Author: John Weller

Companies of the Day – McIntyre Outdoor & Southern Billboards

Company:  Southern Billboards and McIntyre Outdoor Advertising Markets: Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina Headquarters: 103 Gillette Drive, Franklin, TN 37069 Phone: 615.807.0703 Email:   email@mcintyreoutdoor.com, Email@SouthernBillboards.com Southern Billboards and McIntyre Outdoor, with Jim McIntyre the CEO of both entities, have a significant footprint of billboard structures throughout the South. Jim has been […]

500,000 views

Billboard Insider passed 500,000 cumulative page views this week.   The website grew out of frustration with a lack of out of home news after the demise of Outdoor Magazine and the OOH Magazine.  A huge thank you to readers and advertisers for supporting us. By keeping costs down we’ve […]

Company of the Day – Look Outdoor Advertising

Company: Look Outdoor Advertising Markets: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas. Headquarters: 700 North Florida, Borger, TX  79007. Phone: 806-274-4357. Email:  jrusten@lookoutdoor.biz,  tgassaway@lookoutdoor.biz Look Outdoor advertising is a family run business that began operating in 1994 with the purchase of four neglected billboard structures near Amarillo, Texas.  The company now […]

Road Trip – Paris

Insider’s road trip continues in Paris.  There are few large static billboards downtown but the wide walkways allow for smaller signs and many creative ways to display.  Here’s a rare spectacular and one of the many small posters. Transit advertising is big because people depend on the Paris Metro.  Lots […]

Company of the Day – Meadow Outdoor

Company: Meadow Outdoor Markets: Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming. Headquarters: PO Box 331, The Dalles, OR  97058 Phone: 800-221-4114 Meadow Outdoor is a family-owned, firm started by Joe Zukin in 1968. Joe began his association with the outdoor industry while President of Frontier Village Amusement Park in San Jose, CA in the 1960’s. […]

Road Trip – London

Insider is touring London, Paris, Brussels and Dortmund with his son. Shortly after arriving in London, I saw figures posted by PricewaterhouseCoopers for increases in digital ad spending in the UK. The first thing I noticed on arriving at the Paddington Train Station were several JCDecaux static boards as we […]

3D Coke Billboard in Times Square

Very cool 3D Coca-Cola billboard in Times Square.  Worth a look.     [wpforms id=”9787″]   Paid Advertisement  

Company of the Day – M&M Outdoor

Company:  M&M Outdoor Inc. Headquarters: 6473 Cherokee Drive, Indian Head Park, IL  60525 Market: Illinois Phone: 708.784.0886 M&M Outdoor offers 19 Billboard locations & walllscapes all around the metro Chicago, Illinois area. Their Inventory includes 7 locations near Wrigley Field. M&M Outdoor is a member of Geopath and OAAA.   [wpforms id=”9787″] […]

Branded Cities Acquires Clear Channel Canada

August 15, 2017 Branded Cities Network Acquires Clear Channel Outdoor’s Interest in Clear Channel Outdoor Canada Establishing 100% Ownership of its Premium OOH Canadian Assets Branded Cities Network (“BCN”), a premier Out-Of-Home and iconic media company in North America, is proud to announce the strategic acquisition of Clear Channel Outdoor’s […]

Link Revenues up 50% in 2Q 2017

Link Media released 2Q 2017 financial results: Billboard Rentals increased by 50% to $1.2 million during the three months ended June 30, 2017 due to acquisitions.  The company does not break out billboard expenses and cashflow on financial statements.   Link’s CEO Jim McLaughlinin says the company has closed on […]