Wayne Township is a suburb community of Indianapolis with a population in excess of 110,000. Andy Harris, the current township trustee is running for re-election and uses billboard advertising as a part of his campaign. He was surprised last week when he found that one of his billboards had been replaced […]
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Company of the Day: Island Displays
Company: Island Displays Markets: Turks and Caicos Headquarters: Turtle Cove, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, BWI Phone: 770-313-9691 Email: patti@islanddisplays.tc Island Displays operates a plant of sixteen two sided 12′ by 6′ billboards structures which are within the right of way of the main highway on Turks and Caicos. Turks and Caicos is 550 miles […]
Out of the Office: Jeff Lee
Jeff Lee of GEFT Outdoor fly fishes a 16 mile stretch of blue ribbon fly water on the Pere Marquette near Baldwin Michigan each fall. Here’s a King Salmon he caught on this year’s trip. Out of the Office is Billboard Insider’s Saturday column which describes what members of the […]
Billboard Insider Classifieds October 20, 2018
“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 […]
Fairway for Sale?
Insider has heard from a couple sources that Fairway is now or may soon be for sale. The price tag is $650 million. It may very well be a financial buyer. Possible OOH suitors all might have barriers to purchase. Lamar has the debt capacity and a stock issuance […]
Gag Orders and Out of Home
By Richard Rothfelder, Rothfelder and Falick Since when can a local government pass a huge new tax and then forbid you from talking about it? That’s what Cincinnati tried to do to Lamar Advertising and Norton Outdoor. Judge Curt C Hartman would have none of it in yesterday’s ruling striking […]
Billboards Make Us Scream For Halloween
Reprinted with permission of Clear Channel Outdoor. With fall’s arrival, it gets darker earlier, an eeriness lurks in the air, protruding skeleton bones emerge from lawns across your neighborhood, and creepy clowns are celebrated. Folks…this is Halloween. Halloween is the third largest holiday in the U.S., following Christmas and the […]
2019 OBIE Awards Are Open for Entries
Step right up! The 2019 OBIE Awards Call for Entries is open. Throw your hat into the ring for a chance to win at ‘The Greatest Sh-OBIE!” The OBIE Awards honor creative excellence in the OOH industry. Does your OOH campaign have the creative strength to defy the odds? […]
Company of the Day: Intersection
Company: Intersection Markets: Nationwide US Headquarters: 10 Hudson Yards, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10001 Phone: 212-644-6200 Email: hello@intersection.com Intersection operates a network of digital and static screens across multiple urban markets in the US including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis, New Jersey, Pittsburgh […]
Judge Blocks Cincy Billboard Tax Citing First Amendment
CINCINNATI, OH (October 17) – Court of Common Pleas Judge Curt C. Hartman today invalidated Cincinnati’s new excise tax on billboards as a burden on speech protected by the First Amendment. “Government may not single out and direct or target a tax solely at the exercise of First Amendment rights […]