Author: billboardinsider

Company of the Day: McBride Signs

Company: McBride Sign Company. Markets: Virginia Address: PO Box 622 Lynchburg, VA. 24505 Email: scott@mcbridesigns.com Phone: 434-847-4151 McBride sign company operates an out of home plant with 85 total faces including 3 digital faces in Virginia.  The company was founded in 1937.  In addition to Billboards McBride designs, manufacturers and […]

Clear Channel Outdoor 1Q 2024 Revenue up 10%

North American billboards are decent, airports is booming and Europe North is recovering and for sale is how you could summarize Clear Channel Outdoor’s 2024 first quarter.  Here are the results of the Clear Channel Outdoor 1Q 2024 earnings release, earnings presentation and conference call. Consolidated revenue increased 10% to […]

Company of the Day: Marquee Media

Company: Marquee Media Markets: California Headquarters: 555 Capitol Mall, Suite 710 Sacramento CA 95814 Phone: 888-MEDIA-10 Email: info@marqueemediaus.com Marquee Media operates high profile billboard plant with 54 total faces including 32 digital displays in California.  The company is co-owned by Jeff Joaquin and Michael Wagener.  In December 2022 Marquee sold 11 digital displays and 6 static bulletins in […]

The Non-profit That Spends $6 Million a Year on Billboards

Company:  Christian Aid Ministries Address:  PO Box 360, Berlin, OH. 44610 Email: jay.stoltzfus@camoh.org Phone: 330-893-2428 Christian Aid Ministries is a non-profit which spends $6 million a year renting 1,900 billboards in all 46 states as well as Puerto Rico.  The billboards have simple messages encouraging people to call a toll-free spiritual counseling number.  In […]

We don’t want our city to look like….

  We don’t want our city to look like Las Vegas. How often have you heard this tired cliche trotted out at a city council meeting as a reflexive anti-billboard statement.  Next time you hear that why don’t you ask: Do you want your city to look like Milan?  Here […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Celebrates Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

May kicks off Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, which celebrates the contributions that generations of AAPIs have made to American history, society, and culture. One of the fastest-growing groups of people in the U.S., our country’s community of AAPIs contains multitudes, made up of 24 million Americans, […]

Outdoorlink Expands Offerings with Acquisition of Lighting Technologies

Outdoorlink, a leading provider of remote control solutions for out-of-home advertising, proudly announces its acquisition of Lighting Technologies, a prominent manufacturer of high-quality LED light fixtures tailor made for billboards. This strategic move marks a significant expansion of Outdoorlink’s capabilities and services within the out-of-home advertising industry. Lighting Technologies has […]

Company of the Day: Marin Ventures

Company: Marin Ventures Outdoor Advertising Markets: Northern California Headquarters: 1325 Howard Ave, Suite 816, Burlingame, CA  94010 Phone: 650-343-4789 Email: info@mvoutdoor.com Marin Ventures is a privately held outdoor advertising company which owns 20 high impact, interstate freeway bulletin faces in Northern California northwest of Sacramento.  The company’s trade name is MV Outdoor.  MV Outdoor […]

Justin Powell’s 4 Tips for Growing Wisely

Huntington Billboard Company has gone from 0 faces to 3,100 faces in 5 years, mostly by organic development and the company is in the midst of an ambitious expansion plan.  Today Huntington’s CEO Justin Powell shares 4 tips for managing growth. Managing growth is hard. They say when you are […]

Rothfelder on the FTC’s Non-Compete Rule

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission issued an administrative rule banning non-competition clauses in employment. FTC Chair Lina Khan explained “noncompete clauses keep wages low, suppress new ideas, and rob the American economy of dynamism, including from the more than 8,500 new startups that would be created a […]