Creative

Outfront and Italian Tourist Board Partner

NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT) announced today a partnership with the Italian National Tourist Board to illuminate the sensational experiences and attractions in Italy to spur first-time and return tourism. With picturesque scenes of nature, historical sites, local culture and more, the campaign […]

Tommy Teepell on Monitoring Digital Billboard Ads

Digital billboard ads can be designed fast, input fast and changed fast.  You need to carefully monitor content, however, to avoid offending community sensibilities.  Tommy Teepell, Lamar’s CMO shared this cautionary story at last week’s DailyDOOH Investor conference: “All you have to do is make one mistake and we did […]

Leslie Morris on Digital billboard designs

Leslie Morris of Sky Dragon Designs manages digital billboards for small out of home advertising companies.  Insider talked with Morris about digital billboard ad design. How did you get involved with the out of home business? Marty Williamson, my mentor in OOH. He taught me everything I know in Outdoor. […]

Sixteen Signs outside Amarillo

Looks like Insider and Stott Outdoor General Manager Jim Moravec are each going to be writing checks to the OAAA Foundation for Outdoor Advertising and Research (“FOARE”).  We agreed to donate $500/each to FOARE if anyone produced a current billboard campaign which exceeded the 6 consecutive billboard campaign Stott Outdoor […]

Dueling Billboards Debate Topics of the Day

By Ken Klein, OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs Think of a topic of the day… it’s debated on billboards. Some say impeach the President; others say “Thank you, President Trump.” Even topics you haven’t thought of (like, say, the pros and cons of cruise ships in Charleston) are hashed out on […]

6 Billboards Outside Rye Patch

Last week Insider wrote about Marquee Media’s three billboard Burma Shave campaign for the Sacramento Kings.  The article generated this note from Stott Outdoor’s General Manager Jim Moravec. “Myself and my sales staff were just discussing the recent articles you have posted on variations of the Burma Shave concept.  I […]

3 Billboards Outside Sacramento

Marquee Media is executing a modern take on the old Burma Shave progressive billboard campaign in this 3 billboard flight for the Sacramento Kings, complete with extensions. Marquee Media owner Jeff Joaquin tells Insider that the company has presented  sequential billboard concepts to several clients but the Kings were the […]

Billboards Make Us Scream For Halloween

Reprinted with permission of Clear Channel Outdoor. With fall’s arrival, it gets darker earlier, an eeriness lurks in the air, protruding skeleton bones emerge from lawns across your neighborhood, and creepy clowns are celebrated. Folks…this is Halloween. Halloween is the third largest holiday in the U.S., following Christmas and the […]

2019 OBIE Awards Are Open for Entries

  Step right up! The 2019 OBIE Awards Call for Entries is open. Throw your hat into the ring for a chance to win at ‘The Greatest Sh-OBIE!” The OBIE Awards honor creative excellence in the OOH industry. Does your OOH campaign have the creative strength to defy the odds? […]

Daily Billboard’s 3 of a Kind: Neon

This month as the nights are drawing in, for Daily Billboard Blog’s ‘3 of a Kind’ we’ll be exploring the nighttime delights of neon lights and how that they can help make a billboard spectacle in the dark. First up is neon billboard installation for Disney’s Tron: Legacy which was photographed along Santa […]