By Ken Klein, OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs Remarkable for its staying power, the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list remains relevant and effective because it morphed into whatever media can reach the next tipster. The multi-media goal is to empower the public to “make the world smaller” for […]
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Company of the Day: Atlantic Outdoor
Company: Atlantic Outdoor Advertising Markets: Virginia Headquarters: PO Box 335, McGayesville Road, McGayesville, VA 22840 Phone: 540-289-5051 Atlantic Outdoor Advertising operates a plant of static billboards, mobile truck side ads, and banners. The company is a division of Cave Hill Corporation a custom steel fabricator and crane company which was founded in 1979 by […]
Drachman On What’s Next For CCO
With iHeartMedia now in bankruptcy and much speculation on the eventual fate of Clear Channel Outdoor, Insider caught up with Max Drachman, V.P. at Kalil & Co., to get his thoughts on the possibilities. Max, there has been a lot of early speculation about what happens to Clear Channel Outdoor. […]
More on Easements
Some terrific responses to yesterday’s 12 Musts for an Out of Home easement. Jim McLaughlin, Link Media I think you are missing a couple of things on the easement. You want the right to pay any unpaid property taxes to keep the property from getting sold at a tax auction, […]
Uber self driving car kills pedestrian in Arizona
Uber halts Autonomous Car Tests After Fatal Crash in Arizona reads the headline of a Bloomberg article published yesterday. A Tempe woman was crossing a street outside a sidewalk when an uber vehicle operating in autonomous mode struck her. California (the only state which tracks autonomous vehicle accidents) reports 59 […]
Body Shop First Ever Out of Home Campaign
NEW YORK, NY — March 19, 2018 — The Body Shop today unveiled its first out-of-home (OOH) campaign in the U.S. leveraging high-traffic outdoor advertising spaces to call upon the public to help ban animal testing in cosmetics. Partnering with Cruelty Free International, the campaign is the most ambitious of […]
Company of the Day – ATA Outdoor
Company: ATA Outdoor Headquarters: 2 Alden Ave, Greenland, NH 03840 Markets: New England, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont & Massachusetts Phone: (603) 436-0008 Email: info@atatransit.com Founded by Jane Cutter in 1992, ATA Outdoor was created based on a perceived need that all public transit agencies in New England, with fleets […]
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 […]