tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55827532011-04-21T17:36:04.032-07:00OAB: The Outdoor Advertising BlogOutdoor Advertising BlogA.Q.noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1115231654302483812005-05-04T11:34:00.000-07:002005-05-04T11:34:14.373-07:00UK Star Wars Board Hacked in Anti-Blair Protest
Iraq Photos on Yahoo! News PhotosA.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1115228846092501342005-05-04T10:47:00.000-07:002005-05-04T10:47:26.166-07:00Detractors Dis Delay Downtown
Using Billboard
HoustonChronicle.com - PAC billboards take aim at DeLay tripA.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1115070446053662342005-05-02T14:47:00.000-07:002005-05-02T14:47:26.053-07:00USATODAY.com - Clear Channel sheds concert unit, gives billboards an IPO: "The company said the IPO of the outdoor advertising unit and spinoff of the entertainment unit will result in greater fiscal muscle for future acquisitions, because the separately listed stocks will provide clear valuations of the two businesses."
CC's OOH revenues are up 11% this year, as Outdoor continues to be strong A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1115070314719972232005-05-02T14:37:00.000-07:002005-05-02T14:48:11.080-07:00Los Angeles, Mexico board Causes controversies, Gets TaggedLiberman broadcasting got more then they bargained for when they launched a new campaign for awareness of their Spanish-language radio broadcast. A Clear Channel 30 sheet with the headline "Los Angeles, Mexico" was intended to raise hackles and build buzz, but the company now finds itself under attack from sensitive Angelenos. The board A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1115069778590252422005-05-02T14:34:00.000-07:002005-05-02T14:36:18.590-07:00Billboards Bash Biden in DelawareFrom eNewswire: Billboards, addressed to Senator Joe Biden, have been strategically placed in Delaware to call on him to make the pending re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) gender neutral so that all victims of domestic violence can benefit from the funding. Over 835,000 men report being victims of intimate partner violence annually, this A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1115069353699880252005-05-02T14:23:00.000-07:002005-05-02T14:29:13.700-07:00Arag insurance had some excellent units showcasing how billboards can work in relation to their envirornment.The copy look like some "transparancy" street-art, where the artist makes a sign 'disappear' by mimicing what's behind it, but the twist is that they play to their core business (insurance for damaged property) by creating damaged property where there is none. It's a great trick and got A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1092357804370749702004-08-12T17:43:00.000-07:002004-08-12T17:43:24.370-07:00KOREA: Billboards Written in Only English Against the LawThe current outdoor billboard-related laws require billboards be written in Korean as well if they are written in a foreign language. Korean language scholars including Nam Young-shin and Korean language-related organizations such as the Korean Language Association and the King Sejong Foundation filed the lawsuit.A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1089239478646225672004-07-07T15:31:00.000-07:002004-07-07T15:31:18.646-07:00Billboard Featuring Fake Students Blamed For Crashes
Nextel's board with a 3-D extension of a student using a laptop is being blamed for car crashes in the Cleveland DMA.A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1087846435018737582004-06-21T12:32:00.000-07:002004-06-21T12:33:55.016-07:00
Picture of the Week: Bud Bulletin Blankets Beijing. Budweiser is a new but exciting outdoor advertiser in China, and their profile is slated to rise with the purchase of Chinese brewe Harbin.A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1087846234832449502004-06-21T12:30:00.000-07:002004-06-21T12:30:34.833-07:00Big Outdoor Cos. Refuse PETA anti-IAMS bulletin From PETA's press release: "PETA hoped to have its new anti-Iams billboard displayed in Tampa, but area outdoor advertisers want no part of it. The billboard shows a caged dog with the tagline "This Is Sally. She Suffered for Six Years in a Lab in Iams Experiments." The message refers to an undercover investigation at an Iams contract laboratory A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1087846118275976742004-06-21T12:28:00.000-07:002004-06-21T12:28:38.276-07:00Coca-Cola Replacing Iconic Times Square SignThe Coca-Cola Company today announces plans to unveil one of the largest digital canvases in the world -- a new three-dimensional, high tech display -- in New York City's Times Square on the evening of July 1. The innovative advertising sculpture measures more than six stories high, and is considered the world's first digital communications portal A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1087845860817875922004-06-21T12:24:00.000-07:002004-06-21T12:24:20.816-07:00Missouri bans sexy billboards along state highwaysThe Show Me State is cracking down on bawdy billboards. Gov. Bob Holden on Thursday signed a bill banning sexually suggestive billboards that promote strip clubs and other adult businesses. The ban applies within one mile of Missouri highways.A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1087845798519581042004-06-21T12:23:00.000-07:002004-06-21T12:32:03.856-07:00Billboards crowd Mumbai's skylineConservationists in the Indian city are wrangling with officials to save their smothered skyline, trying to get hundreds of billboards torn down.
