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Rate This Board By Out Of Home Creative

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 week’s rating is provided […]

Billboards Survive Hurricane Irma in Turks

The eye of Category 5 Hurricane Irma passed over Turks and Caicos last Friday with winds of up to 155 miles an hour.  Island Displays has a plant of sixteen two sided 12′ by 6′ structures within the right of way on the main highway of Turks and Caicos.  Looks […]

Company of the Day – Mixed Media Group

Company: Mixed Media Billboard Advertising Markets: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan Headquarters: 1152 Liberty Avenue, Cary, IL  60013. Phone: 847-462-8423 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 […]

Outdoor Legal: Repairing Signs Damaged By Storms

Hurricanes and windstorms can damage billboards.  This can create legal issues, especially if you want to rebuild a non-conforming sign which has been damaged by hurricane.  City of Webster v SignAd is a legal case in which an out of home advertising company successfully contested a city’s efforts to prevent […]

Newspaper Enters Out of Home Advertising Business

Forsyth County News reports that Morris Multimedia entered the out of home advertising business by purchasing a double sided digital billboard in Cummings, Georgia from Incorvaia Media.  Kalil and Co brokered the transaction. Kalil’s Max Drachman tells Insider about the transaction: “Morris Multimedia is a dynamic Television and Print company with assets […]

Bill Whiteheart Obituary

Bill Whiteheart, 70 of Winston-Salem, died on September 5, 2017 at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital after collapsing while on a walk.  in 1970 Whiteheart founded Whiteheart Outdoor Advertising, an out of home advertising company headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  He was also involved in county politics. Whiteheart was in the […]

Company of the Day: Millenium Outdoor

Company:  Millennium Outdoor Advertising Markets: Texas Headquarters: 1399 Executive Drive W, Richardson, TX  75081-2262 Phone: 844-842-8664 Email: administrator@milleniumads.net Millennium Outdoor Advertising operates an outdoor plant in Texas and Arkansas.  John Walton founded the company in 1991.   Walton died in 2016. [wpforms id=”8663″] Paid Advertisement  

Blue Sky Digital Printing Adds A New Printer

Insider heard that Blue Sky Digital Printing has recently increased their in house productivity.  We checked in with Trent Lindmark on the latest news. We understand you’ve recently expanded your capabilities at Blue Sky Digital Printing?  Yes, I am always looking for new ways to make our printing process more […]

Former Presidents Appear on Billboards Supporting Hurricane Recovery

By Ken Klein, Executive Vice President, OAAA The living former Presidents will appear on billboards as part of a national, nonpartisan campaign to support hurricane recovery. “Never a better time for a call to unity,” said Tom Norton of Norton Outdoor Advertising in Cincinnati.  “So great to see our past […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds September 9, 2017

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “When thinking as to how best to get the word out of our available position we thought of Billboard Insider.  We are glad we did.  The cost of the ad was reasonable and the response was outstanding.” Jim Moravec, Stott Outdoor “We had over 25 companies inquire […]