Company: Crossroads Outdoor Headquarters: 2487 South Michigan Road, Suite E, Eaton Rapids, MI 48827 Market: Michigan Phone: 231.683.4224 Email: info@crossroadsoutdoor.com Crossroads Outdoor has billboards throughout Michigan and covers, or at least has a presence in 25 counties including the Grand Rapids Demographic Marketing Area (DMA), Traverse City DMA and Flint DMA. Some of the […]
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New Digital Billboard in Meriden, CT
Insider has edited a previous version of this article to correct some errors. The sign which is the subject of the article is on private land, not on city land and was not subject to any local disputes. myrecordjournal has an article about a new Meriden, CT digital billboard constructed […]
Nick Coston on the 2017 Digital Signage Expo
Nick Coston is an Out Of Home Consultant and Media Buyer with 20 years experience in the out of home industry. Nick is also contributes to Billboard Insider. Today Nick gives his impressions of the 2017 Digital Signage Expo. This was my second trip to the Digital Signage Expo, held […]
Proposal Could Increase TX Billboard Electric Costs
Insider learned this week that Oncor Electric Delivery Company has filed an Application for Authority to Change Rates with the Public Utility Commission of Texas. The overall rate increase is 7.5%. Insider has been told, however, that the rate which impacts billboard companies (Primary DL<=10kW) will go up by […]
Company of the Day: Cuerden Sign Co
Company: Cuerden Sign Co Markets: Arkansas Headquarters: PO Box 187 Conway, AR 72032-0187 Phone: 501-329-6317 Email: cuerden@swbell.net Cuerden Sign Company was founded in 1920 by Henry Cuerden. The firm originally painted signs. Over time it entered the neon sign and billboard business. The firm is owned and operated by […]
Grand Visual Launches Independent Ad Tech Business for Digital OOH
PRESS RELEASE: 10.04.17 QDOT is the industry’s first independent ad tech business providing smarter campaign management platforms for digital out of home. The award-winning digital OOH production house Grand Visual, is launching an independent ad tech company in a move to roll out its industry-leading platforms and workflow intelligence to […]
J. Allen Smith on Cincinnati v Discovery and Ladue v Gilleo
Insider has asked J. Allen Smith to write a series of articles on landmark out of home advertising legal cases. Mr. Smith is a eminent domain and condemnation expert at Settlepou, a Dallas law firm. For more information on Mr Smith, please see Smith’s Settlepou bio. In January Smith discussed Metromedia. Today […]
Montville Allows One of Two Proposed Digital Boards
Outfront Media had a request last week before the Montville NJ Township Zoning Board to replace two static billboards for new digital billboards. Tap into Montville reported that a proposal on #1 Route 46 East would replace a two-sided 238 square foot board that had been in place for 60 […]
Company of the Day – CRG Advertising
Company: CRG Advertising, LLC Market: Connecticut Phone: 860-961-4818 CRG Advertising operates 2 digital faces and 9 static faces in Connecticut. The signs range in size from 10.5 by 22 to 14 by 60. The firm was founded in April 2009 by Charlie Ghione after stints as an outdoor exec […]
Lightking receives patent for Air Series LED Billboard
Large, medium, and small billboard operators have begun placing dozens of orders for Lightking’s Air Series LED billboard. Through its light-weight air flow-through design, Air Series is half the weight and 20% less wind load than standard box-type LED signs, saving billboard owners tens of thousands in structural reinforcement costs, […]