Commercial News has a feature on Danville, IL headquartered Watchfire signs. From March to September Watchfire will be installing the largest single video in the world at the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas. 130,000 square feet of digital signage. That’s equivalent to 193 bulletin faces in case you’re counting. […]
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Rate This Board by Greg Callaham
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 of the Day: Munn Outdoor
Company: Munn Outdoor Advertising Markets: Mississippi Headquarters: 772 Highway 49 N, Hattiesburg, MS Phone: 601-264-7446 Munn Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 119 faces in the following Mississippi communities: Brooklyn Collins Columbia Hattiesburg Lucedale New Augusta Purvis Prentice Sumrall Wiggins The company is affiliated with Munn Enterprises which was started in 1986 by Everett Munn. Munn […]
Out of the Office: Sherilyn McLain
Tell Sherilyn McLain to take a hike and she will! Sherilyn spent 14 years with CBS Outdoor/Mall Media and is currently VP of Acquisitions for Landmark Dividend. To keep fit and “sane” you will find her on the many trails and mountains in AZ just about every weekend. Tough […]
Billboard Insider Classifieds January 26, 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. […]
Fairway Rumors
Here’s what Insider hears about the sale of the remaining Fairway assets. Reagan Outdoor is leading bidder for Fairway Tennessee, Indianapolis and Minnesota. Link Media Outdoor is in the lead for the Fairway Texas assets. Each of the pieces of the transaction is probably big enough that […]
It’s the Creative, Stupid!
By Rocky Sisson Past L. Ray Vahue Award Winner thought leadership from OAAA One of the great presidential campaigns of all time was for President Bill Clinton’s first term. He had a sign hanging in the campaign’s “war room” that said It’s the economy, stupid! Regardless of the question, every answer linked […]
Bird Gel Keeps Birds Off Billboards
Earlier this week Insider wrote about how to keep pigeons off billboards. Lou Heller of Momentum Properties uses Bird-B-Gone’s Bird Gel: I have had success using Bird-B-Gone’s “Bird Gel”– a sticky, transparent caulk applied to surface. First application was about four months ago and, so far, seems to be deterring […]
Rights of First Refusal – Another Point of View
Insider published articles stating the business reasons and legal reasons for inserting right of first refusal clauses in billboard leases. Insider received this pushback from a landlord/billboard lease holder: I find your article regarding ROFRs to be so landlord unfriendly and completely unnecessary for a billboard company to obtain. I think […]
Rothfelder on Right of First Refusal in Billboard Leases
By Richard Rothfelder, Rothfelder and Falick. Billboard Insider reported in its January 22nd edition on rights of first refusal (“ROFR”) clauses in billboard leases. The article also provided a suggested ROFR provision, and recommended using such a clause to prevent Landmark Infrastructure or other unanticipated entities from becoming an unfriendly […]