Business

Here’s To The New Year!

It has been quite a year! Lots of loss and challenges and our prayers to everyone who has struggled or lost love ones as a result of the pandemic. We also have seen the OOH industry come together, share information, support each other and find some successes during a very […]

Company of the Day – RiseUp Outdoor

Company: RiseUp Outdoor Headquarters: 3245 Peachtree Parkway, Ste. D-111, Suwanee, GA 30024 Market: Lake Lanier, Georgia Telephone: 678-888-4855 Email: stevesarkady@gmail.com RiseUp Outdoor specializes in hi-definition billboards located in the Lake Lanier region in Buford, Georgia. RiseUp’s signs are strategically located on heavily traveled I-985 showing to traffic heading from the Atlanta metro […]

SignValue’s 2021 Out of Home Forecast with Paul Wright and Carson Frost

Today’s podcast guests are Paul Wright and Carson Frost from SignValue, the out of home appraiser and broker. Some highlights from the conversation. Are we seeing 8-14 times cashflow trading multiples in this recession? Yea.  Those multiples have held fairly constant…We’re talking about stabilized cashflows, not current cashflows. Five Trends […]

In Memoriam – Bob Connors

On Monday we ran a post celebrating out of home leaders who had passed away in 2020.  We left out Bob Connors of Mid America Outdoor Advertising.  Bob passed away suddenly last March at the age of 55. Bob started Mid America Outdoor out of college in the late 80’s […]

Company of the Day: Regency Outdoor

Company: Regency Outdoor Advertising Markets: California Headquarters:  8820 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, CA  90069 Phone: 310-657-8883 Email: sales@regencyoutdoor.com Regency outdoor advertising is a privately held company which operates a plant of billboards and spectaculars in Southern California.  The company is owned by Brian and Drake Kennedy.  In July 2018 Regency sold 35 billboards along the […]

Independents Account for 29% of US Bulletin/Poster Market

Readers expressed skepticism about this slide in an OUTFRONT investor presentation showing independent out of home companies accounted for 34% of 2019 US Out of Home revenues.  The OUTFRONT slide cited OAAA revenue estimates.  Insider reviewed the numbers with the OAAA.  The OAAA’s revenue figures include not just roadside bulletins […]

Company of the Day – Revelation Outdoor Management

Company: Revelation Outdoor Management Headquarters: 420 South Hill Street, Buford, GA 30518 Markets: Georgia, South Carolina Phone: 770-831-3984 Email: morganh@revelationom.com Revelation Outdoor comprises two companies, Trinity & Diamond Outdoor.  Founded in 1997 by Morgan Hudgens and Senator Ralph Hudgens, Diamond Outdoor currently operates just over 100 faces in metro Atlanta and […]

In Memoriam 2020 – Remembering Colleagues, Mentors and Friends

As the year closes, the billboard industry recalls leaders who passed away in 2020, and honors their memory. Insider lists some of the colleagues we lost in 2020, and asks readers to add to this (alpha) list: Jeff Bohnert (April 20) was president and general manager of DSW Signs based […]

Feedback on Who Has What Market Share

In last week’s Who Has What Market Share  Billboard Insider referred to a slide from an OUTFRONT Media investor presentation suggesting that independent out of home companies account for 34% of US out of home market revenues. Justin Powell of Huntington Outdoor wonders if the independent’s share of the market […]

Company of the Day: Riley Outdoor

Company:  Riley Outdoor Headquarters:  704C Plaza Blvd. #106, Kinston, NC 28501 Markets: North Carolina  Phone: 252-527-2223 Email: RobertMoore@RileyOutdoor.com Riley Outdoor was formed in August 2005 and owns a 190 face billboard plant in eastern North Carolina.  Robert Moore is President.  The company is named after Moore’s daughter Riley.  Robert Moore also […]