By Kerry Yoakum, VP of Government Affairs, OAAA Last week the State of Tennessee’s Solicitor General filed a Petition to the Supreme Court to take the case that challenges the constitutionality of Tennessee’s Billboard Control Act (Thomas v. Bright). The pace of Supreme Court action is likely to be impacted […]
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Redeker’s 6 tips for Participating in Public Hearings
Greg Redeker is a Real Estate Manager for Stott Outdoor Advertising. Greg spent 20 years working for local government, most of that time as an urban planner. He also served as a zoning administrator and was lead author for a comprehensive sign ordinance update. Greg has written previous posts about […]
Shoutouts to Ocean Outdoor, Intersection and Logan Outdoor
Ocean Outdoor is setting aside £10 million in advertising in 12 cities on its screens to support retailers and small and minority enterprises which are severely impacted by coronavirus. Here’s the press release. Intersection has been running public service ads in Los Angeles New York… And Philadelphia… West Virginia’s […]
Company of the Day – Fox Outdoor Advertising
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 […]
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 […]