Neil Bell just interviewed Grace Outdoor owners Hal and Diana Stevenson on the Bell Board Podcast. Some highlights. Where Grace Outdoor comes from I can’t not say it — we’ve got a strong faith. “Grace” is the one word. In the billboard business you use as few words as possible, […]
Podcasts
Rachel Rogers and Ian Dallimore on Getting in the Room
Lamar Advertising VP of Digital Growth Ian Dallimore interviewed Rachel Roger, VP of National Sales on the Digital and Dirt Podcast. Some highlights. Rachel almost wasn’t hired by Lamar Shout out to John Miller! So when I interviewed with John, I was in radio sales — fresh out of college, […]
John Murrow on having an equity fund for a partner
On this week’s Bell Board Podcast Trailhead Media CEO John Murrow talks about the pros and cons of having an equity fund as a business partner. Trailhead Media is backed by Viking Global Investors. What’s Viking like as a partner? Having Viking is a partner has been really good for […]
John Murrow on converting statics to digital billboards
On this week’s Bell Board podcast Trailhead CEO John Murrow talked about digital billboards. Digital billboards account for 305 of Trailhead’s 3,300 faces. How do you decide when to upgrade from a static to digital So for us to convert a static to a digital, we want it to […]
John Murrow on managing lease costs
Neil Bell of the Bell Board Podcast released a podcast interview with Trailhead CEO John Murrow this week. We will run excerpts from the podcast. Today Murrow talks about managing lease costs.. Getting started in out of home. I started with Adams Outdoor as a real estate rep. Soon moved […]
The Walgreens Rule for Sign Development
Justin Booher of Vital Outdoor appeared this week on Neil Bell’s Bell Board Podcast. Some of the highlights. Find a good banker and stick with them. You could probably write a book on billboard bank financing. Banks are very friendly when you’re getting into the business, and then a couple […]
Street Furniture Product Update: What OOH Media Owners Should Know
Street furniture continues to be a flexible and valuable format in out of home advertising. In the Daktronics podcast Street Furniture Product Update with Lori Sieler, Lori Sieler, Project Manager at Daktronics, shares what street furniture is, what’s new with the product, and how media owners can use it to […]
Using AI in Out of Home
Billboard Insider’s Dave Westburg was a guest on the Bell Board Podcast last week. Here’s part of the conversation where Bell Board podcast host Neil Bell and Dave discuss how they are using AI in the out of home business: Are you using AI to run your business? I’ve been […]
Four Errors Out of Home Companies Make
Neil Bell has started a new Billboard Industry podcast called The Bell Board Podcast. You can find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or the usual podcast outlets or by subscribing to the Bell Board Podcast on youtube. Billboard Insider Co-Publisher Dave Westburg was Bell’s first guest. Dave talked about four […]
Lamar’s Hal Kilshaw talks politics and digital billboards
Ian Dallimore interviewed Hal Kilshaw Lamar’s EVP Government Relations on the Digital and Dirt podcast. Here the highlights. Lamar’s Decentralized Approach to Government Relations Lamar does it a little bit differently than the other 2 big billboard companies …because we grew up as a company in smaller markets…we’ve tended to […]



















