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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.  […]

Cincinnati passes Billboard Tax

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 […]

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 […]