Author: billboardinsider

Geopath Updates DMA reports

Geopath’s DMA report dated 8/10/2020 shows that average daily miles travelled for July 27-August 2, 2020 is flat or slightly up in 115 markets and down slightly in 95 markets.     In most markets average daily miles travelled is close to normal.  Here’s the graph for Chicago. The Geopath report […]

Eccleshare: We expect to be down in the low thirties third quarter.

Who would think that the management of a major public out of home company would celebrate a 35% revenue decline but COVID has changed everyone’s perspective.  Here are comments of Clear Channel Outdoor Worldwide CEO William Eccleshare and CFO Brian Coleman on last Friday’s earnings call. William Eccleshare on the […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Revenue Down 55% in Second Quarter 2020

Better than JCDecaux but worse than OUTFRONT or Lamar or Link Media was how you could summarize Clear Channel Outdoor’s second quarter 2020. Here are the results from the second quarter 2020 earnings release. Consolidated revenue declined 55% to $315 million during the second quarter of 2020.  Americas was down […]

Link Media Revenues Down 7% in 2Q 2020

Boston Omaha, the public parent of Link Media Outdoor released second quarter 2020 financials.  Here are the results of the second quarter 2020 earnings release.  We’ve broken out Link Media’s performance below. Link Media Outdoor Performance for Second Quarter 2020 (000’s) Link Media Outdoor revenues declined 7% to $6.7 million […]

New York Times Accurate and Informed on Out of Home

After Taking a Pandemic Hit, Billboard Ad Companies See Signs of Hope.  When it comes to out of home the New York Times is accurate, informed and up to date.  Things have been bad but they are getting better.  Urban and transit systems still have a ways to go. Much […]

Company of the Day: Logan Outdoor

Company:  Logan Outdoor Markets: Florida Address:  1716 W. Lemon St, Tampa, FL  33606 Email: info@loganoutdoor.com Phone: 813-253-3367 Logan Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 133 faces in Central Florida, including Tampa, St Pete, Clearwater and 7 surrounding counties. Lelia Clewis is the company’s President. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Sean Reilly: Small and middle markets doing better than larger markets.

It’s good to own small and middle markets was how you could summarize Lamar CEO Sean Reilly on yesterday’s second quarter earnings call.  Here are some other Reilly comments. Improving sales At present our pacings are showing sequential improvement every month…that implies full year revenue decline for 2020 of approximately […]

Lamar revenue down 22% in second quarter 2020

Lamar revenues declined 22% during the second quarter 2020.  Revenues have improved but the company projects revenues will be down 13-14% for the full year 2020.  Here are the results from Lamar’s 2Q 2020 earnings release. Revenues declined 22% to $347 during the second quarter of 2020.  CEO Sean Reilly […]

Urban IQ Appoints Scot Nemeroff National Sales Director

Urban IQ, a leading independent DSP (Demand Side Platform) in Digital Out of Home advertising, today announced that 20 year advertising veteran Scott Nemeroff has joined the company as National Sales Director. Most recently he was a Senior National Account Manager for AllOver Media, a leading OOH media owner. Nemeroff […]

Geopath reports distance travelled remains 95% of normal.

Geopath’s 8/6/20 Mobility update reports that traffic for the week of July 28-August 2 is 95% of normal.  Here’s the US weighted average for daily miles travelled. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement