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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 […]

Salvation Army Transforms Chicago’s Red Line into Rescue Christmas Express

CHICAGO – From now until January 3, The Salvation Army is transforming the CTA Red Line into the Rescue Christmas Express. The exterior and interior of two train cars are wrapped to match the colors of the iconic Red Kettles. The cars will feature messaging on the unprecedented need in […]

Company of the Day: Pro Billboards

Company: Pro Billboards Markets:  Puerto Rico Address: PMB 557, 1353 RD 19, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico  00966 Phone: 787-731-5987 Email: info@probillboards.com Pro Billboards operates a billboard plant  of static and digital billboards in Puerto Rico. Most of the faces are 14′ by 48′ faces.  The remainder are 12′ by 36′.  The principals […]

Out of the Office: Daron Henry

Insider has lots of readers who hunt on their days off.  Here’s IBOUSA Production and Operations Manager Daron Henry hunting Bobwhite Quail on Chris Cowlbeck’s Oklahoma ranch. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Billboard Insider Classifieds December 5, 2020

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 […]

Eccleshare: The second wave of the virus is not as scary as the first.

Clear Channel Outdoor Worldwide CEO William Eccleshare, Americas CEO Scott Wells and CFO Brian Coleman appeared at this weeks Wells Fargo TMT conference.  Some highlights. Eccleshare is optimistic about the future. We continue to be optimistic about the resilience of the business because there the lockdowns have been less significant…our […]

City of Houston Has RFP For Digital Billboards

In a November article, with Richard Rothfelder, on a 55 year look at the Houston billboard market, Insider expressed our surprise that there was no discussion of digital billboards.  Rothfelder indicated that unlike many cities across Texas and the country, Houston still doesn’t permit digital displays for off-premise signs.  A […]

Will the Supreme Court take up Austin’s sign code appeal?

Lots of speculation as to whether the US Supreme Court will take up an appeals court decision that the city of Austin’s ban on off-premise digital billboards violates the First Amendment.  The case is Reagan and Lamar versus City of Austin.   Austin has approved a legal services agreement with a […]

Pattison Outdoor Raises the Bar in Quality With New Digital Superboards

Toronto, ON, December 2, 2020 – Canada’s leading Out-of-Home advertising company PATTISON Outdoor Advertising expands its national offering of premium, large-format Digital advertising displays with the launch of a new dual-sided Digital Superboard located on the Gardiner Expressway, West of Dufferin Street in Toronto, Ontario. Measuring at 16’ x 56’, the […]