Author: billboardinsider

Karla Steele’s Proudest Out of Home Sale

Karla Steele is an independent out of home sales rep in the midwest.  Steele recently formed K Steele Solutions to help smaller out of home companies create marketing tools and help with data organization.  She has experience with land leases and permits as well.  Insider talked with Steele last week. […]

Talon Appoints Jim Wilson as US CEO

NEW YORK, January 29, 2020 – Talon, the leading independent Out of Home (OOH) media and technology agency, today announced that Jim Wilson has been appointed as its U.S. Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Wilson will join Talon from TEGNA’s Premion, the first-in-market over-the-top (OTT) advertising and technology platform, that he […]

Vistar Canadian Programmatic Spend up 228%

NEW YORK & TORONTO – January 29, 2020  – With rapid advancements in targeting and measurement, and a surging interest in buying DOOH, the programmatic OOH industry is on track for rapid growth in 2020. Vistar Media, the leading programmatic technology provider for digital out-of-home, is helping accelerate that growth […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Transforms 1,300 Displays to Premiere Panels

New York, NY – Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (CCO) (NYSE: CCO), one of the world’s largest outdoor advertising companies, recently debuted over 1,300 new visually-striking, printed out-of-home (OOH) displays across its small, mid and large U.S. market footprint. CCO’s transformed “Premiere Panels” bring nearly bulletin-size media down-to-earth for even […]

Neil Bell on Ad Contract Renewals

By Neil Bell, Owner, New South Outdoor Most outdoor operators I know are committed to the success of their advertiser’s billboard campaigns. We understand it is imperative that we get them a return on their advertising investment. Otherwise, we can forget about getting that renewal. Sometimes though, we put the […]

Company of the Day: Coastal Outdoor Advertising

Company: Coastal Outdoor Advertising Markets: New Jersey Headquarters: PO  Box 632, Far Hills, NJ  07391 Phone: 908-378-5464 Email: info@coastaloutdoor.com Coastal Outdoor Advertising operates a billboard plant with 12 high profile bulletin faces across highly traveled streets and expressways in New Jersey. The company is owned by Frank Nataro.  Nataro has been in the outdoor […]

Who Borrows at What Rate

This week Lamar refinanced its 5 3/8% notes with 3 3/4%  and 4% notes  Here’s a table showing borrowing costs for the public out of home companies.  Over the past year Lamar has cut borrowing costs by almost 200 basis points by a series of refinancings.  The table shows that […]

Blip and Cedric Bernard Partner to Form Adkom

Insider’s take: Here’s a promising development to bring large national advertisers onto the Blip self service out of home advertising platform. New York (January 27, 2020) – Cedric Bernard, ex co-CEO of Kinetic North America, has partnered with Blip, North America’s most successful self-serve OOH advertising marketplace, to form the […]

Branded Cities Appoints Kronengold as Chief Brand Officer

NEW YORK– Branded Cities today announced that it has named Vivien Kronengold as the Chief Brand Officer, a newly created position, reporting directly to Vaibhav Gupta, EVP/Chief Operating Officer.   Ms. Kronengold will be responsible for driving initiatives that re-position the company beyond OOH, as a premier, full-service sales, marketing and […]