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Jock Gibb on Formetco’s 50th Anniversary

Last Thursday Insider attended a party in Duluth, GA celebrating Formetco’s 50th anniversary.  Formetco’s VP Sales Jock Gibb gave a remarkable speech reviewing the company’s 50 years and recognizing the contributions of his father John Gibb, EVP Corporate Relations.  Here are excerpts from Jock’s speech.  Companies like Formetco make Insider […]

What I want for Christmas…To Help Stott Outdoor Workers

    On November 8, wildfire destroyed homes of seven employees of Stott Outdoor Advertising in northern California.  Two other Stott employees who evacuated are now back in their homes, with longer (hopefully temporary) commuting routes to work. In response to the destruction, Stott General Manager Jim Moravec created a […]

Rate This Board By Out of Home Creative

Rate This Board allows a billboard designer to rate a billboard ad using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great).  Then the designer recommends how to improve the ad.  This week’s rating is provided by Melody Roberts, an OBIE nominated billboard designer and founder […]

Company of the Day: Kevani

Company:KEVANI Markets:  California Headquarters: 811 W 7th Street, 12th floor, Los Angeles, CA  90017 Phone: 310-579-9343 Email:  info@kevani.com KEVANI is an out of home sales organization which specializes in high profile out of home assets.  The company represents projects like Circa LA, Marriott LA Live, The Wilshire Grand Center, Wilshire Landing, & Solair.  Kevin Bartanian is […]

Out of the Office: Paul Sara

Paul Sara retired from Clear Channel Outdoor in 2014 after a 38 year career including almost 18 years as head of Clear Channel Outdoor’s Milwaukee Division.  Paul says the best years were working with Karl Eller: “What a man.  Truly Mr Outdoor.  Privileged to know him, learn from him and […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds December 8, 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 up.  […]

Good News and Bad News in Out of Home Revenues

There was good news and bad new in this week’s OAAA 3Q 2018 OOH revenue release. Good News 34 consecutive quarters of US OOH revenue growth. 3Q 2018 US OOH revenue growth is well above  2.5% average quarterly US OOH revenue growth for the past two years. Bad News US […]

Rothfelder on Repair of Damaged Signs – Part 2

I talked yesterday about natural disasters and how their occurrence reminds us that billboards and other forms of out of home advertising can become vulnerable.  Whether your structure is conforming or nonconforming is important to know.  So what do you do in the event you have damaged nonconforming structures? Most sign, […]

Spotify Offers “Share on a Billboard” Button to Premium Users

By Cody J. Riebe, Insights Specialist at BillboardsIn At the beginning of each December, music streaming giant Spotify offers users a year-end analysis of their listening habits, called Spotify Wrapped. It breaks down data such as which artists, songs, and genres they listened to most throughout the year. It also […]