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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 […]

Company of the Day – RoosterWorks247

Company: RoosterWorks247 Market: Jacksonville, AL Headquarters: 1590 Pelham Road South, Suite 3 Jacksonville, AL 36265 Phone: 256.591.6462 Email: billboards@roosterworks247.com RoosterWorks247 operates a digital billboard on Highway 21 Northbound across from Wal-Mart in Jacksonville, AL.  The company’s owner is David Glass who also owns an insurance agency.   [wpforms id=”9787″]   […]

Out of Home Stocks Rally in 4Q 2020

US out of home stocks rallied in the fourth quarter of 2020.  Clear Channel Outdoor, OUTFRONT and Lamar outperformed the S&P 500 as you can see in the chart below.  Clear Channel was up 62% in the fourth quarter of 2020.  Outfront gained 29%.  Lamar gained 20%.  The S&P 500 […]