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Statler Billboards Divests to McWhorter Media Group

Statler Billboards is pleased to announce the sale of its 62 out of home advertising faces in the Pittsburgh, PA DMA to McWhorter Media Group. Williamson & Associates acted as exclusive broker and advisor to the seller. Statler Billboards is a local family-owned business originally started in 1990. Their coverage […]

OUTFRONT and Times Square Alliance Team for Family Campaign

  (Times Square, N.Y. – September 7, 2022) The Times Square Alliance and OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT) reveal a new campaign titled Times Square is for Families to welcome both local and visiting families to the Crossroads of the World. Launching as summer ends and many children are returning […]

Astral Expands in Alberta with Imagine Outdoors Premium Digital Network

TORONTO, Sept. 6, 2022 /CNW/ – Astral, Canada’s leading out-of-home advertising solution provider, announced today that it has acquired Imagine Outdoor’s entire digital out-of-home advertising network in Alberta, as of Sept. 1, 2022. The new digital screens are bringing Astral’s total digital inventory in Alberta to 39 faces, allowing more […]

Company of the Day – Oaktree Outdoor

Company: Oaktree Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:  1650 Manheim Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601 Market: Lancaster, PA Phone: 610-334-9102 Email: DEVON@OAKTREEOUTDOOR.COM Oaktree Outdoor Advertising serves the greater Lancaster area with 16 digital and 12 static faces. The Lancaster metropolitan area population is over 500,000. The city is located about 34 miles southeast of Harrisburg, 70 […]

Dr. Rick Wilson on Attribution and What Advertisers Should Do in a Recession

Today’s podcast guest is Dr. Rick Wilson, Associate Professor at Texas State University San Marcos, has written extensively about the impact and effectiveness of out of home advertising. Here are some highlights. How did you get involved in studying out of home advertising? The short answer is that my dissertation […]

Who’s Paying What Out of Home Dividends?

Lamar Advertising declared a quarterly dividend of $1.20 per Class A and Class B share payable on September 30, 2022.  Works out of a 5.2% yield on the company’s current stock price of $92.98.  Here’s Lamar’s quarterly dividend for the past year.  The yield is the annualized dividend divided by […]

DPAA Global Summit Speakers Announced

NEW YORK – September 6, 2022 – DPAA, the global trade marketing association, driving the growth and digitization of out-of-home media and its growing role in the omnichannel mix, announced today initial speakers for its Global Summit, to be held on October 11 at Pier 60 (Chelsea Piers) in New York […]

Company of the Day: Ohio Outdoor

Company:  Ohio Outdoor Markets:  Ohio Email: Ben@ohio-outdoor.com Phone: 330-464-8539 Ohio Outdoor operates a plant of 22 static and digital billboards in Ohio.  In addition to operating an out of home plant the company assists others with constructing and managing static and digital billboards.    Billboard Insider talked with Ben Harbaugh, the firm’s […]

Matt Schulze on Converting a Structure from Static to Digital

A reader asks “how much will it cost to convert an existing steel monopole two sided 14 x 48 static billboard to digital?”  Billboard Insider asked Selective Structures Matt Schulze to comment and he said this: I’ve seen the costs to convert vary from $5,000 to $50,000.  It depends.  Is […]

SignBird Tuesday Tip – Using Content To Grow Your Billboard Company

When speaking to the future of the internet, Bill Gates said, “Content is King” in 1996. To this day, that holds true. Content is what populates your website, your social media feeds, and everywhere you look. When you are online you’re constantly bombarded with content. So why not use this […]