Company: Orion Outdoor Markets: California, Nevada Headquarters: PO Box 6341 Folsom, CA 95763 Phone: 800-272-3885 Orion Outdoor owns a billboard and bus shelter outdoor advertising plant in Folsom and El Dorado Counties in California and billboards in Las Vegas and Southern California. The firm’s CEO is Beau Palley. He originally entered the business in […]
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OOH Leadership: Are you investing your time in high yield or passbook savings accounts?
When working with our OOH owners and leaders, the topic can often center around how they are investing their time. Are they expending their efforts doing things that others in the organization are perfectly capable of doing? If they weren’t doing those things, it would give the leader the opportunity […]
West Virginia Reestablishes their Outdoor Advertising Assocation
The reestablishment of the Outdoor Advertising Association of West Virginia has been over two years in the making. After a 10 year hiatus, it became official on July 17, 2024. WV Outdoor President & CEO, Bill Lodzinski along with Lamar-Wheeling VP/GM, Shane Walters were instrumental in starting the conversations and […]
Company of the Day: Onsite Insite
Company: OnsiteInsite Markets: Arizona Address: 6200 E. Thomas Road, Suite 201, Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Email: info@azbillboard.com Phone: 480-990-0800 OnsiteInsite is a locally owned and operated company with a plant of 14 by 48 billboards along the Santan Freeway Loop 202 in the southeast valley of Phoenix between I-10 and the Price Freeway Loop 101 in […]
Charlie Callari Reflects on a Career Selling Media
Billboard Insider asked out of home sales exec Charlie Callari about what he’s learned in the course of a 30+ year career in media sales. How did you get into out of home? It was 2017 and I was just getting out of the yellow pages business. I had previously […]
Miles Travelled Up 1.3% During May 2024
US miles travelled increased 1.3% according to the FHWA May 2024 Travel Trends. All regions of the United States had more miles travelled. The South Gulf States lead the way up 2% in May. The Northeast grew the slowest, up 1%. Here’s the raw data for the past 25 […]
Transit Ridership Up 7% in 1Q 24 but Still Below Pre-covid
US transit ridership was up 6.8% during the first quarter of 2024 according to the American Public Transportation Association First Quarter 2024 Ridership report. This is the 12th straight quarter of ridership improvement after steep declines during covid. The industry still has a ways to go to recover from covid. […]
Company of the Day – Oaktree Outdoor
Company: Oaktree Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 1650 Manheim Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601 Market: Lancaster, PA Phone: 717-368-8074 Email: DEVON@OAKTREEOUTDOOR.COM Oaktree Outdoor Advertising serves the greater Lancaster area with 76 digital and 15 static faces. The Lancaster metropolitan area population is over 500,000. The city is located about 34 miles southeast of […]
Mike Hershey on an Update to a Pause on Political Advertising
On Sunday, after the shooting incident in Pennsylvania, Mike Hershey, OAAA EVP, Government Affairs sent a note out mentioning an announcement to pause political advertising, referencing the following article in The Hill. Since Sunday was a very hectic day and moment in history, Insider touched based with Mike to see […]