Tag: Billboard Insider

Private Equity and Out of Home – valuing the equity

How do you value your out of home company when you bring in an outside investor?  The answer depends on whether you are simply selling an existing share of the ownership to a third party or if you are raising new money to grow the company. Selling an existing share […]

What 100 Out of Home Execs Say About Billboard Insider

Billboard Insider is written by out of home operators for out of home operators.  But don’t just take our word for it.  Read what 100 out of home execs have written to us over the years.  A couple of our favorite comments are “you are playing chess while others play […]

Billboard Insider’s 2023 List of Out of Home Equity Investors

Private equity funds and family offices remain interested in out of home.  Billboard Insider gets a steady stream of phone calls from investors looking to enter out of home.  Private equity investors like out of home’s barriers to entry, low technology risk, digital billboard upside as well as the fact […]

The SignValue/Billboard Insider 2022 Out of Home Lender List

Out of Home lending is a specialized form of finance.  To save the time and trouble of having to educate your lender on the ins and outs of Out of Home here’s an alphabetical list of 56 Out of Home lenders compiled by SignValue and Billboard Insider.  We asked SignValue […]

Billboard Insider Turns 8!

Hard to believe that Billboard Insider is entering our 8th year of operation.  We started Billboard Insider in July 2015 to fill the gap for out of home news delivered online.  We turned a small profit in our first month of operation and have flourished since thanks to your support […]

IBOUSA Is In Kansas City Next Week!

    Insider checked in this week with a very busy staff at the IBOUSA as they are finalizing preparations for this years Spring Conference.  The event is being held at the Intercontinental Kansas City at the Plaza  located next to the Country Club Plaza. The IBO is expecting 231 […]

Happy Thanksgiving from Billboard Insider

Billboard Insider is taking today and tomorrow off for Thanksgiving.  We have lots to be thankful for: To Outfront Media Real Estate Rep Shelli Bergren for being Billboard Insider’s first newsletter subscriber. To SignAd’s Taylor Buckholtz for being Billboard Insider’s most recent and 3,122nd  newsletter subscriber. To Anna Bager and […]

Billboard Insider Co-Publisher Dave Westburg at IBOUSA Conference

Billboard Insider Co-publisher Dave Westburg will attend the IBOUSA conference Wednesday-Friday this week and moderate a panel on Out of Home Mergers and Acquisitions on Thursday from 11:05 to 11:45 AM. Please introduce yourself to Dave at the show and let him know if you have news or if you’d […]

Rothfelder on the Supreme Court Reviewing Austin v Reagan

The Supreme Court granted on June 28, 2021 the petition for writ of certiorari in Reagan National and Lamar Outdoor vs City of Austin, so that the High Court will now  entertain the merits of the First Amendment dispute over Austin’s allegedly content-based sign code and regulation of digital signs. […]

Joe Mancuso and Mike Mortenson On Working In Cold Weather

Temperatures are in the 20’s and 30’s across much of the mountain west, midwest and northeast.  Here’s some advice from out of home operators used to working in cold weather. Joe Mancuso, Bella Outdoor Outdoor labor in the winter presents challenges. For one thing productivity goes down as the temperature […]