Creative

Rate This Board By Out of Home Creative

Rate This Board allows a billboard designer to rate a random piece of billboard artwork using a scale of 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 Out […]

Design Tips From Billboard Connection

This week’s design tips from from a Billboard Connection article called Billboard Design Tips You Really Need to Know.  Simplicity rules.  Photo, benefit-laden-emotionally-charged headline, logo and contact info Use high contrast colors. Forget fancy fonts and AVOID ALL CAPS BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD TO READ. Use big fonts.  Minimum type […]

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.   Melody Roberts of […]

14 Foot Baseball Player Stolen From Billboard

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 […]

Brilliant Billboards

HubSpot has an article talking about the positive evolution of billboards as an advertising medium.  They go on to say that new technologies and an inventive way of approaching how to use OOH advertising have resulted in examples of advertising that defy any negative feedback directed towards billboards. They provide seven examples […]

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: 5  Great 4  Very Good 3  Average 2  Below Average 1  Poor Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising.  Melody Roberts of Out of […]

Students Compete To Create Billboards

The Sandusky Register reports about a group of fifth grade students at Danbury and Port Clinton who had the opportunity to compete in an OSS Solid Waste District’s Billboard Contest recently.  The students had two months to design their own billboard using the theme of recycling or litter prevention. The contest […]

42 Obie Awards Presented For Exceptional Outdoor Advertising

April 20, 2016 (Boca Raton, FL) – The Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) presented 42 OBIE Awards for exceptional out of home (OOH) advertising design, including top honors for Best Billboard, Best Street Furniture/Transit/Alternative, Best Multi-Format, and Best Wall Mural campaigns. The winners of the 74th annual OBIE Awards […]

Rate This Board by Out of Home Creative

Insider is starting a new feature called Rate This Board in which we ask a billboard designer to rate a random billboard using the following scale: 5  Great 4  Very Good 3  Average 2  Below Average 1  Poor Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for […]

Lamar Running Brilliant Claritin Digital Billboard Ad

Claritin is running a digital ooh campaign in Lamar markets.  When the pollen count is moderate to high this ad is activated. Insider agrees with Lamar’s Director of New Business Development Mario Martinez: brilliant use of digital out-of-home advertising. Paid Advertisement