Business

Company of the Day – Brooks Billboard

Company:  Brooks Billboard Corporation Headquarters: 10735 Avenue Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio 43551 Markets: Toledo, I-75 south to Dayton and state routes in northwest Ohio Phone: 419.874.6400 Email:  Brookswelker@yahoo.com Brooks Billboard Corporation operates a 100 billboard plant in Ohio.  The company is owned by Brooks Welker.  The company started as a painting and sign contactor.  The company’s […]

JCDecaux Joins Dow Jones Sustainability Index

09/14/2016 JCDecaux joins the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, the benchmark index for socially-responsible companies Paris, 14 September 2016 – JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces that following an evaluation by RobecoSAM (a company specialising in sustainable investing) and in partnership with S&P Dow […]

Company of the Day: Billboard Outdoor Advertising

Company of the Day: Billboard Outdoor Advertising Markets:  Oklahoma Headquarters:  2305 Leo Sun St #100, Shawnee, OK  74804 Phone:  405-273-9009 Billboard Outdoor Advertising operates a billboard plant with 27 faces in Shawnee/McCloud, Chandler and Clinton, Oklahoma.   Paid Ad  

Company of the Day – Barrett Outdoor

Company:  Barrett Outdoor  Headquarters: 381 Highland St., West Haven CT  Markets: Eastern Connecticut along the I-95 corridor, including Bridgeport, Stratford, Devon & Milford Phone: 203.932.4601 Email: sales@Barrettoutdoor.com For 55 years, the Barrett family has kept its focus on doing one thing and doing it very well: Having outstanding outdoor bulletin spaces in outstanding locations—and providing customers […]

CK Outdoor Seeks Site Locator

CK Outdoor operates a billboard plant in South Dakota and Iowa. The company is looking for a qualified individual with real estate experience who can locate new potential billboard locations.  Westburg talked with Karla Steele of CK Outdoor about the qualities of a good outdoor lease and what the company […]

Outfront Gets L.A. Bus Marketing Rights

A press release from Outfront Media 12 SEP 2016 New deal expands on OUTFRONT’s leadership in the greater Los Angeles transit advertising market NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT), one of the largest out-of-home media companies in North America, announced today that it has assumed […]

Kerry Yoakum on local outdoor regulations

Kerry Yoakum is VP, Government Affairs for the OAAA.  He joined OAAA in 2008 after practicing law as an attorney for the Ohio Department of Transportation. Kerry, how did you get involved in the outdoor advertising industry? Prior to joining the Outdoor Adverting Association of America (OAAA), I practiced as […]

Company of The Day: Atlantic Outdoor

Company: Atlantic Outdoor Advertising Markets: New York Headquarters: 65 Central Park West, Suite 1F, New York, NY  10023 Phone: 212-787-5100 Email: info@atlanticoutdoor.com Atlantic Outdoor was established by industry veteran Jason Perline (Founder and Chairman of Van Wagner Communications).  The company specializes in triple A locations in New York City.  The […]

Georgia and Alabama Road Trip

Insider visited Georgia and Alabama last week.  A billboard road trip isn’t a road trip without breakfast at Cracker Barrel, which is a huge billboard advertiser.  Here’s paragraph from Cracker Barrel’s 2015 10-K: Marketing : We employ multiple mediums to reach and engage our guests. Outdoor advertising (i.e., billboards and […]

Rumor Has It – September 10, 2016

Some software hackers from Silicon Valley  have formed a company which wants to be the Airbnb of outdoor advertising with a cloud-based platform to facilitate the buying and selling of digital and static billboard space.  The outdoor industry needs a product which is ubiquitous and as easy to use as […]