The City of Los Angeles has banned new billboards since 2002. This week the Los Angeles Planning Department released a 110 page staff report recommending changes to the Los Angeles sign rules. There will be a hearing on the proposed rules on February 25. The proposed rules would: Allow a […]
Amortization – the ability of a state or municipality to require a billboard company to take down a billboard after a fixed period of time without compensation – rears its ugly head from time to time. Wenatchee, Washington passed an amortization law last year. Amortization was a hotly debated topic […]
Is inflation picking up? Steel Prices are up 75% over the past 12 months. Here’s some narrative from a steel market newsletter:”…due to a variety of factors, the North American steel mills are operating the available assets at a lower rate than previous years. If that is coupled with a […]
Boston, MA – Intersection, the leading smart cities media and technology company, today announced that it has been awarded an exclusive seven-year contract with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to manage its bus shelters and street furniture fleet across the Boston metropolitan area. As part of the partnership, Intersection […]
Company: Steel City Billboards Markets: Pennsylvania Headquarters: 715 Riverview Rd, Verona, PA 15147 Phone: 888-288-7441 Email: mdfowkes@steelcitybillboards.com Steel City Billboards is a family-owned firm which operates a billboard plant in communities in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company is a member of OAAA, GeoPath & IBO Market Club. Insider talked with Mitch Fowkes about the […]
A federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that Kentucky’s billboard violates constitutional protection of free speech. Bottom line: the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals repeated its legal standard. That standard says regulations which distinguish between on-premise and off-premise signs are based on content, and, therefore, violate the […]
By Glyn S. Williams, President – Mahlmann Media I have been very fortunate in my career at media agencies to have worked for and alongside many great leaders, whether that is at the top of the group or my immediate managers and colleagues. It has been a blessing to absorb […]
Billboard Insider’s In Their Words: Out of Home Executives Discuss Out of Home contains excerpts of interviews with 173 out of home executives on all aspects of running an out of home company. The book costs $49.95 and is available in ebook and pdf editions. You can buy your copy […]
NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Mesmerize, a national leader in transit, point of care, and place-based out-of-home advertising, announced today the expansion of its transit advertising portfolio with a new partnership with Citilink in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The agreement provides Mesmerize the exclusive sales of exterior and interior transit advertising on over […]
New York, NY, February 17, 2021 —Artsy, the largest online marketplace for discovering, buying and selling fine art by leading artists, and OUTFRONT Media, one of the largest out-of-home media companies in North America, is delighted to announce a new national activation, ‘Portrayals of Black Joy by Today’s Emerging Artists’. […]
