Baton Rouge, LA – October 19, 2020 – In support of the effort to end human trafficking, Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world, has teamed up with A21, a global anti-human trafficking nonprofit with the mission to abolish modern-day slavery, and […]
Los Angeles, CA – September 29, 2020 – Accretive Media (www.accretiveads.com), a digital out-of-home advertising company, today announced the launch of Accretive Connect™, a new solution that enables sequential messaging between programmatic digital out-of-home (pDOOH) and connected TV (CTV) advertising for the first time, opening the door for brands and […]
Lamar Advertising is in a long running dispute with the city of Pittsburgh over the Mt Washington sign. The dispute is before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after Lamar prevailed in lower courts. The Pittburgh Gazette says the PA Supreme Court appears skeptical of the city of Pittsburgh’s case to make […]
Lamar CEO Sean Reilly said Lamar will resume capital expenditures and acquisitions in an appearance at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference. On spending money again. The first thing is beginning to play a little offense…we are beginning to do that by freeing up some capexp dollars and some acquisition dollars…that’s […]
Lamar Advertising will pay a cash dividend of $0.50/share on September 30, 2020. The dividend equates to a 2.96% yield on the stock down from the 4-6% dividend yield Lamar was paying prior to Covid. Lamar cut the dividend during Covid to conserve cash. Lamar’s dividend is running at 50% […]
The Four A’s interviewed Ian Dallimore, Lamar’s VP of Digital Growth. If you have any doubts that Ian is a man of many parts look at the books he’s reading: Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance, Scott Galloway’s The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google and […]
By Richard Rothfelder, Rothfelder & Falick, LLP On August 25, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rendered its unanimous opinion in Reagan National and Lamar Outdoor vs City of Austin, holding that Austin’s prohibition on the digitization of off-premise signs, while allowing it for on-premises, […]
BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lamar Advertising Company (LAMR) announced today that it is seeking to raise approximately $150.0 million through an institutional private placement of additional 4% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “Notes”) by its wholly owned subsidiary, Lamar Media Corp (“Lamar Media”). The Notes […]
Never give your landlord the right to buy a billboard at replacement cost. That’s the lesson of Buffalo Ridge Corp v Lamar Advertising. Here are the facts. In 2001 Flynn Advertising contracted with Buffalo Ridge Corporation to lease real property along I-90 near Sioux Falls to construct some billboards. The […]
Baton Rouge, LA – July 13, 2020 – Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world, has successfully negotiated to be the exclusive out of home advertising provider on the site of the brand new Allegiant Stadium, home of the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders. Lamar […]
