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Company of the Day: Connell Outdoor

Company:  Connell Outdoor Market: Las Vegas Headquarters: 5242 Swenson Street, Las Vegas, NV  89119 Phone: 792-795-0555 Connell Outdoor has billboard locations in tourist and local corridors in Las Vegas.In addition to its billboard operation in Las Vegas, Connell Outdoor has a sister company, Shore Sign Service located in Atlantic City, New Jersey.   Jessica Connell […]

The Sign Which Created the Fuss in Tennessee

  See the billboard in the picture?  It started the Thomas v Bright challenge to Tennessee’s billboard rules.  The site is a vacant lot next to I-40 in Memphis Tennessee.  William Thomas tried to get a permit for a billboard on the site, was denied because of spacing restrictions and […]

Amortization in Wenatchee

Amortization refers to the practice of forcing a billboard company to remove a billboard after an arbitrary period of time without compensation for the loss. Amortization has reared its ugly head in Wenatchee, Washington. In November the city of Wenatchee sent a letter to the city’s out of home companies […]

Watchfire Scholarship for Digital Billboard Content

DANVILLE, Ill. — (February 4, 2019) — Watchfire Signs, a leading manufacturer of  LED virtual scoreboards and video boards, is offering a scholarship to recognize a high school student who develops inspiring content for high school Watchfire video scoreboards or displays. Click to Tweet. The Fired Up Watchfire Scholarship will […]

Company of the Day – Crossroads Outdoor

Company:  Crossroads Digital Outdoor Headquarters: 200 N. Washington Sq, Suite 400 Lansing, MI 48933 Market:  Michigan Phone: 231.683.4224 Email: info@crossroadsoutdoor.com Crossroads Outdoor, also known as Crossroads Digital Outdoor, L.L.C. is a Michigan, family-run billboard advertising company. Their focus remains on serving clients advertising needs with the help of digital billboard placement and […]

Broadsign and Admobilize Provide AI to DOOH

Miami, FL and Montreal, CA  — February 5, 2020 — AdMobilize, the world’s #1 audience intelligence company powering DOOH networks with real time, fully-anonymous AI, and Broadsign, the leading digital out-of-home (DOOH) marketing technology platform, today announced a partnership to provide DOOH networks with integrated audience measurement solutions. With this […]

A Too Broad Non-Compete May be Unenforceable

Out of home companies sometimes require employees to sign a non-compete agreement in which they agree not to go to work for a competitor for a period of time after they leave.  Don’t make the terms of your non-compete too broad or it may be unenforceable.  That’s the lesson of […]

Inflation and Out of Home Lease Costs

Insider has updated the inflation and US out of home revenues table.  Bookmark this when it’s time to negotiate a billboard lease cost of living increase with your landlord. Inflation has averaged 2.2% over the past twenty years. US Out of home revenue growth has averaged 3.1% over the past […]

Feedback on Premiere Panels

Insider received some comments on the Clear Channel Outdoor’s announcement that it had transformed 1,300 sign faces into “Premier Panels.” One reader comments: ClearChannel has offered these wrapped 30 sheets for decades in the California market as an upgrade to traditional poster showings. The presser about this “new” thing confused […]

Company of the Day: Coastal Outdoor

Company:  Coastal Outdoor Markets:  North Carolina, South Carolina. Address:  2025 Corporate Centre Drive #206, Myrtle Beach, SC  29577 Phone: 843-692-2334 Coastal Outdoor operates a plant with 902 bulletins and 24 digital billboards in North and South Carolina including following DMA’s: Myrtle Beach/Florence Charleston Wilmington The company was founded in 1996  […]