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California Flirts With Ads on the Highway

Some bad ideas simply refuse to go away.  California wants to get into the billboard business by selling licensing rights to display color changeable-message ads on the highway public right of way. Advertising revenue would pay to replace aging traffic signs with modern LED displays and also pump new revenue […]

Meet “Albert” From SprayPrinter

  SprayPrinter announced last week in conjunction with GO2018 that they had become a member of OAAA. Dan Grumley, Executive Vice President at SprayPrinter provided the following: SprayPrinter and its Robot “Albert” are pleased to have joined the OAAA SprayPrinter has developed a robot that is fondly referred to as […]

Company of the Day – Burkett Media

Company: Burkett Media Market: Texas Address: P.O. Box 163266, Austin TX 78716 Phone: 512.787.2375 Email: info@burkettmedia.com Burkett Media was founded by Beau Burkett in 2003 while attending college. Burkett Media offers a diverse mix of over 100 high profile static and LED digital billboard locations throughout Texas including the following cities: […]

Should a billboard hold up development?

Should a billboard hold up development?  That’s the provocative headline of a Post Bulletin article.  Fairway has a legal two sided conforming billboard on the site pictured above in downtown Rochester, Minnesota.  EKN Development wants to add an 8 story building on the site and has approached Rochester to ask for […]

Jason Morgan’s 3 of a Kind: Hollywood Sign

By Jason Morgan, The Daily Billboard Blog This month for Daily Billboard’s ‘Three of a Kind’ I thought I’d share three different treatments using L.A. infamous landmark, The Hollywood Sign. The iconic, internationally recognized sign was created in 1932 as an advertisement for a local real estate development and originally spelled out […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Wins San Diego bus/trolley contract

San Diego, CA – May 15, 2018 – Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) (NYSE: CCO), a subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc., today announced the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) awarded CCO a new contract to administer, innovate and grow ad sales across MTS’ 550+ buses and 150+ trolleys for up to […]

Company of the Day: Burkhart

Company:  Burkhart Advertising Markets: Indiana, Illinois Headquarters: 1335 Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend, IN  46615 Phone: 574-233-2101 If you’re driving through a small town in Indiana chances are you’ll see a good looking Burkhart steel monopole bracketing each end of town and another Burkhart monopole strategically placed in the middle of town.  Burkhart was started […]

Gleason, Reilly, Wells and Male at GO2018 Town Hall

Last week, Kevin Gleason, Sean Reilly, Scott Wells and Jeremy Male appeared at a GO2018 CEO Town Hall last week.  The panel was moderated by Horizon Media CEO Jill Nickerson, who contributed this quip: “Don’t think of out of home as a medium, think of it as a large.” Here […]

Mating Bears Invade Spokane…Briefly

Spokane, WA based apparel company, The Great PNW, went viral with a short-lived but lively billboard campaign in this Insider’s home town.  On April 30th commuters were met on their drive downtown with this image of two bears on a Lamar posted sign.  It didn’t take long before Twitter was […]

Horton Outdoor buys Owen Media

Horton Outdoor (Cartersville, GA), a subsidiary of McWhorter Capital Partners, LLC (MCP), announced today that it has acquired assets of Owen Media LLC with a single location (digital & static face) in Tuscaloosa, AL as well as purchased four static structures while converting an old static to a two-sided digital […]