Author: billboardinsider

Look Outdoor Advertising

Company: Look Outdoor Markets: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas. Headquarters: 700 North Florida, Borger, TX  79007. Phone: 806-274-4357. Email:  jrusten@lookoutdoor.biz,  tgassaway@lookoutdoor.biz Look Outdoor advertising is a family run business that began operating in 1994 with the purchase of four neglected billboard structures near Amarillo, Texas.  The company now operates […]

An update on T-Rex Digital Sign Litigation

Who is T-Rex?  T-Rex Property AB was founded in 2003 by Mats Hylin, Mats Dahlgren and Fredrik Persson.  The company acquired 12 patents for outdoor advertising products.T-Rex Property AB has been suing outdoor companies who use a computer to control digital signs.  T-Rex owns US Patent Number RE39,470 titled Digital […]

Doug Robertson On How Fliphound Can Sell Your Digital Sign Inventory.

Douglas Robertson is the CEO and one of the owners of Atomic Billboards (atomicbillboards.com) which operates the largest digital bulletin billboard network in Wichita, Kansas.  In addition, Douglas is one of the founders of Fliphound (fliphound.com) the first automated buying platform for the out-of-home industry.  Insider interviewed Robertson recently about Fliphound and how it […]

Company Of The Day: Metro Outdoor

Company: Metro Outdoor Market: Yakima, Toppenish, Sunnyside and Granger, Washington. Headquarters: 14362 N Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd, Suite 1000, Scottsdale, AZ  85260. Phone: 866-860-6952 Email: pgrover@metrooutdoorllc.com Metro Outdoor was formed in 2005 by Peter Grover to operate a billboard plant in Yakima, Washington.  Metro’s CEO Peter Grover grew up in […]

Marijuna Retailers Want Billboards

Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington permit medical and recreational use of marijuana.  Another 19 states permit the medical use of marijuana.  KOIN and  News 10 have run an articles on the purchase of marijuana billboards by Oregon advertisers and KPLU has written about Washington’s first marijuana billboard advertiser.   Insider has […]

Company Of The Day: Pioneer Outdoor

Company: Pioneer Outdoor Market: Springfield Missouri. Address: 1936 E Sunshine, Suite B, Springfield, MO Phone: 417-315-8719. Email:contact@pioneeroutdoor.com Pioneer Outdoor is a family owned company which operates a plant of 30 static faces and 13 digital faces around Springfield Missouri.  The company was formed in 2011 by Larry Lipscomb who has […]

Mt Airy Meets Today To Review Billboard Rules

The Mt Airy News reports that Surry County, North Carolina county commissions are scheduled to consider a new billboard zoning proposal at 6pm tonight.  The new proposal will: Allow billboards to be placed on property oned industrial manufacturing. Create an opportunity for billboards to be constructed on property zoned highway […]

Fortune Defends Clear Channel Outdoor.

Fortune’s Jennifer Chiang has written an article titled “Why Clear Channel’s Billboard Campaign is Not That Creepy” in response to several recent articles critical the anti-privacy possibilities of Clear Channel Outdoor’s Radar project.  The Radar project overlays mobile and location data from ATT, SM, Placed and PlaceIQ against Clear Channel […]

Billboard Insider Got Hacked.

Billboard Insider got hacked late last week.  We had to move our sites to a new godaddy account and lost some data in the process.  That’s why the site is lacking past articles. We’ve resumed writing articles and are working on restoring the old data. You’ve heard it before but […]

Technavio On The Global Ad Display Market

The British research and advisory company Technavio has issues a new report on the global advertising displays market.  The research is a little pricey for Insider’s tastes with a cost of $2,000 but Insider learned a fre things from reading the executive summary: The global ad displays market is vibrant […]