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Lamar uses traffic & weather trigger ads in emoji movie campaign

Lamar Advertising and Sony recently kicked off a fun new digital out of home campaign to promote the upcoming release of The Emoji Movie. Using Lamar’s dynamic digital capabilities, each billboard automatically displays a contextually relevant ad for The Emoji Movie triggered by the current traffic and weather conditions. This is […]

Vistar Media Launches Support for VAST in Out-of-Home

July 25, 2017 – New York, NY – Vistar Media, a geospatial technology company bridging the space between advertising ecosystems and consumer movement patterns, today launched support for Video Ad Serving Template (VAST) creative for media owners. This allows media owners to accept the standard digital creative format from the […]

Company of the Day: Lakeland Outdoor

Company: Lakeland Outdoor Markets: Florida Headquarters: 215 E Bay Street, Suite 7, Lakeland, Florida  33810 Phone: 863-603-0373 Email: koertel@lakelandoutdoor.com Lakeland Outdoor operates a 131 face billboard billboard plant in central Florida including two digital billboards.  The firm’s plant plant is centered on Lakeland, Florida, approximately 45 minutes east of Tampa. […]

Digital Billboard Weather/Traffic Cams Drive Profits

 Durden Outdoor generates revenue by mounting weather/traffic cameras on billboard structures.    Insider asked Bill Durden of Durden Outdoor to talk about the project.  Bill, what gave you the idea to mount weather cameras on billboards.  I had this idea back in 2013 but had been told by a few […]

Make Sure Your Lease Spells Out An End Game

By Richard Rothfelder, Rothfelder and Falick A good outdoor lease needs to protect your interests when a landlord terminates a lease.  Smith v Outdoor Systems 14-00-00474-CV, 2002 WL 370200 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] Mar. 7, 2002, pet. denied) illustrates some end of lease issues. Introduction This is a declaratory judgment action […]

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 week’s rating is provided […]

Company of the Day: Keystone Outdoor

Company: Keystone Outdoor Advertising Markets:  New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Headquarters: PO Box 202, Cheltenham, PA  19012-0202 Phone: (856) 767-5028 Keystone Outdoor is a operates a billboard plant which targets bridges, expressways and suburban roads in Southern New Jersey, Trenton and Philadelphia.  The privately-held firm was started in 1977 by Dominick Cipollini when he secured […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds July 22, 2017

Lots of new job openings this week.  Classifieds cost $60 for 3 months or $120 for 12 months.  To place you own Billboard Insider classified click here. Appraisals Signvalue appraises billboards. Art and Creative Billboards, Etc designs and prints billboard ads. Blue Sky Digital Printing designs billboard ads. Greg Callaham designs billboard ads. Out […]

Chan Lieu on Self Driving Cars and Out of Home

Chan Lieu of the Washington DC Law Firm Venable talked about self-driving cars on yesterday’s OAAA webinar. The webinars are a valuable perk of OAAA membership and a good reason to join OAAA. Here are the highlights. Deployment of autonomous cars will take 20 years if you look at technology […]

March for Giants Wins With Interactivity

Several creatives who were interviewed at the Cannes Festival three weeks ago mentioned  The March for Giants as an outstanding out of home campaign which took advantage of a couple strengths of digital billboards: interactivity and worldwide reach. The campaign was designed by the London’s 18 Feet & Rising to […]