Company: Conlee Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 13407 Raphael Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 93306 Market: Bakersfield, CA Phone: 661-549-1792 Email: shelli@conleeoutdoor.com We caught up with Conlee Outdoor General Manager, Shelli Carlovsky, for a conversation about the business. Shelli Carlovsky, General Manager Shelli, can you tell us about your background and how it led […]
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SignValue’s OUTFRONT Media at at Glance – 2Q 2025
SignValue has prepared the following analysis of OUTFRONT Media’s 2Q 2025 financials. If you have questions, contact one of SignValue’s experienced analysts for a free and confidential consultation at info@signvalue.com or call 480-657-8400 To receive a free morning newsletter with each day’s Billboard insider articles email info@billboardinsider.com with the word […]
Debt Costs Stable at Public Out of Home Companies
Moorgate Capital Partners produces an outstanding quarterly report on the the of home advertising industry. Here are some charts from Moorgate’s 2Q 2025 report. Clear Channel’s debt costs about 200-250 basis points more than OUTFRONT or Lamar due to high leverage. Clear Channel Outdoor has the highest leverage with debt/cashflow […]
Jason Duff on Getting Started in Out of Home
Company: Comstor Outdoor Markets: Indiana and Ohio. Headquarters: 9016 St Route 117, Box 151 Huntsville, Ohio 43324-0151. Phone: 888-354-2591 Email: office@comstoroutdoor.com Jason Duff is a classic entrepreneur. He’s grown Comstor Outdoor to 450 faces since starting the business in 2001. In addition to Comstor, Duff owns a community storage business and the Small […]
Whistler Billboards Makes Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies
NEW YORK, August 12, 2025 – Inc., the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future, announced that Whistler Billboards is on the annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list provides a data-driven snapshot […]
Rate This Ad by Greg Callaham
Rate This Ad 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 week’s rating is […]
Roy Park on Building Loyalty and Moving from Success to Significance
Roy Park Jr, the owner of Park Outdoor has issued a new edition of Sons in the Shadow – Surviving The Family Business as an SOB. We talked with Park about running a family owned business. Roy, what do you know now about out of home that you wish you […]
Guess Who’s Buying Lamar Stock?
Warren Buffet likes Lamar. Buffet’s company Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it has taken a $142 million position in Lamar stock based on the August 2025 13F filing. CNBC has picked up the story as well. This isn’t the first Buffet to invest in out of home. Warren Buffet’s grandnephew Alex […]
Company of the Day: Coastal Outdoor
Company: Coastal Outdoor Markets: North Carolina, South Carolina. Address: 7421 N Kings Hwy, Myrtle Beach, SC. 29572 Phone: 843-692-2334 Coastal Outdoor operates a plant with 800 total faces, including 32 digital billboard faces in North and South Carolina including Myrtle Beach/Florence, Charleston and Wilmington. The company was founded in 1996 Pudge […]
Sean Reilly on Integrating Acquisitions
On last week’s earnings call Lamar CEO Sean Reilly was asked about how Lamar integrates acquisitions and he said this: When it’s a fill-in the expense synergies happen extremely quickly…on a fill in deal we’re just buying billboard structures, billboard permits, advertising contracts and ground leases and we don’t need […]