Author: billboardinsider

The Wisdom of John Arnold: Sell a Competitor’s Billboard

Arnold Outdoor founder John Arnold has learned a lot in a 21 year career in the Out of Home business.  Today he talks about the benefits of selling a competitor’s billboard. One of the most important things we can do to increase the credibility of outdoor is sell a billboard […]

What Landlords Want in Billboard Leases

JD Supra published an article titled Outdoor Advertising: How Billboard Landlords Can Protect Their Property and Their Profits.  The author counsels landlords on what to ask for in a billboard lease.  Here are five things the author recommends together with Billboard Insider’s response. “A ground lease is the preferred means […]

US Out of Home Revenues Back in the Black

US Out of Home revenues grew by a healthy 38% during the second quarter ended June 2021.  See today’s OAAA post.  Roadside billboard revenues began to recover 9 months ago.  The healthy improvements in the second quarter of 2021 suggests that transit and place based revenues are coming back as […]

OOH Produces Impressive 38% Sales Growth in Q2 2021

Courtesy of the OAAA The past year’s OAAA/Harris Poll research has consistently shown consumers are noticing OOH more than ever. The Spring 2021 study showed 41 percent of consumers reported noticing OOH ads more than pre-pandemic, and the increased notice rate jumped to 59 percent in urban cities of one […]

Realtors Publish House Listings on Digital Billboards

By Jamie Thrasher, Lucit Century 21 Action Realtors in North Dakota and Coldwell Banker Alfred Saliba Realty’s agents in Alabama have become the first brokerages in the country to use digital billboards to publish active MLS listings in real time using the Lucit application. It’s been fantastic working with these […]

Place Exchange Granted Programmatic Out of Home Patent

NEW YORK CITY – August 24, 2021 – Place Exchange, the leading supply-side platform (SSP) for programmatic out of home (OOH) media, announced it was granted a key “systems, methods and programmed products for tracking delivery and performance of static advertisements in public or semi-public locations within a digital advertising […]

Company of the Day: Becker Boards

Company: Becker Boards Market: Arizona, Florida, California. Headquarters: 4350 E Camelback Rd, Suite B-195, Phoenix, AZ  85018 Phone: 480-370-7740 Becker Boards is the largest privately held billboard company in Phoenix.  It was founded by Mark Becker, a former real estate lawyer and developer and entrepreneur Joseph White. The company has over 400 faces in Arizona, California, […]

Who’s In on the Austin v Reagan Supreme Court Case

Lots of parties have filed briefs in the Supreme Court’s review of the  Austin v Reagan case.  Austin wants the Supreme Court to throw out an Appeals Court ruling invalidating Austin’s sign code because it had one set of rules for on-premise digital signs and another set for off premise […]

OAAA Partners With IAB Tech Lab To Align DOOH With Open RTB

WASHINGTON D.C. & NEW YORK (August 23, 2021) – The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), the national trade association for the entire out of home (OOH) and DOOH media ecosystem, today announced a collaboration between the OAAA Programmatic and Automation Committee and IAB Tech Lab to integrate […]

13 Steps For Executing An OOH Sale

By Kevin Gephart Your renewal window starts now! How you execute your new OOH sale will competition-proof, and either secure or hinder, your renewal. Every client, in the back of their mind, wonders if the program will go off as planned. Build confidence by providing them a critical path which […]