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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 […]

Company of the Day – Carroll Advertising

Company: Carroll Advertising Company Market:  Massachusetts Headquarters: 415 Neponset Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02122 Email: john@carrolladvertising.com Phone:  617-282-2100 Carroll Advertising Company, Inc., was started in 1996 by John Carroll with three billboard faces. The company grew to include a division of digital advertising and poster displays targeting Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and […]

Checks and ACH’s Most Popular Method of Paying for OOH

Most out of home companies allow clients to pay by check, ACH or credit card.  Here are the results of yesterday’s Billboard Insider’s reader poll:                       96% of our Billboard Insider readers allow clients to pay by check. 83% of […]

Chris Rothfelder Comments on Billboard Relocations

I couldn’t agree more with Insider’s takeaways from the Lamar v. Country Side Restaurant Inc case out of Wisconsin. I would add that, not only should an operator that loses a sign due to condemnation carefully read all documents and be mindful of release language, but also pay close attention […]

Are Checks Free?

A Billboard Insider reader writes this in response to our Getting Paid post in which we wrote that most banks charge out of home companies a per check deposit fee: Where do you guys bank? I have never paid a check deposit fee at any bank and we deposit all […]

Company of the Day: Capital Outdoor

Company: Capital Outdoor Advertising Markets: Virginia and North Carolina Headquarters: 1528 Old US 264-A, Zebulon, NC  27597 Phone: 919-873-9020 Capital Outdoor Advertising operates a billboard plant based from their headquarters in  Zebulon, North Carolina.  The company is an operator associate in the IBOUSA.    Here’s an excerpt from our previous interview with Robert Sykes, […]

Getting Paid

    There are multiple ways to take payment from out of home clients.  Here’s a review of the different forms of payment, ranging from least costly to most costly together with a discussion of the pros and cons of each form of payment. Checks (no quickbooks fee plus $0.20-0.30 […]

Corner Cube Display Lights Up Advertising and Art on Sunset Boulevard

Multi-display digital billboard brings a unique perspective to passersby BROOKINGS, S.D. – July 21, 2025 – A new multi-display digital billboard for The Now and Orange Barrel Media (OBM) has been activated at the busiest intersection on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, manufactured and installed by Daktronics (NASDAQ-DAKT) of […]

Company of the Day – Carolina Outdoor Advertising

Company: Carolina Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 2917 W. Palmetto St.,  Florence SC 29501 Market: Florence, SC Phone: 843-230-7570 Email: carolinaoutdooradv@gmail.com Carolina Outdoor Advertising owns and operates two digital structures, located in Florence, South Carolina.  Both structures are 10’x21′.   To receive a free morning newsletter with each day’s Billboard insider articles […]