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Vendor Profile: Sandler Training

Company:  Sandler Training Address: 629 Market Street, Suite 120, Chattanooga, TN. 37402 Email: lisa.nausley@sandler.com Phone: 423-702-5579 Sandler Training provides professional development and sales training to out of home advertising companies.  Lisa Nausley is CEO.  Dan Nausley is President.  Insider talked with Dan Nausley. How did you get involved in assisting […]

Robert Campbell: Successful people do what other people don’t.

Two weeks ago Insider wrote that Lamar Atlantic Regional Manager Robert Campbell  and Gulf Coast Regional Manager Tom Sirmon are retiring this summer.  Insider asked Campbell to reflect on his remarkable 49 year Lamar career. How did you end up at Lamar? After college graduation I worked my way around […]

The 2021 US OOH Recovery In One Slide

Yesterday’s OAAA Lunch Break was titled Driving Success with Research and Data.  One slide prepared by OAAA VP Steve Nicklin caught Billboard Insider’s eye.  Magna forecasts 12% growth in US out of home revenues in 2021 versus growth rates of 8% for digital media, 5% for national TV and 1% […]

Branded Cities Names Gupta US President

Phoenix, AZ – April 28, 2021 – Branded Cities, a premier Out-of-Home and iconic media company in North America, today announced the promotion of Vaibhav Gupta to President for its United States division. Vaibhav will retain his Chief Operating Officer role. Steve Ellman, Chairman and CEO of Branded Cities remarked, […]

Bell and Xandr Join Forces to Create Canada’s First Self-Serve Advertising Platform for TV and Digital

TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bell, Canada’s largest communications company, today announced a strategic alliance with advanced advertising technology company Xandr to leverage its world-leading platform to deliver a proprietary omni-channel demand-side platform (DSP) for advertisers. The new Bell Media product, branded SAM DSP and powered by Xandr’s buying platform, Xandr Invest, will enable Canadian advertisers to easily plan, […]

Company of the Day – Waller Outdoor

Company:  Waller Outdoor Headquarters: P.O. Box 2004 Waller, TX Market: Waller Texas Phone: 346.306.4643 Email: sales@walleroutdoor.com Stephen and Linda Johnson have started a new Outdoor Company, Waller Outdoor, initially serving the Waller Texas community.  They have recently installed their first structure with two digital faces.  Insider caught up with Stephen to discuss […]

Women Account for 35% of US OOH Board Seats

The US public out of home companies are giving women more board opportunities than the typical Russell 3000 company but need to do a better job appointing minorities to boards. Non-Executive Board Members of OUTFRONT, Lamar and Clear Channel Outdoor 2020 Clear Channel pays board members the most (in excess […]

Lamar Wins Tucson Transit Extension

Baton Rouge, LA – April 27, 2021 – Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest out of home media companies in the world, today announced that the company has been awarded a contract from the City of Tucson to continue managing advertising displays for Sun Tran, the public […]

Fast and Simple

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH — Look fast! New OOH for FASTSIGNS is catching audience’s attention along West Michigan highways. Creative and media strategy by advertising agency, Extra Credit Projects (ECP) using billboards to drive their message of delivering fast signs to their customers. “It’s about finding the simplest form of an […]