At last week’s DailyDOOH Investor Conference Lamar CEO Sean Reilly said that Lamar has some digital billboards which could get off the grid when we have better batteries. Insider asked solar powered billboard expert Kevin Conlin to discuss the feasibility of solar powered digital billboards. Kevin are solar powered digital […]
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How and Why to Get Involved Politically
By Ken Klein OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs A United States Senator from Colorado recently toured the OUTFRONT Media plant in Denver, learning about technology and jobs. This type of political education benefits the entire industry, far beyond Colorado. As a regulated industry, we know the importance of government […]
Sean Reilly on Anna Bager, Privacy, Digital Billboards and ESG
Lamar CEO Sean Reilly was interesting as ever at Adrian Cotterill’s DailyDOOH investor Conference. You need to make this conference part of your Digital Signage Week activities. A selection of Reilly’s comments. On Anna Bager as the new President of the OAAA The journey that brought Anna here started a […]
New and Noted October 18, 2019
Lamar is stunting in Pittsburg, Kansas with a billboard which ways “Something cool is coming to Pittsburg.” The first board went up October 14. Another board is going up October 21. A lawsuit filed this week by the River Rouge School District alleges Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan ordered Department of […]
5 Quotes from Digital Signage Week
Here are five interesting quotes Insider heard in sessions and conversations during Digital Signage Week. Adomni’s Jonathan Gudai on how automated buying platforms are changing out of home: Less than 10% of the global out of home inventory is digital. That’s going to change. 85% of digital online ads are […]
Vistar Expands Programmatic Partners
NEW YORK – October 10, 2019 – Vistar Media, the global leader in programmatic technology for digital out-of-home (OOH), today announced an expansion of the programmatic OOH ecosystem through partnerships with the world’s leading omnichannel demand-side platforms (DSPs). Adelphic, Amobee, MediaMath and Verizon Media are all integrating with the Vistar […]
Outfront Up, Lamar Flat, CCO Down in 3Q 2019
OUTFRONT stock was up 8% for the three months ended September 30, 2019 due to strong revenue growth. Lamar stock was was up 1% for the three months ended September 30, 2019 in line with the Standard and Poors 500. Clear Channel Outdoor stock was down 46% for the three […]
Pittsburgh Gazette Urges City to Respect Lamar’s Property Rights
The Post Gazette has written an editorial urging the city to respect Lamar’s property rights and end the fight over the Mount Washington sign: “Property rights are a fundamental right. The government cannot impose arbitrary restriction on the use of one’s property if that use is legal – and indeed […]
Outdoor Legal: A city must pay just compensation if it causes a billboard to come down.
A city can’t use the building permit process to force a billboard down without paying just compensation. That’s the lesson of Lamar v Clinton Township. Here are the facts. Lamar Advertising owned a non-conforming billboard in Clinton Township, Michigan on land leased from Paul Turkal. The billboard lease had a […]
Sean Reilly: You’ve got an industry that’s in the best place I’ve ever seen it.
Lamar CEO Sean Reilly was upbeat about the out of home industry at last week’s Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference. On industry prospects First of all you’ve got an industry that’s in the best place I’ve seen it and I’ve been doing this a long time. The other two big companies […]