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Lamar Increases Dividend By 50 %

From a Lamar Press release: BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), a leading owner and operator of outdoor advertising and logo sign displays, announces that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.75 per share payable on March […]

Company of the Day: Street Smart Outdoor

Company: Street Smart Outdoor Markets: Rhode Island, Florida Address: 345 Highway 9 South, Manalapan, New Jersey Email: info@streetsmartoutdoor.com Phone: 888-468-1414 Street Smart operates a solar powered bus shelter, bus bench and trashbin plant with over 1,000 locations in Rhode Island and Florida.  Street Smart is a wholly oned subsidiary of […]

Beware Billboard Lease Termination on Sale Clauses

Beware of billboard lease termination clauses which allow the lease to be cancelled on a sale to a third party.    That’s the lesson of International Outdoor versus Dix Road.  Here are the facts. In 1998 the Donald Golden Trust leased property to Rite Media of Michigan for a billboard.  […]

Is San Jose Saying No On Their Digital Plan?

Insider reported back in July 2020 that the City of San Jose was considering allowing up to 90 new digital billboards on private property as well as some smaller signs on public land.  Though the City has had a prohibition of new billboard construction on public and private land, San […]

Morgan Stanley Bullish on Out of Home

Morgan Stanley Media analyst Ben Swinburne was bullish on out of home on a recent Morgan Stanley Thoughts on the Market podcast.  Swinburne’s said this: We have a bullish view of the advertising recovery.  Every datapoint on advertising that we’ve been hearing lately has been positive and we remain of […]

Mobile Digital Billboards Communicate Atlanta Back to School Messages

(ATLANTA, GA – February 19, 2021) – Thousands of students have returned to in-person learning at Atlanta Public Schools (APS) as of February 16th after a long hiatus of virtual learning. To help make this return a little easier, Atlanta-based Zep, Inc. contributed to APS’s comprehensive Return + Learn reopening plan. The program […]

Company of the Day – Stott Outdoor

Company: Stott Outdoor Markets: Northern California, Nevada and Oregon Headquarters: PO Box 7209, Chico, CA  95927. Phone: 888-342-7868 Stott Outdoor has been in business since 1949.  The Company is based in Chico and services Northern California as well as parts of Nevada and Oregon.  The company operates bulletins, posters and […]

Melody Roberts Says Its Time to Re-Engage With Clients

By Melody Roberts, Out of Home Creative Every New Year, I think about what changes I can implement to offer clients a better creative experience. One thing always comes to mind: how we engage with our clients. Too many emails and texts = loss of dialogue and miscommunication. With what we […]

One Utah Senate Billboard Bill Fails. One Still Pending.

SB 144 which would limit the ability of municipalities to incentivize landowners to terminate billboard leases or refuse to renew billboard leases failed by in a senate vote on Monday.  Here’s the bill’s language. The bill’s sponsor Senator David Hinkins introduced the legislation to prevent attempts by municipalities from paying […]

Rokk3r Acquires AdMobilize and Matrix Labs for $19.5M

Miami-based AdMobilize and its spin-off, Matrix Labs, announced this morning that they are being acquired for $19.5 million. The buyer is Rokk3r, a Miami-based holding company that invests in creating, acquiring and integrating companies. In a letter from Rodolfo Saccoman, AdMobilize CEO & Founder, he provided the following on the new opportunity. “We have BIG […]