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Company of the Day: Kentucky Outdoor

Company: Kentucky Outdoor Advertising Markets: Kentucky Address: 423 State Street, PO Box 917, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Phone: 270-842-6828 Kentucky Outdoor owns over 100 billboards in south central and western Kentucky.  David Sears is President.  Thomas Connelly is Vice President. Sears was named the 2017 small business person of the year by the Bowling Green Chamber of […]

Sean Reilly: We’re On Fire

Sean Reilly appeared yesterday at the JP Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference after missing the GO 2022 Out of home media conference with covid.  Here are some of his comments. Lamar is setting records We’re on fire.  Industry’s on fire.  Lamar is continuing to set records every day.  […]

Impacts of rising interest rates on OOH valuations

By Chris Stark and Craig Berry, Stark Capital Solutions If you’ve been keeping up with the news lately, you’ve probably seen discussions over rising interest rates and the Federal Reserve’s recent rate hike of 25 basis points in March, then another 50 basis points in May. With more rate hikes […]

Stagwell’s Media Network and Talon Combine Teams For First Joint OOH Campaign

First Joint Out-of-Home (OOH) Campaign for Converse Achieves Meaningful Impact NEW YORK and LONDON, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Stagwell Media Network, part of Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), today announced the integration of the U.S. OOH teams from the network’s omnichannel media agency, Assembly, with Talon, to offer smarter, data-driven, and creative-led OOH planning, buying, and proprietary technologies to advertisers. This […]

Company of the Day – King Outdoor

Company:  King Outdoor Advertising Markets: Pennsylvania Address: 304 N Washington Avenue, Suite 201, Scranton, PA  18503 Email: info@kingoutdoor.net Phone: 570-344-8250 King Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 32 static and 55 digital spaces in Northeastern Pennsylvania.  The company was founded in 1966.  Jerry Frank is the company’s CEO and President.  […]

The Lease Decides

What happens when your landlord decides they want to get into your business, voids your permit, refuses to accept lease payments and builds their own billboard  The lease decides.  That’s the lesson of Frierson v Delta Outdoor.  Here are the facts. On January 22 1998 Ethel Frierson agreed to lease […]

Cooler Screens Adds Execs and Board Members to Support Growth

CHICAGO, May 18, 2022—In response to accelerated growth, Cooler Screens is expanding its leadership and advisory board with industry leading talent from customer centric organizations to optimize the expansion of its platform, re-define and improve the in-store consumer experience and solidify the company as the world’s largest digital media platform […]

Keystone Outdoor celebrates second annual national billboard day

Philadelphia, PA — For the second year in a row, Keystone Outdoor is prepared to celebrate National Billboard Day. Leading up to National Billboard Day which takes place on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, Keystone Outdoor has launched a social media contest for businesses to design a billboard using Keystone’s mockup […]

Rate This Ad by Wes Frick

Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a random billboard ad 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 week’s rating is provided by […]

Great Outdoors Advertising Divests OOH Assets to Lamar

Hagerstown, MD – Great Outdoors Advertising announced today the divestiture of its digital and static assets to national operator Lamar Advertising Company (NASDAQ: LAMR). Great Outdoors Advertising is the leading static and digital bulletin operator with a portfolio of high-end locations in the Hagerstown market. Drachman M&A Co. represented Great […]