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More on Hurricane Frames

Last Friday Insider talked about the pros and cons of hurricane frames.  A manager of one of the top four billboard companies tells Insider hurricane frames aren’t just for hurricanes: “We have over 200 14X48 hurricane frames on structures in our market not because of storms, but because we move […]

Company of the Day – Meadow Outdoor

Company: Meadow Outdoor Markets: Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming. Headquarters: PO Box 331, The Dalles, OR  97058 Phone: 800-221-4114 Meadow Outdoor is a family-owned, firm started by Joe Zukin in 1968. Joe began his association with the outdoor industry while President of Frontier Village Amusement Park in San Jose, CA in the 1960’s. […]

Company of the Day: Mackay Advertising

Company:  Mackay Advertising Market:  Texas Headquarters:  301 West Vickery Boulevard, Fort Worth, Texas  76104 Phone: 817-877-1866 Email: Teresa@MackayAdvertising.com Mackay Advertising operates billboards and is the exclusive provider of transit advertising in Fort Worth, Texas.  The firm was started in 1985 and places ads on billboards, buses, bus shelters and bus […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds August 19

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. Out of Home Creative designs billboard ads. Blue Sky Digital Printing designs billboard ads. Greg Callaham designs billboard ads. Billboard Structures Vertigo […]

The Pros and Cons of Hurricane Frames

Insider has financed hurricane frames for several clients.  A hurricane frame is a backless billboard frame as opposed to a solid steel or wood billboard frame.   Here are the pros and cons of hurricane frames. Pros: Hurricane frames are half the cost because there’s not as much steel. There’s […]

Keep Your Out of Home Website Flash Free

There are three reasons to avoid using Adobe’s Flash player to animate your out of home website: (1) Security and performance issues.  Hackers have exploited several weaknesses in Flash to do nasty things.  Flash also slows down your site and hogs bandwidth. (2) A terrible user experience.  Chrome and Firefox […]

Company of The Day: M&S Signs

Company: M&S Signs Markets: Northeastern Michigan Headquarters: East Tawas, MI  48730 Phone: 989-820-6791 or 989-310-0632 M&S Signs is locally owned and operated by Cliff Miller and Don Seymour. Cliff and Don started M&S Signs in 1992 to make affordable advertising available that would reach both the local customer and tourists in Northeastern Michigan. It […]

OAAA Billboard Operators Seminar

Don’t miss the OAAA Billboard Operators Seminar October 9-11 in Chicago and November 13-15 in Dallas.  Lot’s of great sessions as you can see from the agenda.   Registration is $295 for OAAA members and $450 for non-members.  You can learn more and register here. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement  

Out of Home Advertising Up 1.5% in Q2 2017

August 16, 2017 (Washington, DC) –Out of home (OOH) advertising revenue rose 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2017 compared to the previous year, accounting for $2.38 billion, based on figures released by the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA). Year-to-date 2017 the OOH industry is up 1.0 percent, […]

Company of the Day – M&M Outdoor

Company:  M&M Outdoor Inc. Headquarters: 6473 Cherokee Drive, Indian Head Park, IL  60525 Market: Illinois Phone: 708.784.0886 M&M Outdoor offers 19 Billboard locations & walllscapes all around the metro Chicago, Illinois area. Their Inventory includes 7 locations near Wrigley Field. M&M Outdoor is a member of Geopath and OAAA.   [wpforms id=”9787″] […]