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Daily Billboard 3 of a Kind – Hitting the Bullseye

Happy New Year! For this January edition of Daily Billboard Blog’s ‘3 of a kind’ we have three examples of billboard creatives hitting the bullseye quite literally. The first example is a special installation for the debut season of The CW’s Arrow show spied above the Sunset Strip’s Whisky A Go-Go […]

Kinetic and Posterscope CEO’s to speak at FEPE

Kinetic Global CEO Marc-Antoine de Roys and Posterscope Global CEO Stephen Whyte have been confirmed as Keynote Speakers for FEPE International’s 60th Annual Congress be be held at the Intercontinental Hotel Dubai Festival City on May 1-3 2019. FEPE is the global association for Out of Home media owners, national […]

Company of the Day – Mixed Media Group

Company: Mixed Media Group, Inc. Markets: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan Headquarters: 1152 Liberty Avenue, Cary, IL  60013. Phone: 847-462-8433 Email: steve@mixedmediaoutdoor.com Mixed Media operates signs in Illinois, Detroit, Eastern Iowa/Quad Cities and Iowa City.  The bulk of the company’s signs are in McHenry County, outside Chicago.  McHenry County Illinois is the most populated county in […]

Backup Power Options For Digital Billboards

Insider has a regular reader who works as a Permits Coordinator for the Department of Transportation in a western state.  He posed us the following question: In transportation, over the last 20 years, the majority of traffic signals in our area have transitioned to LED. During this transition, they have become […]

Leslie Outdoor Sells Digital Signs to Outfront

Outfront Media has acquired select I-20 digital billboards in Atlanta Outdoor from Leslie Outdoor.  Outfront enhances digital coverage along a growing section of interstate highway. The sale allows Leslie Outdoor to focus better on its primary market in the middle Georgia area. Williamson and Associates brokered the sale. Leslie Outdoor’s […]

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. Today’s rating is provided […]

Company of the Day: Micro Outdoor

Company: Micro Outdoor Markets: West Virginia, Maryland. Headquarters: 2 Miller Hill Road, Osage, West Virginia 26543 Phone: 304-319-4141 Micro Outdoor Advertising owns over 200 billboards in north central West Virginia and Maryland.   Many of the boards are double stacks.   The firm’s plant includes billboards in the following communities: Morgantown, West Virginia Clarksburg, West Virginia […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds January 12, 2019

“The response has been excellent.  Excellent investment.”  Out of home broker Stephen Minnich. “…we have received no less than 15 responses the ad you ran for us to sell our Quad Cities billboard plant…”  David Buring “FYI, today we got two requests from out of home companies to sign up.  […]

Billboards and Other Businesses

RocketVII Interactive announced the sale of its out of home assets in Ohio this week.  Kalil and Co was the broker.   Rockett VII’s owner also owned a a movie theater in Gallipolis, Ohio. The transaction caught Insider’s eye because Rocket’s owner had investments in a non-out-of-home company.  This is more common than […]

New and Noted January 10, 2018

“Privacy matters. Customers matter. Tech giants need to realize that no matter how big the company is, it still has a responsibility to consumers to protect their information, even if that means protecting information from its own company.”  Privacy issues aren’t going away any time soon.  Apple Flaunts Privacy at […]