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- Billboard Operators, Already Hurt by Recession, Face Ad Bans All Over the U.S.
- Pity poor Lamar Advertising, one of the country's largest providers of outdoor billboards and signs. In February, the company will report its full-year results for 2008 and BNET is guessing thery're going to be bad. This isn't a controversial guess. Lamar's Q3 results were shaky: revenue flat, net income...
- Blog posts 2009-01-19
- Lamar Sells Billboards to Hookers But Not to Atheists
- Lamar Advertising sold an outdoor site to escort service MyPlayBunny.com in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, after refusing to take the money of an atheist group in Alabama. by Jim Edwards
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Lamar Demands $1M Taxpayer Bailout for a Single Billboard
- Lamar Advertising has gone to court seeking a $1 million taxpayer bailout for a single billboard in Pittsburgh that was only erected because Lamar gave a "gift" to the official who approved it. by Jim Edwards
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Lamar's Religious Management Would Rather Lose Money Than Sell Billboards to Atheists
- Give Lamar Advertising kudos for being even-handed even if it's no good at winning new business: The company censors liberal billboards just as much as it censors conservative ones. Lamar declined to sell space to an atheist who wanted to put up an ad alongside Alabama's I-20 that said simply,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Lamar Takes Down Billboards That Criticized Israel
- Lamar Advertising has bowed to pressure and taken down a political billboard that criticized the U.S.'s funding of Israel. The billboard had said "Tell Congress: Stop Killing Children. No More Military Aid to Israel." by Jim Edwards
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Lamar Sues Detroit Over "Unconstitutional" Billboard Fees
- Lamar Advertising is suing Detroit over the city's "sign license fee" that it charges to put up a billboard. Lamar claims the fees are "an unconstitutional tax designed to limit free speech." What's at stake in the suit is so de minimus -- about $40,000 a year...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Lamar Takes on More Debt as It Warns of Goodwill Losses
- Lamar has taken on $350 million more in debt as it expects to see net income in Q1 and Q2 hurt by write-downs of goodwill. Lamar said the new debt will "reduce the amount of revolving commitments under our senior credit facility." In addition,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Analyst: Lamar Revenue to Decline 9%; More on the Way
- Lamar Advertising could see a 9 percent decline in revenues for Q4 2008, according to Wachovia, and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America canceled its national convention planned for May 17-19 in Miami. Back in November, BNET suggested that billboard provider Lamar was the "canary in the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- The 10 Weirdest Ad Stories of the Month
- Welcome to February. Here's our usual roundup of weird news from the ad world that popped onto our radar in January. 40 years on from Mad Men, ad agencies still use female employees as eye candy A trio of agency promo videos recently collected on MediaBistro...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- How Not to Advertise Medical Marijuana
- Medical marijuana may be legal in California but that doesn't mean you can say whatever you like about it on billboards near schools. That's the takeaway from an incident in Anaheim which resulted in three outdoor ads parked within a block of a high school being removed. The OC Register...
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
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- Lamar: Revenues Will Decline 15% This Quarter
- The Lamar Advertising canary just gets sicker and sicker. The company predicts its Q1 revenues will decline 15 percent. Lamar released its Q4 earnings today. Here's the news: Revenues decreased by 8.4 percent to $279 million; the company saw a net loss of $6.8 million compared to...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Investors at Odds Over Lamar Advertising's Future
- Lamar Advertising is likely in for a year of depressed revenues simply because companies are cutting back on advertising, and therefore the billboards that the company provides, in the recession. What this means for Lamar's future, however, is an open question judging by recent maneuverings in its stock. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- Lamar Advertising Manager Guilty of Embezzling $200,000
- A woman employed as an office manager at Lamar Advertising in Oklahmoma City pleaed guilty to stealing $200,000 from the company by diverting checks, according to the wonderfully named Norman Transcript. Angela Smith used Lamar letterhead to persuade a check cashing business to cash Lamar checks over...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Lamar Advertising: The Canary in the Coal Mine
- Outdoor ad provider Lamar Advertising yesterday played host to one of the most brutal, depressing analyst conference calls I've ever heard. This was significant because Lamar claims to be the country's largest outdoor ad provider, and thus it arguably functions as a proxy for the ad biz as a whole....
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Lamar Advertising Still Embroiled in Pittsburgh Ethics Scandal
- Lamar Advertising is linked to a probe of Pittsburgh's former development chief, a public official who was discovered to have received 2007 Christmas gifts from the company, including a surround-sound system. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a proposed Lamar electronic billboard in the city's downtown was nixed...
- Blog posts 2009-01-01
- Advertising Roundup -- 80 Laid Off at Starcom; 26 Laid Off at Ogilvy; Lamar Debt Makes Hedge Fund Rich; More ...
- Layoffs at Starcom -- Chicago's Starcom MediaVest laid off 80 staffers yesterday, AgencySpy has learned. A Starcom representative confirmed the cuts today, stating that the current economic climate is to blame. [Source: AgencySpy] 26 laid off at Ogilvy Group UK -- The role of Bo Hellberg, the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- LaMar's Donuts serving Frontier airline customers
- Denver-based Lamar's Donuts partnered with Frontier Airlines to provide donuts to Frontier passengers aboard select flights beginning this month. "As the Official Donut of Frontier Airlines' La Mar's Donuts will be served to Frontier passengers aboard 17 Denver-bound flights," said Anthony Bonelli, chief executive officer of LaMar's Donuts. The LaMar's...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Baton Rouge-based Lamar Advertising Co. acquires Eugene, Ore.-based
- Baton Rouge-based Lamar Advertising Co. acquired Eugene, Ore.- based Obie Media Corp. for $66 million. Lamar gave Obie shareholders about $43 million in Lamar shares and assumed $23 million in debt.
- Research articles 2004-10-04
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) was an American politician of the Confederate South. He later became a member of President Grover Cleveland's Cabinet and a Supreme Court justice. Born in Putnam County, Ga., on Sept. 17, 1825, Lucius Q.C. Lamar was reared by his mother after...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) was an American politician of the Confederate South. He later became a member of President Grover Cleveland's Cabinet and a Supreme Court justice. Born in Putnam County, Ga., on Sept. 17, 1825, Lucius Q.C. Lamar was reared by his mother after...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
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