Business

Company of the Day: Mid-America Advertising

Company: Mid-America Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 100 W. Hazel Dell Road, Springfield, IL 62712 Markets:  Missouri, Kentucky, Iowa & Illinois Phone: 217-585-7110 Email: info@midamericaadvertising.com Established in 1993 by Partners Jeff Stauffer, Bob Connors and Dave Stukenburg, Mid America Advertising specializes in interstate and primary highway locations. They currently own and operate […]

Billboards and Other Businesses

The vast majority of the 525 out of home companies in Insider’s database are independently owned and operated.  When does it make sense for an out of home company to be part of another business?  Here are Insider’s thoughts. A sign company owns billboards  (excellent business case) Examples:  Astro Signs, […]

An Update on Autonomous Vehicles

Global law firm Perkins Coie LLP and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), the world’s largest nonprofit organization devoted to advancing the unmanned systems and robotics community just published their findings on survey of more than 260 leaders from the automotive and technology industries, in addition to state […]

Company of the Day: Millenium Outdoor

Company:  Millennium Outdoor Advertising Markets: Texas Headquarters: Winfield, TX Phone: 844-842-8664 Email: administrator@milleniumads.net Millennium Outdoor Advertising operates an outdoor plant in east Texas.  John Walton founded the company in 1991.   Walton died in 2016.   [wpforms id=”9787″]   Paid Advertisement

iHeart’s Bob Pittman on benefits of splitting radio and out of home.

iHeart’s CEO Bob Pittman has newfound skepticism about the synergies of owning radio and out of home.  Here’s a snippet of Pittman’s 5 minute Bloomberg Markets interview.  He had these comments: “…splitting the outdoor company from the iHeart Media segment, which is primarily audio, allows us to align the company’s […]

Kinetic and Posterscope CEO’s to speak at FEPE

Kinetic Global CEO Marc-Antoine de Roys and Posterscope Global CEO Stephen Whyte have been confirmed as Keynote Speakers for FEPE International’s 60th Annual Congress be be held at the Intercontinental Hotel Dubai Festival City on May 1-3 2019. FEPE is the global association for Out of Home media owners, national […]

Company of the Day – Mixed Media Group

Company: Mixed Media Group, Inc. Markets: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan Headquarters: 1152 Liberty Avenue, Cary, IL  60013. Phone: 847-462-8433 Email: steve@mixedmediaoutdoor.com Mixed Media operates signs in Illinois, Detroit, Eastern Iowa/Quad Cities and Iowa City.  The bulk of the company’s signs are in McHenry County, outside Chicago.  McHenry County Illinois is the most populated county in […]

Leslie Outdoor Sells Digital Signs to Outfront

Outfront Media has acquired select I-20 digital billboards in Atlanta Outdoor from Leslie Outdoor.  Outfront enhances digital coverage along a growing section of interstate highway. The sale allows Leslie Outdoor to focus better on its primary market in the middle Georgia area. Williamson and Associates brokered the sale. Leslie Outdoor’s […]

Company of the Day: Micro Outdoor

Company: Micro Outdoor Markets: West Virginia, Maryland. Headquarters: 2 Miller Hill Road, Osage, West Virginia 26543 Phone: 304-319-4141 Micro Outdoor Advertising owns over 200 billboards in north central West Virginia and Maryland.   Many of the boards are double stacks.   The firm’s plant includes billboards in the following communities: Morgantown, West Virginia Clarksburg, West Virginia […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds January 12, 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.  […]