The Maharashtra state government in 1995 declared parts of Mumbai - many with 150-year-old buildings, a legacy of India’s British colonial days - as "heritage" neighbourhoods.
The Mumbai High Court in May ordered the A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1084319264799475852004-05-11T16:47:00.000-07:002004-05-11T16:47:44.800-07:00Bill banning sexy billboards along Missouri highways goes to governorBillboards promoting strip clubs and other adult businesses would be banned within one mile of Missouri highways under a bill given final legislative approval Thursday.
Despite some objections about limiting free speech, the bill won House passage, then cleared the Senate, which sent the measure on to Gov. Bob Holden.
The billA.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1084319193868084072004-05-11T16:46:00.000-07:002004-05-11T16:46:33.870-07:00Salt Lake may limit billboards Salt Lake council members are considering a sign ordinance today that would allow residents to enjoy more scenic views by limiting the number of billboards allowed in Salt Lake County.
Two alternatives are up for action; one is an outright band and other is the cap-and-replace method. With an outright ban, no new billboards would be displayed, but remaining A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1061942166631368462003-08-26T16:56:00.000-07:002003-08-26T16:56:06.543-07:00
Lost and Found: Billboard Project
The Chicago Area Billboard project is the result of artists Jennifer Chrzanowski, Jon Gitelson, Brea Murphy, Bryan Steiff, and Brian Ulrich. The 5 (collectively known as Lost and Found) worked collaboratively in a class taught by Accra Shepp. In conjunction with the Columbia College Office of Community Arts Partnership, the group secured a donation from ViacomA.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-106194155849209912003-08-26T16:45:00.001-07:002003-08-26T16:45:58.450-07:00District considering ads in school busesA.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1061941534686772822003-08-26T16:45:00.000-07:002003-08-26T16:45:34.663-07:00Billboards to Help Find Missing Kids TAMPA -- Gov. Jeb Bush on Monday unveiled a high-tech program to send notices of a child abduction through e-mail and text messaging as well as new billboards similar to the state's Amber Alert warning signs.
About 20 billboards will be placed statewide. State law enforcement officials haven't decided what other children might be featured, or if Rilya Wilson,A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1061941443711849722003-08-26T16:44:00.000-07:002003-08-26T16:44:03.666-07:00California Town Gets close to $1 million to take down boardsWith nearly $1 million waiting for them in Washington, D.C., city leaders in Agoura Hills will decide Wednesday whether to use the money to bring down the billboards lining the freeway.
