The Independent Billboard Operators USA (“IBOUSA”) will have a telepathy and mind-bending skills panel at the Spring 2022 conference May 4-6 in Kansas City, MO. “Our members biggest frustration is dealing with uncooperative municipal staffers,” says IBO General Manager Chris Cowlbeck. “We want to give members the tools to succeed […]
iKahan Media has developed three pathbreaking out of home opportunities Space Billboards In collaboration with SpaceX, NASA, and the guys who brought you Sputnik, iKahan is launching the world’s first ever extraterrestrial billboard. iK-LUNAR-001 will be conveniently located on the south pole of the moon, in clear view of passing […]
The nation’s 200 largest out of home companies have formed a lending fund to provide working capital advances to ad agencies. Any US-headquartered ad agency will be eligible for a working capital advance of up to $250,000 from the Lending Enterprise Empowering Corporate Heuristics Fund (the “LEECH Fund”). “It’s clear […]
New York’s New School of Social Research has erected a “subjective billboard” which consists of a blank frame. Uwe Witgenstein, a professor in the school’s journalism department, says that New School purchased the billboard as a thought experiment: “This is an experiment in subjectivity. The billboard becomes whatever the mind […]
Sven Opak of the out of home programmatic solutions provider Piddle won the George Orwell prize for obfuscatory, jargon-ridden writing about programmatic out of home. Here’s an excerpt from the winning entry: “A frictionless hardware unification IOT has been created to improve brand efficiency with a general auction mechanism that […]
Independent’s Service Company has released its latest product poised to transform the digital OOH marketplace. Digiflex 1.0, will transform any digital OOH unit into a stunning frontlit or backlit static image. The product is distinguished by its simplicity and ease of installation. According to Allan Atkins, VP of Sales for Independent’s […]
Insider’s Note: This story was published on April 1, 2017. APRIL FOOLS DAY. It is a joke. The anti-billboard group Citizens Against Billboards voted yesterday at its annual convention to purchase 1,000 billboards nationwide to promote an anti-billboard message. The billboards will contain the following bold black print on a […]
Insider wants to make sure his readers know that this story was originally published on April 1, 2017. APRIL FOOLS DAY. The ad agency Piddle has announced an opaque, paper-driven process for buying billboards. Piddle’s chief creative officer Sven Opak said that the new system’s features include: massive amounts of […]
Insider wants to make sure his readers know that this story was published on April 1, 2017. APRIL FOOLS DAY. Yes it is a joke. Indiana judge Charlie “Bullfrog” McIntyre has ordered a County Planning Official to personally erect a billboard after wrongfully denying a billboard permit. “I’m fed up […]
Insider wants to make sure readers know this story was published on April 1, 2017. APRIL FOOLS DAY. Yes, it is a joke. By Brent Baer, Historian-in-residence, Billboard Insider As all of you veterans of the OOH business know, the term billboard came about by a guy named William Boarders. […]
