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Out of Home Associations Join to Fight Coronavirus

30th March 2020  The World Out of Home Organization held its inaugural global conference call for national Out of Home associations on March 27. The conference call included reports on the harrowing effect the Covid-19 virus is having on societies across the world and business – plus welcome news of […]

Who Is Advertising Now

Insider asked some printers and and creative designers “what kinds of jobs are you working on now” and here’s what they said. Baud Ramirez, Blue Sky Digital Printing We are seeing a lot of our customers cashing in their Promo Bucks and using them to advertise in the following areas: […]

OOH Stocks Rally but Down for First Quarter

First quarter was a tough for stocks and even worse for out of home.  The S&P 500 fell by 20% – the worst first quarter in history.  Lamar declined 43%, Outfront declined 50% and Clear Channel declined 78% although all three companies have rallied from their lows last week. US […]

GO2020 Show Will Not Reschedule

The GO2020 out of home advertising conference has been cancelled.  See note below from Kym Frank. Last month, it became clear that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we would be unable to hold GO2020, the Geopath/OAAA OOH Media Conference and Expo, in April 2020 as planned. At the time, we […]

Company of the Day: Fluhman Outdoor

Company: Fluhman Outdoor Media LLC Markets: West Texas, Southeastern New Mexico Headquarters:  505 South Arthur Street, Amarillo, TX  79102 Phone: 806-678-7778 Email: bruce@fluhmanoutdoor.net Fluhman Outdoor Media (FOM) began in the summer of 2013, and in just five years has grown to over 400 billboards in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. FOM offers […]

Ohio Outdoor’s Ben Harbaugh on Helping Customers

By Ben Harbaugh, Ohio Outdoor With so many other operators willing to share what is working for them, I wanted to also provide some insight into how we have been trying to help customers – or even future customers.  A week or so ago, we opened up a shared slot […]

JCDecaux Stops Dividend and will acquire stake in Clear Media China.

Two interesting new items from JCDecaux. First in a press release on the 25th, JCDecaux announced the withdrawal of its 2019 dividend proposal in order to strengthen its liquidity, its balance sheet in response to the unprecedented global disruption due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Jean-François Decaux, Chairman of the Executive […]

Shoutouts to Big Outdoor, Kessler Media, Champion Outdoor

Big Outdoor is running a coronavirus PSA on its Times square billboard.                               Kessler Media is reminding people that Florida restaurants are doing takeout.  This ad uses humor. Champion Outdoor’s Gary Barbosa has created a set […]

SignValue’s Top Ten Reasons Why the Out of Home Industry Should be Optimistic

SignValue’s Paul Wright is a realist.  He expects out of home industry revenues to decline by 9% in 2020.   But he’s still optimistic about out of home.  Here are SignValue’s Top Ten Things for the OOH Industry to be optimistic about: 10. OOH is still primarily a local medium. 9. Warmer […]