Author: billboardinsider

Steve Haggard Talks Out of Home Lending

Today Billboard Insider begins a series on out of home lenders with a profile of Alerus Financial. Out of Home Lender: Alerus Financial Loan Amounts:  $1 million and up. Last week Billboard Insider talked with Alerus Financial Executive Steve Haggard about trends in the out of home lending market.  Haggard […]

GreenSigns installs upgraded BSV Digital Displays

April 16, 2024. Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. –GreenSigns, alongside BSV Digital Displays and with the support of industry trade association Ad Net Zero, is excited to announce the unveiling of upgraded digital bulletins situated on Rt 83 at Butterfield Road in Suburban Chicago. Utilizing BSV’s sustainable LED technology, GreenSigns has enhanced […]

Lamar Partners with Boys & Girls Clubs

Baton Rouge, LA – April 16, 2024 – Lamar Advertising, one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world, today announced it has selected Boys & Girls Clubs of America as its In-Kind Partner for 2024. Beginning this month, Lamar will donate more than $2 million in Digital Out […]

Company of the Day: Lind Media

Company:  Lind Media Markets: Ohio, Indiana Headquarters: One Billboard Center, 409-411 North Main Street, Mansfield, OH  44902 Phone: 419-522-2600 Lind Media operates 1,600 billboards including 35 digital displays in 27 Ohio and Indiana counties. Lind Media was started in 1991 by John Siegenthaler.   In addition to the billboard business Lind has developed […]

Debt Costs and Leverage Stable at Public OOH Companies

Here are two tables, prepared by Moorgate Capital Partners, which calculate the weighted average cost of debt and leverage (net debt/adjusted cashflow) for the public out of home companies as of December 2023.  Some observations: No surprise that the cost of debt goes up as leverage goes up.  Clear Channel […]

Genlogs Uses Billboard Sensors to Stop Trucking Theft

Genlogs rents space on billboards for privacy-enabled sensors to measure the flow of commercial trucks in the US.  Blake Balch, Genlog’s Chief of Partnerships shares a success story: I wanted to share a really cool story that never would have happened if you did not run that first article that […]

What’s Important Now? 3Q OOH Prospecting

For Q3 determine if you are on track to make your sales budget. A key to selling more 00H faster is planning for a sufficient prospecting/sales cycle.  Don’t waste valuable, limited sales time pursuing new business with too short of a sales cycle.  It’s unfortunate that management (for their own […]

WOO Future Leaders Congress in Hong Kong

The World Out of Home Organization is showcasing its second Future Leaders Delegate Initiative at the 2024 Global Congress in Hong Kong, to be held on June 5-7. The Future Leaders initiative was launched at the Lisbon Global Congress in 2023 with ten successful applicants. WOO members, national associations and […]

Rate This Ad by Rich Molinaro

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 […]

Company of the Day: Lockwood Outdoor

Company:  Lockwood Outdoor Markets:  South Carolina Address: PO Box 202, Huger, South Carolina  29450 Email: info@lockwoodoutdoor.com Phone: 843-860-7325 Lockwood Outdoor operates a pair of digital billboards in the south the Charleston, South Carolina market.  The company is a member of the OAAA.  Insider talked with CEO and Founder Rodney Lockwood. How did you get […]