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50% power savings from new digital billboard.

Digital billboards have become much more efficient.  Here’s a September 22, 2016  Daktronics blog post about a customer who reduced his power bill by 50% by replacing a 2005 digital sign with a 2016 digital sign. Long Time Customer Sees Massive power Savings. If you’re an Independent billboard operator and […]

What Employees Think of Clear Channel, Outfront, Lamar and JCDecaux

Not a bad idea to monitor what employees and potential employees say about your company on Glass Door.  Glass Door has a database of more than 8 million company reviews, interview reviews and salary reports.  Here are the average Glass Door rankings for the four public outdoor companies together with […]

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 week’s rating is […]

A billboard with falling snow and a climbing car

The first billboard with falling “snow” and a real climbing car has just been unveiled in Times Square, New York City, to mark the PS4 release of ”Rise of the Tomb Raider” and the 20th anniversary of the popular video game franchise. Liquid Advertising, the ad agency of record for […]

Company of the Day: Bedgood Outdoor

Company: Bedgood Outdoor Markets: North Carolina Headquarters: 4541 Forest Cove Rd, Belmont, NC  28012 Phone:  704-825-8579 Email: parrochie@aol.com Bedgood Outdoor advertising is a Charlotte billboard that has been proudly serving the Charlotte and Gastonia market for over 38 years.  Bedgood Outdoor advertising had the first Digital board in Charlotte and […]

Protect Your Digital Signs

Guess what’s the number one search query on the Billboard Insider website this year? “How to hack a digital billboard.” There are lots of people out there who would love to hack your digital signs to make you look bad or simply to show they can get away with it. […]

Using a Digital Sign for Birthday Messages

Chris Cowlbeck, General Manager of  Look Advertising and an IBOUSA Operator Associate runs a creative digital billboard birthday message special:  three days on five digital signs for $100 with free design.  This is great way to create long term customers and to use the flexibility of digital, especially in small markets where […]

Clear Channel RADAR Video

Great video on Clear Channel’s RADAR system.  Also a good primer on the how to’s of digital audience segmentation for outdoor.               Paid Advertisement

Yuma Approves Off-Premises Sign Regulations

The Yuma, AZ City Council has approved an ordinance to amend the city’s off-premises sign regulations as reported by the Yuma Sun.  The amendment made the following changes to a 2015 ordinance which made most of the city’s 165 billboards non-conforming. Grandfathering for non-conforming signs: “The lawful use of any nonconforming […]

Solar Power and Billboards

Insider has been skeptical of solar power and billboards.  Batteries run down and then it takes two days of sun for the lights to come back on.  Also the equipment is generally unreliable and expensive. IQ Power systems is developing a better solar alternative: a hybrid solar/generator system. The system […]