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Chan Lieu on Self Driving Cars and Out of Home

Chan Lieu of the Washington DC Law Firm Venable talked about self-driving cars on yesterday’s OAAA webinar. The webinars are a valuable perk of OAAA membership and a good reason to join OAAA. Here are the highlights. Deployment of autonomous cars will take 20 years if you look at technology […]

March for Giants Wins With Interactivity

Several creatives who were interviewed at the Cannes Festival three weeks ago mentioned  The March for Giants as an outstanding out of home campaign which took advantage of a couple strengths of digital billboards: interactivity and worldwide reach. The campaign was designed by the London’s 18 Feet & Rising to […]

Clear Channel Renews Des Moines Airport

Des Moines, IA  – –Clear Channel Airports (CCA), a brand division of Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA) (NYSE: CCO), and a subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc., today announced it has signed a new five-year partnership with annual one-year options with the Des Moines International Airport (DSM) to provide state of the […]

Company of the Day – Key Outdoor

Company:  Key Outdoor Markets: Illinois, Missouri, Iowa Headquarters: 1873 Bourbonnais, IL  60914 Phone:  815-937-4579 Email: angelakdahl@keyoutdoor.com Key Outdoor is a privately held company which was started in 1977 and operates a billboard plant in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa.  The flagship office near Kankakee soon became one of many offices, as […]

Boston Omaha IPO Raises $97 million.

Insider reported in June that Link Media‘s parent company Boston Omaha was planning to raise $71.5 million via an IPO. A press release on Business Wire announced that Cowen and Company, LLC, as the representative of the underwriters of the previously announced public offering of 6,538,462 shares of Class A common […]

Company of the Day: Steel City Billboards

Company:  Steel City Billboards Markets: Pennsylvania Headquarters: 715 Riverview Rd, Verona, PA  15147 Phone: 888-288-7441 Email: mdfowkes@steelcitybillboards.com Steel City Billboards is a family-owned firm which operates a four structure billboard plant with 13 faces in communities around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  The company is a member of the OAAA.  Insider talked with […]

OAAA’s Ken Klein on data and out of home

During the Digital Advertising Alliance Summit, 2017, an innovation panel devoted to Out of Home Advertising  included business leaders discussing how audience data is playing a larger role in this oldest of advertising media. Ken Klein, who leads government affairs, at the Outdoor Advertising Association of America explains how Digital […]

Bullhead City OK’s Digital in Highway 95

The Mohave Valley Daily News reports that the Bullhead City Arizona city council approved a Lamar proposal for a digital billboard on the west side of Highway 95 between Riverview Drive and North Oatman Road. Lamar will: Remove a static billboard near Riviera Boulevard and Plaza Drive Pay the city […]

iHeart Lenders Make Counter Proposal On Debt

Radio Ink reports on Tuesday that a counteroffer to iHeartCommunications Debt restructure proposal was made by Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer (APKS), an advisor to Symphony Asset Management, which holds about $280 million in iHeart term loans. The counterproposal made to iHeartMedia is for $500 million in newly issued debt […]

Company of the Day: Kentucky Outdoor

Company: Kentucky Outdoor Markets: Kentucky Headquarters: PO box 917, Bowling Green, KY  42102 Phone: 270-842-6828 Email: kyoutdoorads@twc.com Kentucky Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 60 structures with 100 faces including many structures on I-65 from the Kentucky-Tennessee state line through Kentucky mile marker 66.  The plant covers the following West Kentucky communities: Kentucky Lake Lake […]