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Company of the Day: Green City Solutions

Company: Green City Solutions Markets: Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania Headquarters: 1050 Park Avenue, New York, NYU  10028 Phone: 646-582-6929 Email: info@greencitysolutions.com Green City Solutions operates a street advertising plant on solar recycling kiosks in Atlanta, Brooklyn, New York City and Philadelphia.  Robert Gheewalla and Geoffrey Kanter and the firm’s co-founders.  […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds September 22, 2018

“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.  […]

Lind SignSpring Lowers Maintenance Issues

“We have installed 6 of the SignSprings and my guys love it. Throughout the Industry, we’ve heard of a rash of accidents where guys have dropped tools, straps, bars, etc.  and Lind SignSpring pretty much eliminates that threat for us.”  Jessie Anderson, Operations Manager, Adams Outdoor Advertising. If you are […]

Grey Outdoor Readies For Hurricane Florence

The weather reports have Hurricane Florence hitting the East Coast on Thursday of this week.  Insider reached out to Grey Vick at Grey Outdoor to discuss preparing for the potentially big storm. Grey, what’s the current status on Hurricane Florence? Right now it looks like it’s coming right towards where […]

The Evolving Cannabis Culture: A Growing OOH Category

By Ken Klein, OAAA Vice President, Government Affairs As the legal cannabis industry buys more advertising, this emerging category is spawning niche ad agencies and new regulations. Thirty states and the District of Columbia currently have laws broadly legalizing marijuana in some form, led by Colorado and Washington State in […]

Dr. Banner to Deliver Mobile Ad Sales Platform to IBOUSA

September 10, 2018  Ryan Walker, Chief Sales Officer of Dr. Banner located in New York City, announced today an agreement with IBOUSA to deliver a hyperlocal programmatic mobile ads sales platform to the IBO workflow features driven by Apparatix Media Solutions. “We are very excited to announce the agreement with […]

Company of the Day – Harmony Outdoor

Company: Harmony Outdoor Markets: Pennsylvania Headquarters: 114 W Diamond St, PO Box 271, Butler, PA  16001 Phone: 724-282-8000. Email: Vsmith@butlereagle.com Harmony Outdoor advertising operates a plant with 90 billboards in four counties in Western Pennsylvania.  The company  is a subsidiary of the family owned Eagle Media Corporation.  Eagle Media owns several […]

Beware Automatic Ad Contract Renewals

Insider is watching a Wisconsin legal dispute (Koepp Realty vs. Clear Channel Outdoor) over the automatic renewal terms in an out of home advertising ad contract.  Robert Koepp, a Waukesha county realtor signed a billboard contract with a predecessor to Clear Channel Outdoor.  The monthly rate was $250/month with an […]

Company of the Day: Great Outdoors Advertising

Company: Great Outdoors Advertising Market:  Maryland Headquarters: 12736 Knoll Rd, Mount Airy, Maryland  21771-6002 Phone: 301-831-3473 Email:  bryan@greatoutdoorsadvertising.com Great Outdoors Advertising operates an out of home advertising plant with 14 billboard faces around Hagerstown, Maryland.   Insider talked with owner Bryan Mack. Bryan, how did you enter the business? I lost […]

Out of the Office: Collin Huber

Collin Huber is the the OOH Market Manager at Daktronics, Inc. He tells insider this: “I have worked at Daktronics for 18 years.    Outside of that I am a huge sports fan and in especially a baseball fan.    When not attending my son’s high school baseball games, I like to attend […]