Lamar Partnering has pulled the plug on its $300 million SPAC. Here’s the SEC filing. LAMAR PARTNERING CORPORATION 5321 Corporate Boulevard Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808 June 21, 2022 VIA EDGAR U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance 100 F Street, NE Washington, D.C. 20549 Re: Lamar Partnering Corporation […]
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Mitchell Matson RIP
Mitchell Matson died suddenly on June 19, 2022. Matson had a 35 year career in the out of home advertising business in St Louis Missouri and Chicago. Billboard Insider hears Matson spent time at OUTFRONT. Here’s a link to his obituary. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/southport-nc/mitchell-matson-10800439 If you have memories of Mitch email […]
Netflix Promotes Man vs Bee
Netflix is promoting their new series Man vs Bee with a creative Outdoor activation in Manchester England. The out-of-home campaign features the series star, Rowan Atkinson, in the center of a roundabout with poles around it which house giant bees on top. A moving picture is worth a thousand words, […]
Kevin Gephart Says its all Upside When it Comes to Digital
On the 67th Billboard Insider podcast out of home sales expert Kevin Gephart talked about selling advertising on digital billboards. The up side of digital billboards. I think it’s all up side when it comes to digital. Because first of all digital can now be sold like broadcast in that […]
Smartify and Samsung Launch Small Business Digital OOH Platform
Vienna, VA, June 21, 2022 –Smartify Media, a digital out of home and in-retail digital advertising platform, today announced the launch of Small Business Revenue+, a program that enables any business with store windows – from bodegas to liquor stores to gyms –to immediately start realizing an incremental and recurring […]
Nearly 60% of Billboard Insider Readers Have Had Covid
58% of Billboard Insider readers have had covid, based on yesterday’s Billboard Insider poll. Looks like this is in line with the rest of the US population. In April the CDC estimated that 60% of US adults and 75% of US children have had covid based on evidence from blood […]
Lindmark Outdoor Media & An Interview With Trent Lindmark
Company: Lindmark Outdoor Media Corporate Headquarters: 2700 Technology Place, Norman, OK 73071 Markets: Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana and Texas Phone: 405-928-5800 Email: info@lindmarkoutdoormedia.com Lindmark Outdoor Media is one of the largest privately held billboard companies with over 6,000 faces in the United States. Lindmark was established by Trent Lindmark who […]
Beware Construction Clauses
A construction clause allows a landowner to terminate a billboard lease if construction of a new building requires the removal of a billboard even if the billboard is outside the building’s footprint. That’s the lesson of Burkhart Advertising v Lowes Home Center. Here are the facts. In June 1999 Carl […]
Have You Had Covid?
Several speakers and attendees at the 2022 Geopath/OAAA conference had to cancel because of covid. Insider came down with covid after the conference – a flu-like case without complications thank you. Which leads to today’s poll. We’ll share the results tomorrow. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement
OOH Influences Back-to-School Purchasing Decisions
By Steve Nicklin, SVP, Marketing and Analytics, OAAA In an economic climate impacted by high inflation, it’s no surprise the latest research from OAAA and The Harris Poll reveals 68 percent of Back-to-School (BTS) shoppers will be looking for OOH ads regarding special sales and deals as they make […]