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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: […]

City Settles Billboard Claim

The city of Port Orchard, WA will be paying $250,000 to the owner of a Gig Harbor advertising company to resolve a six-year legal battle. The Kitsap Sun reports the proposed settlement on a dispute that goes back to 2011. Rick Engley of Gotcha Covered Media, claimed the city in […]

Dividend Fund Likes Lamar

David Abella’s Dividend and Income Fund told Barrons last week that Lamar is one of his five top picks.  Here’s what he hold Barrons: “The digital era has made it difficult in some cases to get consumer eyeballs and on the road is a very captive audience.” The stock is […]

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 […]

Landmark Outdoor Acquisitions Down

Landmark Infrastructure Partners released financials for the 6 months ended June 2016.  Here are the highlights: Landmark bought no new outdoor advertising easements or leases during the first 6 months of 2016 after buying 211 outdoor advertising leases and easements during 2015. Landmark had a $59 million investment in outdoor […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Americas Appoints Lynn Feldman EVP & General Counsel

New York, New York — Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA), a division of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO), today announced that Lynn Feldman has been named Executive Vice President and General Counsel for its business in the U.S. and Canada. Jointly reporting to CCOA Chief Executive Officer Scott […]

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. This weeks rating is […]

Gamco Not Happy with iHeart

Insider has reported frequently on iHeart Media’s debt problems as they own 90 percent of the equity of publicly traded Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, the nation’s largest billboard company. Mario Gabelli’s Gamco Asset Management owns 10 percent of the publicly traded shares. Gamco has not been happy with iHeart, owned […]

OAAA Partners with DAA to Promote Responsible Data Principles for OOH

WASHINGTON, DC – (August 1, 2016)— The Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA), trade association for the out of home (OOH) advertising industry, today announced it has joined the broader industry in addressing new, emerging ad technologies and practices through the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), a self-regulatory organization that implements […]