Creative

How to Turn $20 LED Lights into a Million “Dolla” Design

Billboard Insider’s note: Independent operators in smaller markets don’t have unlimited creative budgets.  That’s this billboard campaign by Durden Outdoor deserves attention.  Sometimes smarts can substitute for money.  Kudos to Bill Durden and Out of Home Creative’s Melody Roberts.   By “Dolla” Bill Durden, VP and Creative Director, Durden Outdoor […]

Billboard Connection Promotes Animal Adoption

  LOS ANGELES, CA – (July 12, 2022) – Animal shelters in California are full, and experts report that it tends to get worse after the 4th of July Celebrations. But a group of community leaders has teamed up with one Los Angeles-based billboard advertising executive to do something about […]

Rate This Ad with Greg Callaham

Rate This Ad 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 […]

Bayer Installs Living Veggie Billboards in St. Louis

Bayer’s newest billboards are literally sprouting up around St. Louis. Two boards went up last week with depictions of the iconic Gateway Arch planted in greenery—kale, collard greens and chard, specifically. The living billboards will stay up through Sept. 12, when the vegetables will be harvested and donated to the […]

OUTFRONT Partners with Farmlink and No Kid Hungry

NEW YORK, JULY 12, 2022   OUTFRONT Media (NYSE:OUT), one of the largest out-of-home media (OOH) companies in the U.S., is expanding its support of campaigns in the fight to stamp out food insecurity. It is doing so through its continued partnership with The Farmlink Project and by joining forces with […]

See if Your Media Plans are the Cream of the OOH Crop

Calling all OOH advertisers – The 2022 Media Plan Awards are open for entries The numbers don’t lie. The power of OOH keeps growing, so much so  that it’s now much more efficient at generating results than TV, video, radio, banner, and print ads. But great OOH campaigns don’t just […]

Rate This Ad with Greg Callaham

Rate This Ad 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 […]

The Art of Connection

Published by Colossal Media on June 27, 2022 by Ahmad Sayar We paint walls because it’s our passion. Connecting people makes it all worth it. “Currency” might be the word of 2022. We’ve seen cryptocurrencies and NFTs cycle through peaks and valleys, influencers dominate our social currency, and international currencies in constant […]

Do Billboards Increase Insurance Bills?

  According to a survey published this week by the Insurance Research Council two-thirds of Americans believe attorney advertising increases the number of liability claims and lawsuits. Almost as many – 59% – link these ads to higher insurance costs. “The public sees a connection between attorney ads and the cost […]