While Facebook and Google get all the attention when it comes to advertising, the good old billboard is holding its own writes Amol Sharma:

• People can’t skip through billboard ads the way they can through television ads.
• Yet billboards get only $4.4 billion in marketing dollars while television gets $74 billion.
• As people move to the suburbs commuting time are getting longer thus increasing billboard viewership.
• Regulatory change means that it’s getting harder to put up new billboards. The owners of older ones can thus secure high profits.

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Source: The Wall Street Journal