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West Virginia Reestablishes their Outdoor Advertising Assocation

The reestablishment of the Outdoor Advertising Association of West Virginia has been over two years in the making.   After a 10 year hiatus, it became official on July 17, 2024.   WV Outdoor President & CEO, Bill Lodzinski along with Lamar-Wheeling  VP/GM, Shane Walters were instrumental in starting the conversations and […]

Company of the Day: Onsite Insite

Company: OnsiteInsite Markets: Arizona Address: 6200 E. Thomas Road, Suite 201, Scottsdale, AZ  85251 Email: info@azbillboard.com Phone: 480-990-0800 OnsiteInsite is a locally owned and operated company with a plant of 14 by 48 billboards along the Santan Freeway Loop 202 in the southeast valley of Phoenix between I-10 and the Price Freeway Loop 101 in […]

Charlie Callari Reflects on a Career Selling Media

Billboard Insider asked out of home sales exec Charlie Callari about what he’s learned in the course of a 30+ year  career in media sales. How did you get into out of home? It was 2017 and I was just getting out of the yellow pages business. I had previously […]

Miles Travelled Up 1.3% During May 2024

US miles travelled increased 1.3% according to the FHWA May 2024 Travel Trends.   All regions of the United States had more miles travelled.  The South Gulf States lead the way up 2% in May.  The Northeast grew the slowest, up 1%. Here’s the raw data for the past 25 […]

Transit Ridership Up 7% in 1Q 24 but Still Below Pre-covid

US transit ridership was up 6.8% during the first quarter of 2024 according to the American Public Transportation Association First Quarter 2024 Ridership report.  This is the 12th straight quarter of ridership improvement after steep declines during covid.  The industry still has a ways to go to recover from covid. […]

Company of the Day – Oaktree Outdoor

  Company: Oaktree Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:  1650 Manheim Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601 Market: Lancaster, PA Phone: 717-368-8074 Email: DEVON@OAKTREEOUTDOOR.COM Oaktree Outdoor Advertising serves the greater Lancaster area with 76 digital and 15 static faces. The Lancaster metropolitan area population is over 500,000. The city is located about 34 miles southeast of […]

Mike Hershey on an Update to a Pause on Political Advertising

On Sunday, after the shooting incident in Pennsylvania, Mike Hershey, OAAA EVP, Government Affairs sent a note out mentioning an announcement to pause political advertising, referencing the following article in The Hill. Since Sunday was a very hectic day and moment in history, Insider touched based with Mike to see […]

Adams Provides Free Wifi in Exchange for Digital Permit

Adams Outdoor Wisconsin Real Estate Manager Devin Renner has a great story about how creative thinking removed a regulatory logjam and created a win-win situation for Adams Outdoor and Middleton, Wisconsin.   We’ll let Devin tell the story… The problem In 2021 Adams Outdoor went through the approval process for […]

Intersection Expands Bus Footprint in Chicago

Chicago, IL – July 16, 2024 – Intersection, an experience-driven out-of-home media and technology company, today announced it has been awarded an exclusive contract with Pace to sell bus and shelter advertising across suburban Chicagoland. Intersection previously served as Pace’s exclusive advertising contractor from 2008 to 2020. The new contract […]