Insider agrees with Lamar CEO Sean Reilly’s comments that out of home will sell advertising in an autonomous car world just like it sells advertising today in transit settings today. If you disagree and are worried about the impact on autonomous cars, you can take a deep breath. Autonomous cars […]
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Billboard Delays Starbucks Store
Longview News Journal says that Starbucks wants to demolish a building at 707 W Marshall in Longview, Texas and put up a coffee store. The problem is that a three sided Lamar billboard sits on the site and will have to go as well. Lamar has agreed to remove […]
Lamar Executes Weather Triggered Ads for Accutemps
Insider spotted a Lamar ad campaign which uses weather triggered advertising on 6 digital billboards in Baton Rouge on behalf of Accutemp an AC/heating company. Ian Dallimore, Lamar’s Director of Digital Growth, talked with Insider. Where did the idea come from? Our account executive in Baton Rouge worked with Accutemp’s […]
Digital Billboards Change Fast with Tornado Updates
Tornado season highlights the expanding partnerships between emergency messengers and digital billboards. Insider takes you inside the fast-moving preparations for recent severe weather in Oklahoma, to explain the speed and sophistication of these partnerships. 5:58 pm Saturday (May 18): authorities sent a group text to activate digital billboards on Sunday. […]
Top 10 Quotes from the 2019 OAAA Convention
Here are the top 10 quotes Insider heard at the OAAA 2019 convention. OAAA President and CEO Nancy Fletcher: I want to leave with you the single most important lesson I’ve learned in 40-plus years in OOH. The OOH industry would in no way be where it is today without […]
Chesterfield County proposes sign code amendment
The Chesterfield Observer reports that Chesterfield County has reached an agreement with Lamar to amend the county’s sign code. The changes are the result of a 7 month process including three public work sessions. Key elements of the agreement include: A cap on the number of billboards in the county […]
3 Takeaways From Last Week’s IBOUSA Convention
Terrific convention for the IBOUSA in Savannah last week. Congratulations to Chris Cowlbeck and the IBO staff for all their hard work. Insider noticed three things that we wanted to point out as highlights to the convention. Programmatic is no longer a foreign language to the IBOUSA membership – How […]
Paul Wright on Landmark, Lamar, Outfront, Clear Channel and Link
Signvalue co-founder Paul Wright talked about Landmark, Outfront, Clear Channel and Link on this week’s Billboard Insider Podcast Landmark I think that they represent a threat to the industry but not as big a threat as I initially thought…They’re really looking for long term leases that have solid revenue streams…They […]
Regulatory Roundup May 10, 2019
The Pilot reports that the North Carolina state house has approved a HB 645 which allows a billboard to be relocated within a 2 mile radius when it has to be moved for road projects. The bill is sitting in the Senate rules and operations committee. A similar bill failed […]
Lamar Expands Denver Transit Ad Displays
Denver, CO – May 7, 2019 – With the recent grand opening of the G-Line commuter rail in Denver, Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest out of home (OOH) media companies in the world, is pleased to debut a range of new outdoor advertising opportunities for local […]