Clear Channel announced better than expected financials yesterday. Here’s a summary from the CCO 2Q 21 earnings release, earnings deck and conference call. Revenue increased by 69% to $531 million during the second quarter of 2021. Americas revenue grew 36% during the second quarter of 2021, due to digital billboard growth. […]
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JC Decaux Reports Half Year Results
JC Decaux released their financial results for the first half of 2021. Most interesting was their adjusted revenue results that they provided by category and geography: Insider’s Take: Street Furniture, their largest revenue segment, has seen the strongest overall rebound, with Transportation advertising the slowest to recover. Insider was […]
Netflix Makes Splash in Times Square
Netflix is making a splash in Times Square for its Outer Banks Season 2 premier. Today Netflix will stun visitors as the first advertiser in Times Square to employ anamorphic illusion technology in a digital out-of-home (OOH) campaign. As advertisers seek new ways to breakthrough and connect with consumers, […]
Updated Company of the Day: Arthur Outdoor
We featured Arthur Outdoor as our company of the day Wed but James Douglas has updated us on several new developments at the company so we are rerunning them today. Company: Arthur Outdoor Markets: Georgia Headquarters: Rome, Georgia Phone: 706-512-0620 Email: jdouglas@arthuroutdoor.com Arthur Outdoor was founded in 2017 by James and Samuel Douglas. The company […]
The Best Time to Make a Sales Call
John Arnold is the owner of Arnold Outdoor and a co-founder of the Independent Billboard Operators. He’s able to pack lots of wisdom into a few words. See Arnold’s Four Rules for Outdoor Operators. Today John gives tips on out of home sales. On making the next call right after a closing. […]
3 Billboard Design Best Practices with Todd Turner
By Barker & Christol Todd Turner AKA “The Billboard Guy.” Or, Todd The Billboard Guy Turner. Or, TTBG. Okay, enough of that. He hates it when we call him the Billboard Guy. But what can we say? He is. Todd Turner is our resident Art Director and creative extraordinaire. He comes […]
Lucit Focused on Real Estate and Retail
Lucit sends big-ticket inventory from realtors, auto dealers, ag dealers and recreational dealers directly to digital billboards in real time. Billboard Insider talked with Lucit’s CTO Eric Kubiwschta. How did Covid impact your business. We essentially began building our product a few months before Covid hit. Our initial target was […]
A Good Source For Paper Poster Glue?
A reader asks: “Do you know any providers of glue for those in the business still using paper posters?” If you know of a source please email davewestburg@billboardinsider.com or use the form below. We’ll publish the results. [wpforms id=”56020″] Paid Advertisement
Company of the Day – Arrington Outdoor Advertising
Company: Arrington Outdoor Advertising Markets: Texas, Arkansas, Phoenix AZ Headquarters: 2002 S. Stemmons Frwy, Suite 100 Lake Dallas, Texas 75065 Phone: (800) 500-6772 Email: info@arringtonoutdoor.com Arrington Outdoor Advertising was founded in the late 90’s by David Arrington and Mike Wolverton. The partners believed with David’s oil & gas experience and Mike’s real estate […]
Jonathan Gudai says with a return of audiences there is a return of dollars.
On today’s Billboard Insider podcast Adomni founder Jonathan Gudai talks about how out of home is recovering and what he thinks of the capital flowing into programmatic out of home. Here are the highlights. How is out of home recovering from covid? We feel like we are back right now. […]