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Company of the Day: Marquee Media

Company: Marquee Media Markets: California Headquarters: 1013 Galleria Blvd, Suite 280, Roseville, CA  95678 Phone: 916-297-7882 Email: info@marqueemediaus.com Marquee Media operates high profile digital billboards in California.  The company is co-owned by Jeff Joaquin and Michael Wagener.  This month the Sacramento Kings awarded Marquee the right to build 6 digital billboards along major freeways in Sacramento.  Rights to build the […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds August 26

Classifieds cost $60 for 3 months or $120 for 12 months.  To place you own Billboard Insider classified click here. Appraisals Signvalue appraises billboards. Art and Creative Billboards, Etc designs and prints billboard ads. Out of Home Creative designs billboard ads. Blue Sky Digital Printing designs billboard ads. Greg Callaham designs billboard ads. Billboard Structures Vertigo […]

New South Uses Blip for Digital out of home sales

Montgomery, AL (8/23/17) – New South Outdoor, LLC (New South) today announced a partnership with Blip, a pay-per-flip digital out of home (DOOH) advertising platform, to eliminate the cost and contract barriers that have historically prohibited smaller organizations from utilizing billboards. Blip’s online marketplace will now enable advertisers who aren’t […]

500,000 views

Billboard Insider passed 500,000 cumulative page views this week.   The website grew out of frustration with a lack of out of home news after the demise of Outdoor Magazine and the OOH Magazine.  A huge thank you to readers and advertisers for supporting us. By keeping costs down we’ve […]

Top Five Design Tips For Your First Billboard

This week’s design tips from from Wilkins Media, the OOH and experiential experts.  This article originally appeared in the Wilkins Media Blog.  Insider thanks Josh Friedman for permission to republish. OOH creative requires a special art. Executing strong OOH creative means take into account certain specifics such as distance to […]

Company of the Day: MV Outdoor

Company: Marin Ventures Outdoor Markets: California Headquarters: 1325 Howard Ave, Suite 816, Burlingame, CA  94010 Phone: 650-343-4789 Email: information@marinventuresllc.com Marin Ventures is a privately held outdoor advertising company which owns signs in California.  The company’s trade name is MV Outdoor.  The company is run by Grant Leschin.  Insider talked with Leschin last week. What’s new since we […]

Texas DOT considers billboard height proposal.

DailyTrib.com reports that the Texas Department of Transportation is considering a proposal to increase the permitted height of billboards from 42.5 feet to 82 feet.  Scenic Texas and the Hill Country Chapter of the ark Night Skies Reserve Committee are fighting the proposal. Scenic Texas has this legislation action letter […]

Watchfire Appoints Ben Barr Director of Sign Sales East Coast

DANVILLE, Ill. – (August 23, 2017) – Watchfire Signs (www.watchfiresigns.com), a manufacturer of digital on-premise and outdoor LED signs, announced that Ben Barr has been promoted to director of sign division sales, East Coast, succeeding John Kunze, who is retiring after 26 years with the company. Barr joined Watchfire Signs […]

Company of the Day – Look Outdoor Advertising

Company: Look Outdoor Advertising Markets: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas. Headquarters: 700 North Florida, Borger, TX  79007. Phone: 806-274-4357. Email:  jrusten@lookoutdoor.biz,  tgassaway@lookoutdoor.biz Look Outdoor advertising is a family run business that began operating in 1994 with the purchase of four neglected billboard structures near Amarillo, Texas.  The company now […]

Road Trip – Paris

Insider’s road trip continues in Paris.  There are few large static billboards downtown but the wide walkways allow for smaller signs and many creative ways to display.  Here’s a rare spectacular and one of the many small posters. Transit advertising is big because people depend on the Paris Metro.  Lots […]