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Billboard Insider Classifieds June 25, 2022

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “We got a big boost in qualified applicants from running our ad on your site.”  Rodney Davis, Transformation Media “Thanks to you and your website I’ve hired a General Manager.  We received several qualified applicants in response to our Billboard Insider classified”  Justin Powell, Owner, Huntington Outdoor […]

Scott Lafoy Says Link is Setting Records

Company: Link Media Outdoor Markets: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin Address: 200 Mansell Ct. East, Bldg 200 Suite 360, Roswell, GA  30076 Email: info@linkmediaoutdoor.com Phone: 844-404-5465 Link Media is the sixth largest out of home company in the United States.  It operates billboard plants with […]

Stark Capital: Two More Acquisitions to Lamar

Indianapolis, IN – Stark Capital Solutions, Inc., an OOH focused investment-bank and capital provider, announces the following two acquisitions to Lamar Advertising: Ralston Outdoor Advertising has completed a divestiture of digital and static billboard displays in Shreveport, LA.  Earlier this year, Stark Capital provided the funding for Ralston to acquire […]

Lamar Pulls its SPAC

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 […]

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 […]