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Formetco App generates digital sign mockups

Ever wanted to generate a mockup of how a digital billboard will look at a certain location when you are meeting with landowners or city officials.  Formetco’s XD app for the iphone lets you do that. Download the app from the itunes store. Open the Xpand box on the Formetco […]

Daktronics Revenue down 12% in 3Q FY 2019

Digital billboard manufacturer Daktronics reported a small net loss for for the third quarter of fiscal 2019 (3 months ended January 26, 2019) although the third quarter is typically weak due to the seasonality of the company’s sports business and a decrease in production days due to the holidays.   Here […]

Grey Outdoor Buys 4 More Signs

Grey Outdoor LLC has purchased 4 billboards from PSAZ Properties LLC.  The purchase included 2 10×30 Ft Billboard Structures and 2 Sites for Additional 10×30 Ft Billboard Structures.  Two of the signs are located on Highway 133 and two are located on Highway 87 just outside the town of Southport […]

Company of the Day: Overall Murals

Company:  Overall Murals Market:  New York Headquarters:  874 Kent Ave/Ground Floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11205 Phone: 718-783-0835 Email: info@overallmurals.com Overall murals specializes in large-scale, hand-painted murals in the following cities: New York Los Angeles San Francisco Chicago Boston Atlanta Austin Nashville Seattle The company was started by Dmitry Pankov and […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds February 23, 2019

“The response has been excellent.  Excellent investment.”  Out of home broker Stephen Minnich. “…we have received no less than 15 responses the ad you ran for us to sell our Quad Cities billboard plant…”  David Buring “FYI, today we got two requests from out of home companies to sign up.  […]

Brad Thomas on Outfront and Recession

Brad Thomas writes for Seeking Alpha where he specializes in publicly-listed REITs. In addition, Thomas is the Editor of the Forbes Real Estate Investor, a monthly subscription-based newsletter. Insider has followed Brad for some time and his take on OOH REITs is thoughtful and always worth a read.  Here is his take […]

Bob Pittman: Operating an ooh company with a radio group “hurt us”

Operating an out of home company with a radio group “hurt us” says iHeart’s CEO Bob Pittman on this week’s AdAge Podcast.  Here’s how the conversation went Where does spinning off out of home fit in to this? We love the outdoor business as well as the audio business.  The […]

Branded Cities Acquires Chicago Billboard From Red Star Outdoor

New York, NY– February 21, 2019 – Branded Cities (“BC”), a premier Out-of-Home and iconic media company in North America, today announced the acquisition of a Lincoln Park neighborhood spectacular of Red Star Outdoor, further increasing its footprint in the Chicago market. The all-cash deal for the sign located at […]

More on digital billboards and cellular antennas

On Wednesday we posted John Barrett’s thoughts on whether cellular antennas can interfere with digital billboards and vice versa.  Joni Schmeichel of Daktronics tells Insider this: Daktronics digital billboards are designed with EMI in mind and tested in our own EMI chamber in Brookings, SD. Once a product design is […]

Company of the Day: Outdoor Displays

Company: Outdoor Displays, Inc.  Market: East Tennessee Headquarters: 6165 Primus Rd., Knoxville, TN  37912 Phone:  (865) 357-9077 Email:  info@outdoordisplaysinc.com Outdoor Displays owns billboards in Eastern Tennessee.  The firm was founded in 2007 and is owned and operated by Dan, Danny and Russell Amanns, lifetime residents of Knoxville, Tennessee.  Tracy Emmons is the firm’s […]