship recipients are: Tiara Wicks (Carson, CA) received the $5,000 Allman Family Business Development, […]
























