Clear Channel Outdoor stock is up 46% in the last week on news that Mabudala Capital is in takeover talks. Mabudala is the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. The company is a global asset management platform with 430 billion in assets under management. It has a team of […]
BROOKLYN, NY – New York brands Colossal Media and global craft beer innovator Brooklyn Brewery are set to release a limited-edition Pilsner dubbed Crisp Strokes to celebrate Colossal Media’s 21st anniversary of revitalizing hand-painted outdoor advertising – both as a service and creative profession. To celebrate 21 years—and a milestone […]
A Billboard Insider reader asks: What are billboard owners doing with old monopole structures that need removal because of a lost lease, lost market demand or just age? Billboard Insider will run a series on what to do with aging monopoles. Today Jeremy Mattson of Horizon Structures talks about how […]
Last Friday Billboard Insider quoted remarks of Francois de Gaspé Beaubien, Chairman of Zoom Media and Chairman of the Board of the DPAA to the effect that AI and driverless cars will depreciate the value of non-urban roadside billboards. We disagreed and pointed out that Warren Buffett doesn’t buy that […]
Company: EPIC Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 720 St. Anne St., Rapid City, SD 57701 Markets: South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska Phone: (605) 388-9424 Email: cyndi@epicoutdoor.com EPIC Outdoor Advertising billboards can be found in the following areas: North central Nebraska (Chadron & Alliance) Eastern Wyoming Western South Dakota Along with their static inventory […]
We’d like to quote from the opening remarks of Francois de Gaspé Beaubien, Chairman of Zoom Media and Chairman of the Board of the DPAA at this week’s DPAA summit. “If you own a roadside billboard, and you want to maximize your ROI, I would sell those assets and re-deploy […]
Company:Encore Outdoor Markets: Pennsylvania, New Jersey Headquarters: PO Box 494, Hawley, PA 18428 Phone: (570) 493-2346 Email: info@encoreoutdoorllc.com Encore Outdoor was founded in 2012 and has an out of home plant of approximately 56 faces including 9 digital faces in Northeast Pennsylvania and Northwest New Jersey. Glenn Khoury is General Manager […]
The OAAA recently issued a legal report discussiong clean zones. Billboard Insider talked with OAAA SVP-Government Affairs, Andy McDonald to learn more. Andy, what are clean zones and why do they matter to an out of home company? Clean zones are buffer areas established by host cities, in coordination with […]
New York, NY – Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE: CCO) today announced it has partnered with Blood Cancer United – formerly The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the largest global nonprofit focused on serving blood cancer patients – to activate a new Out-of-Home (OOH) campaign following the recent unveiling of the […]
Billboard Insider interviewed Link Media Outdoor President and CEO Scott LaFoy, who justed celebrated 40 years in the out of home industry. What’s the biggest out of home industry change which you’ve seen in the past 40 years? No doubt the biggest change was digital. Going from static single message […]
