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Company of the Day: Wilson Outdoor

Company: Wilson Outdoor Displays Headquarters: 786 Coleman Mill Rd, Carrollton, GA 30116 Markets:  Western Georgia and Eastern Alabama. Phone: 770.854.4899 Wilson Outdoor operates a billboard plant with with 99 faces in Western Georgia and Eastern Alabama including coverage in the following communities: Carrollton Wedowee Roanoke Heflin Ashland Wilson Outdoor started in 1985 when Dwayne Wilson […]

Goodman On Making The Case For Your Billboard

Age Advertising President Andy Goodman has 33 years experience siting and developing billboards.  Today discusses how to make the case for your billboard. Let’s start with the City Council. What makes sense to the City Council? FBI’s most wanted amber alerts natural disaster alerts non-profit advertising and support communications with […]

Conlin On Solar Powered Billboards

Kevin Conlin’s firm Autonomous Power Solutions designs and sells solar powered billboard systems.  Insider asked Conlin for an update on trends in solar powered billboards. What’s new over the past year? 2020 was terrible. It seemed the second half of last year everyone’s budgets contracted, and our solar  business virtually […]

A Few Minutes With Will Denton at IBOUSA

Yesterday, Insider ran a press release announcing the hiring of Will Denton to a new position at the IBO.  We caught up with Will to get to know him and learn how a musician ended up in the billboard business. What’s your background? I have been a professional musician for […]

WPP CEO Mark Read paints a rosy picture for out of home.

Mark Read, Chief Executive Officer of WPP, the world’s largest advertising company, has given a fascinating insight into how WPP sees the world of marketing, advertising and media developing in the years ahead. Speaking at the World Out of Home Organization’s virtual European Forum in an interview with WOO President […]

Company of the Day – Williams Outdoor Advertising

Company:  Williams Outdoor Advertising Markets:  Chattanooga, TN Headquarters: PO Box 8823, Chattanooga, TN Phone: 423-702-6602 Email:  harley@chattanoogabillboard.com Williams Outdoor Advertising operates 6 digital billboards structures with 7 digital faces located in Chattanooga, Tennessee  The company’s sales manager is Harley Williams.   [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Adams Wins PA Digital Billboard Case

Adams Outdoor Advertising won an appeals court victory in Pennsylvania, in its pursuit of a digital billboard that would be visible along Interstate 80. A three-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania sided with Adams on May 17: Affirming the trial court Pointing out that courts in Pennsylvania, including […]

Billboards Are Not Passive Income – The 2021 Version

  This post needs to be run every couple years.  Repeat after me: Billboards are not passive income. Billboards are not passive income. Billboards are not passive income. There is a myth that you can make lots of money in the billboard business without any work.  Type “billboard investing” into […]

OUTFRONT Media Recognizes Mental Health Awareness Month

In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, OUTFRONT Media hosted Jay Shetty as part of an A-List speaker series. Jay is a renowned, award-winning storyteller, author, purpose coach, and former monk who has a lot of wisdom and positivity to share with the world. The informal format allowed Jay to […]

DPAA Appoints Talon’s Wilson to Board

NEW YORK, May 18, 2021 – DPAA, the global trade marketing association connecting Out-of-Home (OOH) media with the advertising community while moving OOH to digital, proudly announced today the appointment of Jim Wilson, CEO of Talon America, to its Board of Directors. Wilson is the U.S. CEO of Europe-based, private […]