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Extra Credit Projects and OAAA Veterans Day Designs

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich; Washington D.C.; November 9, 2018 — In honor of Veterans Day, the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) and Midwest advertising and design agency, Extra Credit Projects (ECP), have created a campaign that honors veterans in a big way. The campaign works to show appreciation to those who have served […]

Company of the Day: KEM Advertising

Company: KEM Advertising Markets: California, Nevada, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tesax, Louisiana, Mississippi, alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland. Headquarters: Kem Texas, Ltd.  4515 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio, TX  78312. Phone: 210-737-3000 KEM Advertising is an independently owned outdoor advertising agency with headquarters in San Antonio, Texas.  The company has been in the billboard […]

Out of the Office: Standard Diversified

The folks at Standard Diversified were out of the office, literally, this week.  They travelled to the New York Stock Exchange to ring the closing bell.  Standard Diversified, the parent company of Standard Outdoor was listed on the NYSE in April. Out of the Office is Billboard Insider’s Saturday column […]

Lamar revenues and cashflow up 5% in 3Q 2018

Lamar revenues and cashflow grew 5% each during the third quarter of 2018.  Here are the results of the 3Q 2018 earnings release and earnings call transcript. Revenue increased 5% to $419 million.  Acquisition adjusted revenue increased by 3.1%.  Reilly was upbeat that growth will continue into the fourth quarter:” […]

Clear Channel Revenues and Cashflow up 3% and 11% in 3Q 2018

Clear Channel outperformed expectations for the third quarter of 2018. Here are the highlights of the 3Q 2018 earnings release, slide presentation and earnings call transcript. CFO Rich Bressler wouldn’t comment on the iHeart bankrupcty other than to say that iHeart is entering the final stages or the bankruptcy process […]

New and Noted – November 9, 2018

“As Silicon Valley takes a bigger share of ads, it gets easier for clients to cut out the middlemen” says Wall Street Journal.  Companies are bringing digital ad buying in house.  Facebook and Google don’t share their data with ad agencies. Agencies are dealing with credibility fallout from the ANA […]

Smartscreens and Sports

With the NFL, NBA and NHL in full swing, it may be the most wonderful time of the year for sports fans. But with all that’s happening on the field, court and ice, it can be hard to keep up — so, to keep fans engaged, teams and advertisers have […]

The election: what it means for out of home.

A billboard start-up exec was elected to the Ohio Legislature.  The legal-cannabis category expanded.  And some states will have more road money.  That’s what voters decided Tuesday. Jena Powell, VP of sales and marketing at Huntington Outdoor Advertising in Greenville, OH, was elected to the Ohio House with 75 percent […]

Adrian Cotterill on 3 hot topics for the OOH industry.

Adrian J Cotterill is Editor-in-Chief  of DailyDOOH  a trusted resource in the digital signage and digital out of home industries.  As Co-Founder of the Ministry of New Media, he is also one half of the driving force behind both London Digital Signage Week and New York Digital Signage Week, the latter […]