The Maryland Court of Appeals will review a challenge to Baltimore’s Billboard tax. Clear Channel Outdoor has asked courts to overturn a tax at the rate of $15 per square foot for digital billboards and $5 per square foot on other billboards. Clear Channel Outdoor says the tax is constitutionally […]
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Inrix reports nationwide travel improves another 5% last week.
US personal travel increased another 4% last week according to the Inrix US National Traffic Volume Synopsis for May 9-15, 2020. Nationwide traffic is now 75% of normal. Travel has increased for four straight weeks. Personal travel increased in 97 of 98 metropolitan areas. The exception was Albany, NY which […]
PPP Loan Forgiveness Application Now Available
The SBA recently released their Paycheck Protection Program Loan Forgiveness Application. In many instances, the banking community will put this application online, but if you want to get a head start on understanding what will be required, you can review and download a copy of the forms here. Insider read […]
Leslie Morris on Successful Billboard Ads
This infographic by Leslie Morris of Skydragon Designs caught Insider’s eye. It highlights how to design a successful billboard ad. ] [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement
Company of the Day: Hometown Outdoor
Company: Hometown Outdoor Markets: Indiana Address: PO Box 1068 Muncie, IN 47308 Phone: 765-713-6677 Email: hometown618@comcast.net Hometown Outdoor operated a plant of 10 by 32 and 10 by 24 static billboards around Muncie, Indiana. Gary Dragoo was the company’s President. In March, Hometown sold to JR Promotions Outdoor Advertising. JR Promotions […]
Sean Reilly on Healthy Categories During Covid
At last week’s JP Morgan Global Tech, Media and Communications Conference Lamar CEO Sean Reilly was bullish in the following categories: Services is primarily lawyers and other professional service. It’s actually expanding slightly into home services…Things like cleaning services, pest control, office cleaning services. They’re coming out to brand themselves. […]
IBOUSA Spring Video Meeting in Lieu of Conference
From Chris Cowlbeck, IBOUSA General Manager The coronavirus pandemic has indeed impacted our daily lives and IBOUSA was forced to cancel their Louisville conference last week. In an effort to communicate with the people and companies in the independent billboard space, IBO has scheduled a ZOOM meeting series for Wednesday […]
Dean Koby on Placed Based Advertising
Yesterday Insider featured Hispanic Indoor Media, Inc. as company of the day. Insider talked with Hispanic Indoor Media Co-founder and President Dean Koby about running a place based media company. Dean how did you get in the out of home business. Straight out of college, I spent my first 10 […]
Shoutout to Keystone Outdoor
Kudos to Keystone Outdoor is partnering with the Philadelphia City Council on a billboard campaign to promote mask wearing and social distancing. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement
Ubimo Reports Consumer Traffic is Recovering
The folks at Ubimo looked into consumers’ out-of-home movement to understand the impact of quarantines. The resulting data provides some interesting insight into some of the biggest news stories over the past 2 months – you can actually see things like panic buying, and even protests, within the data (example […]