Business

Company of the Day – Griffin Outdoor

Company: Griffin Outdoor Markets: Florida Headquarters: PO Box 7104 Pensacola, FL  32534 Phone: 877-474-3308 Email: robert@griffinoutdoor.com Griffin Outdoor Advertising, Inc. was founded in 2002 in Pensacola, Florida by Robert Griffin. Mr. Griffin has worked in the outdoor advertising industry since 1979. He has an extensive background in site development across […]

Company of the Day: Gotcha Covered Media

Company:  Gotcha Covered Media Markets:  Washington Headquarters: PO Box 1488, Gig Harbor, WA  98335 Phone: 866-355-6267 Gotcha Covered Media operates a billboard plant with 11 structures in Western Washington.  The company was founded in 2003 and is owned by Rick Engley. In 2016 the city of Port Orchard, WA paid […]

Put Your Signs on the Internet

If your signs don’t show up in internet searches you  miss sales.  Insider got a call last week from an ad buyer seeking information on a high profile New York City billboard.  The buyer googled the billboard and received links to a Billboard Insider Article on the billboard but no […]

Out of Home Makes NPR’s How I Built This

The out of home advertising business came up on NPR’s How I Built This podcast featuring Blake Mycoskie.  Mycoskie is a serial entrepreneur who made money putting up wallscapes in Nashville and Dallas before selling to Clear Channel Outdoor.  While telling his story Mycoskie gives  tips on seizing an opportunity, […]

Company of the Day: Gordon Outdoor

Company:  Gordon Outdoor Advertising Markets: Kansas and Oklahoma Headquarters: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Phone: 918-636-6474 Gordon Outdoor Advertising operates billboards in Oklahoma and Kansas. Jeff Gordon is the company’s owner. Brian Firth is the company’s in-house graphics artist and production manager. The company operates multiple static, trivision, and LED signs in […]

Company of the Day – Gilbreath Outdoor

Company: Gilbreath Outdoor Advertising Markets: Southeast Texas Headquarters: 407 South Friendswood Drive, Friendswood, TX  77546 Phone: 281-992-4555 Email: brett@gilbreathoutdoor.com Brett E. Gilbreath of Gilbreath Outdoor Advertising has been in the outdoor advertising industry literally all of his life. His father founded a small billboard company in 1964 and Brett worked […]

Chan Lieu on Autonomous Cars

Autonomous cars are coming but they won’t happen soon.  Here’s a summary of a talk by Chan Lieu of Venable, LLC at the Lookout2017 convention The case for autonomous cars rests on safety.  94% of crashes are due to driver error.  40,000 lives are lost a year. Car manufacturers are […]

Company of the Day: George Lay Signs

Company of the Day: George Lay Signs Market:  Kansas Headquarters: 1016 N. Waco, Wichita, KS  67203-3999 Phone: 800-888-0433 George Lay Signs is a family-owned Wichita based signs company and billboard business.  The company was started in 1955 when George Lay quit his job designing neon signs for Wichita’s leading sign tompany […]

Mike Norton: Five Reasons I Support Photo Ark

By Mike Norton, EVP Norton Advertising When National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore visits Cincinnati on Wednesday (May 31), he will provoke us. Joel will ask us to help protect animals facing extinction.  His sobering thesis is that animal extinction hurts humans (and conversely, preventing animal extinction benefits mankind).  Joel’s award-winning […]

Company of the Day – Genesis Outdoor

Company: Genesis Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 25 E Boardman St, Youngstown, OH 44503 Phone:  (330) 747-0057 Email:  info@genesisbillboards.com Billboard locations in the Youngstown-Boardman, Ohio markets as well as Western Pennsylvania (New Castle,Monaca, Chippewa, and Pittsburgh) [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement