Finance

Clear Channel Outdoor Outperforms Expectations for Third Quarter 2020

Clear Channel Outdoor announced better than expected third quarter 2020 results due to a rebound in Europe.  Here are the results of the earnings release, earnings presentation and conference call. Revenue declined 32% to $448 million in the third quarter of 2020 versus a decline of 55% during the second […]

JCDecaux Revenue Down 41% in 3Q 2020

Insider has two thoughts about last Friday’s JCDecaux third quarter earnings announcement. Billboards and street furniture are rebounding from covid the fastest. JCDecaux revenue was down 41% in the 3rd quarter of 2020.  The worst impact of covid was on the company’s transit business which is down 52%.  Covid needs to […]

Lamar Revenue Down 15% in Third Quarter 2020

Lamar is recovering from covid faster than OUTFRONT, Clear Channel Outdoor or JCDecaux and will aggressively deploy digital billboards in 2021.  Here are the results of the Lamar 3rd quarter earnings release and conference call. Revenues declined 15% to $386 million during the third quarter of 2020.  This was an […]

Outfront Revenue Down 39% for Third Quarter 2020

Not good, but improving is how Insider summarizes OUTFRONT’s third quarter 2020 earnings.  Here are the results from OUTFRONT’s 3Q 2020 earnings release, earnings deck and conference call. Revenues declined 39% to $282 million during the third quarter of 2020 as primarily because transit revenues are lagging due to low […]

A Private Equity View of Out of Home

On this week’s Billboard Insider podcast private equity investor Ken Anderson talked about why he likes out of home and mistakes out of home entrepreneurs make when approaching private equity investors. How do you evaluate the strengths and risks of out of home from an equity perspective. We like the […]

Vibenomics Closes $6.5M in Funding

Funds support continued innovation and expansion for Audio Out-of-Home™ Solution October 28, 2020 06:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vibenomics, a location-based Audio Out-of-Home™ (AOOH) advertising and experience company, today announced $6.5 million in Series A2 funding to support the launch of additional national networks in convenience stores and grocery […]

Boston Omaha Announces Closing of $125 Million IPO

Boston Omaha Corporation announced  that Yellowstone Acquisition Company (“Yellowstone”) closed its initial public offering (the “IPO”) of 12,500,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit, resulting in gross proceeds of $125,000,000. The units began trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC (“NASDAQ”) under the ticker symbol “YSACU” on October […]

Are Out of Home Clients Taking Longer to Pay?

Lamar Advertising recently amended the terms of its $175 million accounts receivable securitization program.  The amendment caught insider’s eye.  Here’s the disclosure language. The Amendment increases the maximum three month average Delinquency Ratio generally to 13.00%, and up to 16.00% for up to two additional periods upon written notice from […]

Newly Formed Billboard Firm Makes First Acquisition

TierOne Media, LLC, announced it has acquired out of home billboard assets from multiple owners in the Greater Pensacola, Florida, Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama markets. Mostly large scale digital, the assets consist of 38 faces on 20 steel structures at strategic street and highway locations. In addition, TierOne acquired fully […]