By Kym Frank, President, Geopath We at Geopath have been busy! The development of our new state-of-the-art measurement and insights platform kicked off in January. We wanted to take a breath and update everyone that the project is 100% on track – and that we are on schedule to deliver […]
Business
Company of the Day: Colorado West Outdoor
Company: Colorado West Outdoor Advertising Market: Grand Valley, Colorado Headquarters: 2475 Commerce Blvd. Grand Junction, CO 81505 Phone: 970-242-5248 Colorado West Outdoor Advertising is a second generation family-owned firm which owns over 100 billboards as well as a bus bench and bus shelter advertising business in Grand Junction Colorado. The […]
Out of Home Insurance Q and A
Why do I need general liability insurance? A general liability policy will protect your out of home company from damage your employees or signs cause to other people or to your landlord’s property. Many property owners insist on evidence that you have a $1-2 million general liability insurance policy as […]
Company of the Day – Cleveland Outdoor
Company: Cleveland Outdoor Market: Cleveland, Ohio Headquarters: 2963 Claremont Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122 Phone: 216.752.5070 Email: getout@cleoutdoor.com Cleveland Outdoor Advertising is a family owned out of home business started in 1979 by Steve Thompson and Debra Abdalian-Thompson. Steve and Debra continue to operate the business with Steve being in charge of […]
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 & […]
Anti-Billboard Group Announces National Billboard Buy
Insider’s Note: This story was published on April 1, 2017. APRIL FOOLS DAY. It is a joke. The anti-billboard group Citizens Against Billboards voted yesterday at its annual convention to purchase 1,000 billboards nationwide to promote an anti-billboard message. The billboards will contain the following bold black print on a […]
Judge Orders Planning Official To Erect Billboard After Wrongfully Denying Permit
Insider wants to make sure his readers know that this story was published on April 1, 2017. APRIL FOOLS DAY. Yes it is a joke. Indiana judge Charlie “Bullfrog” McIntyre has ordered a County Planning Official to personally erect a billboard after wrongfully denying a billboard permit. “I’m fed up […]
The Creation of Billboards
Insider wants to make sure readers know this story was published on April 1, 2017. APRIL FOOLS DAY. Yes, it is a joke. By Brent Baer, Historian-in-residence, Billboard Insider As all of you veterans of the OOH business know, the term billboard came about by a guy named William Boarders. […]
Road Trip – Tuscon
Insider visited the land of cactus, Kalil, Clear Channel and Advision this week. First stop, Kalil and Co to see Max Drachman and Kalil’s out of home and media investment banking team. It’s a rare day when these nomadic investment bankers are in the same room. Pictured below left […]
Questions about Uber Tuscon autonomous car crash
The police report is out on last week’s Tuscon Uber crash. Property 360 carried a Bloomberg article on the crash which says that an eyewitness report: “raises the question of whether Uber’s self-driving sensors spotted the light turning yellow and, if so, whether it decided it could safely continue through the intersection. One […]