Gateway Outdoor Advertising

Gateway Outdoor Advertising is a family and employee-owned out-of-home media company headquartered in Long Valley, New Jersey, specializing primarily in transit advertising. Tracing its roots to 1937, when its first billboards were built in Pittsburgh, the company was acquired in 1990 by Craig P. Heard and repositioned around transit media. Since then it has expanded into more than 20 states and built relationships with over 250 transit partnerships, managing advertising across more than 40 markets and 80,000 buses.

Gateway's inventory spans a broad range of out-of-home formats, including bus and vehicle wraps, bus shelters, benches, and kiosks, transit stations and platforms, rail advertising, digital signs, airport placements, convenience store and gas station media, and traditional billboards. Its service area covers much of the eastern United States and beyond, including Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. The company positions transit advertising as a cost-effective complement or alternative to billboards, often encouraging advertisers to shift budgets toward high-frequency commuter-focused placements. Gateway's management team brings a combined 150-plus years of transit advertising experience, and the company highlights its status as 100 percent family and employee-owned with a majority-minority workforce.

By partnering with transit agencies to reach commuters and urban audiences, Gateway sells and manages advertising across public transportation systems nationwide. With nearly nine decades of history, a national footprint, and a deep specialization in transit media, Gateway Outdoor Advertising operates as an established out-of-home media owner and operator.