Business

Company of the Day – Gigantic Media

Company: Gigantic Media, LLC. Markets: Cleveland, Ohio Headquarters: 5222 Richmond Rd, Bedford Heights, OH 44128 Phone: 216-536-9036 Email: andy@giganticmediallc.com Gigantic Media was formed by Andy Greenwald and David Sternberg to develop wallscapes and billboards in Cleveland.  Insider interviewed Gigantic’s founder Andrew Greenwald. How did you enter the out of home […]

Max Drachman: “We still have more buyers than sellers.”

Insider asked Kalil and Co’s Max Drachman to talk about the current out of home deal market. Max, are deals getting done?  Yep.  We closed one deal ten days ago, and have two more slated to close by the end of the month.  Deal flow is better in certain areas […]

How COVID-19 restrictions roll off and what it means for out of home.

Many countries in Europe are rolling back stay-at-home restrictions as they bring COVID-19 under control.  Here’s what it looks like. Austria is allowing small shops to open effective April 14 with other shops and hairdressing salons to open May 1 and restaurants/hotels to open in Mid-May.  Events are banned until […]

Geopath Releasing Real Time Traffic Metrics

An Important Message from Geopath Regarding New Real-time Metrics  I hope this message finds you safe and well during these unpleasant times for our nation and the world. Historically, Geopath impressions were used as a forecasting metric in order to predict the audience delivery of an out-of-home (OOH) campaign. They […]

Company of the Day: George Lay Signs

Company of the Day: George Lay Signs Market:  Kansas Headquarters: 1016 N. Waco, Wichita, KS  67203-3999 Phone: 800-888-0433 George Lay Signs is a family-owned Wichita based signs company and billboard business.  The company was started in 1955 when George Lay quit his job designing neon signs for Wichita’s leading sign company to start his […]

Huntington Outdoor on Surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic

In addition to serving in the Ohio House of Representatives, Jena Powell is a VP of Marketing at Huntington Outdoor.  In the post below Jena shows us how Huntington is communicating with its small business clients during the covid-19 crisis. By Jena Powell, VP Marketing, Huntington Outdoor As business owners […]

New South Outdoor Acquires OMD Huntsville Assets

Neil Bell’s New South Outdoor continues to grow in Alabama with the acquisition of several sites in Huntsville from OMD.  The addition of these locations gives New South an impressive display face count of 195 in Northeast Alabama.  Marty Williamson of Williamson and Associates was the broker.  Insider talked with […]

Adquick: Traffic is 64% of normal across 206 DMA’s

US traffic volumes declined slightly during the past week.  Here’s the data from Adquick’s Weekly Insights on Coronavirus’ Impact on OOH Advertising which tracks the mobile location data of approximately 10% of the population to measure foot and car traffic for all OOH units in the country versus average traffic […]

Company of the Day – Genesis Outdoor

Company: Genesis Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 25 E Boardman St, Youngstown, OH 44503 Market: Ohio & Pennsylvania Phone:  (330) 747-0057 Email:  info@genesisbillboards.com Genesis Outdoor owns and operates 66 static and 14 digital faces in the Mahoning Valley, Youngtown, Ohio markets as well as Western Pennsylvania.     [wpforms id=”9787″]   Paid Advertisement

US Past Covid Hospital Use Peak

Some encouraging news on Covid-19.  According to the health models of the Institute for Healthcare Metrics the US is now 1 day past peak hospital use related to the Covid-19 and 2 days past peak daily Covid 19 deaths.  Looks to Insider like it will take another month for the […]