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Regency Outdoor Advertising, the Southern California billboard company worth an estimated half a billion dollars, has been accused of using bribes to position and maintain certain billboards, the LA Times reports. While co-owners Brian and Drake Kennedy claim no wrongdoing, sworn statements in lawsuits by a former Regency executive and an attorney who represented the firm say that the brothers have paid off politicians and bribed the Caltrans billboard inspector for LA and Orange counties.
The statement even claims the brothers, who own more billboards on the prime Sunset Strip than any of its competitors, have poisoned palm trees that obstructed the view of some of their most lucrative signs outside the Los Angeles International Airport.
Mel Karmazin is not one for modesty. During a keynote at the Media & Money Conference Tuesday, Karmazin - Sirius XM Radio CEO - said the company is clearly soon to be the most successful company in the audio entertainment industry…
FT Group, publisher of the Financial Times, saw total revenue leap 11% for the first nine months of 2008. Circulation and ad revenue grew, as did revenue from interactive data.
Ad revenue was up 1% over the first nine months…
Location-based services that allow marketers to connect with consumers wherever they are have long been considered the ideal in advertising. eMarketer is predicting that the opportunity will grow significantly in coming years, with the number of consumers using such services…
Comedy Central is building on the success of its two wildly popular fake-news programs, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show, adding a show called Chocolate News.
The new show will star David Alan Grier as the pompous host of…
Prices of list rentals are declining across the board and – for the first time ever - show a downward trend in every B2C and B2B category tracked, according to Worldata’s Fall 2008 List Price Index (see table), writes MarketingCharts.
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Custom publications are being increasingly produced by specialty editors and designers (73%) rather than by those in communications roles, according to a study conducted by the Custom Publishing Council (CPC) in cooperation with Publications Management, writes MarketingCharts.
The survey, “Staffing and Compensation:…
