Author: billboardinsider

OUTFRONT Acquires Total Outdoor Wall Assets

NEW YORK, NY  – December 22, 2021 — OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE:OUT) announced that it has acquired 21 large format wall displays – 18 static and 3 digital – in the city of Detroit, Michigan from Total Outdoor. OUTFRONT is the leading out of home provider in the market. The […]

Wendy Hickey on What’s New at ArtPop

ArtPop works with billboard companies to put art on vacant billboards.  Billboard insider talked with the company’s Founder and Executive Director Wendy Hickey to find out what’s new. What did ArtPop accomplish in 2021 ArtPop Street Gallery is now exclusively operating in the Greater 13 county Charlotte North and South […]

Paul Wright Says Post Pandemic Values Will Exceed Pre-Pandemic Values

On today’s podcast billboard valuation expert Paul Wright from SignValue gives his opinion of the big three and says that post pandemic values will be higher than pre-pandemic values. Here are the highlights. On Lamar Advertising Well, Lamar, like the other public companies had a great third quarter compared to […]

Dan Nausley on Mistakes Made By OOH Sales Reps

Last week Dan Nausley talked about why the out of home industry needs to adapt.  Today he discusses the mistakes sales reps make when selling out of home. Dan, you operate the OOH Sales Mastery Class.  What are some mistakes which out of home sales reps make? Often they are […]

Company of the Day: Digivision Billboard Network

Company: Digivision  Markets: Louisiana Address: 4830 Line Avenue, Suite 185, Shreveport, Louisiana, 71006 Email: bennett@digivisionbillboards.com Phone: 1-318-459-9020 Digivision operates digital billboards in Shreveport and Bossier City, Louisiana.  The firm was founded by Bennett Rinaudo in 2017.  The firm has fourteen digital billboards networked together with plans to build four more […]

Huntington Billboards Acquires Certain Assets of Giesken Outdoor

Greenville, OH – Dec 20, 2021, Huntington Billboards, an owner, and operator of outdoor advertising signs throughout the Midwest, announced today that it has acquired certain assets of Giesken Outdoor Advertising. Giesken Outdoor operates a billboard plant in Northwest Ohio, with both digital and static billboards. Tom Giesken started the […]

61% of Senior Ad Execs Think Digital OOH Best Way to Reach Young Consumers

Miami Beach, FL / December 21, 2021– New research from Alfi (NASDAQ:ALF), an AI enterprise SaaS advertising platform, reveals that 61% of senior advertising executives strongly believe Digital out of Home (DOOH) advertising is the most effective way to reach young, consumers who are tech-savvy, highly social, and on-the-go, therefore […]

The Importance of Showing the Whole Picture

By Javier Ortega, Marketing Coordinator, SignBird When you imagine a picture of a billboard, what do you see? A rectangle with your company’s artwork? Some metal beams holding it up? Maybe some lights if you are imagining it at night? While that is technically an image of a billboard, is […]

Mark Tutssel to Lead 80th OBIE Awards Jury

WASHINGTON D.C. (December 20, 2021) – The lineup of distinguished jurors has been announced for the 2022 OBIE Awards, the oldest and most prestigious honors for creative excellence in out of home advertising design. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the awards program from the Out of Home Advertising […]

Billboards Have Beaten Covid

The roadside billboard business has put covid in the rear view mirror.  Street furniture and transit are recovering but still down.  Place-based lags.  That’s apparent when you parse the US out of home industry by format as reported by the OAAA. This chart shows the third quarter 2021 performance of […]