Author: billboardinsider

Google, Beacons and Digital Signs

Dave Haynes at Sixteen Nine has a fascinating podcast interview with Chris Lydle, Google lead for digital signage and kiosks.  Lydle says Google doesn’t want to compete in developing a content management system for digital signage but that it wants products like Chrome, Android and Eddystone to be used as the […]

Philly Considering Billboards on Public Buildings

Philly.com reports that the Philadelphia Art Commission will have a hearing Wednesday to consider proposals for advertising signs on the Municipal Services Building at 1401 John F. Kennedy Blvd and the One Parkway Building at 1515 Arch St. Billboards have been permitted on city property since 2013.  Interstate Outdoor has […]

Company of the Day: Atlantic Sign Media

Company: Atlantic Sign Media Markets: North Carolina Headquarters: PO Box 4205, Burlington, NC  27215 Phone: 336-584-1375 Atlantic Sign Media is a privately held company which was started in 1958.  Atlantic Sign Media provides custom signs, LED signs and also owns and operates several high visibility digital billboards along the I-40/I-85 […]

Max Drachman on Recent Outdoor Deals

Max Drachman is a outdoor advertising industry investment banker with Kalil and Co.  Insider interviewed Drachman last week about trends in the outdoor advertising M&A market. Max, have you closed any transactions since the last time we checked in with you in early September? Yes, we have closed four more […]

Hand Painted Artistry in a Digital World.

Company:  Colossal Media Markets:  Nationwide Headquarters: 89 North 10th Street, Brooklyn, NY  11249 Phone: 718-858-0979 Colossal Media is the largest provider of hand painted wallscapes in the US.  The company was formed in 2004 and specializes in public art murals, commercial murals and sign painting throughout the US.  Here’s an […]

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 […]

Hurricane Damaged SC Billboards May Not Be Rebuilt

Coastal Observer reports that three billboards on Highway 17 in Pawleys Island, South Carolina which were damaged by Hurricane Matthew may not be replaceable.  Non-conforming billboards with more than 70% damage have to be removed under a county ordinance passed last year for the Waccamaw Neck Commercial Corridor Overlay Zone. […]

Spartans Make Statement With Extra Credit Projects

EAST LANSING, Michigan — In a fall semester campaign effort, Michigan State University and Midwest creative firm and advertising agency, Extra Credit Projects (ECP), work to bring the Spartans Will message to the masses. Visitors to East Lansing will see part of this season’s campaign on billboard designs on major highways. Other major tactics are graphics on Spartan Stadium, with […]

University of Tennessee Students Use Billboards to Encourage Voting

The University of Tennessee Knoxville reports that a professor in the University of Tennessee School of Journalism and Media gave his students an assignment to create billboards to encourage people to vote.  The constraints were: Non-partisan No Images Three words one of which must be a variation of the word […]