Company: Atlantic Sign Media Markets: North Carolina Headquarters: PO Box 4205, Burlington, NC 27215 Phone: 336-584-1375 Atlantic Sign Media is a privately held company which was started in 1958. Atlantic Sign Media provides custom signs, LED signs and also owns and operates several high visibility digital billboards along the I-40/I-85 […]
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Max Drachman on Recent Outdoor Deals
Max Drachman is a outdoor advertising industry investment banker with Kalil and Co. Insider interviewed Drachman last week about trends in the outdoor advertising M&A market. Max, have you closed any transactions since the last time we checked in with you in early September? Yes, we have closed four more […]
Hand Painted Artistry in a Digital World.
Company: Colossal Media Markets: Nationwide Headquarters: 89 North 10th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249 Phone: 718-858-0979 Colossal Media is the largest provider of hand painted wallscapes in the US. The company was formed in 2004 and specializes in public art murals, commercial murals and sign painting throughout the US. Here’s an […]
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 […]
Hurricane Damaged SC Billboards May Not Be Rebuilt
Coastal Observer reports that three billboards on Highway 17 in Pawleys Island, South Carolina which were damaged by Hurricane Matthew may not be replaceable. Non-conforming billboards with more than 70% damage have to be removed under a county ordinance passed last year for the Waccamaw Neck Commercial Corridor Overlay Zone. […]
Spartans Make Statement With Extra Credit Projects
EAST LANSING, Michigan — In a fall semester campaign effort, Michigan State University and Midwest creative firm and advertising agency, Extra Credit Projects (ECP), work to bring the Spartans Will message to the masses. Visitors to East Lansing will see part of this season’s campaign on billboard designs on major highways. Other major tactics are graphics on Spartan Stadium, with […]
University of Tennessee Students Use Billboards to Encourage Voting
The University of Tennessee Knoxville reports that a professor in the University of Tennessee School of Journalism and Media gave his students an assignment to create billboards to encourage people to vote. The constraints were: Non-partisan No Images Three words one of which must be a variation of the word […]
AT&T – Time Warner Deal May Impact Ad Budgets
What happens when you take two of the top ten advertiser’s in the U.S. and merge them together? According to the Wall Street Journal, it will mean less money spent on advertising for a combined entity. Last year AT&T, at $1.84 billion, ranked second in U.S. paid media. Time […]
Daktronics CFO Sheila Anderson on Benefits of Being A Publically Traded Company.
By Sheila Anderson, CFO, Daktronics Every day, our spirit is reflected in the products we build and in the way we interact with our customers. Our ultimate goal as a company is to be transparent, honest, helpful and humble. So it may be no surprise that Daktronics is one of […]
Company of the Day: Abel Outdoor
Company: Abel Outdoor Advertising Markets: Montana Headquarters: 23685 US Highway 93 N, Arlee, Montana 59821 Phone: 406-880-4964 Abel Outdoor Advertising operates a billboard plant in the following Montana communities: St Ignatius Florence Stevensville Hamilton Missoula Paid Ad
