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Vendor Profile: FotoFetch

Fotofetch is a new company which is crowd-sourcing out of home advertising photos.  Insider talked with Gary Bamesberger about the company. Vendor:  Fotofetch Address: 14241 NE Woodinville-Duvall Rd, #315, Woodinville, WA. 98072 Email: gary@fotofetch.com Phone: 206-890-3543 Fotofetch crowd-sources out of home asset photos nationwide.  Insider talked with Gary Gamesberger about […]

A Year of Out of Home COVID Insights

By Norm Chait, Director of Out of Home Product/Sales at Ubimo, a quotient brand. It has been almost a year since Ubimo, a Quotient brand, launched the OOH COVID Dashboard. This tool tracks movement around street-level and place-based out-of-home (OOH) inventory in order to understand the impact of COVID-19 on […]

Angel Saemai on Running an Out of Home Business

                    Overall Murals did a great feature on its co-founder Angel Saemai.  Billboard Insider is reprinting it with Overall Murals permission. In honor of Women’s History Month, we wanted to spotlight our Co-Founder, Angel Saemai. We took it upon ourselves to dive deep […]

Details on the Tiffin Metals Billboard Division Sale to Formetco

Yesterday Billboard Insider wrote about Tiffin Metals exit from the billboard business via a sale of the billboard division to Formetco. We talked with Matt Dysard, CEO of Tiffin and Matt Xander, CEO of Formetco to get more details. Matt Dysard, why did Tiffin decide to exit the billboard business? […]

Scott Wells: Cities will become more embracing of digital billboards

Clear Channel Outdoor Americas CEO Scott Wells thinks cities will be more accepting of digital billboards as they look for revenue post-covid.  Here’s a selection of his comments at last week’s Morgan Stanley conference. Is programmatic bringing in new money? In 2011 to 2017 you had a lot of advertisers […]

Daktronics Revenue Down 26% in 3 Months Ended January 31, 2021.

Revenue declined but Daktronics was close to breakeven for the 3 months ended January 31, 2021.  Here are the highlights from the Daktronics 3Q FY 21 earnings release and earnings call. Revenues declined by 26% to $94 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2021 (three months ended January 30 […]

Company of the Day: TDO Advertising

Company: TDO Advertising Markets: Michigan, Ohio Headquarters: 405 Madison Ste. 2100, Toledo, OH. 43604 Phone: 419-724-76343 Email: info@tdoadvertising.com TDO stands for Toledo Detroit Outdoor Advertising.  The firm was founded in 2015 and operates more than 100 digital and static billboard faces.  The largest concentration of billboards is in Toledo, Ohio and […]

Tiffin Metal Products Announces Sale of Billboard Division to Formetco

March 9, 2021, Tiffin, Ohio – Tiffin Metal Products announces the sale of its Outdoor Advertising Products Division to Formetco, Inc. of Duluth, GA. Tiffin will transfer the production of Outdoor Advertising products to Formetco. The deal officially closed on March 8, 2021. Both parties’ sales and engineering departments are […]

Clear Channel Expense Cuts Completed in US and Latin America

Clear Channel Outdoor’s expense cuts are done in the US and Latin America but have yet to be completed in Europe.  And don’t expect to see asset sales until 2022 at least.  Here’s what else Clear Channel Outdoor CEO William Eccleshare, Americas CEO Scott Wells, and CFO Brian Coleman said […]