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Geopath Market Spotlight: Green Bay

Did you know? Green Bay is the smallest city in the country that hosts a major professional sports team. There is a town, also called “Green Bay” that sits a few miles north of the city of Green Bay. This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses on the Green Bay DMA. […]

Company of the Day: Scadron Outdoor

Company:  Scadron Outdoor Advertising Markets:  Chicago Headquarters:  1015 West Grand Avenue, Chicago, Illinois  60642 Phone:  312-666.7500 Email:  info@scadron.com Scadron Outdoor (formerly Arrow Signs or Chicago) is a fourth generation family owned firm which was originally founded in 1892.  the firs operates 4 high profile billboard structures and 2 wallscapes in […]

Conlin on doing solar right.

By Kevin Conlin, Autonomous Power Solutions.  Conlin has helped several Billboard Insider readers design solar powered billboards. In yesterday’s Solar Power Lessons, Jim McIntyre makes some very valid points about solar powered billboard reliability. It’s been my experience that when you design a solar system for high reliability (99.9%) the […]

Reno Billboard Lawsuit Proceeds

The US District Court for Nevada has partly granted and partly denied a petition by the City of Reno, Nevada to throw out a lawsuit by Strict Scrutiny Media. Strict Scrutiny Media secured several billboard leases and permits on three parcels of land in Reno. In 2016 the city  ordered […]

Jim McIntyre on Solar Power Lessons

In October 2016 Insider wrote an article about IQ Power Systems which was developing a better system for solar powered billboards.  Jim McIntyre of McIntyre Outdoor was acting as the company’s sales agent.  Insider talked with McIntyre last week for an update. Jim, is IQ Power Systems still offering a […]

Rate This Board by Out of Home Creative

Rate This Board 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 provided […]

Company of the Day: Saben Outdoor

Company: Saben Outdoor Market:  Georgia Headquarters:  1380 Collingsworth Road, Palmetto, GA Phone:  770-463-4158 Email:  rentabillboard@sabenllc.com Saben Outdoor is a small, family owned firm which owns static and digital billboards in the Atlanta area.  Many of the billboards are along I-85 south of Atlanta and I-20 west of Atlanta.  The company also provides management […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds November 24, 2017

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “We have written new insurance business as a result of our ad in Billboard Insider.”  Stu Lee, Bassler Insurance “When thinking as to how best to get the word out of our available position we thought of Billboard Insider.  We are glad we did.  The cost […]

US Out of Home Revenue Up But Trails US Economy

Good news and bad news in the third quarter 2017 US out of home revenue figures which OAAA released last week. The good news: US out of home revenue growth has accelerated.  Out of home revenues grew 1.9% during the third quarter of 2017, up from only 0.30% during the […]

4 reasons not to use flash on your out of home website

 It’s a computer security risk.  Hackers love to take advantage of flash’s vulnerabilities.  Insider won’t run flash on his computer because of it.  Google blocks flash within Chrome. It causes computers to crash. Adobe is killing flash.  It will be gone by 2020. It makes your website look like this […]