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Company of the Day: CRG Advertising

Company: CRG Advertising 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 2009 by Charlie Ghione after stints as an outdoor exec with NextMedia […]

So You Want To Enter The Outdoor Business…

Insider receives a steady stream of emails from people who want to enter the outdoor business.  Often they seek 100% financing for their first billboard purchase from Billboard Loans, our lending company.  Most of them are in the real estate business and think there’s easier money to be made in […]

Marci Werlinich on Why You Should Join OAAA

Marci Werlinich is VP of Membership and Administration at the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA). She’s spent her entire 30 year professional career serving the OAAA and its members. Marci focuses on membership recruitment, event planning, human resources and information technology. Marci was elected to the OAAA Hall of […]

Company of the Day: Cooper Outdoor

Company: Cooper Outdoor Markets: Texas Headquarters:  115 Waco, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78401 Phone:  361-882-3088 Cooper Outdoor is a locally owned and operated family business which was founded in 1981.  The company has 500 billboard locations with concentrations in Corpus Christi, Rockport and Port Aransas.  The company also has a bus […]

Brent Baer on Better Billboard Photos

Brent Baer, OOH General Manager and National Sales Signal Outdoor Advertising, ran this post on how to take great billboard pics on his linkedin page.  Insider thinks the advice is timeless and has reprinted the article with Baer’s consent here. Ever receive a #billboard photo which made evaluation more difficult? […]

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 […]

Are You Telling Your Towns What You Do For Them?

Lind Media recently sent out an email talking about the company’s community service activities.  The email is a terrific example of how to remind your communities what you do for them.  Insider has reproduced the email below.  Don’t assume that politicians and citizens  automatically recognize your community service efforts.  You […]

Outfront’s Jeremy Male Interviewed By Fortune

Fortune  interviewed  Outfront Media’s CEO Jeremy Male.  Here are some of Male’s comments together with Insider’s reactions. “We are taking a look at acquisitions.  In fact we just completed one in the last few weeks, a company called Reynolds down in Dallas.”  Reynolds outdoor has 500 faces in Dallas and […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Should Exit The Fabrication Business

Did you know that Clear Channel owns a steel fabrication company?  Here’s quote from the company’s 10k: We typically own the physical structures on which our clients’ advertising copy is displayed. We build some of the structures at our billboard fabrication business in Illinois and erect them on sites we […]

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 […]