By Dave Westburg, Ken Altena and Jim Penney, Partners, Billboard Loans, LLC. One-eighth of Billboards Insider’s readers have used accredited investors to fund their out of home company. We have used accredited investors to form four separate out of home debt funds as well as an independent out of home […]
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Company of the Day: Western Billboards
Company: Western Billboards, formerly Fluhman Outdoor Media Markets: Texas, New Mexico. Headquarters: 505 South Arthur Street, Amarillo TX. 79102 Phone: 806-678-7778 Email: bruce@westernbillboards.com Western Billboards (formerly Fluhman Outdoor) is a private company which was started in 2013 to operate a billboard plant in Texas. In 2024 the company sold 460 billboards […]
Funding Your Out of Home Company with Friends and Family
Earlier this week Billboard Insider talked about funding your out of home company with your own funds. Today we talk about funding your out of home company with money from friends and family. One-fourth of Billboard Insider’s readers have used equity from friends and family to fund their OOH company. […]
Microsoft Outage Impacts Some Digital Billboard Cameras
Starting at 9:00 am Tuesday October 29, Microsoft experienced a major web outage relating to the Azure cloud service. Companies which relied on Microsoft Cloud services were impacted. We have heard for example that digital billboard cameras which were relayed through the Microsoft cloud stopped working. One billboard operator wrote […]
Most Billboard Insider readers fund their Out of Home company with their own equity
Yesterday we asked Billboard Insider readers where the equity for their out of home company comes from. More than half of Billboard Insider readers use their own money for equity. One-quarter of Billboard Insider readers use equity from friends and family. One-eighth of Billboard Insider readers use equity from acccredited […]
Company of the Day: First Media Outdoor
Company: First Media Outdoor Markets: New York Address: 745 Fifth Avenue, Suite 500. New York, New York 10151 Email: info@FirstMediaNY.com Phone: 929-545-6110 First Media operates a billboard plant in New York City. Belan Vekker is CEO Founder. The company also has a business in the aid of legalizing and […]
Avoid This Tax Trap When Starting an Out of Home Company
There are three sources of equity for your out of home company: you; friends and family; accredited investors, and equity funds. We’ll talk about each alternative in turn. Today we talk about funding a out of home company yourself. You You need to be willing to invest in your out […]
JCDecaux Wins Barcelona Street Furniture Contract
Paris, October 27th, 2025 – JCDecaux SE (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces that it has been awarded the exclusive advertising contract for Barcelona’s Bus Shelters and City Information Panels (CIPs) following a competitive tender. JCDecaux will operate the largest street furniture contract in Spain’s […]
When Out of Home Joint Ventures Do and Don’t Make Sense
A Billboard Insider reader asks when an out of home joint venture might make sense and how out of home joint ventures are structured. What is a out of home advertising joint venture An out of home advertising joint venture is when two partices agree to jointly operate an out […]
Roy Park Jr on the Importance of Maintaining Your Plant
Roy Park Junior has published a new edition of Sons in the Shadow: Surviving The Family business as An SOB, a book about his business career including stints as CEO of Park Communications Inc. and Park Outdoor. In 1976 Roy Park Jr’s father Roy Park asked him to fix […]























