The Muskogee Phoenix reports that the Oklahoma Department of Transportation is asking for a court order to remove a vinyl billboard which is on a truck trailer parked at north 11th street and Three Rivers Plaza. The sign is owned by Arcon Inc. The State has asked Arcon to […]
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Rate This Board
Rate This Board allows a billboard designer to rate a random piece of billboard artwork using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This weeks rating is […]
Company of the Day: Triple O Outdoor
Company: Triple O Outdoor Market: Triple O Outdoor services the North Houston Metro Area: Conroe, The Woodlands Montgomery County Headquarters: P.O. Box 101253, Fort Worth, TX 76185 Phone: 963-777-3527 Email: walter@tripleooutdoor.com Triple O is a family business which was founded in 1995. The company has four digital faces and 6 static faces in […]
ADstruc Licenses Out-of-Home Buying Platform to Haworth Marketing + Media
New York, NY (May 18, 2016) — ADstruc, the leading technology services company for the outdoor advertising industry, recently announced a partnership with Haworth Marketing + Media to license ADstruc’s Out-of-Home (OOH) media planning and buying platform, Drive, to the Minneapolis-based agency. Haworth — whose clients include Ben & Jerry’s, […]
Daktronics Down in Fourth Quarter 2016
Digital Billboard Maker Daktronics had a dissappointing fourth quarter. Here are the highlights from the company’s earnings release and the Seeking Alpha earnings transcript. Revenues for the three months ended April 30, 2016 declined by 12% to $138 million and the company had a net loss of $2.9 million for […]
Ken Sahlin on Automated Outdoor Buying
Columbus, OH headquartered DOmedia provides cloud-based technology to facilitate outdoor ad buying and selling. The firm’s platform powered approximately 5% of all US outdoor transactions during 2015. Insider asked DOmedia CEO Ken Sahlin for his thoughts on outdoor and automated buying. Ken, outdoor is one of the few forms of […]
Rouge Media Acquires On-Campus Media
Media Post reports that Rouge Media, a Toronto-based out of home media company, announced the acquisition of On-Campus Media, the largest U.S. College digital out-of-home advertising network today. The acquisition will give Rouge control of all of On-Campus’s digital video, online and mobile assets. Rouge will also expand its U.S. network […]
Company of the Day: Tri Outdoor
Company: Tri Outdoor Market: Lehigh Valley, PA Headquarters: 1749 Red Hawk Way, Bethlehem, PA 18015 Phone: 610-838-8870 Tri Outdoor is a locally owned and operated outdoor advertising company in Lehigh Valley, PA. The firm operates an 18 face plant around Allentown. The company has been in business in excess of […]
Outdoor Revenue Trends 2012-2016
Marketingcharts.com has done a nice graph of the quarterly change in US outdoor revenues since 2012. You can see that US outdoor revenues have rebounded nicely in 2015 after a dip in 2014. We’ve reproduced the chart below. Click on the chart to read the entire Marketing Charts article. Paid […]
iHeart Media Being Sued By A Minority Investor
Yes, iHeart Media did recently come off a victory in the Texas courts over a group of creditors. That does not mean their troubles are over. Gamco Asset Management owns nearly 10% of the stock in Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings not held by iHeartMedia. Gamco is suing iHeart for improperly […]
