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Watchfire Announces 12th Annual LED Sign Awards

DANVILLE, Ill. – October 21, 2026 – Watchfire today announced the winners of its annual LED Sign Awards. Now in its 12th year, the Watchfire LED Sign Awards celebrate the achievements of dealer partners who excel in creating high-impact sign solutions that incorporate digital message centers. This year’s competition featured […]

Company of the Day – Toner Outdoor

  Company: Toner Outdoor Headquarters: 19 Caswell Street, Grand Falls NB, E3Z 1A6 Market: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia & Quebec Email: toneroutdoor@outlook.com Phone: (506) 475-8729 Toner Outdoor specializes in providing high-visibility billboard rentals across New Brunswick, with select locations in Nova Scotia and Quebec. Celebrating 20 years of service this year, they […]

Wheat Ridge Planning Commission Recommends Four Digital Billboard Conversions

On October 15, 2026 the Wheat Ridge Planning Commission recommended approval of an ordinance (ZOA-26-1)to allow 4 of the city’s 15 billboards to be converted to digital displays.  The recommendation now goes to the Wheat Ridge City Council. Some details of the ordinance. Only existing billboards can be converted.  No […]

Billy Corey Receives OAAG Lifetime Achievement Award

SAVANNAH, Ga. –  The Outdoor Advertising Association of Georgia (OAAG) presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to William “Billy” E. Corey, founder, owner and chairman of U.S. Enterprises, Inc., commonly known as Corey Companies. The award was presented on October 6, 2026, at OAAG’s annual conference in Savannah. The award recognizes […]

New website prices Chicago Billboards

Billboard Insider has run across a new website called Perch which prices 1,196 permitted billboards in Chicago.  See Perch Chicago.  The site connects the IDOT’s permit registry and traffic counts, grades billboards and models what a billboard should cost.  We expect to see more sites like this as AI and […]

MMG Partners With OUTFRONT

Dubai, UAE – 20 October 2026 – Multiply Media Group (MMG), the UAE-headquartered Out-of-Home media powerhouse and a subsidiary of 2PointZero Group PJSC (ADX:2POINTZERO), today announced it is expanding its inventory network into the United States through an agreement with OUTFRONT Media (NYSE:OUT), one of the largest and most-trusted IRL […]

Company of the Day: Target Outdoor

Company: Target Outdoor Markets: Ontario, Canada Address: Ontario Email: targetoutdoor2019@gmail.com Target Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 19 digital faces in Southern Ontario.  The company’s digital billboards are in the following communities: Belleville Brantford London Vaughan Roy Dzeko is the company’s President and CEO   To receive a free morning […]

Out of Home Risk: Regulations

In a recent poll, Billboard Insider readers identified regulations as the 3rd biggest risk in the out of home business, behind lease renewals and cyclical revenues.  OUTFRONT Media’s 10-k highlights regulatory risk: “Government regulation of outdoor advertising, including any changes to such regulation, may restrict our outdoor advertising operations and […]

Illinois Appeals Court Sends Billboard Property Tax Fight Back to Tax Board

Fourth District says the Property Tax Appeal Board failed to explain why billboards are taxable real property An Illinois appeals court has revived a property owner’s challenge to the way three billboards were taxed, ordering the state’s Property Tax Appeal Board (PTAB) to take a second look. Law360 reported the […]

Grandparents Day Success

Insider wrote in September about Lamar’s Grandparents’ Day Billboard Campaign.  Lamar recognized more than 2,300 grandparents on its digital billboards across the country in honor of Grandparents’ Day. Here is a video recap of the results of the campaign.     To receive a free morning newsletter with each day’s […]