Did you know: Cedar Rapids is the 2nd largest city in Iowa with just under 130,000 residents. Cedar Rapids is the hometown to actors Elijah Wood, Ashton Kutcher, Ron Livingston, Bobby Driscoll and Michael Emerson. This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses on the Cedar Rapids, Iowa DMA. Infographics for the […]
Business
Company of the Day: Bella Outdoor
Company: Bella Outdoor Markets: Montana Headquarters: PO Box 50119, Billings, MT Phone: 406-671-6155 Email: Bellaoutdoor@bresnan.net Joe and Jenifer Mancuso Bella Outdoor was started in 2007 by Joe and Jenifer Mancuso. The company operates a billboard plant around Billings in Yellowstone, Carbon and Stillwater counties. The company was the subject of a 2009 Billings Gazette […]
Company of the Day – Bedgood Outdoor Advertising
Company: Bedgood Outdoor Advertising Markets: Greater Charlotte Area, North Carolina Headquarters: 509 Bentley Court, Belmont, NC 28012 Phone: 704-825-8579 Email: parrochie@aol.com Bedgood Outdoor Advertising is a Belmont based billboard company proudly serving the Charlotte and Gastonia market since 1985. Bedgood Outdoor Advertising had the first Digital board in Charlotte. All the […]
Billboard Legal: You Can’t Enforce An Illegal Lease
You can’t enforce terms of an illegal lease. That’s the lesson of Kunz dba Primark Outdoor v. Lobo Lodge. Here are the facts. In December 1990 Donrey Outdoor Advertising (“Donrey”) and Lobo Lodge, Inc (“Lobo Lodge”) entered into two ten year leases to permit Donrey to place billboards on land […]
Building Signs Near a Major Airport Runway
Image Media owns signs near O’Hare Airport runways in Chicago. Insider asked Michael Scheid Jr. to talk about the challenges of developing a billboard near an airport runway. What’s it like to have a billboard near a major airport? Anything within a certain proximity to airports requires approval from the […]
Company of the Day: Image Media
Company of the Day: IMAGE MEDIA® Company: IMAGE MEDIA® Headquarters: 5101 Darmstadt Rd. Suite A Hillside, IL 60162 Market: Chicago, IL Phone: (312) 988-4600 Contact email: sales@imageoutdoor.com IMAGE MEDIA operates an out of home plant in the Chicago market. The company was started 35 years ago by Michael Scheid Sr. following a career at […]
Billboard Insider Classifieds November 2, 2019
Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “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 “I bought my General Liability from Stu at Bassler and Co that I learned about on Billboard Insider. I told […]
Steve Nicklin’s 10 Tips for getting more national and regional advertising business.
Steve Nicklin, the OAAA’s VP of Marketing, travels the country making the case for out of home to ad agencies and ad buyers. Here are 10 tips Steve shared on how to get more national and regional advertising business at the fall IBO conference. Be timely and responsive to the […]
Shadowfencing and Proximity Targeting
(National– October 31, 2019) –do it outdoors media in partnership with Blue Bite have further enhanced their fleet of mobile billboards. The out-of-home (OOH) media company can now offer shadowfencing to advertisers who are looking to reinforce the OOH message digitally. WHAT IS SHADOWFENCING? Shadowfencing is a dynamic geofence that […]
Company of the Day: Mountain Outdoor
Company: Mountain Outdoor Markets: Tennessee Address: 9724 Kingston Pike, Suite 204, Knoxville, TN 37922 Phone: 865-691-4705 Email: jchurch@mountainoutdoor.com Mountain Outdoor operates a billboard company in East Tennessee. Insider talked with Dwight and Justin Church. How did Mountain Outdoor get into the billboard business? Mountain Outdoor started in 1993. We have […]