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Rate This Board by Out of Home Creative

Rate This Board allows a billboard designer to rate a billboard ad using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great).  Then the designer recommends how to improve the ad.  This week’s rating is provided by Melody Roberts, an OBIE nominated billboard designer […]

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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 […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds September 21, 2019

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “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 “I bought my General Liability from Stu at Bassler and Co that I learned about on Billboard Insider.  I told […]

RBX Media Announces Strategic Management of Outdoor Billboards in Nashville

Partners with Wingate Media on management of premium space COLUMBUS, Ohio (September 19, 2019) – RBX Media, a leading out-of-home media company, announced that it is adding to its portfolio in the Nashville market through the acquisition of seven outdoor digital and static boards through a management partnership with Wingate […]

Court Busts Bus Line Ban on Religious Ads

A federal appeals court ruled that a local transit authority in Pennsylvania cannot exclude ads that refer to religion because that violates the First Amendment. The County of Lackawanna Transit System’s policy to ban “speech related to religion discriminates based on the basis of viewpoint,” said the US Third Circuit […]

New & Noted: September 20, 2019

Insider wrote a recent article on the federal governments warnings on Vaping products.  The parent company of Standard Outdoor, Standard Diversified, also has a subsidiary, Turning Point Brands, who is a leading marketer in the Other Tobacco Products segment and includes several vaping related companies.  Standard Diversified’s public traded stock […]

OOH Front and Center at Advertising Week New York

OAAA and OOH will have a large presence at this year’s Advertising Week New York, September 23-26. The event takes place at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 movie theater, which OAAA will dominate and surround with the launch of the OOH industry’s latest campaign. OOH is Real, a re-imagining of the successful Feel […]

Company of the Day: Alabama Outdoor Advertising

Company:  Alabama Outdoor Market:  Birmingham, Alabama Headquarters Address: 1049 Morrison Dr, Suite 202, Charleston, SC 29403 Phone: 205-533-0708 Email: dhawkins@aloutdoor.com Alabama Outdoor operates two digital billboard around Birmingham, Alabama. The digital billboards are provided by Formetco. Davis Hawkins is the company President.     [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Eccleshare: There Might be Better Owners for Some International Assets

William Eccleshare seems a bit more open to selling Clear Channel Outdoor’s international operations.  Here are the highlights from his talk at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia conference wednesday. On why Clear Channel Outdoor is growing. The rush to online was effective but it might have been just a little bit […]

Kym Frank on Out of Home’s Bullish Future

Geopath President Kym Frank talked about the bullish outlook for out of home on Borrell’s Local Marketing Trends Podcast this week. Outdoor is the only traditional medium which hasn’t declined.  Why? I think it’s a lot of factors.  Certainly there have been more installs…We just really aren’t subjected to a […]