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Jeremy Male: Q2 Revenues will be Down 50%

OUTFRONT CEO Jeremy Male said that second quarter revenue will be down 50% as OUTFRONT’s urban and transit billboard plant is heavily impacted by stay at home orders.  Here are the highlights of last Friday’s earnings call. On future revenues As we look at Q2 to date, we expect our […]

Sean Reilly on what’s up and what’s down.

On last week’s earnings call Sean Reilly reviewed Lamar’s top verticals: Our top three verticals are service, hospitals and restaurants.  1,2 and 3 are looking strong…Service is primarily attorneys.  We’re getting a lot of inbound from attorneys…There are other services – things like pest control, home and office cleaning…and we’re […]

Company of the Day: Highway Displays

Company: Highway Displays Outdoor Market: New York Headquarters: 404 Maple Street, Poughkeepsie, NY  12601 Phone: 845-452-2121 Email: info@highwaydisplays.com Highway Outdoor has over 420 static and digital billboards in the mid-Hudson valley.  The company was founded by Louis Schwartz, a Hungarian immigrant in 1918.  The company has 15 employees.  Sandra Schwartz […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds May 9, 2020

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “Thanks to you and your website I’ve hired a General Manager.  We received several qualified applicants in response to our Billboard Insider classified”  Justin Powell, Owner, Huntington Outdoor “I bought my General Liability from Stu at Bassler and Co that I learned about on Billboard Insider.  I told […]

America Reopening – Average Travel Miles up 28% over 3 Weeks

As states continue to push towards reopening, the average number of daily miles traveled has increased for 3 consecutive weeks, up 28% since the week of April 6. Week over week, miles traveled increased 9% during the week of 4/27 (12.5 miles) compared to the week of 4/20 (11.5 miles). […]

Geopath and PMD Present Hyper Local Seminar on May 20

  In the immediate post-Covid-19 world, travel & tourism is gone. People are moving about in smaller areas, trips are shorter.  Local residents, businesses, and neighborhoods will drive the advertising recovery, and the OOH industry itself. Please join us for a lively discussion moderated by Geopath’s Kym Frank,with panelists representing […]

Company of the Day: Harvest Outdoor

Company: Harvest Outdoor Markets: Illinois Headquarters: 2516 Waukegan Road, PMB 350, Glenview, Illinois  60025-1774 Phone: 847-509-8876 Email: info@harvestoutdoor.com Harvest Outdoor operates a wall and billboard plant in Chicago.  Mike McHugh is the company’s owner.  He started the company in 1998 after a stint as a special projects coordinator for the City of Chicago. One of […]

OAAA Adds LaFoy, Maher, McCaffrey and Peppers to Board

May 7, 2020 (Washington, DC) – The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) announced today it has appointed four advertising industry innovators to its Board of Directors. Each new member of OAAA’s Board of Directors is a pioneer in the out of home (OOH) industry, all contributing to […]

Lewis Manderson, RIP

Industry legend Lewis Manderson Jr. has passed away.  He was 94.  Manderson founded and ran the out of home advertising company Creative Displays Inc. for over 20 years.  After selling the company he was involved investment and charitable activities.  The University of Alabama’s Manderson Graduate School of Business and the […]

Company of the Day – Grey Outdoor

Company: Grey Outdoor Headquarters: Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina Markets: North Carolina, South Carolina Email: grey@greyoutdoor.com Phone: 910-620-5168 Grey Vick is a friend of  and regular contributor to Billboard Insider. We thought it would be nice to sit down with Grey and have him share about his business Grey Outdoor. Grey, […]