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Sam Rockwell calls out billboards during Oscar speech

During his Oscar acceptance speech Sunday, Three Billboards actor Sam Rockwell thanked “everyone who’s ever looked at a billboard.”  See minute 1:30 in the video. https://youtu.be/ipDnxapmtSE?t=86 [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Company of the Day – American Outdoor Advertising

Company:  American Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:  2201 E Camelback Road, Suite 620 Phoenix, AZ 85016 Markets: San Diego CA, Las Vegas NV and Phoenix Phone: 602.687.9220 Email:   sales@americanoutdoor.net American Outdoor Advertising is an outdoor advertising company serving the San Diego, Oakland, Las Vegas, and Northern Arizona markets. American offers high profile digitals on high […]

Readers comment on “When is a Contract Not a Contract”

Last Friday Insider explained a decision not to renegotiate a written outdoor advertising contract even though a client threatened to withold future business.  Insider touched a nerve and received lots of comments.  Here’s a selection: “I would have either done what you did, or negotiated a contract extension/other upsell on their […]

Company of the Day: Albro Advertising

Company:  Albro Bench Advertising Markets: New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania Address:  20 W 3rd St, Suite 4, Jamestown, NY  14701 Phone: 716-640-9729 Email: albro2signs@yahoo.com Albro Bench Advertising operates plant of 150 bus benches primarily in Western New York State.  The company’s benches are concentrated in the following communities: James Town, New […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds March 3, 2018

Billboards for sale classifieds cost $120 for 12 months, paid in advance by credit card.  All other classifieds cost $60 for 60 days or $120 for 12 months paid in advance by credit card.  Billboard Insider will write a 200-700 word article publicizing the sale of your billboard plant for an […]

When is a contract not a contract?

One of Insider’s pet peeves is customers who think a contract is not a contract.  Insider signed a year out of home advertising contract with a restaurant group.  The contract had a sixty day cancellation clause.  The restaurant group sent an email last week saying that it was going a […]

Outfront Wins MBTA Billboard Contract

NEW YORK, March 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT) (the “Company”), announced today that it has been awarded a new contract with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (“MBTA”) to manage 125 billboards on MBTA’s owned properties. OUTFRONT is scheduled to begin operations on March 4, 2018. This contract marks an expansion of OUTFRONT’s ongoing partnership with the MBTA. OUTFRONT will […]

Company of the Day: Alabama Outdoor

Company:  Alabama Outdoor Markets:  Alabama Headquarters Address:  631 Beacon Parkway West, Suite 112, Birmingham, AL  35209 Phone: 202-224-5815 Email: info@aloutdoor.com Alabama Outdoor operates three billboard locations with five faces around Birmingham, Alabama. The digital billboards are provided by Formetco. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Liberty Media in the iHeart Mix?

Liberty Media,  who has a broad range of media and entertainment interests that include SiriusXM and the Atlanta Braves, have entered the iHeart Media sweepstakes as a potential investor.  Liberty has offered a term sheet to certain key lenders and note holders of iHeart to buy a 40 percent stake […]

Weather Cams Can Make You Money

If you live in an area bedeviled by tornados and storms you should reach out to your TV station to see if they want to mount weather cams on your billboards. Insider has written about Durden Outdoor’s use of weather/traffic cams. Insider knows another out of home company that just […]