Insider talked with Veale Outdoor’s Tom Jackson about the Santa Rosa, CA company’s innovative monument sign program and what it’s like to operate a billboard plant when wildfires sweep your market. What impact did the October 2017 Northern California wildfires have on your company? The wildfires in Santa Rosa/Sonoma County, […]
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FEPE Launches 2018 Awards with New Rising Star Category
FEPE International is inviting nominations for its Annual Awards – to be presented at its Annual Congress in Sorrento from June 6-8 – and is adding an important new category, the Rising Star Award. This will be awarded to someone aged 30 or under who has made an outstanding contribution to the Out […]
Company of the Day – Visual Outdoor
Company: Visual Outdoor, LLC Headquarters: 379 Bee Tree Ln. Blairsville, GA 30512 Markets: Northeast Georgia, Western North Carolina, and Eastern Tennessee Phone: (706) 745-9322 Visual Outdoor Advertising is owned by Terry Poteete and operates in Northeast Georgia, Western North Carolina, and Eastern Tennessee. They own and operate 71 billboards with 217 […]
Billboard Insider Classifieds January 13, 2018
Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “When thinking as to how best to get the word out of our available position we thought of Billboard Insider. We are glad we did. The cost of the ad was reasonable and the response was outstanding.” Jim Moravec, Stott Outdoor “We had over 25 companies inquire […]
Be Careful About Land Lease Increases
Insider sees lots of out of home land leases with fixed minimum rent increases of 2-5%/year. These leases are a bad deal for out of home companies because land rent increases faster than inflation and industry revenue growth. Inflation averaged 2.2%/year for the past 17 years. Nominal out of home […]
Outfront Billboard Leverages AR to Engage Consumers
NEW YORK, — January 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT) announced today a campaign for Dogology, Inc., a New York city based virtual dog training startup, that showcases the ability to use augmented reality in out-of-home campaigns, along with out-of-home and mobile advertising creative developed by OUTFRONT’s […]
What Toyota’s driverless car looks like.
Some people tell Insider that driverless cars will negatively impact the out of home because driverless cars will have no windows. Insider can’t imaging riding in a windowless vehicle. Insider ran across a couple pictures of Toyota Research Institute’s driverless car in a Mashable article. Looks pretty much like […]
Company of the Day – Victor Sign Company
Company: Victor Sign Corporation Markets: Greater Chicago, IL Headquarters: 2734 W. Superior St, Chicago, IL 60612 Phone: 773-661-0056 Email: info@victorsignchicago.com Victor Sign Corporation has operated a billboard plant of wallscapes, bulletins and digital signs in Chicago for over 85 years. At one time Victor Sign & Display Company (as it […]
Adams Auto Dealer Sales Success Story
Adams Account Executive Peter Geffert put a great 1 minute video on linked in about a successful poster campaign for Haltermans Toyota. Geffert asked Matt Raymond of Haltermans how the poster campaign is working out and here’s what Raymond said: “It’s been a huge success for us…We had some static […]
Russ Hillard reflects on 52 years in out of home advertising.
Russ Hilliard has over 50 years experience in the out of home, radio and cable TV. Russ is CEO of USA Outdoor and Russ’s son Chris is CEO of CK Outdoor. Insider asked Russ Hilliard to reflect on what he’s learned. Russ, how did you get into the out of […]