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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 […]

Tariffs in effect on Chinese LED’s

If you’re buying a digital billboard soon you might want to ask your digital billboard company what impact, if any, will occur from the imposition of the first round of Chinese tariffs. LED’s, the building block for digital billboards, were on the list of items which faced a 25% import […]

Company of the Day: Inwindow Outdoor

Company: Inwindow Outdoor Markets:  New York Address: 636 Broadway, Suite 520, New York, NY  10012 Phone: 212-254-2250 Email: beverly@inwindowoutdoor.com Inwindow Outdoor operates a digital and static billboards, cubes and experience stations in vacant storefronts.  Insider talked with Beverly Denice Sparks a senior sales executive at the company. How did you […]

Out of the Office: Kevin Gleason

Fairway Outdoor’s CEO Kevin Gleason is serious about wine.  As you read this Gleason will be tasting wine somewhere in the Southern Rhone region.  Gleason also owns a winery called Refugio Ranch.  The winery is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary in August.  Congrats Kevin!   Here’s a great video in which Kevin […]

Billboard insider Classifieds July 7

“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.  […]