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12 Musts for an Out of Home Easement

An out of home easement gives a billboard company the right to (1) construct, maintain and access a billboard on land it does not own (2) access a billboard on land across land that someone else owns.  Most of the easement agreements which Insider sees are perpetual in exchange for […]

Vendor Profile – Metromedia Technologies

Company: Metromedia Technologies. Products:  Large format digital printing. Headquarters:  810 7th Avenue, 29th Floor, New York, New York  10019 Phone: 800-999-4668 Email: info@mmt.com Metromedia is a large format vinyl printer.  Insider talked with Joseph Sams about the company. Tell us about the history of your company?  How long have you […]

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: Astro Outdoor

Company: Astro Sign Company Markets: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New York Headquarters: 230 East High Street, Glassboro, NJ  08028 Phone: 856-881-4300 Astro Sign Company was started in 1983 by the Painter family.  The company specialized in painting small highway advertising displays.  Since then the company has diversified into sign production, sign maintenance […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds – March 17, 2018

Billboards for sale classifieds cost $120 for 12 months, paid in advance by credit card.  All other classifieds cost $60 for 60 days or $120 for 12 months paid in advance by credit card.  Billboard Insider will write a 200-700 word article publicizing the sale of your billboard plant for an […]

John Arnold says SignSprings is a game changer.

  Company:   Arnold Outdoor Markets: Oklahoma. Headquarters: 5121 N Sante Fe, Oklahoma City, OK  73318 Phone: 405-620-5708 Arnold Outdoor was started in 2000.  The company has digital signs, bulletins and posters across the state of Oklahoma.  The company has a number of locations which serve Oklahoma City’s hispanic community.   The firm is […]

Senese and Lipsher on Net Neutrality and Out of Home

When the FCC overturned net neutrality (and the common carrier regulatory framework which it imposed on internet companies) there was much hyperventilating about the end of free internet.  The elimination of the rules allows internet services providers freedom to price services any way they like and to cut back certain […]

Who does what in US airport advertising.

Yesterday Insider ran an article stating that US airport traffic is at an all time high.  Here are the companies which will benefit most from increased air traffic because they have the most extensive US airport advertising presence.  Insider culled the stats from each company’s website. Company: Clear Channel Outdoor […]

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 week’s rating is […]

iHeartMedia Reaches a Deal – FIles Chapter 11

Insider provides this excerpt from a press release from early this morning Thu March 15, 2018 12:47 AM|Business Wire iHeartMedia, Inc. (IHRT) and Certain Subsidiaries Voluntarily Commence Chapter 11 Proceedings to Implement Agreed Upon Balance Sheet Restructuring Day-to-Day Operations Will Continue as Usual During Restructuring Process Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (CCO) […]