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Company of the Day: Williams Outdoor

Company:  Williams Outdoor Markets:  Tennessee Headquarters: PO Box 8823, Chattanooga, TN Email:  harley@chattanoogabillboard.com Williams Outdoor Advertising operates 6 digital billboards structures located in Chattanooga, Tennessee  The company’s sales manager is Harley Williams.   Paid Ad  

Four reasons to avoid wood billboards

Insider owns some wood billboards but advises against wood billboards for four reasons.  Wood won’t last as long.   Paul Wright’s Billboard Appraisal estimates the life expectancy of wood billboards at 30-40 years and steel billboards at 70-80 years.  This is extremely important in today’s regulatory world.  Municipalities pass strict […]

Company of the Day – Shipp Outdoor

Company: Shipp Outdoor, LLC Headquarters: 2800 Youree Dr. #416 Building B Shreveport, LA 71135 • 2801 Richmond Road #43 Texarkana, TX 75503 Markets: Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma Phone: 866-99-SHIPP Shipp Outdoor, LLC acquired assets of Whatley Sign Co. of Texarkana, AR in August of 2012. Chad Shipp, President, has been in marketing and […]

Company of the Day: WV Outdoor

Company: WV Outdoor aka Kanawha Valley Advertising Markets: West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland Headquarters: 1389 Charleston, Road, Poca, West Virginia  25159 Phone: 304-342-0932 WV outdoor is the largest independently owned outdoor billboard advertising company in the state of West Virginia.  The company was formed in 1929 and has 1434 faces including 98 […]

Lyft spends big on outdoor

Outfront CEO Jeremy Male had this to say about Outfront’s relationship with the ride sharing service Lyft during Outfront’s 2016 second quarter earnings conference call: Lyft has been the strong partner of OUTFRONT Media and has run simultaneous campaigns across our top US markets, equalizing the breadth of our assets […]

Floating billboard targets Ocean and Monmouth

NJ105 reports that Shore Board is using a floating billboard to targeting beach goers in Ocean and Monmouth counties.  Shore Board owned by Charlie Michaels.  The board rents to businesses and for birthday announcements, welcome home announcements and congrats. Insider’s take: Wonder what the regulator authorities will do.  A floating […]

Company of the Day: Buckland Media Group

Company:  Buckland Media Group Markets: Western Oklahoma Headquarters: Oklahoma City, OK  73112 Phone: 405-219-1800 Email: bucklandmedia@gmail.com Ben Buckland Media operates 121 billboard structures in Western Oklahoma.  The company is owned by Ben Buckland.  Buckland has a background in the radio and publishing business and has also served as the announcer for […]

Nick Coston Rides Central Florida

This is one of a series of occasional reports by Billboard Insider’s peripatetic correspondent Nick Coston.  Nick is an outdoor advertising consultant who specializes in OOH media planning and buying.   Here’s an account of his recent Florida road trip. Last week, during the east coast’s brutal heat wave, I […]

Company of the Day – United Advertising Corporation

Company: United Advertising Corporation Headquarters: 495 West Llif Ave., Denver CO 80223 Markets: Denver CO; Los Angeles and SanFrancisco CA; New York NY and Eastern New Jersey  Founded in 1997, United Advertising Corporation is a full-service outdoor advertising company with offices in Denver, Monmouth County, NJ, New York City and Los Angeles. Products: […]

Company of the Day: Admiral Outdoor

Company: Admiral Outdoor Advertising, LLC Market: Duplin County, North Carolina. Headquarters: 5752 S. US Highway 117, PO Box 160,  Wallace, NC  28466 Phone: 910-285-1047 Email: Info@admiraloutdoor.com Admiral Outdoor operates a 40 structure billboard plant in Duplin County in eastern North Carolina.  Insider talked with Missie Wells of Murphy Investment Group about […]