Author: billboardinsider

Company of the Day: Coast Outdoor

Company:  Coast Outdoor Advertising Markets:  British Columbia Address: 325 – 645 Fort Street, Victoria, BC  V8W 1G2, Canada Email: darren@coastoutdoor.com Phone: 250-388-3733 Coast Outdoor is a family business which operates a billboard, transit and bus plant in British Columbia.  The plant includes 600 total faces including 18 digital faces. The company was founded in 1975 […]

Naming Your Out of Home Advertising Company

A good name helps your company stand out explains how you do business or says what your markets are.  Yet many founders come up with a name as an afterthought. How are most out of home names picked? Here are four ways out of home founders come up with names […]

Shell Shuts down Volta

What might have been is not what is.  Remember Volta, the electric charging station manufacturer which was going to support itself with programmatically placed out of home ads?  Volta went public in 2021 with a $2 billion valuation and then cratered as ad revenue trailed projections.  Shell bought Volta for […]

Company of the Day: Hello Media

Company: Hello Media Markets: Puerto Rico Address: 373 Av. Lic. Eugenio Maria de Hostos, San Juan, 00918. Phone: 787–668–0000 Email: info@hellomediaapr.com Hello Media has more than 150 Billboard locations with 335 displays across 52 municipalities in Puerto Rico   To receive a free morning newsletter with each day’s Billboard insider […]

The 20 Fastest Growing US Roadside Companies in 2025

Here’s Billboard Insider’s list of the 20 fastest growing US independent roadside billboard companies. This list is roadside billboards only and does not include place-based or transit. We computed the list by comparing the number of faces each company had in 2024 and 2025.  See Billboard Insider’s 2025 list of […]

Kevani Debuts Pair of Digital Displays on LA Freeways

WHAT: KEVANI, a leading innovator in out of home (OOH) media, announces the debut of DTLA Pairing – a striking pair of architecturally refined, digital synchronized displays spanning Interstates 10 and 110 in Downtown Los Angeles. The high-resolution 10mm pitch displays add more than 12,000 square feet of premium digital […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Revenue up 7% in 2Q 2024

“We delivered solid financial results” was how Clear Channel Outdoor CEO Scott Wells introduced the 2Q 2025 earnings release. Here are the results of the Clear Channel Outdoor 2Q 2025 earnings release, earnings presentation and conference call, sponsored and analyzed by SignValue. Consolidated revenue grew 7% due to strong performance […]

OUTFRONT Revenue Down 4% in 2Q 2025

Lots of organization changes at OUTFRONT during the past quarter.  Here are the the results of OUTFRONT’s 2Q 25 earnings release, earnings presentation and conference call, sponsored and analyzed by SignValue. Consolidated revenue declined 4% to $460 million in 2Q 25 due to the exit of the low margin MTA […]

Revenue Matters, Not Faces

An eastern out of home exec writes Billboard Insider that revenue growth is a better metric than display face growth after reading Independent Out of Home Companies Grew Faces by 4% in 2025: Interesting to see the independents growing… face count is a measurement that really isn’t in play for […]

OUTFRONT Adds 3 Sales Execs

New York – August 5, 2025 – OUTFRONT Media (NYSE: OUT) today announced the expansion of its senior sales leadership team, reinforcing its commitment to helping brands break through where it matters most: in the real world. OUTFRONT has appointed Jim Norton as Chief Revenue Officer, Enterprise, Mark Bonanni as Chief Revenue Officer, Commercial, […]