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Branded Cities Hires Paul Rivera

Branded Cities has hired Paul Rivera as director of real estate development in Los Angeles.  Paul will be heading up Branded Cities’ continued expansion of its existing high profile digital and large format static inventory in the greater LA market.  Paul brings a wealth of real estate and OOH experience […]

Company of the Day: Orion Outdoor

Company: Orion Outdoor Markets: California, Nevada Headquarters: PO Box 6341 Folsom, CA  95763 Phone:  800-272-3885 Orion Outdoor owns a billboard and bus shelter outdoor advertising plant in Folsom and El Dorado Counties in California and billboards in Las Vegas and Southern California.  The firm’s CEO is Beau Palley.  He originally entered the business in […]

Erika Goldberg on Automating Clear Channel Outdoor

During last week’s Clear Channel Outdoor Investor Day, Erika Goldberg, Clear Channel Outdoor Chief of Business Operations talked about the steps she’s taken to improve and automate the company’s operations. The old way of doing business. When I joined Clear Channel my immediate focus was on all of our workflows, […]

SignBird Tuesday Tip: What Makes a Good Video of Your Billboard?

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million. Taking videos of your inventory is the easiest way to showcase just how great your inventory actually is. Videos show everything an advertiser would need to know: what the traffic looks like, what the board […]

Intersection and MBTA to Install Digital Kiosks with Real Time Bus and Transit Info

BOSTON – September 7, 2022 – The MBTA announced today the installation of its first interactive Information Kiosk, part of a state-of-the-art, street furniture network across the Greater Boston region. This is part of an ongoing co-investment between the MBTA and Intersection, an out of home media company, to enhance […]

Company of the Day – Orlando Outdoor

Company:  Orlando Outdoor LLC Markets: Florida Address: 4815 New Broad Street, Suite 2031, Orlando, FL 32814 Phone: 877-314-4567 Email: sales@orlandooutdoor.com Orlando Outdoor operates an Out of Home plant with 46 digital, static and trivision billboard locations around Orlando, Lakeland, Winter Haven, Davenport and Sebring Florida. Ryan Deming is the firm’s […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Projects 4-6% Annual Revenue Growth for 2022-2025

A team of Clear Channel Outdoor execs provided a detailed review of Clear Channel Outdoor’s operations and strategy at last week’s Clear Channel Outdoor Investor Day.  Here are the financial highlights from the investor day press release, investor day powerpoint and 2.5 hour investor day livestream.   We’ll review the operating, […]

W351 Offers Billboard Antenna Solution

W351  is a 25 year old out of home company which has patented a solution to install cellular antennas inside billboards.  Here are links to the company’s US patent and Billboard Antenna Powerpoint.  Billboard Insider talked to Andres Masco, the company’s US business development representative. Your powerpoint shows several installed […]

Rate this Ad by Wes Frick

Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a random billboard ad using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This week’s rating is provided by […]

Company of the Day: Omaha Bus Bench

Company: Omaha Bus Bench Market:  Nebraska Address: 17410 Storage Road Suite A, Omaha, NE. 68136 Email:  digital@bestbuysigns.net Phone: 402-861-0384 Omaha Bus Bench operates a bus bench advertising plant with 500 locations in Omaha, Nebraska.   The company is more than 30 years old.  Jim Paulison is the owner.  Paulison also owns […]