Company: CRG Advertising Market: Connecticut Phone: 860-961-4818 CRG Advertising operates 2 digital faces and 9 static faces in Connecticut. The signs range in size from 10.5 by 22 to 14 by 60. The firm was founded in 2009 by Charlie Ghione after stints as an outdoor exec with NextMedia […]
Insider receives a steady stream of emails from people who want to enter the outdoor business. Often they seek 100% financing for their first billboard purchase from Billboard Loans, our lending company. Most of them are in the real estate business and think there’s easier money to be made in […]
Marci Werlinich is VP of Membership and Administration at the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA). She’s spent her entire 30 year professional career serving the OAAA and its members. Marci focuses on membership recruitment, event planning, human resources and information technology. Marci was elected to the OAAA Hall of […]
Insider expects to see more Clear Channel Outdoor asset sales. Here’s what we’ve heard: Clear Channel Outdoor is trying to keep assets in the top 10 DMA’s: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philly, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Wash DC, Atlanta, Houston. Everything else is for sale for a price. Whether […]
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. Melody Roberts of […]
Company: Cooper Outdoor Markets: Texas Headquarters: 115 Waco, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78401 Phone: 361-882-3088 Cooper Outdoor is a locally owned and operated family business which was founded in 1981. The company has 500 billboard locations with concentrations in Corpus Christi, Rockport and Port Aransas. The company also has a bus […]
Brent Baer, OOH General Manager and National Sales Signal Outdoor Advertising, ran this post on how to take great billboard pics on his linkedin page. Insider thinks the advice is timeless and has reprinted the article with Baer’s consent here. Ever receive a #billboard photo which made evaluation more difficult? […]
Company: Connell Outdoor Market: Las Vegas Headquarters: 5242 Swenson Street, Las Vegas, NV 89119 Phone: 792-795-0555 Connell Outdoor has billboard locations in tourist and local corridors in Las Vegas.In addition to its billboard operation in Las Vegas, Connell Outdoor has a sister company, Shore Sign Service located in Atlantic […]
Insider has written before about a 65 foot floating digital billboard boat which Burke Billboards has been sailing around False Creek Bay and English Bay. The billboard board has a 12 by 40 foot digital screen. Vancouver 24hours and Business Vancouver report that the city of Vancouver has proposed an amendment […]
You know a billboard has been noticed when it attracts pranksters. We’ve written before about this Lamar Kansas City Royals billboard which includes a 14 foot foam player. KSHB reports that last Wednesday night vandals cut five bolts and removed the 150 pound, $7,500, foam player from the board. The […]
