Today Billboard Insider is publishing our list of 441 US bulletin and poster companies ranked by faces. The 441 companies account for 377,096 total faces. This list is roadside and poster faces. We have excluded transit and place-based faces. United States only. We are not including international faces or Clear […]
The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) is once again joining forces with earthday.org for a national out of home campaign to celebrate Earth Day. Showcasing the theme “Invest in our Planet,” this year’s campaign is primarily focused on reaching businesses and government entities—those with capital to […]
Insider mentioned the pending Ohio Supreme Court tax case Wednesday and Thursday we had a good news ruling. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled against Cincinnati’s targeted billboard tax as an unconstitutional burden on free speech. A little background on the Ohio Case: Norton Outdoor Advertising and Lamar Advertising challenged Cincinnati’s […]
Clear Channel Outdoor has petitioned the US Supreme Court to hear its challenge of Baltimore’s targeted tax on billboards, which was enacted in 2013. Courts in Maryland ruled in favor of the City; Clear Channel wants the US Supreme Court to take the case (Clear Channel Outdoor v. Henry J. […]
Kentucky’s new billboard regulations are unconstitutional because they deem billboards as “noncompliant” if they were built during a multi-month period when Kentucky had “no lawful regulatory scheme,” claims a federal lawsuit filed by four out of home media companies. Kentucky’s new regulations “classify signs as ‘noncompliant’ based solely on the […]
Here’s Billboard Insider’s 2021 list of 430 US out of home companies ranked by bulletin and poster faces. Four comments: This is roadside only. Bulletins and posters. We left transit, airport, street furniture and place-based companies off the list. A face is a face is a face. A bulletin, a […]
The Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments June 16 in the constitutional challenge to Cincinnati’s billboard tax. A decision will be issued later. Counsel for plaintiffs Norton Outdoor and Lamar argued that it’s unfair and unconstitutional for a municipality to single out a form of speech for targeted taxation that […]
Billboard Insider’s In Their Words: Out of Home Executives Discuss Out of Home contains excerpts of interviews with 173 out of home executives on all aspects of running an out of home company. The book costs $49.95 and is available in ebook and pdf editions. You can buy your copy […]
By Kerry Yoakum, OAAA OAAA sponsors a Legal Seminar every other year. Insider asked Kerry Yoakum, Vice President/Government Affairs, to tell us about the 18th OAAA Legal Seminar. What is the Legal Seminar? The substantive agenda features topics that broadly impact out of home media: the constitutional challenge to existing regulation, […]
Insider has been tracking two significant tax cases in Cincinnati and Baltimore. The Supreme Court of Ohio accepted an appeal of the legal challenge to Cincinnati’s targeted tax on billboards. In June, 2018, the City of Cincinnati enacted a billboard tax as part of a last-minute “emergency” measure to help […]
