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Clear Channel Outdoor Appoints Kim Bradley as Regional President – Midwest

Chicago, IL – Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) (NYSE: CCO), an indirect subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc., today announced it has hired Kim Bradley as Regional President for its Midwest Region, reporting to Gene Leehan, Executive Vice President and Senior Regional President, Clear Channel Outdoor. Ms. Bradley joins CCO from Comcast Spotlight and […]

Out of home advertising up 3.8% in Q3 2018

December 3, 2018 (Washington, DC) – Out of home (OOH) advertising revenue rose 3.8 percent in the third quarter of 2018 compared to the previous year, accounting for $1.85 billion, based on figures released by the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA). Year-to-date, the OOH industry is up 3.7 percent. “OOH […]

Company of the Day – Liquid Outdoor

Company: Liquid Outdoor Headquarters: 417 5th Avenue, Suite 812, New York, NY 10016 Markets: New York Los Angeles Chicago Boston Kansas City Baltimore Miami Philadelphia Washington DC/Hagerstown Louisville Phone: 800-301-9539 Liquid Outdoor was formed in 2009, when the Managing Partners, Patrick Sherry and Paul Ducharme, made the strategic decision to merge their […]

Billboards of the Past Specializes in Vintage Billboards.

Want to see vitage billboard designs?  Billboards of the Past is the place to go.  The Milwaukee, Oregon company is run by Sharon and Randy Littlefield.  They have an inventory of more than 3,200 actual vintage paper billboards for sale from the days when paper billboard designs were were pasted […]

Company of the Day: Lightpoint Impressions

Company:  Lightpoint Impressions, LLC Markets:  Oklahoma, Texas Address: Charlottesville, VA Phone: 214-348-4317 Lightpoint Impressions operates a 14 by 48 trivision in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and a 14 by 48 trivision in El Paso Texas.  Chris Kopf and Don Woodsmall are the firm’s principals according to Linked In. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds December 1, 2018

“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.  […]

Billboard Advertising Works

Billboard advertising works.  Watch this 2 minute video in which The Wall Street Journal’s Rolfe Winkler interviews Henrique Dubugras, CEO of the startup Brex about his $300,000 Bay Area billboard buy. Winkler: How many of you know this billboard…An investor I was speaking to said this was the best investment […]

IBOUSA Vendor Expansion

By Chris Cowlbeck, General Manager, Independent Billboard Operators IBOUSA has grown over the last decade and started out as a networking group set up as a business that operates on a not-for-profit basis that focuses on the narrow interests of our associates.  Along the way, we added some vendor/supplier/consultants to […]

Company of the Day: Legends Outdoor

Company: Legends Outdoor Market: Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia Email:ssnyder@legendsoutdoor.com, stevesarkady@gmail.com Phone: 410-489-4723 Legends Outdoor operates a billboard plant with more than 100 digital faces and 30 static faces in Maryland, Southeastern and South Central Pennsylvania and Eastern West Virginia.  The company’s coverage includes the city of Morgantown, West Virginia.  Insider talked with Steve Snyder, […]

Buzzfeed’s Craig Silverman on Online Ad Fraud

Tuesday’s news that the FBI busted cybercriminals for using 1.7 million infected PC’s, 5,000 counterfeit websites and 60,000 digital advertising accounts to get paid for face digital ad placements highlights the prevalence of digital ad fraud.  Craig Silverman, Buzzfeed’s Media Editor did a Digiday podcast interview on ad fraud this week […]