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Designing Billboards That Drive Sales

Convenience Store Decisions presents the following thoughts on billboard presentation for convenience store owners from Tim Lazor, President of LazorYost C-Store Marketing. Be brief but focused with ONE idea Make it a big idea that’s relevant to your customer Make it disruptive visually Deliver the idea in a fast and […]

“Vote JFK” Boards Popping Up Around Dallas

CW 33 reports that campaign billboards are popping up around Dallas, but not for Trump or Clinton.  The boards are retro boards saying Kennedy for President.  They have been catching passerby’s eyes and that’s the point. The answer to the Mystery Of The Vote Kennedy Billboards is hidden in the […]

Phoenix PD Sends Love Note To City

In a Facebook post and a tweet on Monday, the Phoenix Police Department showed off some billboards it put up around the city last week,a little love note to thank the city and state for its faith in our men and women in blue.   About three weeks ago, PPD […]

You’ll do a double take.

David Ogilvey said a billboard should be a “visual scandal” .  Insider is not sure that he agrees but he did a double take when he passed this billboard in Seattle.  The billboard is for Dolly, Inc. a Seattle startup which connects people who have trucks with people who need to […]

Ogilvy’s Five Tips for Designing Billboards

Insider has written previously about Ogilvy on Advertising and Why Ogilvy Was Wrong About Billboards.  In our third and last post about on Ogilvy we highlight his five tips for designing billboards for maximum effect. Make your billboard “a visual scandal” but don’t overdue the scandal or you will stop traffic […]

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 […]

Moving to Canada?

Insider saw this Linkedin post from Jeff Cook, who owns a real estate firm in Charleston.  We are reprinting with his permission.   Moving to Canada? By Jeff Cook | July 20th, 2016 My billboards have always been a huge staple in my success. They’re big, they’re funny, and as some […]

Ogilvy on Advertising.

  If you read one book on advertising it should be Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy.  My edition dates to 1985 but the advice is timeless.    Ogilvy was a college dropout/kitchen cook/door-to-door salesman who founded the Ogilvy and Mather ad agency.  He was a gifted writer.  In case you […]

The Man Who’s Painted 5,000 Billboards

Insider has written before that painted billboards are making a comeback.  There are two firms – Overall Murals and Colossal Media – which specialize in painted billboards.  Atlanta billboard artist Ben Zaricor estimates that he’s painted 5,000 billboards in the course of 15 years.  Insider interviewed Zaricor to learn more […]

Chick-fil-a Changing Agencies

Billboard Insider shared a recent post about the history of Chick-fil-a advertising and their cow campaign. After more than two decades featuring one of the most recognizable ad campaigns in recent memory, Chick-fil-a has ended its relationship with the agency that created the Chick-fil-a cows. Chick-fil-a has hired McCann Worldgroup and […]