Business

Company of the Day: City Outdoor

Company: City Outdoor Markets:  Massachusetts, Illinois, California, New York Headquarters: 1333 Broadway, Suit 506, New York, New York 10018 Phone: 212-736-9400 City Outdoor operates a plant of high profile bulletins, digital billboards, wallscapes and windowscapes in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.  The firm was started by […]

Happy Fathers Day!

Insider wishes you a Happy Fathers Day.  It’s amazing how many father/son/daughter combinations there are in the out of home business.   Some of the fathers are no longer living.  We’ve listed the Father first. Apparatix: John James, Jonathan James Barnes Outdoor: Rod Barnes, Maryjane Shackleford, John Barnes Barrett Outdoor: Jack […]

Out of the Office: Marty Williamson

Out of home advertising broker Marty Williamson of Williamson and Associates competes in Damn the Torpedos.  He describes the event in his own words: I enjoy driving my 1975 Triumph TR6.  I also enjoy car shows and often participate in a timed road rally event called Damn The Torpedo’s. Every […]

Company of the Day: Circle City Outdoor

Company:  Circle City Outdoor Markets:  Indiana, Iowa Headquarters: 1405 West Crestwood Ct, Spokane, WA  98033 Phone:  206-910-1283 Email:  circlecitybillboards@gmail.com Circle City Outdoor operates a 55 face billboard plant in Indiana and Iowa.  The company is managed by Dave Westburg who also publishes Billboard Insider.  Insider interviewed Westburg. How did you […]

JCDecaux Launches VIOOH, a Global Independent Automated Planning and Trading Platform

Paris, June 12th, 2018 – JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces the launch of VIOOH – a global independent automated planning and trading platform designed to accelerate growth of Out-of-Home and connect the industry to the programmatic digital ecosystem. The capital of VIOOH – […]

Company of the Day – Cleveland Outdoor

Company: Cleveland Outdoor Market: Cleveland, Ohio Headquarters: 2963 Claremont Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122 Phone: 216.752.5070 Email: getout@cleoutdoor.com Cleveland Outdoor Advertising is a family owned out of home business started in 1979 by Steve Thompson and Debra Abdalian-Thompson. Steve and Debra continue to operate the business with Steve being in charge of […]

Geopath Market Spotlight: San Diego

Did you know: The first person to drive across the Coronado bridge was Ronald Reagan in 1969 San Diego Airport is currently the busiest single runway airport in the US This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses on the San Diego DMA. Infographics for the top DMAs and much more are […]

Company of the Day: Coastal Outdoor

Company:  Coastal Outdoor Markets:  North Carolina, South Carolina. Address:  2025 Corporate Centre Drive #206, Myrtle Beach, SC  29577 Phone: 843-692-2334 Coastal Outdoor operates a plant with 902 bulletins and 24 digital billboards in North and South Carolina including following DMA’s: Myrtle Beach/Florence Charleston Wilmington The company was founded in 1996  […]

Company of the Day – Cincy Digital

Company:  Cincy Digital  Headquarters:   7811 Laurel Ave. Cincinnati Oh. 45243-2608 Markets: Cincinnati, Ohio Phone: 513.342.6866 Email:    sales@cincydigital.com Cincy Digital LLC is a locally owned OOH media firm in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Cincy Digital owns one well located billboard with both north and southbound reads in a prime location on I-71  between two premier upscale shopping […]

Make your lease binding on successors, heirs and assigns.

Make sure your leases binding on successors, heirs and assigns.  That’s the lesson of Tavakoli v CBS Outdoor.  Here’s a summary of the case.   In 1993 National Advertising entered into a lease with Fred Cullincini for the operation of a billboard along Highway 99 in Stockton CA.  The lease […]