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Company of the Day – Admiral Outdoor Advertising

Company: Admiral Outdoor Advertising, LLC Market: Duplin County, North Carolina. Headquarters: 5752 S. US Highway 117, PO Box 160,  Wallace, NC  28466 Phone: 910-285-1047 Email: Info@admiraloutdoor.com Admiral Outdoor operates a billboard plant in Duplin County in eastern North Carolina.  The company was started in 2006 when owner Pete Murphy was in […]

Vince Miller on Blip

Insider has written before about Yesco’s partnership with Blip to sell digital billboard ads.  DDI Media recently partnered with Blip as well.  Here are Vince Miller’s thoughts on the partnership.  Insider is intrigued with the possibilities of using Blip to sell short term advertising. By Vince Miller President, DDI Media […]

Vendor Spotlight: Formetco

Vendor:  Formetco Products:  Digital Billboards, Billboard Hardware, Billboard Lighting, Safety Equipment Address:  2963 Pleasant Hill Rd., Duluth Georgia  30096 Phone: 1-800-367-6382 Formetco is a privately-held firm which manufactures digital signs and sells billboard products.  Jock Gibb is Vice President of Sales.  He began his career with Formetco in 1993.  Today, […]

How Billboards Cheer Olympic Champs

As a service, OAAA is providing a quick way to congratulate local Olympic winners on digital billboards.  This article explains how it happened. On February 11:  “Send me the template,” said a billboard GM in northern Ohio, “and I’ll get that up right away.” It was 7:37 in the morning. […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “When thinking as to how best to get the word out of our available position we thought of Billboard Insider.  We are glad we did.  The cost of the ad was reasonable and the response was outstanding.” Jim Moravec, Stott Outdoor “We had over 25 companies inquire […]

Digital Outdoor helps independents secure national advertising.

Scott Fiaschetti of Geopath interviewed Larry Clark, Christine Lanziano and Jeff Randazzo of Digital Outdoor Advertising about how their streamlined RFP process helps 112 independent out of home advertising companies compete for advertising.    An interesting read if you are an independent out of home advertising company looking for additional digital […]

Outdoor Advertising Accidents Decline

OSHA has a searchable database on accidents and fatalities.  Insider sorted the database based on the NAICS code 541850 (outdoor advertising) and the results were encouraging. Accidents and fatalities are trending down.  Annual outdoor advertising accidents and fatalities were 1.6 and 0.8, respectively, for the last five years versus a […]

5 tips to improve your out of home website.

Last week Insider published the 2018 out of home website rankings.  Insider is getting requests from companies wishing to improve their websites.  Here are the five steps you can take to improve your out of home advertising website. Ad sign video.  Only 7% of out of home websites do this.  […]

Company of the Day: Ace Outdoor Advertising

Company: Ace Outdoor Advertising Market:  California Headquarters: 89801 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA  90069 Phone: 310-467-8072 Email: andrew@ace-outdoor.com Ace Outdoor operates seven high profile billboard structures with 13 faces on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.  Ace is managed by Andrew Bilanzich who was a punter for the 1995 Nebraska cornhuskers national championship football team during college.  The […]

Catalyst Outdoor sells to Lamar and Clear Channel Outdoor

Catalyst Outdoor founders (from left): CEO Thaddeus Bartkowski, Crystal Crawford, Patrick Wolfington Catalyst Outdoor has divested a majority of its assets to Lamar and Clear Channel Outdoor in order to focus on developing non traditional structures nationwide.   The terms of the transactions were not disclosed but Sign Value’s Paul Wright, […]