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 […]
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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 […]
Smartlink controls billboards during eclipse.
Billboard Insider has written before about the benefits of using SmartLink to remotely control the illumination on your boards. One of the benefits of the SmartLink system is that you can remotely set your illumination schedules from anywhere simply on your cell phone. Here’s an actual Lamar board which is […]
Watchfire Announces Partnership With Blip
DANVILLE, Ill. — (August 29, 2017) — In another advancement for digital billboard operators, Watchfire Signs announces an industry-exclusive pre-sale advertising plan available on the next 50 billboard purchases. Click to Tweet. The Watchfire Advertising Plan connects billboard operators with Blip Billboards to deliver pre-sold advertising that dramatically reduces the upfront price of any new […]
Company of the Day: Media South Outdoor Advertising
Company: Media South Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: Jackson, Tennessee. Markets: Tennessee, Mississippi. Phone: 866.945.0243 Media South was started in 2007 by Norm Isbell. The company has 28 faces placed strategically in Tennessee and Mississippi. Most of the faces are 10.5′ by 36′. Prior to starting Media South, Isbell was a division manager for […]
Autonomous Car Update September 1, 2017
Brooklyn Outdoor’s Candice Simons takes an optimistic view of autonomous cars and out of home in Autonomous Vehicles and the New Driving Experience. She thinks that bus benches and street furniture will become more important as data points for future commuters. Commuters will also have more time to look out […]