Lamar must be prepared to take advantage of industry consolidation and ad agency turmoil. That’s how Lamar CEO Sean Reilly began his remarks to the Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference last Thursday. Here are the highlights. On changes in the ad agency market There’s great turmoil in the big agency business. Clients […]
The news after the weekend was encouraging as Insider checked in with several Outdoor companies with operations in North and South Carolina. Hal Stevenson at Grace Outdoor was feeling very blessed as the impact of the store was minimal for the Company. Claude Dicks at Allison Outdoor says all is […]
Dave Roland, President of Roland Digital Media and his Creative Director Shane Hutton, announced they have entered into an agreement with IBOUSA to deliver Tasty Ad suite of digital tools to the IBOUSA Associates and tie into their workflow solutions powered by Apparatix. Tasty Ad will be rolling out their […]
Las Vegas Billboards LLC (LVB) recently acquired two digital panels and converted both sides of a static billboard to digital, adding four high-profile digital billboards. The expansion gives the company 24 digital billboard faces within the Las Vegas market to complement its traditional static inventory. This most recent purchase completed […]
Most of you may have noticed a number of acquisition related articles recently on our Insider web site. As a thought experiment we started listing them for the year. This is the list we created with links to the articles, and we stopped after we had only gone back as […]
The billboard-tax lawsuit in Cincinnati has focused attention on “noncommercial” speech on billboards. Lamar Advertising and Norton Outdoor are challenging Cincinnati’s targeted billboard tax and higher fees on free speech grounds. Therefore, the court is examining billboard content, including controversial and political viewpoints. Billboards are a valuable channel […]
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 weeks rating is […]
Company: Harvest Outdoor Markets: Illinois Headquarters: 2516 Waukegan Road, PMB 350, Glenview, Illinois 60025-1774 Phone: 847-509-8876 Email: info@harvestoutdoor.com Harvest Outdoor operates a wall and billboard plant in Chicago. Mike McHugh is the company’s owner. He started the company in 1998 after a stint as a special projects coordinator for the City of Chicago. One of […]
Dave Daucanski, Senior Vice President, Vector Media, says this: I enjoy cruises as it gives me an opportunity to find hidden gems and return for a longer vacation at a later date. I am not sure yet which one will become the next vacation spot like St. Barts became after […]
“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. […]
