Author: billboardinsider

Tracking Mobility Trends

Geopath has amazing reports for members tracking mobility post Covid.  What are your options if you aren’t a Geopath member? Ubimo’s Covid-19 dashboard shows trends in movement around Place based OOH properties.  This chart, for example, shows that doctor visits and convienence store visits are above a pre covid baseline, […]

World Unity Inc PSA promotes Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

  World Unity Inc. is running PSA ads on billboards in California, Oregon, Minnesota, Colorado and Georgia to overcome racism and all forms of discrimination including the increased prejudices towards Asian Americans across the country.  The company’s founder Sara Ting would like to take the campaign nationwide.   To get a […]

Company of the Day: Trone Outdoor

Company: Trone Outdoor Advertising Markets: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware. Address:  1345 Abbottstown Pike, Hannover, PA  17331 Phone: 1-800-864-7724 Email: info@troneoutdoor.com Trone Outdoor operates a billboard plant in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware.  The company has been in business since 1984.  John Trone is the company’s President.   He also is a realtor at Bennett […]

Two Cautions About Financing a Billboard With a Lease

Several companies offer lease financing for billboards.  They offer fast approval.  They often do 100% financing.  Financing charges are falling and reasonable.  And collateral is limited to specific assets.  Insider computed a financing charge of approximately 8% on the most recent billboard lease he examined.    There are two disadvantages […]

Lessons From an Out of Home Career

Three out of home executives share career lessons in In Their Words – Out of Home Executives Talk About Out of Home. Larry Roberts, Boardworks: Location (as the saying goes) and viewability are probably the most important metrics in determining the value of a sign. Some signs sell themselves, but […]

Jack Myers: Sell Brand Safety, Reach and Creativity

Sell your strengths: brand safety, reach and creativity.  That’s what Media Village founder Jack Myers told OAAA CEO Anna Bager in an OAAA lunch break interview last week.  Here are some highlights. Jack Myers got started selling transit ads. It was my first job out of college in the early […]

Company of the Day: Triple O Outdoor

Company: Triple O Outdoor Market:  Texas Headquarters: P.O. Box 101253, Fort Worth, TX 76185 Phone:  963-777-3527 Email:  walter@tripleooutdoor.com Triple O is a family business which was founded in 1995.  The company has digital faces and static faces in the North Houston Metro area.   The company serves the following communities: Conroe The Woodlands […]

Out of Home a Bargain Compared to Other Forms of Media

Out of Home is still a great value versus other forms of media.  Here’s a chart from the PJ Solomon March 2021 Media monthly which compares the CPM (cost per thousand views) of out of home versus media and online advertising.  Bulletins and posters have a CPM cheaper than TV, […]

Pete Hautem’s Keys to Selling Out of Home

Pete Hautem has 44 years experience in selling out of home.  Here are a couple of his keys to effectively selling out of home. Believe in what you’re selling. You’ve got to believe in the concept you’re selling.  If I didn’t believe in out of home I wouldn’t have been […]

Intersection Forms in House Lab for Creative Ads

New York, NY –  March 24, 2021 – Intersection, the leading smart cities media and technology company, today announced the launch of Creative Labs, a new in-house service that provides clients with consultation, design services and production for their digital, static and specialty media out of home (OOH) campaigns. With […]