Author: billboardinsider

Activist Pushes for Clear Channel Outdoor Sale

Legion Partners, a 5.1% shareholder in Clear Channel Outdoor, has written a May 16, 2023 letter to the Clear Channel Outdoor board calling for a greater urgency in asset sales.   Some of the highlights of the letter. Clear Channel Outdoor stock has underperformed. The letter points out that Clear Channel […]

John James on How to Improve Your Out of Home Marketing

  On today’s Billboard Insider podcast, SignBird founder John James talks about how drones can help you market your out of home company more effectively. John give us an overview of SignBird and what you and your team do. We capture out of home on camera: drone in the sky; […]

Company of the Day: All Points Media

Company:  All Points Media Markets:  Nationwide Address: 10140 SW Allen Bvd, Suite A, Beaverton, OR. 97005 Phone: 866-625-3836 All points Media is a place based out of home media agency.  They have over 100,000 plus leased locations.  Darrell McSmith is CEO.  Jeff Gillis is President.   To receive a free […]

How Was Your First Quarter?

Three of the four public out of home companies grew revenues during the first quarter of 2023. Link Media Outdoor revenues grew 13% OUTFRONT revenues grew 6% Lamar revenues grew 4% Clear Channel Outdoor Americas revenues declined 1%. How did your out of home company revenues do during the first […]

Link Media Revenues Up 13% in 1Q 23

Boston Omaha released first quarter 2023 financials last week.  Here are the segment results for the company’s Link Media Outdoor subsidiary. Revenues increased 13% to $10.3 million in the first quarter of 2023 due to organic revenue growth and the purchase of billboards from Elevation Outdoor in November 2023. Sales […]

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Company of the Day: Albro Advertising

Company:  Albro Bench Advertising Markets: New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania Address:  20 W 3rd St, Suite 4, Jamestown, NY  14701 Phone: 716-640-9729 Email: albro2signs@yahoo.com Albro Bench Advertising operates plant of 150 bus benches primarily in Western New York State.  The company’s benches are concentrated in the following communities: James Town, New York Olean, New York […]

Pat O’Donnell on Getting Started in Out of Home

Billboard Insider is running an interview series with Pat O’Donnell who just retired as President of YESCO Outdoor Media after a 40 year career in out of home.  Pat served on the board of directors of the OAAA and in 2017 was inducted into the OAAA Hall of Fame.  Today he […]

Adkom, Blip and Broadsign Announce Programmatic Integration

Orem, Utah and Montreal, Quebec; May 11, 2023 – Outdoor advertising technology leaders Adkom, Blip, and Broadsign today announced a technology collaboration that brings more than 2,000 large format, roadside digital billboards located in more than 190 markets to the Broadsign supply-side-platform (SSP). Advertisers and media buying agencies around the […]

Company of the Day: All Best Media

Company:  All Best Media Markets: New Jersey Address: New Jersey Phone: 732-436-1000 All Best Media operates a network of indoor billboards in gyms, offices and restaurants.  Most of the signs are in New Jersey.     To receive a free morning newsletter with each day’s Billboard insider articles email info@billboardinsider.com with the […]

Fotofetch Shots of the Week

Customer expectations continue to build for your deliverables.  Getting the ad up on time, making sure it was hung well with no wrinkles.  Making sure your lights worked, checking that garbage around the sign was picked up, trees trimmed, etc.  And the photos you provide must be effective too.  Customers […]