Author: John Weller

Grey Outdoor Readies For Hurricane Florence

The weather reports have Hurricane Florence hitting the East Coast on Thursday of this week.  Insider reached out to Grey Vick at Grey Outdoor to discuss preparing for the potentially big storm. Grey, what’s the current status on Hurricane Florence? Right now it looks like it’s coming right towards where […]

The Evolving Cannabis Culture: A Growing OOH Category

By Ken Klein, OAAA Vice President, Government Affairs As the legal cannabis industry buys more advertising, this emerging category is spawning niche ad agencies and new regulations. Thirty states and the District of Columbia currently have laws broadly legalizing marijuana in some form, led by Colorado and Washington State in […]

Company of the Day – Harmony Outdoor

Company: Harmony Outdoor Markets: Pennsylvania Headquarters: 114 W Diamond St, PO Box 271, Butler, PA  16001 Phone: 724-282-8000. Email: Vsmith@butlereagle.com Harmony Outdoor advertising operates a plant with 90 billboards in four counties in Western Pennsylvania.  The company  is a subsidiary of the family owned Eagle Media Corporation.  Eagle Media owns several […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds September 8, 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.  […]

Creative Circle: What Was Your Favorite OOH Creative for a Summer Movie This Year?

  By Nicole Randall OAAA Communications Senior Director OAAA regularly features Thought Leadership Q&A from its committee members. This month, OAAA spotlights the Creative Committee, asking members: “What was your favorite OOH creative for a summer movie this year?”   Mendi Robinson, AVP of Marketing, Lamar Advertising I really appreciated the simplicity […]

Company of the Day – Glover Media Group

Company: Glover Media Group Headquarters: 565 Wetumpka Street Prattville, Alabama Market:  Central Alabama Phone: (334) 799-1241 Email: GMG@glovermediagroup.com Glover Media Group, LLC is an outdoor advertising company based in Prattville, Alabama specializing in digital billboards.  Kyle and Marnie Glover are the owners of Glover Media.   Insider and Kyle Glover caught up for an […]

What’s Next: OOH Campaign Ready to Launch & More

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 […]

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.  […]