Business

Company of the Day: MV Outdoor

Company: Marin Ventures Outdoor Markets: California Headquarters: 1325 Howard Ave, Suite 816, Burlingame, CA  94010 Phone: 650-343-4789 Email: information@marinventuresllc.com Marin Ventures is a privately held outdoor advertising company which owns signs in California.  The company’s trade name is MV Outdoor.  The company is run by Grant Leschin.  What’s new since we talked last Grant? We had […]

Billboard Insider Grows 45% during 2018

Billboard Insider just finished an outstanding year but don’t take our word for it.  Look at the data.  A 45% increase in site views. 2015 – 23,217 views 2016 – 220,036 views 2017 – 410,000 views 2018 – 598,608 views A big thank you to all of you readers who […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds January 5, 2019

“The response has been excellent.  Excellent investment.”  Out of home broker Stephen Minnich. “…we have received no less than 15 responses the ad you ran for us to sell our Quad Cities billboard plant…”  David Buring “FYI, today we got two requests from out of home companies to sign up.  […]

Ian Dallimore’s Predictions for OOH for 2019

Ian Dallimore is the Director of Innovation & Digital Sales Strategy for Lamar Advertising. Ian has three predictions for out of home in 2019:  1.   Programmatic will make a significant impact in the OOH space Programmatic advertising has seen significant year over year growth in the digital OOH space the last […]

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. […]

American Towers and RSA Media

It’s a poorly kept secret that a couple months ago American Towers bought RSA Media, a Boston out of home company with 15 high profile Boston billboard structures. Kalil & Co. confirmed their assistance in negotiating and brokering the RSA Media sale transaction without mentioning the buyer, at the buyer’s […]

Company of the Day – Mesa Outdoor

Company: Mesa Outdoor Headquarters: 582 Market St., San Francisco CA 94104 Markets: Southern California Phone: 925.386.6372 Email: info@mesaoutdoor.com Mesa was founded in 2008 in Contra Costa County with the goal of developing outdoor advertising structures. Their projects include locations from Sacramento to San Diego.     [wpforms id=”9787″]   Paid Advertisement […]

Paul Wright’s 2019 Predictions

Paul Wright of Signvalue makes three predictions for out of home in 2019. We anticipate the out of home industry to become more closely integrated with technology. In addition to operational efficiencies like upgrading lighting to LED, adding sensors, digital displays and dabbling in programmatic buying, we expect to see […]

Geopath Market Spotlight: Sacramento

Did you know: Sacramento was home to the original Pony Express, the nation’s first expansive mail delivery service. Mark Twain got his start in writing in Sacramento, working for the Sacramento Union newspaper long before creating the novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses on […]

Company of the day: Media South Outdoor

Company:  Media South Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:  Jackson, Tennessee. Markets:  Tennessee, Mississippi. Phone: 866-945-0243 Media South was started in 2007 by Norm Isbell.  The company has 28 faces placed strategically in Tennessee and Mississippi.  Most of the faces are 10.5′ by 36′.   Prior to starting Media South, Isbell was a division manager for […]