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 […]
WESA and CBS Pittsburgh report that Scenic Pittsburgh is asking Lamar Advertising to sell or donate a 7,200 square foot billboard on Pittsburg’s Mount Washington to Scenic Pittsburgh for a Hollywood Style letter sign. On Feb 16, 2017 the city’s Board of Zoning Adjustment ordered Lamar to the Mt Washington […]
Company: Comstor Outdoor Markets: Indiana and Ohio. Headquarters: 9016 St Route 117, Box 151 Huntsville, Ohio 43324-0151. Phone: 888-354-2591 Email: office@comstoroutdoor.com Comstor Outdoor was started in 2001 by Jason Duff and operates 400 faces in western Ohio and Eastern Indiana. In addition to Comstor, Duff runs the Community Storage & […]
Insider’s Note: This story was published on April 1, 2017. APRIL FOOLS DAY. It is a joke. The anti-billboard group Citizens Against Billboards voted yesterday at its annual convention to purchase 1,000 billboards nationwide to promote an anti-billboard message. The billboards will contain the following bold black print on a […]
Insider wants to make sure his readers know that this story was originally published on April 1, 2017. APRIL FOOLS DAY. The ad agency Piddle has announced an opaque, paper-driven process for buying billboards. Piddle’s chief creative officer Sven Opak said that the new system’s features include: massive amounts of […]
Insider wants to make sure his readers know that this story was published on April 1, 2017. APRIL FOOLS DAY. Yes it is a joke. Indiana judge Charlie “Bullfrog” McIntyre has ordered a County Planning Official to personally erect a billboard after wrongfully denying a billboard permit. “I’m fed up […]
Insider wants to make sure readers know this story was published on April 1, 2017. APRIL FOOLS DAY. Yes, it is a joke. By Brent Baer, Historian-in-residence, Billboard Insider As all of you veterans of the OOH business know, the term billboard came about by a guy named William Boarders. […]
Insider visited the land of cactus, Kalil, Clear Channel and Advision this week. First stop, Kalil and Co to see Max Drachman and Kalil’s out of home and media investment banking team. It’s a rare day when these nomadic investment bankers are in the same room. Pictured below left […]
The police report is out on last week’s Tuscon Uber crash. Property 360 carried a Bloomberg article on the crash which says that an eyewitness report: “raises the question of whether Uber’s self-driving sensors spotted the light turning yellow and, if so, whether it decided it could safely continue through the intersection. One […]
The 58th FEPE International Congress to be held in Stockholm from June 7-9 will be the most global in the event’s long history, featuring top speakers from all around the world. The Congress – with the theme “A Time of Revolution – Earning the Right to Win” – includes a […]
