Author: billboardinsider

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 weeks rating is […]

How many US out of home advertising companies are there?

  Insider thinks there are at least 825 independent outdoor advertising companies. Billboard Insider has identified 327 outdoor advertising company websites and is discovering new websites every day.  You can see 241 of the companies in Insider’s 2016 outdoor advertising website ranking.  We will release updated website rankings in a […]

Call for OBIE 2017 Entries

OAAA is calling all creative types, your “goods” could win a 2017 OBIE Award – the award that honors creative excellence in the OOH industry. The 75th OBIE Awards call for entry has officially hit desks. Recipients have unzipped their packets to reveal the beaded obelisk and are setting their […]

Lamar 3.6% organic revenue growth in 3Q 2016.

Lamar released financials for the third quarter 2016.  Here are the highlights. Revenue increased 10.5% to $388 million during the third quarter due to additional revenue from the Clear Channel Outdoor acquisitions. Revenue increased 3.6% when adjusted for acquisitions due to healthy increase in digital sign revenue (up 6.6%) and […]

Company of the Day: Impact Outdoor

Company: Impact Outdoor Advertising Markets:  Texas Headquarters: 5454 La Sierra Drive, Suite 200, Dallas, TX  75231 Phone: 214-373-0200 Email: sq@impactoutdoor.com Impact Outdoor was started in the 1980’s by Terry Kafka.  The company operated a 300 bulletin plant in Texas which it recently sold.  The company’s coverage included Dallas and 18 […]

Philly rejects initial municipal building billboard plan.

Philly.com reports that the Philadelphia Arts Commission has given an initial thumbs down to a plan to put billboards on two government owned buildings but invited Interstate Outdoor to come back with new approaches. Proponents of the plan say that it is an alternative to raising taxes and will raise […]

Celebrate The Exit

Insider fills time in the car listening to business podcasts.  How I Built This is a good one.  NPR interviews business founders about challenges they’ve overcome.  Recode Media With Peter Kafka is good if you want to follow media.  Recode Decode covers tech and is worth listening to as long […]

TRex Litigation Update November 2016

Samsung Electronics America purchased the digital billboard operations of Yesco in May 2015 and rebranded the Yesco’s digital sign operations as Prismview, LLC..  A representative of Samsung Electronics America which owns Prismview LLC.  asked Insider to make two corrections to an article published last week on T-Rex sign litigation. First […]

Company of the Day: Harvest Outdoor

Company: Harvest Outdoor Markets: Illinois Headquarters: 2516 Waukegan Road, PMB 350, Glenview, Illinois  60025-1774 Phone: 847-509-8876 Email: info@harvestoutdoor.com Harvest Outdoor operates a wall and billboard plant in Chicago.  Mike McHugh is the company’s owner.     Paid Ad  

Gallatin Tennessee Gets Digital Billboard

The Tennessean reports that Gallatin’s first digital billboard is operating.  Lamar has converted a billboard on West Main Street behind Krystal from static to digital. Gallatin voted earlier this year to amend city regulations and end a decade long ban on new digital signs and billboards. Lamar is the only […]