Author: billboardinsider

Claudia Damas on advertisers boycotting facebook and why out of home benefits.

Altermark CEO Claudia B Damas gives Insider her take on advertisers boycotting facebook. They should have done this a long time ago. This conversation is very repetitive. Online does not have the checks and balances needed to manage how brands culturally express themselves. The data shows over and over that […]

Do It Outdoors Creates Custom Mobile Billboards for California Lottery

By Do It Outdoors A couple of years to when creative agency David&Goliath sought to put a completely new and sleek spin on promotional and advertising efforts for their client, the California Lottery. They wanted to (quite literally) give luck a new look with a new campaign involving custom mobile […]

Out of Home Outperforms Market in Second Quarter 2020

US out of home stocks had an outstanding quarter as traffic rebounded and the economy began to open back up from Covid closures. Clear Channel Outdoor (blue), Lamar (green), OUTFRONT (purple) and S&P 500 (black) stock performance April-June, 2020 Clear Channel Outdoor increased 85% to $1.04 during the quarter versus […]

Community Friendly Digital Billboards

What can the industry do to help make digital billboards more community friendly? That question has been on the mind of Media Resources’ Chief Product Architect, Cheng Qian, for years. Digital Billboards have proven very effective, dynamic tools to connect people with products, services, and information. However, the use of […]

UK Foot Traffic Recovering from Covid

London, UK: June 30th, 2020 – Today, Talon Outdoor reported the latest findings from their proprietary Out of Home data management platform Ada, covering the week ending June 21 – the first full week since lockdown restrictions were lifted on non-essential retail in England. The latest figures show a significant […]

OUTFRONT Honors New York Grads in Times Square

By Courtney Richards, OUTFRONT Media As graduation ceremonies across the country have been cancelled or postponed, we couldn’t let some of our graduates not feel the love. OUTFRONT showcased our NY area grads on a Times Square billboard to show our pride and support for the 2020 graduating class! Hats […]

Company of the Day: Kentucky Outdoor

Company: Kentucky Outdoor Advertising Markets: Kentucky Address: 423 State Street, PO Box 917, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Phone: 270-842-6828 Kentucky outdoor owns over 100 billboards in south central and western Kentucky.  David Sears is President.  Thomas Connelly is Vice President. Sears was named the 2017 small business person of the year by the Bowling […]

Inrix: Nationwide Traffic Back to Normal

Inrix reports that US travel returned to normal in the US National Traffic Volume Synopsis #15 for June 20-26, 2020.  Some other highlights. Nationwide US passenger traffic was 100% of pre-covid levels for the week ended June 26. Long hall ruck travel was 99% of normal Local fleet travel was […]

Readers Say Out of Home Benefits from Facebook Backlash

Our readers think that out of home will benefit from the ad backlash against facebook. “OOH should benefit as the medium is the message. The only content surrounding OOH is the environment . That can pose an issue if the copy is seen as inappropriate for where it is placed. […]

Geopath Releases Travel Report for Top 100 DMA’s

Geopath has released the average daily miles travelled report for the top 100 DMA’s dated 6/29/20.  Download the report and send you clients the chart for your DMA.  Here is the chart for the New York DMA.   [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement