Info on buying billboard advertising - cheaper than you think

[DesEtoiles]

My suggestion - one word: IRAQNAM

or - 1,359 (number of U.S. soldiers reported killed in Iraq)



http://www.houstonbusiness.com/advertising/outdoors.htm...


The HoustonBusiness.com™ Outdoor Dynamic Billboard System™ is comprised of advertisement-by-the-day billboards strategically located at heavily-trafficked parts of the Houston area. We currently operate four billboards on our Dynamic Billboard System™. The billboard locations and pricing information are as follows:



Location:

290 at Jones Rd.

290 at Fairbanks N. Houston

59 at Will Clayton Pkwy

1960 at Hwy. 249


Audience:

100,000 vehicles daily

150,000 vehicles daily

170,000 vehicles daily

70,000 vehicles daily


Ad Space:

3 lines, 32 characters per line

4 lines, 32 characters per line

3 lines, 32 characters per line

3 lines, 32 characters per line


3 Days or Less:

$200 per day

$200 per day

$180 per day

$180 per day


4 Days or More:

$175 per day

$175 per day

$155 per day

$155 per day

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. WOO HOO

some DUer with a few hundread to spare should do this

[helderheid]

2. I'm in

for whatever I can - not much but I'm in. :)

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. wow, at those rates we could start a movement

And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement,

We could have soo much fun with this. We all decide on a message and everyone donates a few bucks. I love it. Do you want to push it? I am willing to donate my very rare free time to this!

If this is more than a reason to post, in other words, if you are serious, pm me. I really think we could stir it up with this.
Bud

[TheUnspeakable]

4. This is a GREAT idea

Maybe we could figure out a way to do this all over the country
with different messages-I'm partial to ELECTION FRAUD!!!!!!!!!

[Lorien]

5. Kick!

:kick:

[buycottJoe]

6. A group based in Ann Arbor, Michigan

had billboards to get their message out last year for a couple of months. The billboards were visible from busy freeways.

[kentuck]

7. Excellent idea !

I agree.

[buycottJoe]

8. I got some details about the above Ann Arbor billboards

The director of the group that put up the billboards gave me the following details. She said:

"-it cost us nearly $10,000 between production costs and billboard rental for the 2 boards for a month."

"-I just heard that the "War is not working" billboard is still up on US 23! This must be because the billboard company hasn't rented it yet. Anyway, that's 2 free months of advertising for us."

"-people should check out their billboard companies before buying. After our billboards went up, we learned that the president of the company, Adams Outdoor, donated dozens of free billboards to the Bush campaign with slogans such as "Remember. It's Your Money." and "One nation under God"... "vote Bush/Cheney." They did this throughout Michigan, Pennsylvania, and one other state (I can't remember which). I'd be hard pressed to advertise with them again."

I thank her for this info.

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

9. How about this?

TODAY'S LOTTERY NUMBERS!!
1359!!
Brought to you by
your friends at www.IraqNam.com

[John_H]

10. And in less populous, but more important, areas

like WV, OH, IA, and WI--they go for less than 1500 bucks a month on major highways.

http://www.outdoorbillboard.com/cgi-bin/ListingInfo/retrieve_listing.cgi?dbtype=rent

[DesEtoiles]

11. Right - some very affordable options out there

I encourage everyone to set aside a few hundred dollars, or get together with some friendds, and start billboard blogging.

[TheUnspeakable]

12. kicking this because...

I can't stop thinking about it. maybe we here at DU could organize this state by state or something. I'm going to check the rates around Chicago.