Author: billboardinsider

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 […]

Rate This Ad By Greg Callaham

Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a random piece of billboard artwork using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This week’s rating is […]

Company of the Day: Bayou Outdoor

Company: Bayou Signs Markets:  Louisiana Address:  1305 Ridgefield Road, Thibodaux, LA  70301 Phone:  985-446-1183 Email:  advertise@byousignsoutdoor.com Bayou Signs Outdoor, LLC operates a billboard plant over 800 bulletin, digital billboard, poster and trivision  faces in southeastern Louisiana.  Bayou is a family owned firm which was started in 1969.  The plant includes 14 digital […]

Biden Billboard Poll Results

Billboard Insider readers by a 2-1 margin said they would run the Biden ice cream billboard on free speech grounds.  Here are a selection of comments: A Southeastern Out of Home company executive If the question is would I run this Ad.  I more than likely would not.  I do […]

US Public OOH Companies Grow Faster Than Economy in 2Q 21

Here’s a comparison of the performance of the public out of home companies versus the US nominal GDP. Quarterly Change in US Public Company out of home revenues versus US Gross Domestic Product Some observations: Link Media and Lamar had the slightest revenue declines and fastest recovery from covid due […]

Company of the Day: Barrett Outdoor

Company:  Barrett Outdoor  Headquarters: 381 Highland St., West Haven CT  Markets: Eastern Connecticut  Phone: 203.932.4601 Email: sales@Barrettoutdoor.com Barrett Outdoor operates a billboard plant in Eastern Connecticut along the I-95 corridor including Bridgeport, Stratford, Devon and Milford.  The Company was started in 1962 by Jack Barrett.  Billboard Insider talked with John Barrett company’s President.  Barrett is […]

Would You Run the Joe Biden Ice Cream Ad?

Tedder Outdoor in North Carolina has posted a billboard showing a picture of a helicopter evacuating Kabul together with a picture of President Biden eating an ice cream cone.   People originally thought this was a billboard hack but the billboard is for real according to the sign’s owner. Would you […]