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Company of the Day: Brooks Billboards

Company: Brooks Billboards Markets: Ohio Headquarters:  10735 Avenue Road, Perrysburg, OH  43551 Phone: 419-874-6400 Email:  BrooksWelker@yahoo.com Brooks Outdoor operates a plant of more than 100 billboards in Western Ohio.  The company started in the sign contracting and painting business.  Sign projects included the Toledo Zoo, Murphy’s Jazz Club and Tony […]

Lamar Advertising Company Expands Media Footprint in Fort Collins

Lamar managing bus advertising displays as part of new contract with Transfort Baton Rouge, LA – March 6, 2017 – Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest out of home advertising companies in North America, today announced its new transit advertising contract with the City of Fort Collins. The agreement commenced January […]

Company of the Day – Brogan Outdoor

Company: Brogan Outdoor Markets:  Northern Indiana Headquarters: 106 Depot St, Lawwill, IN  46764 Phone: 260-327-3257 Brogan outdoor was formed in 1984 by Don Brogan after 20 years in the outdoor business, primarily with 3M.  In 1988 Dan Brogan joined his father and today Dan runs the company.  The company has […]

OAAA Board Chair William Reagan Reflects on the Out of Home Business

William K. (Bill) Reagan started Reagan Outdoor Advertising in 1965, the year he and his wife Julia were married. The company and the marriage are thriving, and their three adult children are active in the business. Reagan Outdoor Advertising now operates 4,000 billboard faces in Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and […]

What Out of Home Executives Are Saying

  By Nancy Fletcher, President, OAAA Thank you, OAAA principals, for sharing your honest thoughts with senior staff, in our recent telephone interviews. Here are 10 take-aways from owners and top executives at more than 75 OOH media companies, large and small. This valuable input, via one-on-one interviews: Helps guide […]

Company of the Day: BPS Outdoor

Company: BPS Outdoor Markets: Southern Georgia, Northern Florida Headquarters: PO Box 47, 807 West Second Street, Tifton, GA  31794 Phone:  (229)382-6060 BPS outdoor owns billboards in Southern Georgia  and Northern Florida.  The company was started in February 1999.  Carl Hutchinson is the firm’s General Manager.  Selena McIntyre is the firm’s […]

This week’s classifieds

Some postings in the Billboard Insider Classifieds this week: Pacific Outdoor is seeking an account executive.    Here’s your chance to be a hipster in Portland! Stott Outdoor is looking for a leasing representative in Chico, California. A legendary billboard plant in Richmond, Indiana is for sale. A digital billboard on […]

More Feedback on Eco-Vinyl

Insider received several helpful comments on yesterday’s The Problem With Eco-Vinyl post. We’ve printed the comments below. Christopher Howe, Clear Channel Outdoor:  With over 1,200 posters in the Boston market…we find overall a very small percentage of eco-posters are affected after severe weather. I personally have a few posters on annual contracts […]

The Problem With Eco-Vinyl

Insider recently bought some billboards in Indianapolis.  They used lightweight eco-vinyl.  Yesterday there was a big windstorm and look what happened.  One vinyl ripped and fell off.  The other vinyls are wrinkled. Insider is going to stick with 7 oz regular vinyl in the future.   Insider asked some operators […]

Company of the Day: Boardworks

Company: Boardworks Markets: Georgia Headquarters: 3500 Lenox Road, Suite 500, Atlanta, GA  30326 Phone: 404-223-1161 Email: sales@boardworks.com Boardworks operates an outdoor advertising plant in Atlanta.  The company was started in June 1989 by Larry Roberts.  The company has an outstanding website which placed first in the Billboard Insider 2015 website […]