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Billboard Insider Classifieds March 20, 2021

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “We got a big boost in qualified applicants from running our ad on your site.”  Rodney Davis, Transformation Media “Thanks to you and your website I’ve hired a General Manager.  We received several qualified applicants in response to our Billboard Insider classified”  Justin Powell, Owner, Huntington Outdoor […]

Stevenson and Powell on Finding Good Out of Home Locations

Some advice from Grace Outdoor’s Hal Stevenson and Huntington Outdoor’s Justin Powell on finding good out of home locations taken from In Their Words – Out of Home Executives talk about out of home. Hal Stevenson, Grace Outdoor Advertising You’ve got to start with politics. You’ve got to understand the […]

Pete Hautem on Out of Home Sales Successes and Lessons Learned

Pete Hautem has 43 years experience as an out of home and printing sales rep.  Billboard Insider asked Pete to talk about 2 sales successes and what he learned Pete, how did you get into out of home? I was out of a job in 1978…My wife worked in Peachtree […]

Rothfelder On PETA vs Hinckley And Ads On Public Transit Systems

On March 15, 2021, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued an interesting First Amendment decision with potentially broad impact on the out of home industry. The case is PETA vs Hinckley, and you can access the opinion here. The case arises from the request […]

San Jose Billboard Battle is Not Over

The San Jose billboard saga continues as the City Council faces opposition, but not from the billboard industry. The allegations come from Citizens for Free Speech and Equal Justice who, as reported by the The San Jose Spotlight,  illegally erected a digital billboard near Highways 880 and 101 to sell […]

Company of the Day: Transformation Media

Company: Transformation Media Markets:  10 eastern states. Headquarters: 1019 Route 519, Building #1, Eighty Four, PA  15330 Phone: 724-228-3469 84 Outdoor (now Transformation Media) was formed the late 1990’s, when the founder of 84 Lumber Company, instructed his site investigators to locate sites for billboard structures as they searched for new store locations.  […]

Stephen Freitas on 4 Trends Which Benefit Out of Home

By Stephen Freitas, Partner, OOH Capital In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Richard III, the title character himself conveys the mood of the play with the line, “Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun.” It is a metaphor in which Richard expresses sadness like winter, turned […]

Kentucky Legislature Approves Sign Rule Fix

The Kentucky legislature has approved HB 328, a revised billboard control act to fix the previous law which a court invalidated.  Yesterday the House approved an amended version by 30-6, the Senate approved the amended version by 91-3 and the measure has been delivered to the Governor.  The bill amends […]

Adams Outdoor Partners with Dress for Success Charlotte

In 2020, over 3 million women left the workforce. In September of 2020 alone, for every man that left the workforce, four women left as well. Covid-19 has no doubt caused long-standing cracks in the life that we knew, cracks that we will be fighting to repair for years to […]

Adquick Ranks 74th on Inc Magazine List of California’s Fastest Growing Private Companies

LOS ANGELES, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — AdQuick, the top out-of-home (OOH) advertising marketplace in the world, today announced that it is the 74th fastest growing company in the annual Inc. 5000 Regionals: California list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing California-based private companies. “Being placed on the Inc. 5000 Regionals: California list is a milestone for us,” […]