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Company of the Day: Mid-America Advertising

Company: Mid-America Advertising Headquarters: 100 W. Hazel Dell Road, Springfield, IL 62712 Markets:  Illinois, Missouri & Kansas Phone: 217-585-7110 Email: info@midamericaadvertising.com Established in 1993 by Partners Jeff Stauffer, Bob Connors and Dave Stukenburg, Mid America Advertising specializes in interstate and primary highway locations.   [wpforms id=”9787″]   Paid Advertisement  

What’s Next? Big Things Happening in OOH

By Nancy Fletcher, President and CEO, OAAA OAAA’s fall calendar is loaded with new benefits to help you sell, manage, and promote OOH advertising. In October, Nielsen will release new research that shows how OOH activates online advertising.  This is the next phase of Nielsen research, building on its recent […]

Robert “Bob” Dahl Obituary

Robert “Bob” Dahl, age 71, of Bourbonnais, passed away Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at Hope Hospice in Cape Coral, Florida.  He was 71 years old. He was born August 9, 1945 in Kankakee, the son of Harold Curtis & Marguerite Joy Brumbaugh Dahl. Bob was the founder and president of […]

Who is Your 5 Star Ninja?

This Durden Outdoor installation caught Insider’s eye for creative use of 3D extensions.  Thanks to Durden for permission to reprint.   HI-YAAAH! Durden Outdoor Displays, Inc. and Bryan Pharmacy have teamed up again to roundhouse kick bland billboards to the curb. We are constantly looking to push the outdoor advertising envelope and […]

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 200 billboards in north central West Virginia and Maryland.  The firm’s plant includes billboards in the following communities: Morgantown, West Virginia Clarksburg, West Virginia Bridgeport, West Virginia Fairmont, West Virginia Anmoore, West […]

Ben Bedsole Obituary

Insider has learned that Georgia billboard owner Ben Bedsole died August 17, 2017 at age 48.  Bedsole was the owner of Bedsole Outdoor which operates billboards in Dawsonville Georgia an Leeds, Alabama.  Bedsole also co-owned a digital billboard in McDonough, Georgia and managed billboards for other owners. Ben is survived […]

Iconic Rochester Billboard Coming Down

Democrat and Chronicle reports that an iconic Rochester billboard at Main and Clinton is coming down.  Lamar owns the billboard and had a perpetual easement at the site.  Lamar agreed to remove the Main and Clinton billboard in order to get a variance approved for a digital billboard at 687 […]

Company of the Day – Michigan Outdoor

Company: Michigan Outdoor Advertising Markets: Michigan Headquarters: PO Box 2399, Petoskey, MI  49770 Phone: 231-348-0011 Email: steve@michiganoutdoor.com Michigan Outdoor operates a 23 face billboard plant in northern Michigan and the upper peninsula of Michigan.Stephen Murray, owner, has been in the outdoor advertising business for over 35 years, 29 of the […]

Digital Billboards Survive Hurricane Harvey

Insider hears from the digital billboard manufacturers that digital billboards in Houston held up well during Hurricane Harvey.  Clear Channel Outdoor kept all their displays on during the hurricane to provide PSA messaging. Several operators had to deal with power outages but the digital billboards were incredibly resilient.  Here’s a […]

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. This weeks rating is […]