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Tips for Extending Digital Billboard Life

On this week’s Billboard Insider podcast Daktronics Out of Home Market Manager Collin Huber talked about things a company can do to extend the useful life of digital billboards: “There are some companies that even though we ship signs at 8,500 nits brightness levels, they’ll start off by only operating […]

Who is Mayor Pete?

By Ken Klein OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs   President-Elect Biden plans to nominate former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary, replacing Elaine Chao of President Trump’s Cabinet. Mayor Pete snapshot: He’s 38 Rhodes Scholar Navy veteran, deployed to Afghanistan in 2014 Mayor of South Bend, IN […]

Clear Channel Outdoor and Bombora Partner

New York, New York – Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA) (NYSE: CCO) today introduced a more effective way for brands to reach highly coveted B2B audiences as they leverage the company’s audience planning solution: RADARView®. In a new partnership and data integration with Bombora, the leading provider of B2B intent […]

Company of the Day – Red Rock Outdoor

Company: Red Rock Outdoor Headquarters: 133 West 25th Street, 3rd Floor, New York NY 10001 Market: New York City Phone: 212-404-2758 Email: info@redrockoutdoor.com Founded in 2009, Red Rock Outdoor is a New York based Out-of-Home company providing a full array of OOH products to the New York Area.  Those include: […]

Who Owns the Design?

On last week’s OAAA legal seminar, Rich Zecchino said Adams Outdoor requires that any creative work Adams generates cannot be used on other platforms.  This idea is to prevent a client from using a small Out of Home ad buy to generate ad creative which is used for Facebook advertising, […]

Lamar Sues City When “Welcome Signs” Skip Zoning Process

Lamar is suing a township in Pennsylvania that allowed another sign company (PTM Signs) to build “welcome signs.” Actually, Lamar claims, these signs are billboards that circumvented the zoning process (Lamar et al v. Township of Robinson). “PTM Signs were approved by the Robinson Board of Commissioners under the guise […]

Company of the day: Ralston Outdoor

Company: Ralston Outdoor Advertising Market: Texas Headquarters: 13450 N Stemmons Suite 240, Farmers Branch, Texas, 75234 Phone: 972-241-4040 Email: sales@ralstonoutdoor.com Ralston Outdoor is the largest independent outdoor advertising company in North Texas.  The company was founded in Dallas in 1976 by Doug Ralston.  Ralston operates a plant of over 200 faces throughout the greater Dallas-Fort […]

Rich Zecchino on when to accept and when to reject ads.

During  last week’s OAAA legal seminar, Adams Outdoor VP and General Counsel Rich Zecchino reviewed when to accept and when to reject ads. “As a company we control…the ability to approve or reject ad copy for any reason…I can’t tell how many phone calls when someone says you have to […]

Regulatory Roundup, December 15, 2020

 Bench Billboard, a company which sells sign space on benches, lost a suit challenging Colerain, Ohio’s sign code which prohibits signs in the public right of way.    Here are links to the court decision and Rocky Mountain Sign Law’s analysis. Richard Rothfelder discussed outdoor advertising on episode 58 of the […]