Earlier this year, Congress set aside $993,500 to help the city clean up the Highway 101 corridor. The grant is from the Federal Highway Administration,A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1061831827319671342003-08-25T10:17:00.000-07:002003-08-25T10:17:07.276-07:00L.A. Times Colomnist: Defacing Billboards Should be LegalThe relationships of graffiti and advertising, art and vandalism, expression and manipulation, freedom and money, have been explored systematically since the mid-1980s by artist Ron English. His chosen medium is the billboard: He and his assistants, in broad daylight, repaint public billboards with subversive messages, a procedure for whichA.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1061242042874712292003-08-18T14:27:00.000-07:002003-08-18T14:27:22.860-07:00
AAA Billboards Highlight Speed Traps: "he feud over speeding tickets between the AAA Auto Club and Police Chief A.W. Smith has reached new heights with the placement of billboards warning motorists of traffic enforcement in Waldo and Lawtey."A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1060202551869605482003-08-06T13:42:00.000-07:002003-08-06T13:42:31.790-07:00Billboard helps search for TabithaLamar Outdoor has donated a billboard to the family of a missing girl. The board is on one of Nashville's busiest highways. Father Bo Tuders said that Tabitha's billboard will remain until Tabitha comes home. He hopes that's very soon.A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1060187780271278232003-08-06T09:36:00.000-07:002003-08-06T09:36:20.193-07:00FoxNews Fan Buys Billboard Thanking GodThis retired ad salesman isn’t the first Fox News Channel junkie to fill up on hours of the popular news outlet every day. But Bob Spratlin is probably the only one buying billboards thanking God for it.
Spratlin plunked down a few thousand dollars to buy a billboard that says ‘‘THANK GOD FOR THE FOX NEWS CHANNEL.’’ Another billboard will go up in a nearby A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1060019033878151952003-08-04T10:43:00.000-07:002003-08-04T10:43:53.816-07:00
Billboard liberation front targets torte-reform 30 sheets. More info hereA.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1059610759416144142003-07-30T17:19:00.000-07:002003-07-30T17:19:19.443-07:00Tasteless outdoor ad campaign takes product from fiction to realityOuthouse Springs, the “truly tasteless water” with the amusingly off-color slogans, has proved itself a paradigm for the power of billboard advertising. While the bottled water never officially existed during its eight-week promotional campaign, demand has turned the imaginary Outhouse Springs into a tangible product that will be A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1059610438906301402003-07-30T17:13:00.000-07:002003-07-30T17:13:58.943-07:00Billboard Liberation Front Alters Banana Republic Board With Lesbian Reference
Clear Channel has yet to re-snipe the board.A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1059610292026760752003-07-30T17:11:00.000-07:002003-07-30T17:11:32.076-07:00'Breasts billboards' pass musterThe airline itself dismissed accusations of sexism in its ad, saying that it had just been "topical, humorous and irreverent".
The ad, which appeared on both billboards and in newspapers, showed a woman's breasts in a bikini top, and also had the slogan: Lowest fares to the sun". A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1059610159103095892003-07-30T17:09:00.000-07:002003-07-30T17:09:19.133-07:00Hit the road, billboardsFormer billboard designer bashes billboards, calls for them all to be removed. A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1059594992151948432003-07-30T12:56:00.000-07:002003-07-30T12:56:31.976-07:00Clear Channel 2nd-Qtr Profit Rises on Billboard SalesClear Channel Communications Inc., the biggest U.S. owner of radio stations, had higher second- quarter profit as revenue rose in the company's billboard unit and interest expense fell. Radio sales declined 2.1 percent.
Revenue at the outdoor business rose to $569.2 million from $474 million, boosted by last year's purchase of Ackerley Group A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1059353628306104542003-07-27T17:53:00.000-07:002003-07-27T17:53:48.203-07:00Opinion divided over billboard scandal's result TRENTON - Despite eight months of controversy and debate, Trenton insiders are split sharply on whether the fallout from "Billboardgate" will be political or if the scandal will culminate in criminal indictments.
Republicans in the Legislature have called for a string of hearings into the business deals of two former top aides to Gov. James E. A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1059353572041873072003-07-27T17:52:00.000-07:002003-07-27T17:52:51.946-07:00BuyMusic.com Bets on Nude Tommy Lee Billboard Rocker Tommy Lee thinks his nude billboard in Times Square is going to make a bundle for BuyMusic.com.
