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50% of Billboard Insider Readers Say Steel Costs Increasing

Last week Insider polled readers about whether they are seeing inflation.  50% of readers reported they are seeing steel cost increases.  15% of readers are seeing now out of home cost increases.  Here are the results from the Billboard Insider reader poll. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

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: Street Media Group

Company:  Street Media Group Markets:  Colorado, Arizona Address: 161 Saturn Drive, Suite 5A, Fort Collins, CO. 80525 Email: troy.hammond@streetmediagroup.com Phone: (844)804-8535 Street Media Group operates a billboard and transit plant in Colorado and Arizona.  Gary Young is CEO.  Troy Hammond is COO.  The company’s current transit contracts are in: Colorado […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds February 20, 2021

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “We got a big boost in qualified applicants from running our ad on your site.”  Rodney Davis, Transformation Media “Thanks to you and your website I’ve hired a General Manager.  We received several qualified applicants in response to our Billboard Insider classified”  Justin Powell, Owner, Huntington Outdoor […]

Los Angeles Considers New Billboard Rules

The City of Los Angeles has banned new billboards since 2002.  This week the Los Angeles Planning Department released a 110 page staff report recommending changes to the Los Angeles sign rules.  There will be a hearing on the proposed rules on February 25. The proposed rules would: Allow a […]

What the Senate Said About Amortization

Amortization – the ability of a state or municipality to require a billboard company to take down a billboard after a fixed period of time without compensation – rears its ugly head from time to time.  Wenatchee, Washington passed an amortization law last year.  Amortization was a hotly debated topic […]

Is inflation Picking Up?

Is inflation picking up? Steel Prices are up 75% over the past 12 months.  Here’s some narrative from a steel market newsletter:”…due to a variety of factors, the North American steel mills are operating the available assets at a lower rate than previous years. If that is coupled with a […]

Intersection Wins 7 Year Boston Street Furniture and Bus Shelter Contract

Boston, MA – Intersection, the leading smart cities media and technology company, today announced that it has been awarded an exclusive seven-year contract with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to manage its bus shelters and street furniture fleet across the Boston metropolitan area. As part of the partnership, Intersection […]

Company of the Day: Steel City Billboards

Company:  Steel City Billboards Markets: Pennsylvania Headquarters: 715 Riverview Rd, Verona, PA  15147 Phone: 888-288-7441 Email: mdfowkes@steelcitybillboards.com Steel City Billboards is a family-owned firm which operates a billboard plant in communities in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  The company is a member of OAAA, GeoPath & IBO Market Club. Insider talked with Mitch Fowkes about the […]

Federal Appeals Court Says Kentucky’s Billboard Law Undermines Free Speech

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that Kentucky’s billboard violates constitutional protection of free speech. Bottom line: the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals repeated its legal standard. That standard says regulations which distinguish between on-premise and off-premise signs are based on content, and, therefore, violate the […]