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Branded Cities Acquires Some Red Star Outdoor Billboards

July 10, 2018, New York, NY – Branded Cities (“BC”), a premier Out-of-Home and iconic media company in North America, today announced the acquisition of a substantial portion of the Chicago assets of Red Star Outdoor, further increasing its North American footprint. The all-cash deal adds 21 iconic billboard faces […]

Dean Manone on what’s next after Branded Cities Sale

Dean Manone has 26 years experience in the out of home business.  He’s been a partner in Chicago’s Red Star Outdoor since 2001.  Yesterday Red Star announced the sale of a substantial portion of its assets to Branded Cities.   Insider talked with Manone about the asset sale and the future. […]

Global Out of Home Creative Awards

In today’s changing media landscape, out of home advertising is a core media buy. OOH is bigger and bolder than ever before and offers unique platforms with powerful storytelling to deliver larger-than-life impact. To celebrate the best global OOH creative work, the OAAA produced this following video. Each of these campaigns […]

Company of the Day: Discover Outdoor

Company: Discover Outdoor Markets: Texas, Oklahoma. Headquarters: PO Box 6351 Paris, Texas 75461 Phone: 903-491-3191 Contact Email:  discoveroutdoor@yahoo.com Discover Outdoor was started in 1993.  The company owns 200 faces and 3 digital billboards in Northeast Texas and Southeast Oklahoma.  Insider talked with  James Martinez   the company’s founder and President. Tell us about your plant. Cities covered in […]

Trademarking Your Out of Home Name

Vinyl printer Circle Graphics is suing Build-a-Sign over the use of sponsored ads and keywords which violate Circle Graphics trademarks.  Trademarking your out of home company name is important as Q Publishing versus OUTFRONT Media demonstrates. In 1976 Q Publishing started OutFront magazine a gay and lesbian publication in Denver, […]

Adams+Fairway Boards Promote Positivity

ATLANTA, GA (July 2, 2018) – Adams Outdoor Advertising and Fairway Outdoor Advertising will donate more than 700 billboards in 21 states to bring to life lettering artists’ renderings of positive messages. The designs came from Goodtype’s #goodtypetuesday challenge, in which lettering artists and illustrators from around the world were asked what they would put on a billboard. Entries were posted to […]

Carson CA Adds 5th Digital Billboard

In June 2017, municipal officials in Carson California declared a “fiscal emergency” after the council approved a budget with a deficit for the eighth time in the last 11 years. Officials warned that without a change in its spending habits, the city might be forced to declare bankruptcy by 2020. […]

Company of the Day – Delaware Outdoor

Company: Delaware Outdoor Advertising Markets: Delaware Headquarters: 7460 Lancaster Pike, Hockessin DE  19707 Phone: 302-234-1975 Email: BKilleen@delawareoutdoor.com Delaware Outdoor advertising operates a billboard plant with 36 faces in the following Delaware communities: Wilmington New Castle & Bear Hockessin The company’s President is Brendan Killeen.   [wpforms id=”9787″]   Paid Advertisement

Comstor installs its 1st digital billboard.

This is the second article in a three part series on an independent out of home company’s experience installing its first digital billboard.  Comstor Outdoor has a 400 face plant in Ohio and Indiana.  Comstor just installed its first digital billboard.   We previously interviewed Comstor Marketing Executive Eddie Saunders Jr […]

Rothfelder on “Art vs. Sign”

By now, most of us have read in Billboard Insider and other publications about the US Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Reed vs Town of Gilbert, basically holding that regulatory distinctions based on the content of messages displayed on signs violate the First Amendment. But, what about the more fundamental […]