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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 […]

Company of the Day: Bullfrog Outdoor

Company:  Bullfrog Outdoor Markets:  Southern Michigan, Northern Indiana Headquarters:  220 Club Course Road, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46814 Phone:  260-625-JUMP Bullfrog Outdoor owns 40 structures in Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana.   The company was founded by Charlie MacIntyre in 1998 after a successful career with 3M in Chicago and Fort […]

Natchez Reviewing Ordinance

Add Natchez, Mississippi to cities that are reviewing their sign ordinance.  The Natchez Democrat reports that the Board of Aldermen have place a moratorium on billboards as they review the city’s sign ordinance.  The City Planner considers the current ordinance to not be a strict as compared to other cities.  The […]

Yesco Outdoor Acquires Reagan Assets in Idaho and Montana

Yesco Outdoor Media has announced the  April 8 purchase of the billboard assets of Reagan National Advertising in Idaho and Montana.  Yesco acquired 80 Reagan faces in Idaho and 14 Reagan faces in Montana and currently has 378 faces in Idaho and 346 in Montana which makes Yesco the second […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Puts 9 Wallscapes Into Sunset Strip

Last Wednesday Clear Channel Outdoor announced the addition of 9 wallscapes at the Sunset Millennium property in West Hollywood, CA.  Insider thinks this is a great example of how outdoor can add to the energy and economics of an urban development.  You can watch a 1 minute video of the […]

DoMedia Raises $3 million to Develop Outdoor Digital Marketplace.

Columbus Business First reports that DoMedia has raised $3 million to expand its automated outdoor advertising marketplace.  The investors included Advantage Capital Partners and tbe Ohio Innovation Fund.  Last week DoMedia announced a new Supply Side Platform to make the outdoor ad buying process more efficient.  You can read a […]

Yuma Considers New Billboard Rules

The Yuma Sun reports that the city of Yuma, Arizona is considering a rewrite of billboard regulations to provide additional requirements regarding the number of signs, lighting, digital signs and replacement of non-conforming signs.   There are 165 off-premise signs within Yuma.  The signs are located in Light Industrial, Heavy […]

Company of The Day: BPS Outdoor

Company: BPS Outdoor Markets: Southern Georgia, Northern Florida Headquarters: PO Box 47, 807 West Second Street, Tifton, GA  31794 Phone:  (229)382-6060 BPS outdoor owns billboards in Southern Georgia  and Northern Florida.  The company was started in February 1999.  Carl Hutchinson is the firm’s General Manager.  Selena McIntyre is the firm’s […]

Sussex County Introduces new Sign Ordinance

Coastal Point reveals that the Sussex County Council introduced a new ordinance to revise the Deleware County’s sign regulations.  The County has had a billboard moratorium since September 2015 while the Council reviewed the sign code.  Here are some of the key changes: Construction permit fees will be increased from […]

Montana Legislators Want To Debate Digital Signs

Insider has written here and here about the Montana State Transportation Commissions proposal to permit digital signs along state highways.  Republican and Democratic legislators in Montana want to debate digital billboards during the next session according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. The proposed rules would be trumped by stricter local […]