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Geopath Announces Promotions and New Hires

  New York, NY (February 18, 2022) – Geopath, a not-for-profit organization that provides the industry-standard audience metrics for Out of Home (OOH) advertising, today announced it has promoted five employees and added four staff across various functions. Newly promoted within the Geopath organization are: Brian Ryu, Senior Manager, Transit & […]

Durden Assists Woman Looking for Kidney

A local Coffee County woman is desperate to find a kidney donor and has a BIG strategy to find a match. Betty Jo, also known as Jody Millette contacted Durden Outdoor to discuss her unique situation. After fighting kidney failure for over six years and realizing that no one in […]

New Tradition Buys 10 Premium Displays from Pearl Media

NEW YORK, NY – February 22, 2022 – New Tradition, an independent out-of-home media company, announces the acquisition of 10 advertising displays from Pearl Media.  The assets include signage in Los Angeles’ popular Hollywood and Vine district, a high-profile billboard on 37th Street and 8th Avenue in New York, and more. These signs complement New Tradition’s existing roster of urban core, iconic signage across LA, New York, and other city centers covering the […]

Rate This Ad By Wes Frick

Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a random piece of billboard artwork 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 […]

Lamar Inks 10 Year Agreement to Expand Denver RTD Digitals

Baton Rouge, LA – February 22, 2022 –Lamar Advertising, one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world, today announced that the company has secured a 10-year System Advertising Program contract, with additional options through 2042, with Denver’s Regional Transportation District (RTD). RTD operates and maintains a mass transportation […]

Company of the Day – GR Outdoor

Company: Grand Rapids Outdoor Headquarters: P.O. Box 2626, Grand Rapids, MI 49501 Market: Grand Rapids Michigan Phone: 616-874-8283 Email: sales@groutdoor.com Grand Rapids Outdoor is a locally owned and operated billboard advertising company.  In December of 2021, the Company sold the bulk of their signs to OUTFRONT Media. The Company web sites shows 2remaining […]

One for the property owner, one for the OOH company and one surprise.

Age Advertising’s Andy Goodman writes for Billboard Insider on out of home leasing and development.  Andy’s last column was on lease terminations and keeping your options open.  Today Andy reviews three lease negotiations. Last week I worked on three separate property owner negotiations with their Lessee, the billboard company. I […]

Advertising Revenue A Core Business For Larger Retailers

In a recent briefing, Walmart CEO, Doug McMillon, told analysts the following; “As we bring more customers, sellers, and suppliers into our ecosystem, it expands our ability to monetize those relationships. A great example is our advertising business. Globally, it’s been growing at a high rate, with high margins and […]

Lamar Joins World Out of Home Organization

Lamar Advertising, one of the largest out-of-home advertising companies in the world, has joined the World Out of Home Organization (WOO). Founded in 1902, Lamar today operates more than 352,000 billboard, transit, airport and interstate logo displays in the United States and Canada, including the largest network of large-format digital […]