Billboard Insider will run a series of interviews with out of home executive Billy Tolson, the President of Fairmount Outdoor. Today Billy talks about starting as a child actor and transitioning to out of home. Billy, you were a child actor My story is pretty simple. I was in a […]
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National CineMedia to Acquire Captivate for $275 million
CENTENNIAL, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–National CineMedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCMI) (“NCM”), the largest cinema advertising platform in the U.S., today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Captivate Holdings, LLC (“Captivate”), the leading operator of digital video elevator and lobby advertising in North America, for an enterprise value of […]
Company of the Day – RiseUp Outdoor
Company: RiseUp Outdoor Headquarters: 3245 Peachtree Parkway, Ste. D-111, Suwanee, GA 30024 Market: Lake Lanier, Georgia Telephone: 703-622-1129 Email: sales@riseupoutdoor.com RiseUp Outdoor specializes in hi-definition billboards located in the Lake Lanier region in Buford, Georgia. RiseUp’s signs are strategically located on heavily traveled I-985 showing to traffic heading from the Atlanta metro […]
JCDecaux renews Hamburg ad contract for 15 years
Paris, August 11th, 2026 – JCDecaux SE (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces that Wall GmbH, a company that is part of JCDecaux, has been awarded the main advertising contract in Hamburg, Germany’s second-largest city with 1.85 million inhabitants. The award follows a competitive tender […]
Company of the Day: Rex Media
Company: Rex Media Address: 801 Baldwin Park Blvd., Bassett CA 91746 Email: Sales@RexMediaUsa.com Phone: 323.688.3905 Founded in Los Angeles, Rex Media provides impactful and timely advertising messages for both National and Local advertisers in the Greater Los Angeles area of the San Gabriel Valley. Mohadib Bakali is the President of […]
Billboard Insider billboard software poll results
Lots of interest in billboard software to judge from the number of responses to our poll. Here are the results. 40% of our respondents use Apparatix, 28% use something else, 14% still use an excel spreadsheet, 10% use Billboard Planet and 9% use SignDash. We’d love to hear more about […]
DPAA Launches UK Chapter of WE.DOOH
LONDON AND NEW YORK – August 11 2026 – DPAA, the global trade marketing association, driving the growth and digitisation of out-of-home media and its growing role in the omnichannel mix, has today announced the launch of a new UK chapter of its Women’s Empowerment in Digital Out of Home […]
Company of the Day – Revelation Outdoor Management
Company: Revelation Outdoor Management Headquarters: 420 South Hill Street, Buford, GA 30518 Markets: Georgia, South Carolina Phone: 770-831-3984 Email: morganh@revelationom.com Revelation Outdoor currently operates over 100 billboard faces in the metro Atlanta area. Since its inception, the company has built out markets including Chicago, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Alabama, and […]
What software do you use to manage your out of home advertising company?
A reader asks us what software people use to manage their out of home advertising companies. Some people use an excel spreadsheet. Signdash makes a simple, easy to use system which is popular with smaller billboard companies. Apparatix and Billboard Planet have more complicated systems with more capabilities. What do […]
OUTFRONT and New York Jets Announce Exclusive, Multi-Year Partnership
NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — OUTFRONT Media (NYSE:OUT), one of the largest and most-trusted IRL media companies in the U.S., today announced a multi-year exclusive agreement with the New York Jets. Effective immediately, Jets advertiser partners can engage fans before, during and after game day through OUTFRONT’s integrated offering of premium outdoor […]























