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Inrix Featured In Forbes

Data company Inrix is featured at Forbes.com in “New Digital Billboards Can Watch Your Speed, Scan Your Car At Traffic Lights.”  The article talks about the Inrix/Dannon yogurt campaign in which a digital billboard ad changes based on the average speed on the roadway.  You can read the details of […]

Image Media on Creative Extensions

Billboard Insider recently checked back in with Michael G.D. Scheid, of IMAGE MEDIA OUTDOOR in Chicago, IL. Here’s an update on some special creative executions you may have spotted around Chicago this summer: IMAGE MEDIA has posted some Outstanding Extensions Creative this Summer. These embellishments offer unique creative opportunities that grab […]

Company of the Day – Canyon Outdoor Media

Company:  Canyon Outdoor Media Headquarters:  9601 W. State St., Boise ID 83714 Markets: Boise, Meridian, Nampa & Fruitland Idaho Today’s Canyon Outdoor Media has enjoyed tremendous growth since it was started providing billboard advertising in Boise, Meridian, Nampa & Fruitland Idaho in 2003. Recently, Canyon Outdoor Media has been putting innovation to work in […]

All Good Ideas Get Borrowed

You may remember a recent article from a South Carolina Realtor with a clever billboard idea working from this current election season.  So, as no good idea can’t be borrowed, I am driving down the street on the other side of the U.S. and see this billboard.  Looks a little familiar. […]

$4,200/mo revenues mean 10% digital billboard IRR

Yesterday Insider wrote about a 10 by 24 billboard digital billboard which generates a 34% IRR  because it has a cheap lease and the owner does not pay sales commissions.  In a normal scenario assuming 20% sales commissions and a 20% lease cost that digital billboard still generates a 17% […]

Company of the Day: Leslie Outdoor

Company: Leslie Outdoor Advertising Markets: Milledgeville, Sandersville and Dublin, GA Headquarters: 121 West Mcintosh St, Milledgeville, GA  31061 Phone: 478-456-4747 Email: leslieoutdoor@gmail.com Leslie Outdoor operates a plant of 9 digital billboards and 1 static billboard in Georgia.  The company is owned by John and Faye Leslie who are experienced outdoor […]

This digital billboard generates a 34% IRR

Digital signs can be a great success even when they’re not on a freeway.  Here’s a real life success story from one of Billboard Loans clients.  The client installed a 10 by 24 sign on a secondary road leading to a Costco.  One side of the sign was static and […]

Safety Tips When Climbing A Billboard

Two events in recent months have driven home the importance of training your employees in safety procedures when they climb billboards. In May 2016 an Outfront employee was injured falling from a billboard in St Lucie County, Florida. In April 2016 a safety harness saved a Southeastern Displays employee when […]

Driverless Cars May Help The Outdoor Business

  Google’s got a driverless car running around Insider’s hometown of Kirkland, WA.  Here’s a Google video about the driverless car. Will driverless cars hurt the outdoor advertising business?  Insider doesn’t think so.  There are plenty of non-driving people in vehicles right now.  They’re called passengers.  Many of them still […]

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 […]