Tag: maintenance

Pat O’Donnell on Treating Landlords Well

Pat O’Donnell just retired as President of YESCO Outdoor Media after a 40 year career in out of home.  Today Pat talks about treating landlords well and the importance of good-looking structures. What have you learned about sign development? It’s changed.  In my day you spent a lot of windshield time.  You’d […]

Billboard Structure Maintenance – What to Look at When

A reader asked us for a billboard structure maintenance timeline.  We talked with Selective Structures Matt Schulze about what to do when. How often should I inspect my billboard structures? Once a year. What should I inspect? You start at the foundation.  Confirm that there are no cracks in the […]

Birds and Billboards – Part II

Insider wrote last week about problems created by birds roosting on billboards.  Insider asked Bobby Tatman to talk about the issues birds can create for digital billboards.  Tatman is a Midwest Digital Sales Rep for Formetco. Why do birds like digital billboards?  Birds typically love perching on billboards because of […]

Birds and Billboards.

Insider has had problems with pigeons roosting on his Circle City Outdoor billboards.  Lisa Atkinson of Premium Outdoor tells Insider that giant buzzards have a fondness for her billboards.  Insider asked David English the Sales and Operations Manager of Ad-Trend, Inc. for his thoughts about keeping birds off billboards.  Ad-Trend, […]

Jon Odom on Steel Billboard Maintenance

Jon Odom runs Productivity Fabricators, a Richmond, Indiana company which specializes in producing outdoor advertising structures.  He was a speaker at the recent OAAA safety meeting as well as the IBOUSA meeting.  Insider asked Odom for tips on steel monopole preventative maintenance and this was Odom’s answer: A periodic inspection is […]