Meadow Blog

Another showing of the top 10 best designs from this last quarter!

Digital out of home (DOOH) advertising has become especially powerful during the holidays because it combines the scale of traditional outdoor ads with the flexibility of digital media.

Here at Meadow, we love to teach great graphic design. These are just a few tips and tricks to make your billboard the very best in the whole wide world!

Here at Meadow we love to advertise for good causes. Above all, it helps the cause, but it also shows people that advertising is not about manipulating you to buy one more thing; it’s about effectively getting the word out about a product, event, or issue. Here are some examples of good causes that we have recently helped to support with free advertising!

A couple of weeks ago, our Creative department and a few other Meadow representatives attended the annual Independent Billboard Operators (IBO) conference and brought home some Indie Impact Awards!

Every quarter, we love to show off some of our best designs to provide inspiration for other artists!

Meadow Outdoor Advertising is once again in the Top 5 Best Small Businesses to Work in Oregon! This year, we were ranked 4th by Oregon Business Magazine out of 73 small businesses that entered the competition. Meadow, it turns out, is the best little billboard company in the world to work for!

We are thrilled to welcome Tiffany Farah as the newest member of the Meadow Outdoor sales team, joining us as Territory Account Manager & National Sales. Tiffany is a veteran media sales professional from the Pacific NW. She is widely known for her dedication, collaborative spirit, and commitment to delivering strong results for her clients.

This last week was our 2026 Crew Conference! Meadow's crew went over the goals from last year that the team made and met, including lots of panel swaps, maintenance projects, painting structures, as well as completely building and remodeling structures. Our crew motto going into 2026 is "Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast".

Billboards are largely about imagery, but usually you need some copy to fully convey your message. It can be tempting to include your business name, a list of services you provide, every possible contact method, your business address, down to the zip code, and a quirky tagline. However, this will not help your billboard be effective. When drivers see a wall of text on a billboard, they won’t slow down to read it, their eyes will glaze over it, and they will absorb none of the information. So, this begs the question, how many words should I put on my billboard?