Billboard & Outdoor Advertising Consultants

Billboards have been around forever and in different forms that we see today!

The oldest know billboard was an ad posted in the Egypian city of Thebes over 3,000 years ago.

More recently:

1794 Lithography was invented making real posters possible.

1835 Jared Bell was making 9 x 6 foot advertising posters for the circus  business.

1867  This was the year of the first known bill or poster rental.

1872   This was the year the International Bill Posters Association was formed.

1893   The first 24 sheet billboard was erected at the Paris Exposition. 

1908   With the invention and sales of the Model T billboards soon sprang up.

1919   The Japanese Candy Company Glico introduced the building spanning billboard.

1925    In the US Burma Shave installed signs lining the highway.

1931   The Wall Drug Company goes nationwide with billboard advertising.

1960   The first mechanized billboard was built in Osaka, Japan.

1965   The Hgihway Beautification Act is passed after strong campaignig by Lady Bird Johnson, wife of the US President.

1971   The US passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act banning cigarette advertisement from Televsion and Radio moving that business to Billboards.

1981   The US Supreme Court overturns a San Deigo billboard ban but leaves room for other cities and states to band billboards.

1987  Tobacco billboard advertising ino longer allowed on billboards in the entire US.

2007  The outdoor advertising  business adopts plastic sheet posters replacing the century old paper posters.

Since that time electronic billboards have given way to Digital billboards and these have been banned in a great many communities in the US.

The only constant thing in life or business is change!

ck to enter your own text or images in this area. You may want to briefly introduce yourself, your staff, and your company or display your business's mission statement, if you have one. Make a splash!

Hint: A mission statement can have a powerful effect on potential customers, but only if it's clear and concise! Keep your statement or introduction to just a few lines.

  Highly creative

 advertising copy gets better results

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