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Company of the Day: Norris Outdoor

Company:  Norris Outdoor Advertising Markets: Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri Headquarters:  115 E. St. John, Girard, Kansas, 66743 Phone: 620-724-4719 Email: jnorris@norrisoutdoor.com Norris Outdoor Advertising is part of Norris Advertising, a multi-media company a multi-media company that provides out of home advertising services, radio, digital sign sales and advertising services.  Norris […]

The Little Logo Business That Could

We’ve all seen them.  The simple directional logo signs along the side of a freeway highlighting businesses at the next exit.  There’s money in the logo business.  Here’s an analysis of Lamar’s logo business, sponsored and analyzed by SignValue.  Listen to what Lamar Advertising CEO Sean Reilly said about the […]

Rothfelder on Cozy Inn vs Salina and “Art” vs “Sign”

  Billboards are among the most heavily regulated land uses, by municipal, state, and federal officials, under statutory and administrative sign, building, and zoning codes. However, the threshold question in every billboard regulation is whether a given structure even legally qualifies as a “sign,” thereby subjecting it to governmental permitting […]

Burr Smith Talks About Taking on an Out of Home Patent Troll

At the Spring IBO show Billboard Insider’s Dave Westburg had a wide-ranging interview with Burr Smith, Chairman of Broadsign, and Ari Buchalter, Chief Strategy Officer of Broadsign.  We will run excerpts from the interview.  Today Burr Smith talks about taking on an out of home patent troll. The entire out […]

John Morgan Likes Out of Home

  Attorney John Morgan spends several hundred million dollars each year on billboards. In these excepts from his OAAA Mediacon 2026 keynote, Morgan talks about he uses billboards. Most of the billboards I look at aren’t creative. I was inspired by that gap, because the firms doing great creative work […]

Company of the Day – NewView Outdoor

Company: NewView Outdoor Headquarters: 162 W Main St, Suite 101 Cartersville, GA 30120 Market: Northeast & Eastern Alabama Phone: 205-202-0495 Email: Sales@NewViewOutdoor.com NewView Outdoor specializes in hi-definition billboards in the Northeast and Eastern regions of Alabama. Their signs are strategically located and offer both hi-definition digital signs and traditional longer […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds May 23, 2026

“We got a big boost in qualified applicants from running our Ad on your site.”  Rodney Davis, Transformation Media “I’ve gotten several leads of the ad and my column this year.”  Greg Callaham, Greg Callaham Graphic Design “The classified ad is working on Billboard Insider.”  Karla Steele, K Steele Solutions […]

Charlie MacIntyre on Bootstrapping and Meeting Artie Moreno

Billboard Insider has been running a series with out of home legend Charlie MacIntyre who recently sold his out of home plant to Adams Outdoor.  Charlie has talked about getting started in out of home, sales and marketing and managing through the great recession.  Today he talks about bootstrapping growth […]

Grey Vick on the Bell Board Podcast

Grey Vick (right) the founder of Grey Outdoor was interviewed by Neil Bell (left) on the Bell Board Podcast. Grey Outdoor operates 772 faces including 50 digital faces, in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. Some excerpts. Grey Vick on Getting started I started in 2007. My first company was […]