“The streaming services know they have to break through with consumers” says Clear Channel Outdoor Chief Revenue Officer Bob McCuin in Bloomberg’s Billboards Love Streaming Wars Because That’s where Ads End up. The Bloomberg thesis is that out of home is a clear winner in the streaming services wars as […]
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Landmark Shifting Away from Site Acquisitions
Landmark has shifted from lease and easement purchases to higher return, higher growth development initiatives. Here are the results from the third quarter 2019 earnings release and earnings call. Revenue declined by by $3.1 million (17%) to $14.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2019 due to the […]
Rate This Board by Greg Callaham
Rate This Board allows a billboard designer to rate a random piece of billboard artwork using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This weeks rating is […]
Vistar Media Named “Best Ad Platform” by Street Fight
New York, NY, November 14, 2019 – Vistar Media, the global leader in programmatic technology for digital out-of-home (DOOH), today announced it was awarded “Best Advertising Platform” for the 2019 Street Fight Innovator Awards. Vistar Media was selected for its demand-side platform (DSP) that unifies workflows for buying DOOH and offers […]
Company of the Day: Big Easy Billbaords
Company: Big Easy Billboards Market: Louisiana Address: 400 Poydras, Suite 900, New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-930-4161 Email: info@bigeasybillboards.com Big Easy Billboards operates a a fleet of mobile billboard trucks in Louisiana. The company is owned by KL Media Group and is a member of the OAAA. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid […]
Eccleshare: Out of Home is a GDP Plus Performer
William Eccleshare talked about Clear Channel Outdoor’s growth prospects, plans to reduce leverage and China at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference this week. A selection of his comments. On out of home’s growth prospects. We see outdoor as being a GDP plus performer…Nothing that I can see…in […]
More Out of Home Conference Rooms
Last week Insider did a post on Durden Outdoor’s conference room. We received lots of conference room pics. Here are our favorites. Roland Digital Media’s Cookeville, TN office is filled with old ad memorabilia. The conference room table was originally an off-premise billboard. It advertised the Jaycees world championship rodeo […]
Daily Billboards 3 of a Kind: License Plates
As Los Angeles can be described as the epitome of car culture, it’s no wonder that some advertisers use motoring-themed designs to catch commuters attention. Here are three examples of billboards using vehicle license plate concepts to help their messages stand out. First up is this attention-grabbing cause-related ‘GNTRIFIED’ ad creative […]
Company of the Day: Bender Billboard
Company: Bender Billboard Markets: New Mexico Phone: 575-390-3950 Email: BenderBillboard@live.com Bender Billboard operates a billboard plant in Hobbs, New Mexico, including a digital billboard and and a trivision. Bobby Pennell is the firm’s owner and president. The firm was the subject of a September 2009 Signs of the Times article. [wpforms id=”9787″] […]
Senior Debt at OUTFRONT, Lamar, Clear Channel and Link Media
This week OUTFRONT Media issued $500 million of 4.625% senior notes to retire $450 million of 5.875% notes. Insider thought you might want to see how this note issue stacks up with the senior debt of the other public out of home companies. As you can see from the debt […]























