At last week’s IBO conference accounting technologist Liz Scott talked about the single most important accounting change operators can make and how AI is making it possible. Here’s a summary of her talk You drive past a board on the highway and feel proud — that feeling might be misleading. […]
20 April 2026, London / New York: Talon, the world’s leading independent Out of Home (OOH) specialist, today announced the launch of Atlas Planner, an AI-powered planning engine that brings greater intelligence, agility and accountability to programmatic digital OOH (PDOOH). Through an intuitive, conversational interface, Atlas Planner can interpret a […]
The leaders of the UK’s big three Out of Home media owners – Dallas Wiles, Co-CEO of JCDecaux, Justin Cochrane, President and CEO Outdoor at Bauer Media and Global Chief Commercial Officer Mike Gordon – will appear together for the first time on a panel looking in-depth at the state […]
Company: McWhorter Media Group Markets: Virginia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina Address: 162 W. Main St, Suite 101, Cartersville, GA. 30120 Phone: 724-972-8629 Email: sales@mcwhortermedia.com McWhorter Media Group operates a billboard plant with 94 faces, including 20 digital displays in Pennsylvania, Virginia and South Carolina. Deanna Berry is Chief Operating Officer. Josh […]
Incentives matter. A post-closing performance based payout on an out of home acquisition provides incentive for a seller to artificially boost revenues. That’s the lesson of the Verde Outdoor Media (“Verde”) versus JR Media, John “Jed” Renfroe, Christa Hurley (Jed Renfroe’s sister) and Marcus Ben Jones (collectively “Sellers”). Here’s the […]
In the billboard business, cost is always part of the conversation. Steel prices, installation, permitting—it all adds up. So, it’s no surprise that when it comes to structures, many operators look for ways to reduce upfront capital. But here’s the reality: the lowest-cost structure is rarely the lowest-cost decision. What […]
Last week Billboard Insider covered Bill Durden’s IBO talk encouraging out of home companies to use self-promos to build their brand. Claude Dicks the President of Allison Outdoor tells us that Allison Outdoor incorporates the season into self-promos: We teamed up with Melody Roberts of Out of Home Creative and […]
Last week out of home legend Charlie MacIntyre talked about getting into the out of home advertising business. Today he talks about finding billboards sites. What was your first billboard site? It was a drive-through smoke shop. People from Illinois would drive to Indiana to buy their cigarettes. I didn’t […]
Last Friday Michael Falick and Chris Rothfelder discussed vesting rights for billboard permits and whether local zoning codes can be pre-empted by a state code. California out of home attorney Richard Hamlin of Hamlin|Cody says California approaches these issues differently… Count on California to approach these subjects differently. Vesting: Filing […]
Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a random piece of billboard artwork using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This week’s rating is […]
