Last week Billboard Insider covered Bill Durden’s IBO talk encouraging out of home companies to use self-promos to build their brand. Claude Dicks the President of Allison Outdoor tells us that Allison Outdoor incorporates the season into self-promos: We teamed up with Melody Roberts of Out of Home Creative and […]
Link Media Outdoor was named the winner of the Words That Work Award at the Indie Impact Awards, announced during the IBO conference held last week in New Orleans, recognizing creative work that delivers strong results. The award honors Link’s Hatco billboard campaign in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin demonstrating how […]
Company: Millennium Outdoor Advertising Markets: Texas Headquarters: Winfield, TX 75493 Phone: 903- 524-3313 Email: khwalton@millenniumads.net Millennium Outdoor Advertising operates an outdoor plant with 28 static faces in the following Texas communities: Caddo Mills Greenville Cumby Sulphur Springs Mt Vernon Winfield Millers Cove Mt Pleasant Gladewater The company was started in 1998. Karen […]
Last week out of home legend Charlie MacIntyre talked about getting into the out of home advertising business. Today he talks about finding billboards sites. What was your first billboard site? It was a drive-through smoke shop. People from Illinois would drive to Indiana to buy their cigarettes. I didn’t […]
Last Friday Michael Falick and Chris Rothfelder discussed vesting rights for billboard permits and whether local zoning codes can be pre-empted by a state code. California out of home attorney Richard Hamlin of Hamlin|Cody says California approaches these issues differently… Count on California to approach these subjects differently. Vesting: Filing […]
Out-of-home media has always been visual, but the way it’s sold has evolved. What was once driven by location data and basic proof-of-performance photos has shifted toward visual storytelling. Today, better visuals don’t just document a billboard, they help sell it. For many advertisers, photography is their first impression of […]
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 […]
Company: Micro Outdoor Markets: West Virginia, Maryland. Headquarters: 2 Miller Hill Road, Osage, West Virginia 26543 Phone: 304-319-4141 Email: sales@microoutdoor.com Micro Outdoor Advertising owns over 200 billboards in north central West Virginia and Maryland. Many of the boards are double stacks. The firm’s plant includes billboards in the following communities: Morgantown, West Virginia Clarksburg, […]
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At this weeks IBO Conference, Richard Rothfelder, Chris Rothfelder and Mike Falick had an engaging discussion about aspects of billboard law focused around their new book. Here is an excerpt from that discussion as they consider some of the key legal issues facing the OOH industry. Vested Rights and Local […]
