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Firefly and Verizon use Holograms for Taxitop Campaign

San Francisco –  Firefly, the company leveraging taxi and rideshare vehicles to build a street-level digital media network, helped Verizon kick off the expansion of its 5G network in Las Vegas with the activation of 3D holograms on top of its vehicles. From Monday, May 24, to Sunday, May 30, […]

Company of the Day – Albert Outdoor Advertising

Company: Albert Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 6510 LBJ Freeway Suite 100 Dallas, TX 75240 Market: Dallas, TX Phone: (972) 239-5800 Email: info@albert-outdoor.com Albert Outdoor traces its origins back to the early 1960s when David Albert began building wooden multi-pole structures in the newly emerging suburbs for homebuilders and other businesses looking […]

The Better the Frame the Better the Picture

Matt Schulze of Selective Structures talked with Billboard Insider about one of the company’s unique installations. Tell us about the project It’s a monument sign for Dania Pointe, a 102 acre mixed use development in south Florida.  It’s a 14 by 48 Daktronics digital billboard mounted on a monument sign.  […]

Ask an expert: How do you handle proof of performance with programmatic advertising?

Billboard Insider was curious how proof of performance works with programmatic advertising.  We asked Ian Dallimore, VP of Digital Growth and GM Programmatic at Lamar Advertising.  How do you handle proof of performance with programmatic out of home advertising? We are setting the standards for Programmatic.   Since the nature of […]

OOH Media Plan Awards Now Open For Entries

The OOH Media Plan Awards celebrate the essential role media planning plays in developing successful out of home campaigns. We’re now accepting submissions for campaigns that illustrate how best-in-class strategy, inspiring creative, thoughtful placement, and proper allocation of budgets unite to produce excellent OOH results. Enter now to be part […]

OUTFRONT Adds Shapiro As Programmatic VP

NEW YORK, July 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE:OUT) welcomes Neil Shapiro, as VP, Head of Programmatic, who will lead OUTFRONT’s Programmatic Business and Sales Strategy. “I’m excited to join the team at OUTFRONT,” said Neil Shapiro. “Programmatic out of home continues its growth trajectory and I look […]

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Company of the Day: Albro Advertising

Company:  Albro Bench Advertising Markets: New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania Address:  20 W 3rd St, Suite 4, Jamestown, NY  14701 Phone: 716-640-9729 Email: albro2signs@yahoo.com Albro Bench Advertising operates plant of 150 bus benches primarily in Western New York State.  The company’s benches are concentrated in the following communities: James Town, New York Olean, New York […]

Fueling An Ad Revolution With Digital OOH

Roadside digital billboards are as old as US commercial TV was in 1971. Its mind boggling to imagine the growth ahead of us!! Sadly, little has changed with advertiser’s creative use of DOOH ad space. The future belongs to marketers who deliver Moment Marketing (real-time) to mass-reach audiences. (Search: Moment […]

Bell Lumber and Pole – A Source for Treated Wood Poles

A reader asked Billboard Insider for a good source for treated wood poles to build out of home signs.    Bell Lumber and Pole has been supplying treated wood poles to utilities for more than 100 years. Vendor:  Bell Lumber and Pole. Headquarters: 778 First Street N.W., New Brighton, MN. […]

Giesken Outdoor Saves $4,000 By Checking the Power Bill

Last week Billboard Insider wrote about the importance of monitoring out of home power and bandwidth bills for overcharges.  Giesken Outdoor founder Tom Giesken says persistence pays when talking with the power company: Once on a billboard I converted from a static to a digital I noticed our other digitals, […]