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Company of the Day – Plainview Outdoor Advertising

Company:  Plainview Outdoor Headquarters: 2802 Belle Arbor Ave. Suite A, Chattanooga, TN 37406 Market: Chattanooga TN DMA Phone: 423.622.4100 Email:  Hello@PlainViewOutdoor.com Plainview Outdoor is a full service outdoor advertising company located in Chattanooga, TN.  The Company has over 140 years of combined experience serving the greater Chattanooga marketplace.   Todd Plain […]

Circle Graphics Execs on Anthem Purchase

Yesterday, Circle Graphics announced the purchase of a majority stake in Anthem Displays.  Insider interviewed Circle Graphics CEO Andrew Cousin and Out of Home Division President Rod Rackley about the transaction.  Here are the highlights. Cousin says that despite softness in the OOH Division, Circle Graphics has thrived through COVID […]

Circle Graphics Enters Digital Billboard Market

LONGMONT, Colo., Jan. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Circle Graphics, Inc. (“Circle”), a leading producer of grand and large-format digital graphics owned by an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, has acquired a majority ownership stake in Anthem Displays, LLC (“Anthem” or the “Company”), a digital sign manufacturer serving the Out-of-Home (“OOH”) advertising market. The transaction […]

Geopath’s Year in Review

A Message from Kym Frank As we closed out 2019, eager to jump into 2020, no one could have predicted how COVID-19 would take hold and completely transform not only the advertising industry, but our everyday lives. Personally, I was very much looking forward to 2020 – OOH’s growth as […]

National CineMedia Looking Beyond Theaters For Revenue

National CineMedia, the largest cinema advertising network in the U.S., announced this week that they are joining forces with Coinstar® to reach movie fans beyond the big screen using adPlanet™, a new flexible digital advertising platform that sits atop Coinstar® kiosks in grocery stores. This announcement caught Insiders’ eye as […]

10 Times Square Gets Another LED Spectacular At New Yard House Restaurant

SNA Displays manufactured another LED spectacular for 10 Times Square, located at 1441 Broadway in New York. The four-screen EMPIRE™ exterior LED system was recently installed outside the new Yard House restaurant at the corner of 41st St. and 7th Ave. The 34-story building, with almost 575,000 square feet of […]

Company of the Day: Reeves Shaw Media

Company: Reeves Shaw Media Markets: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Turks and Caicos Address: Atlanta, Georgia. Email: tshaw@reevesmedia.com Phone: 770-314-3859 Reeves Media is a sales rep firm representing  high profile out of home locations in the Eastern United States including the following markets: Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Huntsville, Orlando and Tampa, […]

Why Lamar is Refinancing $650 Million

Lamar Advertising is refinancing $650 million of corporate debt.  Here’s are some excerpts from the press release. BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lamar Advertising Company (LAMR), a leading owner and operator of outdoor advertising and logo sign displays, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lamar […]

Whose Bus Shelter Is It?

The Scenic America blog has a post urging members to email LA city council members to oppose a smart shelter program due to safety and privacy concerns.  The picture which runs on the blog’s home page is a West Hollywood smart bus shelter. Maybe Scenic America ought to ask West […]

Remembering Bob Connors

Ken Klein wanted to pass along his thoughts on Bob Connors. When I think of Bob Connors, I remember this powerful photo from the summer of 2009, from the American heartland. It says plenty about Bob . . . and our medium:   You can read the story related to […]