Despite higher gas prices, airfares, interest rates and inflation, the wave of travel that emerged as the impacts of the pandemic eased has shown no signs of abating. With Memorial Day and the official start of summer officially upon us, all signs and survey results point to record, or near […]
Company: Media Choice Market: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Illinois. Headquarters: 3701 Bee Caves Road, Austin Texas 78746 Phone: 512-693-9905 Email: info@mediachoice.com Media Choice owns and operates over 400 structures with 1,300 static and digital faces in Central, South and East Texas as well as faces in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and the Chicago DMA. The company […]
Here are a selection of Lamar CEO Sean Reilly’s comments at yesterday’s 52nd annual JP Morgan 2024 Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference. Mainstreet is healthy. Mainstreet is healthy. That’s the take home message. Last year I was only getting questions about how Lamar does in a recession. All those […]
Billboard Insider polled readers on their experience with the automated out of home sales platforms (e.g. Adomni, Adquick, Blip, Place Exchange, OneScreen.ai, Vistar). Some interesting findings. 90% our readers use one or more of the automated sales platforms. This number is higher than Billboard Insider expected. 68% of our poll […]
Billboard Insider was interviewed by a group of Tulane undergraduate B-school students (picture above) who did a valuation and research report on Lamar. They rate Lamar as market perform with a 12 month target price of $117.00. The group’s investment thesis (see below) notes Lamar’s steady dividends, reduced acquisitions and […]
What can AI do for the out-of-home industry, with $10 billion of annual planned media data? Imagine: you’re sitting at your desk, or in your spare bedroom, or wherever flips your company’s switch these days. You’ve got a quick turnaround on a brief for your most demanding client, and you […]
Vehicle miles travelled improved by 0.7% to 275.5 billion miles during the month of March 2024 according to the FHWA March 2024 Travel Volume Trends. Here’s the data. The South Atlantic states were the only part of the United States to see a traffic decline. Here’s a chart showing how […]
Vistar co-founder and CEO Michael Provenzano will discuss the potential for Out of Home to go beyond local audiences and mine significant revenue opportunities on an international scale at the World Out of home Organization Global Congress in Hong Kong from June 5-7. He will provide a comprehensive guide to […]
Company: Meadow Outdoor Markets: Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho Headquarters: PO Box 331, The Dalles, OR 97058 Phone: 800-221-4114 Email: meadow@meadowoutdoor.com Meadow Outdoor is a family-owned which operates over 1,100 faces including 18 digital faces in 4 western states. The firm started by Joe Zukin in 1968. Joe Zukin died on December 4, 2018. […]
Yesterday Boston Omaha Corporation released its 2023 Annual Letter. It is blissfully free of the fuzzy-management-consulting-speak which clogs many public company annual reports and letters. Here are three things about Link Media Outdoor (Boston Omaha’s out of home subsidiary) which SignValue learned from reading the Boston Omaha 2023 Annual Letter. […]
