Author: billboardinsider

Company of the Day: Bedsole Outdoor

Company:  Bedsole Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:   576 Devon Brooke Drive Woodstock GA 30188 Markets:   Georgia and Alabama Phone: 404.317.4799 Email:   BedsoleOutdoor@comcast.net Bedsole Outdoor, LLC is a billboard/outdoor advertising company established in 2002. Owner and operator is Angi Bedsole. Current inventory is located in Dawsonville and Marrietta GA and Birmingham, AL.  In 2017 founder Ben Bedsole died […]

75% of Billboard Insider readers have lease costs of less than 20% of revenue

Billboard Insider’s readers are doing a good job controlling lease costs.  75% of the respondents to our poll yesterday say their out of home lease costs are less than 20% of revenue.  Here are the results.   To receive a free morning newsletter with each day’s Billboard insider articles email info@billboardinsider.com with […]

Company of the Day: Barfield Outdoor

Company: Barfield Outdoor Markets: North Carolina Address: 2368 Summerlin’s Crossroads Rd, Mt Olive NC. 28365 Email: ken@barfieldoutdoor.com Phone: 919-738-4199 Barfield Outdoor operates an out of home plant with 16 faces in North Carolina.  Ken Barfield is President.  Zach Barfield is Vice President. How did you get in the Out of Home business? Our family used […]

Out of Home Lease Costs – Take Our Poll

For the 25 years we’ve been around the out of home business there’s been a rule of thumb that out of home leases costs should be 20% or less of revenues.  Lease costs may be more in urban areas for for high performing boards and higher for transit and street […]

ANA Study on Programmatic Fraud is Good News for OOH

The Association for National Advertisers (“ANA”) has published a  June 2023 study on Programmatic Ad Fraud  The study finds that 15% of total online ad spending and 21% of online ad impressions are fraudulent.  Money is being diverted to low quality made for advertising websites which generate traffic from clickbait […]

Who Makes What at the Public Out of Home Companies

Here’s Billboard Insider’s list of who makes what at the public out of home companies.  We computed the list based on total compensation in each company’s 2022 14A proxy statement. Three observations: Everyone except Reilly and Wells is down All the execs except Sean Reilly and Scott Wells had pay […]

Jim Schultheis on Out of Home Barter

Watchfire account manager Jim Schultheis said this in response to our post yesterday on giving gifts to out of home clients or prospects or landlords: Several of Watchfire’s customers occasionally barter a product or service in exchange for time on their billboard. For example, if their rate card is $1,000, […]

Company of the Day: Azalea Signs

Company:  Azalea Outdoor Advertising Markets:  Georgia, South Carolina. Headquarters: 699 Broad Street Suite 1000, Augusta, Georgia, 30901 Phone: 706-623-3470 Azalea Outdoor owns 187 faces in Georgia and South Carolina.  The company is owned by the Morris family which originally purchased Naegele Outdoor in 1985 and rebranded it as Fairway Outdoor before […]

What are the best colors to use for digital?

A Billboard Insider reader asks “What are the best colors to use for digital?”  Out of Home Creative Founder and Chief Creative Officer Melody Roberts says this. Embrace color and have fun with yellows, blues, reds, purples, and pinks. These are some of my favorites, as well as blurred gradient […]

Give your Out of Home clients, prospects or landlords a gift

Gifts can create goodwill with out of home clients or prospects or landlords.  Here are three tips for gifting wisely. Do business with people who do business with you One of Circle City Outdoor’s advertising clients is a family owned chocolate shop in Lebanon, Indiana.  Our manager occasionally brings a […]