Author: billboardinsider

Times Square and OUTFRONT Welcome Back New Yorkers to Times Square

Times Square, N.Y. – March 15, 2022) The Times Square Alliance and OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT) reveals a new campaign titled Make Up for Lost Time in Times Square to welcome back New Yorkers, office workers, commuters, and tourists to the Crossroads of the World. Launching just as many […]

Company of the Day: Harvest Outdoor

Company: Harvest Outdoor Markets: Illinois Headquarters: 2516 Waukegan Road, PMB 350, Glenview, Illinois  60025-1774 Phone: 847-509-8876 Email: info@harvestoutdoor.com Harvest Outdoor operates a wall and billboard plant in Chicago.  Mike McHugh is the company’s owner.  He started the company in 1998 after a stint as a special projects coordinator for the City of Chicago. One of […]

6 Things About Clear Channel Outdoor

Here are six things about Clear Channel Outdoor which Billboard Insider learned from reading the Clear Channel Outdoor 2021 10k. Fewer employees in Europe European employees dropped by 7% in 2020.  US and Latin American employees were flat. \ More Digital Revenues Digital revenues have been steadily increasing as the […]

DPAA Sets June 16th for 5th Annual Canada Summit

New York, March 14, 2022 — DPAA, the global trade marketing association, driving the growth and digitization of out-of-home (OOH) media today announced today its 5th Canada Summit will be held in-person on June 16 at the Scotiabank Theater in Toronto. The DPAA Canada Summit attracts brands, agencies, DOOH media […]

Matt Schulze on Billboard Structures

Last Friday we caught up with Selective Structures Matt Schulze as he was riding in his truck between out of home job sites.  Matt and Jon Odom at Productivity Fabricators are the two smartest guys Insider knows when it comes to billboard structures.  Matt talked about steel prices and permitting trends. […]

Can JCDecaux buy Clear Channel Europe?

JCDecaux is a candidate to buy Clear Channel Outdoor’s international business but it depends on financing.  A stock analyst asked JC Decaux CFO David Bourg about the company’s leverage last week and Bourg said this: …in our business, we know that it is quite important to go back to a […]

85% of US Adults Expect to Travel this Summer

WASHINGTON, March 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The overwhelming majority of U.S. adults (85%) are expecting to travel this summer, taking even more vacation time than they did in 2021: nearly half (48%) of Americans who plan to vacation this summer will take two weeks or more, up from (41%) last summer. Driving […]

Rate This Ad by Greg Callaham

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: Greyline Outdoor

Company: Greyline Outdoor Markets: New York Address: PO Box 281, Bryant NY  14027 Phone: 716-983-9820 Greyline Outdoor originally formed in 1988 as S&S Enterprises, a small, local sign shop under owner/operator(s) Everett Scritchfield, Jr. and Linda Scritchfield.  1993 marked the first purchase of billboard by the company and set the path […]

Sean Reilly: Right Now Everything is Flashing Green

Sean Reilly was bullish at this week’s Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference.  Here’s a selection of his comments. The outlook It feels great…Looking at Q4 we set records with every financial metric…we’re seeing the same momentum carrying forward…as of right now everything is flashing green. Political It breaks […]