Company: Classic Outdoor Billboard Advertising, LLC Headquarters: 200 Fairground Suite 105, Higginsville MO 64037 Phone: 660-584-6242 Email: classicoutdoor@yahoo.com Classic Outdoor has close to 600 displays in the Midwest with a primary focus in Missouri and Illinois. Dave Gash is the President. To receive a free morning newsletter with […]
A Billboard Insider reader recently asked the following about Stop Work Orders: What do you do when you are issued a “Stop Work Order” by the local zoning department? Do you stop building the billboard even though you have the approval to build? If so, what are the legal hoops […]
Terry Carmody spoke about the OOH national sales market on this week’s IBO webinar. Here’s a summary of what he said. Integration has about 15 people and we have many people on our team from the agency side. National is different from a local sale. National buyers may not be able […]
A reader asked Billboard Insider to write more articles on how to use AI in out of home. We’ll start with a case of what not to do. Don’t use AI to try to buddy up to someone with whom you have no relationship… Billboard Insider guesses this person used […]
Company: Colorado West Outdoor Advertising Market: Grand Valley, Colorado Headquarters: 2475 Commerce Blvd. Grand Junction, CO 81505 Phone: 970-242-5248 Colorado West Outdoor Advertising is a third generation family-owned firm which owns over 127 billboard faces including 7 digital billboard faces as well as a bus bench and bus shelter advertising business in Grand Junction […]
Rethinking Hurricane Protection: How Formetco’s Direct-to-Pole Panel-Free® and Standard Panel-Free® Frame Systems Are Changing the Game When it comes to billboard structures in hurricane-prone areas, traditional framing systems often bring more challenges than solutions—excess weight, time-consuming installs, and costly maintenance among them. That’s why Formetco set out to create the […]
Loveland, CO – StreetMediaGroup (“SMG”), an operator of billboard and transit assets in Denver and Northern Colorado, announced today that it has divested the company’s billboard and transit assets in Denver and surrounding markets to Lamar Outdoor Advertising (“Lamar”). SMG, the 2nd largest independent out-of-home company in Colorado, was founded […]
Rate This Ad 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 week’s rating is […]
Company: Cleveland Outdoor Market: Cleveland, Ohio Headquarters: 2963 Claremont Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122 Phone: 216.752.5070 Email: getout@cleoutdoor.com Cleveland Outdoor Advertising is a family owned out of home business started in 1979 by Steve Thompson and Debra Abdalian-Thompson. Steve and Debra continue to operate the business with Steve being in charge of […]
“Solid, but not spectacular,” was how Lamar Advertising CEO Sean Reilly described the company’s 2Q 2025 financials. Here are the results of the 2Q 2025 earnings release and conference call, sponsored and analyzed by SignValue. Net revenue increased 2.5% to $579 million. Organic growth was 1.9% for billboards, 11.7% for […]
