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Haleigh Powell on Working for an Independent Out of Home Advertising Company

Insider recently talked with Haleigh Powell Director of Client relations at Huntington Outdoor about what it’s like to work for an independent out of home company. Haleigh what’s it like working for an independent out of home company. I work with my family in the OOH industry. Combining passion and […]

Digital Billboards Warn Public of Fires in Northern California

Digital billboards have been an important way of communicating with the public during the wildfires in Northern California.  Look at this post by Outfront’s Rob Schilling. Insider’s take:  The knee jerk “I don’t want our city to become Las Vegas” opposition to digital billboards completely overlooks the public communication function […]

Rate This Board by Greg Callaham

Rate This Board 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 weeks rating is […]

Formetco VP Todd Heller Needs a Kidney

  Todd Heller, a Formetco VP of Digital Products, is having health issues and is on dialysis.  He is looking for a kidney donor.   Insider talked with Todd’s daughter Kara who’s a senior at Kennesaw Sate University. Kara, what’s wrong with your dad? My dad is in stage 5 kidney […]

Company of the Day – BB Outdoor Advertising

Company:  BB Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:   3401 Main Street, Rowlett TX 75088 Markets: Texas Phone: 214.801.5995 Email: Danny@BBOutdoorAdvertising.com BB Outdoor Advertising is a family owned, local billboard company which operates a billboard plant with 26 structures with 52 static faces and 1 digital billboard base on I-30 in Garland, Rockwall, Greenville and Dallas.  Danny […]

Digital Billboard Power Use

Bad information dies hard.  Last week Manhattan, Kansas commissioner Jerred McKee explained his opposition to digital billboards to The Collegian: “Character is my biggest concern,” McKee said. “In a study I read, digital billboards have a bigger carbon footprint and use 30 times more energy than the average home in […]

Sales Success: Haunted House

Annette Kenyon, a new account executive at Park Outdoor shares this sales success story with Insider: I am a new account executive here at Park Outdoor in Binghamton, New York.  I come to this billboard world from a 12 years of retail sales experience with little knowledge of marketing.  I […]

Company of the Day: Bayou Outdoor

Company: Bayou Signs Markets:  Louisiana Address:  1305 Ridgefield Road, Thibodaux, LA  70301 Phone:  985-446-1183 Email:  advertise@byousignsoutdoor.com Bayou Signs Outdoor, LLC operates a billboard plant in southeastern Louisiana.  Bayou is a family owned firm which was started in 1969.  The plant includes static billboards, four trivisions and two digital billboards. [wpforms […]

I’m Not Getting My Newsletter…

  The Billboard Insider daily newsletter is growing rapidly.  We’ve got 2,475 subscribers.  What should you do if you’ve signed up for the daily newsletter and aren’t getting it? Check your spam folder. Gmail and company firewalls can be  overzealous and dump the newsletter into spam.  If you tell your […]