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Join OAAA in Supporting Maui Relief Efforts

Let’s use our collective voice to support Maui The wildfires in Hawaii have devastated communities and forced thousands to flee the island of Maui. For those left behind, the Maui Food Bank has served as a conduit for donated food and other essential items, collecting, warehousing, and distributing to relief […]

Company of the Day – Carter Outdoor Advertising

Company:  Carter Outdoor Advertising Markets: Arkansas Headquarters: I- 30 Access Road, Bryant, Arkansas 72022, United States Phone: 501-847-3444 Email: pbradford22@gmail.com Carter Outdoor Advertising operates a billboard plant with over 400 faces in Central Arkansas and surrounding areas. Mark Carter is the firm’s owner.  The company’s billboards vary from 10 by 20 to 14 […]

Third Quarter 2023 Out of Home Dividends

Yesterday Lamar advertising declared a $1.25 quarterly dividend on Class A and B common shares.  This equates to a return of 5.46% per annum return on Lamar’s stock price of $91.58. Outfront declared a $0.30 quarterly dividend which equates to a 10.1% return on stock on a stock price of […]

A Reader Comment on Yesterday’s Albuquerque Story

Yesterday’s story on the City of Albuquerque saying no to continuing their bus advertising contract with Lamar brought this reader response. How will the city replace that income? Did anyone consider leaving advertising on the back and lower thirds (below the window) of the buses to maintain some of that […]

Company of the Day: Chirico Media

Company: Chirico Media Market:  Indiana Headquarters: 4405 Massachusetts Ave, Indianapolis, IN  46218 Phone: 317-941-6040 Email: jameswscott@chiricomedia.com Chirico Media operates a two sided digital billboard on I-65 south of Indianapolis and 2 static billboard structures located at 4405 Massachusetts Avenue in Indianapolis and on SR 37 near Big Bend Road in Morgan […]

Bank Lending Tightens

I am very happy to have finally retired from banking, and I am grateful to Dave Westburg and John Weller of Billboard Insider for letting me write articles about out of home finance.  Before I retired in July, it was clear that banks were tightening credit standards and terms.  I […]

Albuquerque Says No More To Bus Wraps

Yahoo News reports that the Albuquerque City Council voted 8-1 Monday to phase out advertising bus wraps from the city fleets. In June 2025, when the city’s current bus wrapping contract expires, all wraps will be removed from the fleet. There were two primary reasons reported for the decision to […]

COMMB Launches OOH-GPT Beta, Harnessing the Power of AI

  Toronto, August 28 2023 – The Canadian Out-of-Home Marketing and Measurement Bureau (COMMB) has announced their AI-Powered Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) called OOH-GPT (Beta), which leverages the ChatGPT model (trained by OpenAI) and focuses solely on supporting and educating agencies, operators, and brand marketers on out-of-home. This new […]

Company of the Day – Carroll Advertising

Company: Carroll Advertising Company Market:  Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island.    Headquarters: 415 Neponset Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02122 Email: john@carrolladvertising.com Phone:  617-282-2100 Carroll Advertising Company, Inc., was started in 1996 by John Carroll with three billboard faces. The company has grown to include a division of digital advertising and poster displays […]

Rothfelder On Standing in Billboard Variance Cases

On August 15, 2023, the Arizona Court of Appeals issued an important decision on standing in billboard variance cases. In the case, Arcadia Osborn Neighborhood Association, et al vs Clear Channel Outdoor, Clear Channel was granted by the Phoenix Board of Adjustment five use permits and variances to relocate and convert […]