Outdoorbillboard.com, America’s #1 website for the billboard industry, is holding its Billboard Boot Camp on April 9th to 11th. This is the event where you learn the billboard business from A to Z, from how to find locations to how to determine what to build, where to build, and how to rent the ad space. And you’ll learn all this out in the field – out in the real world. (more…)
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Billboard Boot Camp is coming to St. Louis on April 9th to 11th.
Friday, March 5th, 2010Norton Outdoor Advertising Selects Watchfire For Digital Billboard Along Major Cincinnati Interstate
Thursday, February 11th, 2010DANVILLE, Ill. and CINCINNATI, Ohio – (January 28, 2010) – Norton Outdoor Advertising, a Cincinnati-based company that has been in the billboard business for more than 60 years and has operated digital billboards for the past three years, has purchased and installed a Watchfire Digital Outdoor board ( http://www.watchfiredigitaloutdoor.com). The 19mm 14′x48′ billboard is located on I-71 in Cincinnati near the Rookwood Commons shopping and dining area. More than 114,000 cars pass the billboard daily. (more…)
Outdoorbillboard.com Announces Billboard Boot Camp for Individuals Wanting To Get Into the Billboard Business
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Outdoorbillboard.com, the nation’s largest website for the billboard industry, has announced its next Billboard Boot Camp, set for April 9th to 11th in St. Louis, Missouri.
This is the event in which individuals learn how to find, negotiate, build, rent and manage billboard signs over a two day immersion weekend.
“The course is a combination of class work and time in the field, learning the theories first-hand in a real-life setting” said Frank Rolfe, who teaches the course. “We want you to be able, when you get home, to be able to jump right into the business with all the correct skill sets and knowledge to do well”.
Rolfe built from scratch the largest privately-owned billboard company in Dallas/Ft. Worth, which was sold to Universal Outdoor, a public company, in 1996. He now teaches his insider secrets, tricks and shortcuts twice a year during the Billboard Boot Camp events.
For more information call (800) 950-1364 or go to www.outdoorbillboard.com.
Ban On Led Signs In Denver Moves To City Council
Thursday, February 11th, 2010The City Council’s Blueprint Denver committee has initially approved a new ban on LED billboards in Denver. It now must move on to the City Council for a final vote.
Denver currently has only three LED units, and a total of 550 billboards in the city limits.
But Denver is no stranger to permit and code problem disagreements with sign owners. There are currently no less than 11 lawsuits in court over various billboards in Denver. And this issue may also end up in court depending on the council’s vote.
Judge Rules That Town Can Unplug Lamar’s Led Billboard
Thursday, February 11th, 2010A Traverse City, Michigan judge has ruled that the BlairTownship can unplug an LED billboard owned by Lamar Outdoor Advertising.
The billboard was operating under legal non-conforming “grandfathered” status, but the township claims that Lamar lost its right to operate the sign when they violated the grandfathered status with the installation of a LED unit.
“Because Lamar has spent, well, multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars on this sign … I kind of hate to saw it down given the fact that they’re likely going to appeal” said Judge Thomas Power. But he did the township authorization to turn its electricity off, thereby rendering the LED unit useless.
Lamar has threatened the town that, if it turns off the lights, and if it wins on appeal, it will seek restitution for the lost revenue from the township.
Trellis Realty Management Chooses Watchfire for First Digital Billboard in N.H.
Saturday, November 21st, 2009DANVILLE, Ill. and WOLFEBORO, NH – (June 15, 2009) – Although a relative newcomer to the outdoor advertising business, Wolfeboro, NH-based Trellis Realty Management is making its mark on New Hampshire’s advertising scene. Trellis recently converted a single-sided vinyl billboard to a double-sided digital billboard from Watchfire Digital Outdoor ( http://www.watchfiredigitaloutdoor.com). Located on Route 3, the Daniel Webster Highway, in Belmont, NH, these new boards are positioned on one of the state’s most heavily traveled, non-divided commercial highways, a half-mile south of the Belmont Mall and just five miles north of the Tanger Outlet Center at Exit 20 off Interstate 93. The two billboards are the first to be installed in the state by any billboard operator and have become the new “southern gateway” marker to New Hampshire’s Lakes Region.
Vintage Media Installs Two Watchfire Digital Billboards
Saturday, November 21st, 2009In Central Alabama
DANVILLE, Ill. and Millbrook, Ala. – (July 8, 2009) – Vintage Media, an outdoor advertising company in central Alabama, has installed two digital billboards manufactured by Watchfire Digital Outdoor ( http://www.watchfiredigitaloutdoor.com). The billboards are located in the cities of Millbrook and Wetumpka.
Vintage Media installed a 19mm 10′ x 30′ digital billboard on the corner of Highway 14 (more…)
Porlier Outdoor Selects Watchfire to Install Its First Two Digital Billboards
Saturday, November 21st, 2009Outside St. Louis, Mo.
DANVILLE, Ill. and ST. LOUIS, Mo. – (August 18, 2009) – Porlier Outdoor Advertising Co., located in the western suburbs of St. Louis, Mo., has installed two digital billboards manufactured by Watchfire Digital Outdoor ( http://www.watchfiredigitaloutdoor.com). The 19mm 14′x48′ billboards are located in heavily traveled, highly visible locations in St. Charles County, a bedroom community of St. Louis. The first is at the junction of I-70 and Highway 94, which is seen by approximately 120,000 cars per day. The other billboard, seen by about 55,000 cars per day, is located along Highway 370, just west of Highway 94.
Outdoorbillboard.Com Announces Next Billboard Boot Camp Event Set For April 2nd – 3rd, 2010.
Saturday, November 21st, 2009If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to make big money in the billboard industry, your next opportunity is on April 2nd – April 3rd, 2010. That’s the next date of the Billboard Boot Camp, put together by Outdoorbillboard.com, the nation’s #1 website for the billboard industry.
Watchfire Digital Outdoor Raises the Bar Again; Unveils 3rd Generation Billboards
Saturday, November 21st, 20093rd Generation Brings Groundbreaking Improvements Across the Entire Product Line;
New E-16mm Product Announced
INDIANAPOLIS – (November 3, 2009) – Watchfire Digital Outdoor, manufacturer of the best looking and most durable digital billboards, is once again blazing the trail in the billboard industry by unveiling its 3rd Generation digital billboards, which are more energy efficient, more technologically advanced and more user-friendly than ever.
Across the product line, Watchfire has introduced key new features of the 3rd Generation billboards that make the best even better. They include: