Author: John Weller

Company of the Day – American Outdoor Advertising

Company:  American Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:   1702 E. Highland Ave., Suite 304  Phoenix, AZ, 85016 Markets: San Diego CA, Las Vegas NV and Phoenix Phone: 602.687.9220 Email:   sales@americanoutdoor.net American Outdoor Advertising is a full service outdoor advertising company serving the San Diego, Las Vegas, and Arizona markets. American offers the only Digital billboard in the […]

OUTFRONT Media’s Senior Leadership Is Recognized For Technology Innovation

NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Today OUTFRONT Media (OUT) announced that two of its senior leaders were recognized for their work in the advancement of programmatic media buying. Joel Melby, Chief Technology Officer, has been awarded an ABBI (Audience Based Buying Innovation) Gold Award from the Global Audience […]

Conner Poe of OAAG Is Moving On

Many of you have heard that Conner Poe, President of the Outdoor Advertising Association of Georgia, is stepping down and has accepted a position with Norfolk Southern Railroad as their Resident Vice President of Government Affairs.   Insider caught up with Conner to ask him a few questions about his time […]

Company of the Day – Ad Source Outdoor

Company:  Ad Source Outdoor Headquarters:  131 State St. Lake Charles, LA 70605 Markets: Southwest Louisiana Phone: 337.477.4470 Email:   dgaspard@adsourceoutdoor.com AdSource Outdoor Advertising Company is the fastest growing billboard provider in Southwest Louisiana. With over 50 years of experience they strive to allow advertisers to deliver their message with maximum impact. AdSource was founded […]

Lamar Advertising Expands Media Footprint in Cleveland

Baton Rouge, LA – January 10, 2017 – Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest out of home advertising companies in North America, today announced its new transit advertising contract with the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) for a five-year term. The agreement commenced January 1, 2017, […]

Why Outdoor Advertising Is Not at War with Digital Advertising

Insider thanks Kevin Bartanian EVP, Sales & Business Development at StandardVision for allowing us to reprint his article.   There are several spurts of development in the Outdoor Advertising (OOH) space causing much buzz and excitement. Better metrics, more VC money for tech startups in the sector, quality inventory, and automated buying platforms […]

OOH Experiencing A Renaissance

IndaStra ran an article very positive on the prospects for Outdoor.  You can read more of the detail on their site, but here’s why IndaStra thinks  OOH is more relevant than ever. Until teleportation is an option, consumers will go outside. Consumers can try to ignore billboards, but they’re always […]

LED National Announces Digital Sign Launch

The start of the new year has brought the announcement of the launch of LED National with aspirations to fill what they see as a void in the LED sign and lighting industry.  LED National has launched the first of its three divisions which is the LED signage and digital […]

Company of the Day – Ad Trend, Inc.

Company: Ad Trend, Inc. Markets: Kansas City Headquarters: 14450 S US 71 Hwy, Kansas City, MO  64147 Phone: 816-283-0600 Founded in 1983 Ad Trend owns a static billboard plant with 100 faces in Kansas City.  David English is the company’s Sales and Operations manager.  It is also a vinyl printer […]

Michigan Governor Vetoes School Billboards

The Detroit Free Press, Mlive and The Detroit News reported that  Michigan Governor Rick Snyder vetoed legislation to permit billboards to be erected on school property along state managed roads. and increase the total number of billboards permitted in Michigan. Insider posted in December about Senate Bill 953 passing the Michigan […]