By Nancy Fletcher, President and CEO, OAAA For the first time, the basic billboard regulatory scheme is under attack on constitutional grounds. The lawyers like to make it more complicated, but the question boils down to this: Does the First Amendment trump the regulation of billboards? Or, to put it […]
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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 makes recommendations on how to improve the ad. This week’s rating is provided by Melody Roberts, an OBIE nominated billboard […]
Strong and NYC deal for digital signs on taxi tops
(New York, NY, April 23, 2018): The Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade (“MTBOT”), the largest taxicab trade association in New York City, has announced a digital taxi top advertising deal with Strong Digital Media, LLC (“STRONG”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ballantyne Strong, Inc. (NYSE American: BTN). The deal covers more […]
Company of the Day: Blanning Outdoor
Company: Blanning Company Markets: Tennessee, Mississippi Headquarters: 1600 Fair House Road, Spring Hill, TN 37174 Phone: 615-587-5969 The Blanning Company owns 159 billboard structures in Tennessee and Mississippi. The company’s signs are concentrated in the following communities: Nashville Memphis Henderson Jackson Lexington Selmer Baxter Brownsville Picayune I-59 I-65 I-40 I-24 Keith Howell is the […]
Billboard Insider Classifieds
“Got several calls and sold the trivisions to the first one.” Billboard Insider Classified customer Michael Grace, Ace Outdoor. Billboards for sale ads cost $120 paid in advance by credit card. All other classifieds cost $60 for 60 days or $120 per year paid in advance by credit card. To […]
Takeaways From The IBOUSA In Jacksonville FL
The IBOUSA convention in Jacksonville wraps up this morning. Chris Cowlbeck and the staff at the IBOUSA know that they run a terrific event! Great location, relevant topics and lots of time for discussion and fun with all the members and vendors who attended. So here 7 takeaways from […]
Borrell on what out of home needs to do to attract political $
Borrell Associates tracks local advertising spending in North America and the UK and conducts research on advertising trends. Founder and CEO Gordon Borrell started the company in 2001 after a career in media. Borrell is an entertaining speaker who gave an outstanding talk titled Out of Home’s Changing Role in the […]
McDonalds Weather-Related Digital Campaign
London, UK (26 April 2018) – Today, McDonald’s is launching a national digital outdoor campaign that uses MET Office real-time data to bring to life April’s unpredictable weather conditions. In order to take part in Britain’s favourite topic of conversation, Leo Burnett London turned the McDonald’s menu into weather icons […]
Solar Billboards in Oregon? Meadow Outdoor shows how.
Meadow Outdoor recently completed a large 3KW solar lighting system, powering 8 lights on a 14’ x 48’ bulletin near Boardman, OR. This is their second successful solar installation, Insider talked to John Lehman, Operations Manager, at the job site. Is Oregon sunny enough for solar to be economical? how […]
Company of the Day: Big Outdoor
Company: Big Outdoor Markets: Nationwide Headquarters: 2315 Routh Street, Dallas, Texas 75201 Phone: 214-969-5800 Email: info@bigoutdoor.com Big Outdoor owns and operates high profile billboards and wallscapes in major US cities. the company was started in 2013 and is owned by SunTx Capital Partners which has allocated $100 million in capital […]