On June 27 Cincinnati passed a 10% tax on billboard revenues as part of the city’s 2019 budget. The tax goes into effect July 1. The tax was passed over the mayors veto with two days public notice and no hearings. You can read more about the tax at WLWT5 […]
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The Nortons on the Cincinnati Billboard Tax
On June 27 Cincinnati passed a 10% tax on billboard revenues to fund the city’s budget. If you are not paying attention you should. Baltimore has a billboard tax and Insider expects to see more cash-strapped cities attempt to pass billboard taxes to fund city services. Mike, Kevin and Tom […]
The buzz over Netflix and Regency
We wrote last week about Regency’s $150 million purchase of 32 billboards from Regency. Here’s what people are saying about the transaction. Nancy Fletcher says that Netflix has great creative and will use the billboards to sustain the Netflix brand. Reuters correspondent Lisa Ritchwine says “The billboards on the Sunset […]
Company of the Day: Dangerfield Outdoor
Company: Dangerfield Outdoor Markets: Atlanta, Georgia Headquarters: 245 University Avenue SW, Atlanta, GA 30315 Phone: 404-418-8417 Dangerfield Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 5 static faces and 1 digital face in Atlanta, Georgia. Two of the faces are 20 by 60, 2 of the faces are 19 by 48 and two of the faces […]
David Gray on the Street Furniture Business
Creative Outdoor operates a plant of 10,000 pieces of street furniture and bus benches around the US and Canada. David Gray is the firm’s President. Insider talked with Gray about the street furniture business. David, how did you get into the out of home business? I was fresh out of […]
Regulatory Roundup July 5, 2018
MRT reports the Odessa, Texas planning and zoning commission approved a request by John Gannon, Inc. to install a static billboard but rejected a request for a digital billboard at West County Road 100 and FM 1788. The Daily Freeman reports that Ulster, New York is considering a digital sign […]
Company of the Day – Del Outdoor
Company: Del Outdoor Headquarters: 1702 S. Arizona Ave, Yuma, AZ 85364 Markets: Arizona, California & New Mexico Phone: 928-343-1135 Email: bwright@deloutdoor.com Del Outdoor is family owned business that was founded in 1986. Del Outdoor is based out of Yuma, Arizona and is part of Western News & Info, Inc. Brandy Wright is the […]
Geopath Market Spotlight: Marquette
Did you know: Marquette is home to the only Olympic Education Center in the United States. The Superior Dome in Marquette is the largest wooden dome stadium in the world. This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses on the Marquette DMA. Infographics for the top DMAs and much more are available […]
Real-Time Flight Data Displayed on Billboards Around LAX
Baton Rouge, LA – July 2, 2018 – Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest out of home media companies in the world, is teaming up with Wieden+Kennedy, OMA, Clear Channel Outdoor and Wow Media as part of a dynamic digital billboard campaign using real-time flight data to […]
Lebron Billboards
Basketball superstar and free agent Lebron James has been good for OUTFRONT. Look at this sample of fans purchased OUTFRONT billboards trying to make James come to their town. Atlanta Houston Sacramento And Los Angeles is running this copy on the 11 digital billboards celebrating its signing of Lebron. […]