Insider has heard from a couple sources that Fairway is now or may soon be for sale. The price tag is $650 million. It may very well be a financial buyer. Possible OOH suitors all might have barriers to purchase. Lamar has the debt capacity and a stock issuance […]
Baton Rouge, LA – October 17, 2018 – Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest out of home media companies in the world, announced today that the company has been awarded a contract by Dane County Regional Airport (MSN) in Madison, WI to manage all Out of Home […]
Clear Channel Outdoor and Outfront Media outperformed the market during the third quarter of 2018. See the chart below. Clear Channel Outdoor (blue) was up 36% during the third quarter of 2018. Recovering revenue? The light at the end of the tunnel for a split from iHeart? Lamar (green) was […]
Insider has heard from multiple sources that East-West Outdoor has sold to Lamar Advertising. East West Media was started in 2001 by Bobby Mizer. East-West was family owned with 5 Mizer’s active in the business: Bobby (founder), Brad (President), Charlie (Account Executive), Sam (Operations Manager) and Sarah (Secretary). East-West owned […]
Lamar must be prepared to take advantage of industry consolidation and ad agency turmoil. That’s how Lamar CEO Sean Reilly began his remarks to the Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference last Thursday. Here are the highlights. On changes in the ad agency market There’s great turmoil in the big agency business. Clients […]
To cap off a month of significant acquisition activity, the Reading Eagle reports that Reading, PA based Land Displays sold to Lamar Advertising. Land Displays, from our last Company of the Day, owned 134 structures, including 15 digital faces, 3 trivision faces, 65 bulletin faces and 136 poster panel faces in Berks, […]
Are you buying or building new locations? Then keep your insurance schedules up to date. That’s the lesson of Lamar Advertising versus Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance. Here are the facts: Lamar Advertising had an insurance policy with Liberty Mutual. Lamar incurred damage to billboards as a result of hurricanes Ike […]
Next time someone tells you that they’re against digital signs because they don’t want their city to become Las Vegas ask them if they’d like their city to become like Dayton. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent out this tweet this week. A Dayton, Ohio teenager who […]
Senator John S. McCain died Saturday. Plenty of billboards honoring his memory. Here are billboards from Lamar… and Clear Channel Outdoor… Here’s what Riley Outdoor’s Robert Moore posted on twitter. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement
Ian Dallimore, Director of Innovation and Digital Strategy at Lamar tells Insider this: When my mind isn’t thinking up the next bizarre innovative concept to change the OOH space I’m spending time relaxing, if you call it that, at the beach with the family. Coincidentally it’s spent in Pensacola Beach […]
