Business

Company of the Day: Cuerden Sign Co

Company:  Cuerden Sign Co Markets: Arkansas Headquarters: PO Box 187 Conway, AR  72032-0187 Phone: 501-329-6317 Email: cuerden@swbell.net Cuerden Sign Company was founded in 1920 by Henry Cuerden.  The firm originally painted signs.  Over time it entered the neon sign and billboard business.   The firm is owned and operated by […]

Company of the Day – CRG Advertising

Company: CRG Advertising, LLC Market: Connecticut Phone: 860-961-4818 CRG Advertising operates 2 digital faces and 9 static faces in Connecticut.  The signs range in size from 10.5 by 22 to 14 by 60.   The firm was founded in April 2009 by Charlie Ghione after stints as an outdoor exec […]

Digital Billboards Help FBI Solve Another Case

FBI headquarters provided this update to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA): “Fugitive Demeko Wells was featured on digital billboards in the Tampa, FL, area. The pressure created by the billboards influenced Wells to turn himself in the day after the billboards were posted. “After turning himself in, Wells […]

Company of the Day: Couch Advertising

Company:  Couch Advertising Company Markets:  Georgia, Alabama Headquarters: 194 Pine Road, NW, Resaca, GA  30735 Phone: 706-346-5356 Couch Advertising was founded on July 28, 2003 by owner and operator Johnny Couch the former manager/Vice President of Lamar’s Rome GA plant.  The company was started as an ad agency and then […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds – April 8

“I wanted to let you know that an electrician responded to our ad and we sent him out for his first job last week…Thanks so very much.”  Ellen Polansky, JGI Outdoor. Billboard Insider Classifieds work.  Our classified cost $60 for 3 months or $120 for 12 months.  To self-place your […]

Outdoor Legal: Not Removing A Billboard At Lease Expiry Is Trespass

Did you know that it’s trespass to fail to remove a billboard when your lease expires?  That’s the point of Loukas v Clear Channel Outdoor. Clear Channel Outdoor leased a billboard in Chicago from Loukas, Inc from 1990 to 2012. In 2012 the lease expired. Clear Channel Outoor refused to […]

Company of the Day: Connell Outdoor

Company:  Connell Outdoor Market: Las Vegas Headquarters: 5242 Swenson Street, Las Vegas, NV  89119 Phone: 792-795-0555 Connell Outdoor has billboard locations in tourist and local corridors in Las Vegas.In addition to its billboard operation in Las Vegas, Connell Outdoor has a sister company, Shore Sign Service located in Atlantic City, […]

Paths To The Out of Home Advertising Industry

  What should you do if you want to own your own out of home advertising firm?  Work for an out of home advertising company or a sign company.  Insider tabulated the results from 50 Company of The Day articles. How People Entered The Out of Home Advertising Business Almost […]

The Billboard Survives

  Thanks to Sara Fischer, Media Reporter for Axios for allowing us to reprint her recent post.  Unlike other traditional advertising platforms like magazines and newspapers, out-of-home advertising such as billboards and subway posters grew almost 7% last year, mostly due to the rapid conversion of static ad spaces to […]

Company of the Day – Cooper Outdoor

Company: Cooper Outdoor  Markets: Texas, Southern Coast, Southeast of San Antonio. Headquarters:  115 Waco, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78401 Phone:  361-882-3088 Email: coopersales@cooperoutdoor.com Cooper Outdoor is a locally owned and operated family business which was founded in 1981.  The company has 500 billboard locations in Aransas County, Bee County, Jim Wells […]