Business

Lamar Secures Bus and Street Furniture Contracts in Canada

Baton Rouge, LA – August 10, 2023 – Lamar Advertising, one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world, today announced that Lamar Transit Advertising has secured two long-term contracts for bus and street furniture advertising across fast-growing markets in British Columbia and Ontario. The City of Kelowna has […]

Company of the Day: Cameron Outdoor

Company: Cameron Outdoor Markets: North Carolina Headquarters: 805 Trade Street NW Suite 101, Concord, NC  28017 Phone: 704-825-8679 Cameron Outdoor operates a digital billboard off I-85 less than half a mile from the city of Charlotte.  The unit is 5 feet off the right of way and is the closest digital billboard to the […]

Are Your Revenues Cooling? Take our Poll

Billboard revenue growth is slowing at the three public US out of home companies.  Causes include fewer national campaigns, weaknesses in California and entertainment and soft programmatic.   Look at these quarterly results for the past year.  Lamar’s excludes acquisitions, OUTFRONT is US media and Clear Channel is the Americas billboard […]

What Cities have Recovered Fastest from Covid

On the latest round of conference calls the public company out of home executives cited weakness in West Coast markets.  They are one to something.  The University of Toronto used cell phone data through May 2023 to track which cities have recovered fastest from COVID.  Most large cities still aren’t […]

Company of the Day – Bulletin Displays

Company: Bulletin Displays Markets: Southern California Headquarters: 3127 E South Street Suite B, Long Beach CA 90805. Phone: 562-470-6680 Email:  info@bulletindisplays.com Bulletin Displays is one of the top five freeway billboard operators in the Los Angeles area with over 200 bulletin faces. The firm has both static and digital billboards. 90% […]

Company of the Day: Brown Outdoor

Company: Brown Outdoor Advertising, LLC. Markets: North Carolina Headquarters:  PO Box 848, Carey North Carolina Phone: 910-289-0410 Email: Brownoutdoor@yahoo.com Brown Outdoor operates a billboard  and wallscape plant in North Carolina.  The company was started in 2002.  Billboard Insider talked with founder and owner Jarrett Brown. What’s new in the past year? Over the past year […]

Time To Start Watching Your Insurance Costs

From an insurance buyer’s perspective, it can sometimes feel as if premium prices change on a whim. But, according to Chris Bassler of Bassler & Co. Insurance, the truth is that the insurance market is cyclical in nature. Chris, how would you define tendencies in the insurance market? I would […]

Company of the Day – Brogan Outdoor

Company: Brogan Outdoor Markets:  Northern Indiana Headquarters: 106 Depot St, Larwill, IN  46764 Phone: 260-327-3257 Email:  sales@broganoutdoor.com Brogan Outdoor was formed in 1984 by Don Brogan after 20 years in the outdoor business, primarily with 3M.  In 1988 Dan Brogan joined his father and today Dan runs the company.  The company […]

Branded Cities Adds Two Billboards on Sunset Strip

New York, NY– August 2nd, 2023 – Branded Cities, North America’s premier Out-of-Home and iconic media company, announced today an exclusive agreement to represent and sell advertising campaigns on two billboards at Hotel Ziggy on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. Located on Sunset Boulevard just east of La Cienega […]

Company of the Day: Bus Bench Ads

Company: Bus Bench Ads Markets: Nationwide Address: 5555 Inglewood Blvd, #206, Culver City CA  90230 Email:  Anna@busbenchads.com Phone: 424-228-4424 Bus Bench ads is an agency which places out of home advertising on bus benches in the following cities: Dallas Denver El Paso Los Angeles Nashville Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Sacramento San Diego Spokane Tampa Tucson   […]