Company: Fox Outdoor Advertising Markets: North Georgia Headquarters: 6350 Lake Oconee Parkway, Suite 102, PMB 113, Greensboro, GA 30642 Phone: 770-765-2510 Email: sales@foxoutdooradvertising.com Fox Outdoor owns and operates 20 static and tri-vision faces, and 3 digital billboards in the North Georgia Market including the following areas: Cornelia Baldwin, Toccoa Eastanollee Augusta […]
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LaFoy Named Link Media CEO
Back in December Insider ran an article on the retirement of Link Media CEO Jim McLaughlin and Scott LaFoy, Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, being named interim CEO. The Company also announced they would conduct a search process for their next CEO. That process is now complete and the new […]
Nationwide Traffic is 60% of Normal
The headline from this April 4 Washington Post article reprinted by the Seattle Times says it all. Traffic is down but lots of people are still driving. There’s no shortage of data on driving patterns. Last week Adquick published an analysis of the coronavirus impact on travel based on a […]
A Status Update on the Paycheck Protection Loan Program
Friday was a day of confusion for most lenders as the SBA began releasing their operating procedures for the Payroll Protection Loan Program. As of Saturday morning Insider was able to get on a regional bank on-line application, complete and download a request for a PPP loan. A search of […]
Billups: Hyperlocal Traffic is the New Normal
NEW YORK, NY – April 3, 2020) – Billups, the largest independent, privately-held advertising technology company in the U.S. specializing in out-of-home (OOH), has released findings from a recent study of visitation data from more than 5 million U.S. businesses from January 01, 2020 through March 15th, 2020. The analysis monitored consumer movements to […]
Rate This Board By Greg Callaham
Rate This Board allows a billboard designer to rate a random piece of billboard artwork using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This week’s rating is […]
Company of the Day: Franklin Outdoor
Company: Franklin Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 20092 Edison Circle East • Clearwater, MN 55320 Markets: Minnesota, Wisconsin Phone: 320.558.3000 Email: mail@franklinoutdoor.com Franklin Outdoor is a family-owned business started in 1978 by Jim Franklin and now owned by his son Keith Franklin. The third generation, Dan Franklin, is active in the business today. The company operates a plant […]
Insider’s New Book in Paperback?
Billboard Insider’s Guide to Leases, Easements and Real Estate is an important resource for anyone in the Out of Home industry. We have had a number of requests for our new book in paperback. We are planning on running a printing of the books, but will be limiting it […]
Billboard Insider Classifieds April 4, 2020
Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “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 “I bought my General Liability from Stu at Bassler and Co that I learned about on Billboard Insider. I told […]
Lamar Responds to Coronavirus
Baton Rouge, LA – April 2, 2020 – Lamar Advertising Company (“Lamar”) (Nasdaq: LAMR), a leading operator of outdoor advertising and logo sign displays, today announced that it has withdrawn its full-year financial guidance for 2020 in light of the significant macroeconomic uncertainty resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. “We began […]