Insider and Herb Stark of Stark Outdoor were talking yesterday about annual rent inflators and leases. Many landlords will push for an annual rent increase or a rent increase every five years in exchange for entering into a long term lease. Here’s a table showing US inflation rates by decade […]
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Rate This Board By Out of Home Creative
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. Melody Roberts of Out […]
Is iHeart Making Progress With Creditor Group?
Insider has written about Clear Channel Outdoor’s parent company, iHeart Media, and their debt woes. Their trial in Texas with a group of creditors began this week . We had previously mentioned that iHeart was trying to find a mediated settlement up to the date of the trial. At issue is […]
Company of the Day: Elevation Outdoor Advertising of Tennessee
Company: Elevation Outdoor Advertising of Tennessee Market: East Tennessee Headquarters: 5201 Kingston Pike, Suite 6, #138, Knoxville, TN 37919 Phone: 865-748-2427 Elevation Outdoor Advertising, LLC, based in Knoxville, Tennessee was founded in 2002. It’s majority owner is Martin Daniel. Elevation Outdoor does business in a 14 county area of East […]
Bill Ripp on How to Prevent Hacking of Digital Billboards.
Insider wishes to thank the OAAA and Lamar Vice President/Digital Development Bill Ripp for this article. Ripp is Chairman of the OAAA’s Digital Billboard Committee. The recent hacking of two digital billboards in Alabama reminds us of these important points: Digital billboards – like the rest of the world linked […]
Building and Programming the Baltimore Art Sign
Insider interviewed Will Shanklin last month about Baltimore’s spectacular 52′ by 42′ LED Billboard which is located across from Penn Station. The sign sells digital ads and also features local artists and supports community events. Insider talked to Formetco’s Jim Shimmin and Joel Hurst about the installation and operation of […]
Company of the Day: Kowala Outdoor
Company: Kowala Outdoor Advertising Market: Portland, OR Headquarters:812 SW Washington St, Suite 300, Portland, OR Phone: 503-610-8519 Kowala Outdoor operates static billboards and wallscapes in Portland Oregon. The company is run by Adam Kowalski. The firm should not be confused with Koala Outdoor, the Florida outdoor advertising company. […]
State-By-State Sign Regulations
Thinking of putting up signs in another state? The National Alliance of Highway Beautification Agencies (NAHBA) has a US map which allows you to click on a state and see links to the state’s outdoor advertising website, state outdoor advertising legislation and a NAHBA state information form which summarizes […]
Outdoorlink on Protecting Your Digital Sign
Insider wrote an article last week about Digital Billboard Hacking. The subject is timely. AL.com , Motherboard and Sixteen Nine reported that last Friday a hacker put pornographic images of Marco Rubio on 2 Alabama digital billboards owned by Durden Outdoor after a hacker breached the controls. The hack happened because the […]
Company of the Day: Key Outdoor
Company: Key Outdoor Markets: Illinois, Missouri, Iowa Headquarters: 1873 Armour Road, Bourbonnais, IL 60914 Phone: 815-937-4579 Key Outdoor, Inc. is a family owned business operating in Central Illinois, Northeastern Missouri and Southeastern Iowa. The company was founded in 1977 and operates 1,700 outdoor advertising displays. The company started in Kankakee […]
