Author: billboardinsider

Rebates for LED Lighting or Solar Billboards

Want to find out if your utility or state government provides rebates for LED billboard lights or solar billboard lights.  Insider thanks Brian Kline of Reliable Electric Products for calling attention to the Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency.  The website has a searchable map which shows what […]

Free Speech Supreme Court Win: What Does It Mean for Billboards?

By Ken Klein, Executive Vice President, Outdoor Advertising Association of America Sex offenders, panhandlers, and rock musicians won in court on the First Amendment.  Localities trying to regulate signs based on content have lost. Today’s Supreme Court – led by conservatives — is pro-free speech. What does this mean for […]

Rate This Board by Greg Callaham

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 weeks rating is […]

Company of the Day: Herring Outdoor

Company: Herring Outdoor, LLC. Market: Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana Headquarters: 525 Central Avenue, 200, Laurel, Mississippi, 39440 Phone: 601-498-4600 Herring Outdoor is a private family owned company based in Laurel, Mississippi.  Herring owns and manages billboard locations in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. The company is an operator associate in the IBOUSA. […]

David Buring on the out of home business.

David Buring, a 25 year executive in the out of home advertising business, operates Burelz Billboards in Memphis, Tennessee.  Buring helps people to manage their out of home businesses and to evaluate out of home investment opportunities.  Insider talked with Buring earlier this week.  You can reach David at 901-289-5951 […]

Grand Visual hires Bowry and Clissen

Digital OOH production and creative technology company, Grand Visual, has hired David Bowry, who joins as production director, and Ben Clissen, who starts as senior producer, both will be working out of the London office. Bowry started his career in the gaming-industry, lead producing original content for Sony PlayStation. From […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Sues Salisbury

The Daily News reports that Clear Channel Outdoor has sued three members of the Salisbury, Massachusetts Zoning Board of Appeals claiming civil rights violations when the Zoning Board of Appeals granted to Northvision, a local business, the right to erect a billboard on I-95 in preference to Clear Channel Outdoor’s […]

Airoutdoor says there’s a place for static boards in the UK.

Today’s company of the day has been thriving pursuing a static billboard strategy in the digital billboard centric UK.  It provides a great lesson that there’s still a place for static boards in a digital world. Company: Airoutdoor Markets: United Kingdom Address: Airedle House, 423 Kirkstall Rd, Leeds LS4 2EW, […]

Link Media Buys Vision Outdoor

Link Media has closed on the purchase of Atlanta-based Vision Outdoor.  Vision owns 3 billboard structures structures consisting of 4 Formetco digital billboards and 2 static billboards.  The digital signs are on I-285 in Atlanta and Highway 41 in Acworth Georgia. Link Media’s parent Boston Omaha priced its IPO at […]

Emarketer Podcast on Autonomous Cars

Marcus Johnson and Ezra Palmer did an Emarketer Podcast titled Autonomous Vehicles: How far down the road are we?   Here are some of the highlights from their conversation. Marcus Johnson on how fast cars will go driverless The amount of investment makes it seems inevitable that there will be […]