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Rate this ad by 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 […]

Company of the Day: Grapevine Outdoor

Company:  Grapevine Outdoor Markets:  Oregon Address: Portland, Oregon. Email: info@grapevineoutdoor.com Phone: 503-333-5957 Grapevine Outfoor operates a plant of wallscapes, digital billboards, advertising trucks and indoor mall signage in Portland, Oregon.  The company’s principals are Abe Tannenbaum and Russell Davis-Cohen   To receive a free morning newsletter with each day’s Billboard insider articles […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds November 15, 2025

“Billboard Insider classifieds section is where everyone in OOH goes to find job openings, equipment, and everything between. A great resource for Out-of-Home!” John James, SignBird “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 […]

Link Media Revenue up 2.5% in 3Q 2025

Here are the results of Link Media Outdoor’s 3Q 2025 performance,  taken from the Boston Omaha third quarter 2025 earnings release, 10Q  and earnings presentation, sponsored and analyzed by SignValue. Revenues increased by 2.5% to $11.8 million due to increased professional services and entertainment spending and an increase in occupancy. […]

Out of Home is the Last Heroic Medium Says Goddard

Out of Home is the last “heroic” medium, World Out of Home Organization President Tom Goddard said at this week’s APAC Regional Forum in Seoul, South Korea. Quoting Ogilvy Group UK CEO James Murphy, he said the medium had not just out-performed other legacy media amid the digital tidal wave […]

Is That Billboard Falling? Nope, It’s On Purpose!

If you’re driving along Highway 789 just east of Lander, Wyoming, you might spot a billboard that looks a little… off-kilter. Don’t worry, it’s not a construction mistake; it’s a purposefully tilted board designed by YESCO to catch your attention! This unique display was built to tilt in either direction, […]

Company of the Day: General Outdoor Advertising

Company:  General Outdoor Advertising Markets: California Address: 632 S. Hope Avenue, Ontario, CA  91761 Email: staff@generaloutdoor.com Phone: 909-983-4414 General Outdoor is a family-owned company which was founded in 1954.  General Outdoor operates a network of 38 billboard faces including 16 digital billboard faces in San Bernardino and Riverside counties in California. Several of the […]

Out of Home a Good Value Versus other Forms of Media

Out of home is a good value versus other forms of media.  Look at this chart from the Solomon November 2025 Media Monthly.  It computes the CPM (cost per thousand views) of out of home versus other forms of media.  You can see that bulletins, for example, have a CPM […]

OOH Community Rallies to Help Dave Johnson Beat Cancer

  ATLANTA, GA: The Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising industry is coming together in support of one of its own — Dave Johnson, a respected colleague, husband, and father of two young boys — as he battles an aggressive form of cancer. Dave has been a familiar face across the OOH landscape through his […]

Jolt Acquires Volta Media Network

SYDNEY, Australia, November 12, 2025 – JOLT, the global digital out-of-home (DOOH) and electric vehicle charging network, with operations across Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K., today announced the signing of an agreement to acquire a substantial portion of the Volta Media Network, from Shell, making the official entry […]