Business

Company of the Day – Gilbreath Outdoor

Company: Gilbreath Outdoor Advertising Markets: Southeast Texas Headquarters: 407 South Friendswood Drive, Friendswood, TX  77546 Phone: 281-992-4555 Email: brett@gilbreathoutdoor.com Brett E. Gilbreath of Gilbreath Outdoor Advertising has been in the outdoor advertising industry literally all of his life. His father founded a small billboard company in 1964 and Brett worked […]

Are Cold Calls Dead?

By Andrea Messimer Are Cold Calls Dead? The short answer is No- If you throw enough things at the wall something will eventually stick or you will get lucky. Today, reaching prospects is harder than ever due to the fact there are so many channels. Here are the top 3 […]

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 tompany to start his […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds September 1, 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.  […]

Link Media Acquires Waitt Outdoor For $82 Million

OMAHA, Neb.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Link Media Outdoor (“Link”), a subsidiary of Boston Omaha Corporation (NASDAQ: BOMN), has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the operating assets of Waitt Outdoor, LLC (“Waitt Outdoor”), based in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1999, Waitt Outdoor has grown to become one of the leading outdoor companies […]

Update your billboard insurance schedules

Are you buying or building new locations?  Then keep your insurance schedules up to date.  That’s the lesson of Lamar Advertising versus Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance.  Here are the facts: Lamar Advertising had an insurance policy with Liberty Mutual. Lamar incurred damage to billboards as a result of hurricanes Ike […]

Yesco Buys Roadside Outdoor

 YESCO Outdoor Media, Salt Lake City, Utah announced today that it has acquired all of the billboard assets of Roadside Outdoor Advertising, LLC, Rapid City, SD. The inventory of 87 bulletin faces are located in eastern Wyoming, western South Dakota and Nebraska. Patrick O’Donnell, YESCO Outdoor Media’s President, said the […]

Company of the Day: The TV Truck

Company: TheTVTruck.com Markets: Pennsylvania, NJ, NY, DE Headquarters: King of Prussia, Pennsylvania Phone: 855-412-6466 Email: info@thetvtruck.com The TVTruck.com operates 3 mobile digital billboard Trucks in Pennsylvania, NJ, NY, and DE. Paul Catagnus and Jeff Cartwright are partners in the business.  Insider talked to Jeff Cartwight. Jeff, how did you enter the […]

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 operates 37 billboard locations in Youngtown-Boardman, Ohio markets as well as Western Pennsylvania. The Company uses RMG Outdoor to build out their structures.  Their inventory includes 5 digital signs.   […]

10 Students Receive Scholarships from FOARE

By Myron Laible OAAA Vice President State, Local, and Regulatory Affairs       The Foundation For Outdoor Advertising Research and Education (FOARE) has announced the 10 recipients of the Foundation’s scholarships for the 2018-2019 academic year. The scholarship recipients are: Tiara Wicks (Carson, CA) received the $5,000 Allman Family Business Development, […]