Business

Company Of The Day: Comstor Outdoor

Company: Comstor Outdoor Markets: Indiana and Ohio. Headquarters: 9016 St Route 117, Box 151 Huntsville, Ohio  43324-0151. Phone: 888-354-2591 Email: office@comstoroutdoor.com Comstor Outdoor was started in 2001 by Jason Duff and operates 400 faces in western Ohio and Eastern Indiana.  In addition to Comstor, Duff runs the Community Storage & […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Hires Wade Rifkin as SVP Programmic

Insider’s take: Clear Channel Outdoor has hired Wade Rifkin to develop partnerships with data providers and to develop the company’s automated media buying.  You can see the importance of the job by the fact that Rifkin will report directly to Clear Channel Outdoor CEO Scott Wells.  Here’s the press release. […]

Look Outdoor Advertising

Company: Look Outdoor Markets: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas. Headquarters: 700 North Florida, Borger, TX  79007. Phone: 806-274-4357. Email:  jrusten@lookoutdoor.biz,  tgassaway@lookoutdoor.biz Look Outdoor advertising is a family run business that began operating in 1994 with the purchase of four neglected billboard structures near Amarillo, Texas.  The company now operates […]

Company Of The Day: Metro Outdoor

Company: Metro Outdoor Market: Yakima, Toppenish, Sunnyside and Granger, Washington. Headquarters: 14362 N Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd, Suite 1000, Scottsdale, AZ  85260. Phone: 866-860-6952 Email: pgrover@metrooutdoorllc.com Metro Outdoor was formed in 2005 by Peter Grover to operate a billboard plant in Yakima, Washington.  Metro’s CEO Peter Grover grew up in […]

Marijuna Retailers Want Billboards

Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington permit medical and recreational use of marijuana.  Another 19 states permit the medical use of marijuana.  KOIN and  News 10 have run an articles on the purchase of marijuana billboards by Oregon advertisers and KPLU has written about Washington’s first marijuana billboard advertiser.   Insider has […]

Company Of The Day: Pioneer Outdoor

Company: Pioneer Outdoor Market: Springfield Missouri. Address: 1936 E Sunshine, Suite B, Springfield, MO Phone: 417-315-8719. Email:contact@pioneeroutdoor.com Pioneer Outdoor is a family owned company which operates a plant of 30 static faces and 13 digital faces around Springfield Missouri.  The company was formed in 2011 by Larry Lipscomb who has […]

Fortune Defends Clear Channel Outdoor.

Fortune’s Jennifer Chiang has written an article titled “Why Clear Channel’s Billboard Campaign is Not That Creepy” in response to several recent articles critical the anti-privacy possibilities of Clear Channel Outdoor’s Radar project.  The Radar project overlays mobile and location data from ATT, SM, Placed and PlaceIQ against Clear Channel […]

Billboard Insider Got Hacked.

Billboard Insider got hacked late last week.  We had to move our sites to a new godaddy account and lost some data in the process.  That’s why the site is lacking past articles. We’ve resumed writing articles and are working on restoring the old data. You’ve heard it before but […]

Company Of The Day: Mile Hi Outdoor

Company: Mile Hi Outdoor Market:  Colorado. Headquarters: 9250 E Costilla Ave, Suite 500, Greenwood Village, CO  80112.  303-783-4000.  sales@milehighoutdoor. Mile Hi Outdoor was founded in 1996 and owns 400 billboard faces in the Denver Metro area and the state of Colorado.  The company also has 9 digital signs.  In addition […]

Outfront Wants Its Own Radar

Location based marketing is all the rage.  Outfront has announced a partnership with xAd, a company which enables real-time, location-based marketing, for the development of xAd Marketplace a self service platform for buying and selling locations.  You can watch a Vimeo video on the new product here.  Here’s the press release: […]