Company: Elevation Outdoor Advertising of Tennessee Market: East Tennessee Headquarters: 5201 Kingston Pike, Suite 6, #138, Knoxville, TN 37919 Phone: 865-748-2427 Elevation Outdoor Advertising, LLC, based in Knoxville, Tennessee was founded in 2002. It’s majority owner is Martin Daniel. Elevation Outdoor does business in a 14 county area of East Tennessee and has over […]
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Company of the Day – EPIC Outdoor
Company: EPIC Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 720 St. Anne St., Rapid City, SD 57701 Markets: South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska Phone: (605) 388-9424 Email: brendan@epicoutdoor.com EPIC Outdoor Advertising billboards can be found in the following areas: Northcentral Nebraska (Chadron & Alliance) Eastern Wyoming Western South Dakota Along with their static inventory they […]
A Landlord’s Perspective on Billboard Leases
Carolina Calderon is an Oradell, New Jersey attorney whose firm Law Offices of Carolina Calderon Castro, LLC specializes in advising landlords on billboard issues. Insider asked Calderon to talk about billboard leases from a landlord’s perspective. Carolina, how did you get involved with advising landlords on billboard leases? I became […]
Autonomous Car Update August 8
Could autonomous cars increase transit use and transit advertising? MIT technology review has a short piece highlighting how Waymo is partnering with the Phoenix area regional transit authority to get people to buses and trains. Insider’s take: This is good news for transit advertising companies if it helps boost ridership. […]
Company of the Day: Elray Outdoor
Company: Elray Outdoor Advertising Markets: New York, New Jersey Headquarters: 1862 East 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11223 Phone: 718-645-9621 Email: info@elrayoutdoor.com Elray outdoor advertising operated a plant of high profile billboards in New York and New Jersey until 2017. The firm’s President was Raymond Laniado. In 2017 the firm sold […]
Tech Companies discover out of home.
Bloomberg ran a piece yesterday saying that Silicon Valley is going old school in buying out of home: Facebook Pushes Online Ads, Then Spends Its Cash on Billboards Look at the OAAA’s 2017 list of top out of home advertisers. Tech firms are in bold. MCDONALD’S RESTAURANT APPLE GEICO AMERICAN EXPRESS […]
Getting started with billboard insurance.
Billboard insurance is a must for your business. Here are some common types of coverage your out of home business will need: Workers Compensation. Required if you have employees. Replacement coverage for billboards and equipment. This is critical for digital billboards. Less critical for static billboards unless you have a […]
Company of the Day – Emmitt Signs
Company: Emmitt Signs Markets: Ohio Headquarters: 501 West Emmitt Ave, Waverly, OH, 45690 Phone: 740-708-1247 Emmit Signs has an 18 face plant located in Waverly and Chilcothe, Ohio. The company’s signs are 12 by 24. Six of the company’s ten existing structures are double-stacked. The company was formed in 1998. […]
Comments on Billboards are not Passive Income
Lots of comments on last Friday’s Billboards Are Not Passive Income post. Insider made the point that there’s nothing passive about the billboard business and if you want to make lots of money with little effort you should do something else. Here’s a selection. Paul Wright, Sign Value We occasionally […]
Environmental Messaging On Billboards
By Paul Hickman, General Manager, Fairway Outdoor, Raleigh, NC The “I’m not a trophy” Grizzly Bear billboard out West reminds us of an important point: billboards are a valued platform for environmental messaging. The Center for Biological Diversity put billboards in three Western states to express its views on trophy […]























