There a great deal of concern about automation eliminating human jobs. Spinning a sign seems to boost the attention that people give to signs by about 80%. Sign spinners are paid about $50 to 150 per ...

They're a familiar site at many a busy intersection: the helicopter, the kick-flip, the Bruce Lee - all manner of swirling, twirling and spinning "tricks" to draw drivers' attention to a new ...

WASHINGTON – You’ve seen them on the street corners. They spin signs of all shapes and sizes. Sometimes they do flips, or throw their signs into the air — whatever it takes to get your attention as ...

“We hate it when you call it sign twirlers,” says Caleb Jordan, who has worked in the industry six years and is the general manager for AArrow Advertising. Come blistering heat or pouring rain, the ...

ATLANTA — We’re less than 200 days away from the Summer Olympics where some of the best athletes in the world will compete for gold. But middle-January brings a lesser-known world competition for sign ...

Kendric Washington was star-struck. The 19-year-old hid behind plastic sunglasses, scoping out where the competition would take place, along a pedestrian mall in downtown Las Vegas called the Fremont ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — You’ve seen them at intersections and outside strip malls spinning an arrow-shaped sign and trying to grab the attention of drivers and passers-by. Turns out, there’s more to it than ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

The world’s best sign spinners – yes, those people who bring advertising to life on street corners, especially during tax time – will strut, er, spin their stuff this weekend in downtown Las Vegas.

KENT, Wash. — You've seen them on local street corners, spinning their messages. But did you know that these sign spinners are part of an elite crew that undergoes training at a little-known facility ...

ATLANTA — We’re less than 200 days away from the Summer Olympics where some of the best athletes in the world will compete for gold. But middle-January brings a lesser-known world competition for sign ...