Tony Jacobson is the Founder and CEO of AllOver Media, a National Media Franchising Company. He is a pioneer in developing strategic alternative media products and concepts known as “non-traditional or out-of-home media.”
Tony Jacobson grew in Hibbing, MN and attended St. Cloud State University. At SCSU Tony Jacobson and Jim Arabanos created AJ Indoor around a new media concept focused on placing ads in the restrooms of bars, nightclubs and restaurants called AJ Indoor advertising.
Starting with capital support from his hometown neighbors and friends as well as some former members of the Naegele Outdoor Billboard management team, AJ Indoor took off expanding to over 5,000 venues throughout 55 major cities across the country. In 2000, Tony and Jim Arbanos sold the company to NextMedia, a national multi media conglomerate.
In 2002, Tony took what he learned in building AJ Indoor with Jim Arabanos and started AllOver Media, a new and expanded concept specializing in indoor advertising, as well as digital indoor media. The company also combined indoor advertising with outdoor media by placing ads on top of the gas pumps at thousands of gas stations, truck stops, and convenience stores nationwide.
The key strength of AllOver Media is its expanding franchise network. It is this unique network that provides media buyers’ national scalability with the attention to detail from local operators on the execution side. With all the challenges being faced by conventional media today, Jacobson believes that AllOver Media is the optimal solution for companies with strategic advertising needs.
Tony shared his exciting journey and lessons he learned in bootstrapping AJ indoor from a concept with little or no money, and developing it into a new national media company, then taking it to the next level through AllOver Media.
William Conley purchased the AllOver Media Franchise in Greensboro, High Point NC in 2006. We currently have indoor advertising in night clubs, movie theaters, sports bars, trendy night clubs, gyms and hotels. Our digital advertising started in October of 2009 which now as restaurants, sports bars and many more locations on the way. With our C-store advertising, we have locations like Exxon, BP, Pure and Citgo that cover Greensboro, High Point, Winston Salem, Thomasville and Archdale NC.
We are members of Triad Networks, GMA and are a part of KPG. We are active in the area by helping local organizations like Salvation Boys and Girls Club, YWCA , Winston-Salem Airshow and Rotary.