Naughty Lee and buttoned-upScott Blum, CEO of BuyMusic.com, teamed up to launch the first legal PC music download Web site. And, in the process, trying to set themselves up as the anti-Apple.
At BuyMusic.com's kickoff, Blum played the role of the A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1059073329613084572003-07-24T12:02:00.000-07:002003-07-24T12:02:33.820-07:00
PETA Billboard Turned Down in WyomingAn anti-rodeo billboard featuring a scantily clad ex-Dallas Cowboys cheerleader has been declared too hot for general audiences here.
The advertisement shows a sultry-looking Bonnie-Jill Laflin, who also appeared on the TV series Baywatch, wearing nothing but very short shorts - partially unzipped - and cowboy boots while lying down in hay. Her right arm A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1059073246060428972003-07-24T12:00:00.000-07:002003-07-24T12:00:46.003-07:00Roswell Goes After Billboards AgainRoswell has been fighting the billboard industry for years, and it has lost at least as many legal battles as it has won.
Now the city is going to war again.
After a three-year lull, Roswell's latest billboard ordinance has been challenged on constitutional grounds in Fulton County Superior Court.A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1058564133871241292003-07-18T14:35:00.000-07:002003-07-18T14:35:33.783-07:00
Teen Condom Billboards up in Bangkok
Controversial new line of condoms first mentioned in The Nation last month: Motorists on Rama IV Road are being greeted with the sight of a giant billboard featuring three giant condoms and the words: "teen confidence". For some, CP Consumer's new One Touch "Sweet Teen" line of condoms - scented lime, cola and mixed fruit - may be proof that the Kingdom's A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1058553686395756602003-07-18T11:41:00.000-07:002003-07-18T11:41:26.383-07:00
Nissa Tries Outdoor Street ArtFrom WoosterCollective.com, a street-art website:
Earlier this week in our 'hood (and we're assuming also in cities across the country) a series of posters suddenly went up that, at first glance, looks a lot like someone has painted and wheat pasted street art images over them. But upon a closer look, it becomes obvious that the paint and wheat paste is fake, and A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1058484995864474682003-07-17T16:36:00.000-07:002003-07-17T16:36:35.800-07:00"Billboard Liberation Front" Strikes AgainThe secretive San Francisco-based group, famous for altering large outdoor advertisements by such corporate behemoths as Exxon, R.J. Reynolds, and Apple Computers, pulled its latest prank on S.F.-based Banana Republic.
The large billboard is located off of Highway 101 northbound by the Cesar Chavez Street exit. The alteration was apparently made sometimeA.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1058484898106092732003-07-17T16:34:00.000-07:002003-07-17T16:34:58.100-07:00
Delta's Nostalgia trip board gets an AJC write-upCommuters stuck in traffic on I-85 should have time to study Delta Air Lines' latest effort to tout its Atlanta roots: a towering billboard on the Peach Building, one of Atlanta's more coveted advertising locations.
The nostalgic billboard features three of Atlanta's icons in a 1940s-era photo: One of Delta's first flight attendants holds two A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1058307877861100912003-07-15T15:24:00.000-07:002003-07-15T15:28:49.490-07:00Spotted on Sunset Blvd. in Silver Lake:
Custom paint on top of Disney's Pirates of the Carribean 30 sheet.
Thanks to reader A. for the photo. Send your pics to cz1679 (@) yahoo (dot) com.A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1058307088244316172003-07-15T15:11:00.000-07:002003-07-15T15:11:28.283-07:00Outdoor Advertising Shows Growing Strength in First QuarterThe outdoor media industry experienced modest growth in overall spending in the first quarter of 2003, netting $1.25 billion, a 2.3% increase over the first quarter of 2002. According to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA), the industry posted significant gains in the categories of Local Services & Amusements, Financial,A.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582753.post-1058306693603267702003-07-15T15:04:00.000-07:002003-07-15T15:04:53.566-07:00Welcome to OAB, the Outdoor Advertising Blog!A.Q.noreply@blogger.com