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Company of the Day: Saben Outdoor

Company: Saben Outdoor Market:  Georgia Headquarters:  1380 Collinsworth Rd, Palmetto, GA. 30268 Phone:  770-463-4158 Email:  rentabillboard@sabenllc.com Saben Outdoor is a small, family-owned firm that owns static and digital billboards in the Atlanta area.  Many of the billboards are along I-85 south of Atlanta and I-20 west of Atlanta.  The company also provides management […]

Why aren’t more cellular antennas on billboards?

Cellular billboard antennas are the-next-big-thing-that’s-going-to-happen-but-never-does.  Insider suspects this is because many billboards are in rural areas with little additional demand for cellular/wireless antennas.  Insider has received only 1 request from a cellular company seeking wireless antenna space on a Circle City Outdoor billboard.  It was looking for a billboard near […]

Jim Poage on Covid and Out of Home

Last July, Billboard Insider talked with Safety Professional Jim Poage to get his opinion on staying safe during the COVID19 outbreak.  We asked Poage for an update on COVID and it’s impact on out of home. Has Formetco changed their methods of protecting employees since we talked last? In some […]

Ubimo Partners With VIOOH

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., January 14, 2021 –(BUSINESS WIRE) — Ubimo, a Quotient brand (NYSE:QUOT) powering Out-of-Home (OOH) sales, planning, measurement and programmatic buying, today announced its partnership with VIOOH, a leading marketplace for the programmatic selling of OOH advertising. This partnership provides agencies and advertisers access to inventory on the […]

DPAA to Host International OOH Events

Insider thinks this press release is of interest because it shows the growing importance of China to out of home advertising.   NEW YORK – January 13, 2021 – DPAA, the leading global trade marketing association connecting out-of-home (OOH) media with the advertising community while moving OOH to digital, will host, sponsor, […]

Company of the Day – Rue Outdoor Advertising

Company: Rue Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 503 Kensington Dr. Lafayette, LA 70508 Market: Lafayette, LA Phone: 337-654-2591 Email:  brennanbilleaud@gmail.com Rue Outdoor Advertising LLC is a billboard advertising display company located in Lafayette Louisiana. Rue has billboard displays along Interstate 10, Highway 167, and Highway 90. Brennan Billeaud is a native of […]

Billboard Legal: A Tax Foreclosure Doesn’t Create Billboard Ownership

Acquiring land via a tax foreclosure doesn’t give a company ownership of a billboard.  That’s the lesson of Outfront vs CYA Properties.  Here are the facts: In 1971 OUTFRONT leased vacant land in Wayne County, Michigan to install a billboard.  The lease was renewed several times, most recently in 2009.  […]

Ubimo on Alcohol and Snack Sales Trends

By Norm Chait, Director of Out-of-Home Product & Sales at Ubimo a Quotient brand This past year has caused a shift in consumer behavior. Instead of happy hours at local bars, we are celebrating with virtual cocktail hours. We have traded out in-office snacks for mid-day raids to our own kitchen cupboards. […]

How programmatic out of home can help brands recover from covid

By Wade Rifkin, SVP – Programmatic, Clear Channel Outdoor As the pandemic drags on and brands cautiously plan and measure every ad dollar spent, “buying only the media that matters” remains the mantra of most marketers. And fortunately, this has been, and remains, the premise, and promise, of Programmatic Digital Out-of-Home (pDOOH) […]

Company of the Day: RSA Media

Company:  RSA Media Market:  Massachusetts Headquarters:  1 Huntington Avenue, Suite 1104, Boston, Massachusetts  02116 Phone:  617-227-4858 RSA Media owns a billboard plant with 30 faces (16 static, 3 trivision and 11 digital) in Massachusetts.  The company is a member of the OAAA and Geopath.  James Lack founded RSA in 1987 an […]