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Ultravision, Clear Channel Outdoor Partner on Multi-Million Dollar Energy-Saving Initiative LED Lighting

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Ultravision International, a leading innovator, manufacturer and distributor of LED displays and LED lighting, partnered with Clear Channel Outdoor Americas on an LED installation project that drove significant operating savings. The project included revamping 11,000 display panels in 10 major U.S. cities with LED lights that cut energy consumption by more than […]

Company of the Day: Orange Barrel Media

Company:  Orange Barrel Media Markets: Nationwide Headquarters: 250 North Hartford Ave, Columbus, OH  43222 Phone:  614-294-4898 Orange Barrel Media designs and operates high profile advertising displays and smart city kiosks in multiple cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Wash DC, Denver, Charlotte, Nashville, Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati.  The firm was started in 2003.  Pete Scantland […]

Keeping in Touch with Customers and Prospects

Sales guru Jeffrey Gitomer thinks the biggest corporate failure in America is ineptitude in communicating with customers with anything other than a sales message (The Little Red Book of Sales Answers, page 98). This email newsletter from Kegerreis Outdoor Advertising shows how to communicate with clients and prospects.  It informs […]

Stokely Outdoor Growing

Insider received a press release from Stokely Outdoor announcing 36 new billboards which have 144 faces across Oklahoma.  Insider talked with Sam Stokely about the company’s growth. Did your growth come via new build and/or acquisitions? These are all new builds signs. Solid steel structures with hurricane frames for faces […]

Geopath Market Spotlight: Shreveport

Did you know: The Louisiana State Exhibit Museum is a popular landmark within Shreveport. Shreveport Municipal Auditorium is regarded as home to Elvis Presley’s first performances. This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses on the Shreveport DMA. Infographics for the top DMAs and much more are available to Geopath members in […]

Women Directors in OOH

Women over-index on the public out of home advertising boards versus the Fortune 500.  Here are the numbers for Lamar, Outfront, Clear Channel Outdoor and JC Decaux. Women account for 32% of the board of directors for the four public out of home companies versus 11% of the typical S&P […]

Ro’s Rob Schutz on Out of Home

Rob Schutz, co-founder and CRO for Ro, the healthcare startup, was interviewed last week on the Making Marketing podcast.  He likes out of home although Insider thinks he takes too limited a view of out of home’s capabilities.   Shutz’s comments are at the 16 minute mark of the 32 minute […]

The Billboard Insider Podcast

  Several readers have asked Insider to do a podcast.  We listened.  Next week we launch the Billboard Insider Podcast.  We will do 20-30 minute bi-weekly interviews with key out of home executives.  We’d love to hear feedback or interview suggestions.  Email us at billboardinsider@gmail.com or use the form below. […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds February 9, 2019

“The response has been excellent.  Excellent investment.”  Out of home broker Stephen Minnich. “…we have received no less than 15 responses the ad you ran for us to sell our Quad Cities billboard plant…”  David Buring “FYI, today we got two requests from out of home companies to sign up.  […]