New advertising regulations for Washington State went into effect on Sunday. Here is a listing of those requirements. Senate Bill 5131 restricts outdoor advertising in the following ways (Source: Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board): Business Signs and Outdoor Advertising – Licensees are limited to two signs (maximum 1600 sq. […]
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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 […]
Company of the Day: Keystone Outdoor
Company: Keystone Outdoor Advertising Markets: New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Headquarters: PO Box 202, Cheltenham, PA 19012-0202 Phone: (856) 767-5028 Keystone Outdoor is a operates a billboard plant which targets bridges, expressways and suburban roads in Southern New Jersey, Trenton and Philadelphia. The privately-held firm was started in 1977 by Dominick Cipollini when he secured […]
Billboard Insider Classifieds July 22, 2017
Lots of new job openings this week. 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. Blue Sky Digital Printing designs billboard ads. Greg Callaham designs billboard ads. Out […]
Chan Lieu on Self Driving Cars and Out of Home
Chan Lieu of the Washington DC Law Firm Venable talked about self-driving cars on yesterday’s OAAA webinar. The webinars are a valuable perk of OAAA membership and a good reason to join OAAA. Here are the highlights. Deployment of autonomous cars will take 20 years if you look at technology […]
March for Giants Wins With Interactivity
Several creatives who were interviewed at the Cannes Festival three weeks ago mentioned The March for Giants as an outstanding out of home campaign which took advantage of a couple strengths of digital billboards: interactivity and worldwide reach. The campaign was designed by the London’s 18 Feet & Rising to […]
Clear Channel Renews Des Moines Airport
Des Moines, IA – –Clear Channel Airports (CCA), a brand division of Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA) (NYSE: CCO), and a subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc., today announced it has signed a new five-year partnership with annual one-year options with the Des Moines International Airport (DSM) to provide state of the […]
Company of the Day – Key Outdoor
Company: Key Outdoor Markets: Illinois, Missouri, Iowa Headquarters: 1873 Bourbonnais, IL 60914 Phone: 815-937-4579 Email: angelakdahl@keyoutdoor.com Key Outdoor is a privately held company which was started in 1977 and operates a billboard plant in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. The flagship office near Kankakee soon became one of many offices, as […]
Boston Omaha IPO Raises $97 million.
Insider reported in June that Link Media‘s parent company Boston Omaha was planning to raise $71.5 million via an IPO. A press release on Business Wire announced that Cowen and Company, LLC, as the representative of the underwriters of the previously announced public offering of 6,538,462 shares of Class A common […]
Company of the Day: Steel City Billboards
Company: Steel City Billboards Markets: Pennsylvania Headquarters: 715 Riverview Rd, Verona, PA 15147 Phone: 888-288-7441 Email: mdfowkes@steelcitybillboards.com Steel City Billboards is a family-owned firm which operates a four structure billboard plant with 13 faces in communities around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company is a member of the OAAA. Insider talked with […]