Lamar released financials for the third quarter 2016. Here are the highlights. Revenue increased 10.5% to $388 million during the third quarter due to additional revenue from the Clear Channel Outdoor acquisitions. Revenue increased 3.6% when adjusted for acquisitions due to healthy increase in digital sign revenue (up 6.6%) and […]
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Company of the Day: Impact Outdoor
Company: Impact Outdoor Advertising Markets: Texas Headquarters: 5454 La Sierra Drive, Suite 200, Dallas, TX 75231 Phone: 214-373-0200 Email: sq@impactoutdoor.com Impact Outdoor was started in the 1980’s by Terry Kafka. The company operated a 300 bulletin plant in Texas which it recently sold. The company’s coverage included Dallas and 18 […]
Philly rejects initial municipal building billboard plan.
Philly.com reports that the Philadelphia Arts Commission has given an initial thumbs down to a plan to put billboards on two government owned buildings but invited Interstate Outdoor to come back with new approaches. Proponents of the plan say that it is an alternative to raising taxes and will raise […]
Emanuel Proposes Extending Billboard Deal
The Sun Times is reporting that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing a four year extension of a 20-year billboard agreement in his 2017 budget. The original agreement called for JCDecaux, partnering with Interstate Outdoor Advertising, to put up 34 digital signs on city property adjacent to the Kennedy, Dan Ryan, […]
Celebrate The Exit
Insider fills time in the car listening to business podcasts. How I Built This is a good one. NPR interviews business founders about challenges they’ve overcome. Recode Media With Peter Kafka is good if you want to follow media. Recode Decode covers tech and is worth listening to as long […]
Watchfire RSS Feed Updates Billboards With Real-time Presidential Election Results
DANVILLE, IL–(Marketwired – Nov 2, 2016) – Owners of Watchfire digital billboards can download a free widget that allows marketers to integrate real-time presidential election results on their billboards. Click to Tweet. The widget will allow Watchfire digital billboard owners to display the popular vote total and electoral college vote […]
Alda Billboards May Be Getting Bigger
The Village of Alda NE is looking at increasing the maximum permitted signs from 200 to 288 square feet. USA Outdoor, based in Kearney NE, has a proposal presented to the Regional Planning Commission for the larger sized billboard. The Planning Commission meeting is set for this Wednesday. A positive vote […]
Company of the Day – Iconic Outdoor
Company: Iconic Outdoor Headquarters: 24 Vine Street 2nd Floor, Everett, MA 02149 Markets: Massachusetts, California, New York. Phone: 888.542.6642 Formed by outdoor advertising pioneer James O’Neill, Iconic Outdoor offers advertisers premium out-of-home media, with over 20 Billboards & Wallscapes available in the following markets: Boston New York Los Angeles Iconic also operate a nationwide […]
TRex Litigation Update November 2016
Samsung Electronics America purchased the digital billboard operations of Yesco in May 2015 and rebranded the Yesco’s digital sign operations as Prismview, LLC.. A representative of Samsung Electronics America which owns Prismview LLC. asked Insider to make two corrections to an article published last week on T-Rex sign litigation. First […]
Only One Label Counts on Election Day — VOTER
Thanks to Clear Channel Outdoor for allowing us to reprint their article. Enjoy! It’s been a tumultuous (to say the least) election cycle and for most — November 8 can’t come soon enough. To encourage more citizens to show up at the polls, the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) […]