With a goal to eliminate billboards along the city’s main streets and in pedestrian-friendly districts, the City of Orlando is considering allowing static boards to be swapped out for digital signs. The Orlando Sentinel reports that the City Council is meeting this week and the expectation is they will approve […]
Lamar outperformed the S&P 500 during the fourth quarter of 2017. Clear Channel Outdoor and Outfront underperformed the S&P 500 during the fourth quarter of 2017. Here are the actual numbers. Lamar up 8.74% during the fourth quarter of 2017. S&P 500 up 5.71% during the fourth quarter of 2017. Clear […]
By Jim Campbell, Executive Vice President, Circle Graphics The answer to this question is hardly – traditional billboards remain as coveted today as the real estate they sit on. Just ask Outfront and Lamar who restructured their legal entities to tap into and extract additional value from their billboards […]
By Chuck Wigger, Safety Director, Lamar Advertising Company, and a member of OAAA’s safety committee. I was (pleasantly) surprised to learn of a change in federal record-keeping requirements for minor injuries. This is good news, which I’m pleased to share. Without fanfare, the US Department of Labor has partially exempted […]
Last Tuesday the Tacoma City Council unanimously passed Resolution 39890 to settle a 20 year billboard dispute in Tacoma, Washington. In 1997 Tacoma amended the sign code to impose a 10 year amortization period for non-conforming billboards. In 2007 Clear Channel began a legal and public relations counterattack (see billboard on […]
Insider wanted to provide some feedback from a recent OAAA Webinar on the coming new OSHA Climber Safety Rules. The focus was on a series of questions posed by the OAAA to the Department of Labor and the response received in July of this year. The Webinar had a very […]
By Ken Klein, EVP-Government Affairs, OAAA The winning candidate in the Alabama Senate election used billboards to deliver powerful, historic messages. On December 12, Doug Jones (D-AL) was elected to fill the US Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who joined President Trump’s cabinet as Attorney General. Jones’ won […]
The city of Starkville, MS is taking aim at billboards through a new ordinance that the city hopes would lead to the eventual elimination of the signs within the city. The Dispatch reports of a proposed change to the city’s sign ordinance. A revised ordinance would classify billboards into two […]
By Bob Klausmeier In the summer of 2013, I embarked on a new venture, a ground-up new billboard company comprised entirely of digital billboards. As of this writing, the new venture has built and installed eighteen digital billboard faces on nine, well-placed structures in southern Michigan. The company is thriving […]
Lamar has produced a 3 minute video showing how to combine digital billboards and dynamic content: day-parting, weather-related ads, traffic-related content , live scores, trending items, countdowns, and social media content. Nice job Ian. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement
