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New York’s Highest Rated Single Board Converts To Digital

New York’s highest rated single static board has converted to digital.  The boards is at the entrance to Lincoln Tunnel and generates 500,000 impressions a week.  The board’s clients have included Tmobile, Yes, M&T Bank and Disney.  Branded Cities is selling the ads.  Branded Cities is a digital and spectacular […]

From the Archives: Five Questions For Matt Schulze, Selective Strutures.

Matt Schulze is a partner at Selective Structures, an Athens Tennessee company which fabricates and installs sign poles, billboards, scoreboards and digital signs. Selective Structures annually fabricates over 1000 billboards each year. You can contact Matt at mschulze@windstream.net, 706-473-3250. Matt’s got the best how-I-entered-the-outdoor-business story of anyone I’ve ever met. […]

Ads in Motion Provides Mobile Digital Billboards.

Crains Cleveland did an article about Ads in Motion, an Ohio company which has mounted digital billboards on the side of a truck.  The company tows the signs to events and rents them out.  The company’s truck was used to run Kasich ads at a Trump rally in Ohio. Insider […]

Company of the Day: Emerald Outdoor

Company: Emerald Outdoor Market: Washington, Idaho. Headquarters: 9212 E Montgomery Ave, Suite 604, Spokane Valley, WA  99206 Phone: 509-327-0103 Emerald Outdoor Advertising owns 110 billboard faces in the Seattle/Tacoma area, Wenatchee, Portland, Spokane, North Central Washington and Post Falls, Idaho.  In addition the company operates 150 bus bench unites in […]

Opposition to Signs on I-280 in San Mateo County

Insider wrote on 3/25/16 and 3/14/16  that San Mateo County is studying the feasibility of putting billboards on county land to raise money for the county’s budget.  The SM Daily Journal reported Monday that the County is not seriously thinking about billboards on I-280, Middlefield Road or El Camino Real. […]

OUTFRONT Expands Their On Smart Media Platform

Yesterday we carried OUTFRONT Media’s press release on the deployment of the On Smart Media platform with the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority.  Railway Age has commented that OUTFRONT Media’s ON Smart Media platform  keeps train passengers updated while offering  advertising partners state-of-the-art addressable screens. The On Smart Technology is now available in both […]

Digital Board Proposal For Little Rock

The Little Rock Board of Director’s has an agenda item posted to review the conversion to digital of up to 4 billboards along Interstate 630 and on the corner of Kanis & Shackleford Roads. The Arkansas Times reports that the current ordinance was meant to prevent alterations to billboards grandfathered […]

From The Archives: Replacing A Billboard Client

Insider owns billboards in Indiana and Iowa.  Last year, Pilot, a long-time advertiser, told Insider that it wasn’t going to renew its contract on one of Insider’s billboards in Iowa. Pilot was happy with the board but corporate elected to reallocate marketing dollars to another market.  Lots of small operators […]

Outfront Media Deploys Smart Media At DC’s Navy Yard

New York, March 24, 2015 – OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT), one of the largest out-of-home media companies in the U.S., announced today the next deployment of its ON Smart Media platform with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”). This installation expands the long-term relationship between OUTFRONT and WMATA. […]

Company of the Day: East West Media

Company: East West Media Markets: Tennessee Headquarters: 18 W Madison Avenue, Athens, Tennessee. Phone: 423-337-4444 East West media was started in 2001 by Bobby Mizer.  The firm is family owned and run with 5 Mizer’s active in the business: Bobby (founder), Brad (President, Charlie (Account Executive), Sam (Operations Manager) and […]