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Jay Johnson on OOH’s Resilience, Sustainable Leverage and Cyber Risk

Today’s podcast guest is Jay Johnson, CFO of Lamar Advertising.     Here’s what Jay said about out of home’s resilience, managing through covid, sustainable leverage, cyber risk and the acquisitions market. What was your biggest surprise about out of home coming into the industry? The resilience of the out of […]

Reader’s Feedback on Billboards Are Not Passive Income

Some of the comments on last week’s Billboard’s Are Not Passive Income post. Grace Outdoor’s Diana Stevenson says billboards can be good passive income if you find a capable manager. Billboards can be passive income if you have a great management company like Grace Outdoor Advertising. We manage single signs […]

Company of the Day: Your Big Sign

Company:  YourBigSign.com Markets:  Michigan Headquarters: 3440 Fenton Rd, Hartland, MI  48353 Phone: 2498-881-9505 Email: alan@yourbigsign.com Your Big Signs operates a billboard plant in Michigan. Alan Pittel is the founder. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement  

Billboard Insider Classifieds May 22, 2021

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “We got a big boost in qualified applicants from running our ad on your site.”  Rodney Davis, Transformation Media “Thanks to you and your website I’ve hired a General Manager.  We received several qualified applicants in response to our Billboard Insider classified”  Justin Powell, Owner, Huntington Outdoor […]

Lamar Partners with Gulfport-Biloxi Airport

Baton Rouge, LA – May 20, 2021 – Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world, today announced that the company has entered into an agreement with the Gulfport-Biloxi Airport Authority to manage the airport terminal’s media program for the display of national, […]

Company of the Day: Wilson Outdoor

Company: Wilson Outdoor Displays Headquarters: 786 Coleman Mill Rd, Carrollton, GA 30116 Markets:  Western Georgia and Eastern Alabama. Phone: 770.854.4899 Wilson Outdoor operates a billboard plant with with 99 faces in Western Georgia and Eastern Alabama including coverage in the following communities: Carrollton Wedowee Roanoke Heflin Ashland Wilson Outdoor started in 1985 when Dwayne Wilson […]

Conlin On Solar Powered Billboards

Kevin Conlin’s firm Autonomous Power Solutions designs and sells solar powered billboard systems.  Insider asked Conlin for an update on trends in solar powered billboards. What’s new over the past year? 2020 was terrible. It seemed the second half of last year everyone’s budgets contracted, and our solar  business virtually […]

A Few Minutes With Will Denton at IBOUSA

Yesterday, Insider ran a press release announcing the hiring of Will Denton to a new position at the IBO.  We caught up with Will to get to know him and learn how a musician ended up in the billboard business. What’s your background? I have been a professional musician for […]

WPP CEO Mark Read paints a rosy picture for out of home.

Mark Read, Chief Executive Officer of WPP, the world’s largest advertising company, has given a fascinating insight into how WPP sees the world of marketing, advertising and media developing in the years ahead. Speaking at the World Out of Home Organization’s virtual European Forum in an interview with WOO President […]