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2020’s Most Read Articles By Category

Curious which of Billboard Insiders’ articles were read the most during 2020?  We’ve broken it down by category. Billboard Insider broke the news when Jesse London’s TierOne Media entered the out of home business.  This was our most read business and finance article. Newly Formed Billboard Firm Makes First Acquisition.  […]

Rate this Ad by Greg Callaham

Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a random piece of billboard artwork 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 […]

Company of the Day: Riviera Billboards

Company:  Riviera Billboards Markets:  Alabama Address:  15810-A State Highway 59, Foley, AL  36535 Phone: 251-978-2462 Rivera Billboards owns and operates a digital billboard and static billboards in Summerdale AL on the way to the beaches.  Don Stafford is a co-owner of the company.   [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Billboard Insider Classifieds January 2, 2021

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “We got a big boost in qualified applicants from running our ad on your site.”  Rodney Davis, Transformation Media “Thanks to you and your website I’ve hired a General Manager.  We received several qualified applicants in response to our Billboard Insider classified”  Justin Powell, Owner, Huntington Outdoor […]

Here’s To The New Year!

It has been quite a year! Lots of loss and challenges and our prayers to everyone who has struggled or lost love ones as a result of the pandemic. We also have seen the OOH industry come together, share information, support each other and find some successes during a very […]

Company of the Day – RiseUp Outdoor

Company: RiseUp Outdoor Headquarters: 3245 Peachtree Parkway, Ste. D-111, Suwanee, GA 30024 Market: Lake Lanier, Georgia Telephone: 678-888-4855 Email: stevesarkady@gmail.com RiseUp Outdoor specializes in hi-definition billboards located in the Lake Lanier region in Buford, Georgia. RiseUp’s signs are strategically located on heavily traveled I-985 showing to traffic heading from the Atlanta metro […]

SignValue’s 2021 Out of Home Forecast with Paul Wright and Carson Frost

Today’s podcast guests are Paul Wright and Carson Frost from SignValue, the out of home appraiser and broker. Some highlights from the conversation. Are we seeing 8-14 times cashflow trading multiples in this recession? Yea.  Those multiples have held fairly constant…We’re talking about stabilized cashflows, not current cashflows. Five Trends […]

In Memoriam – Bob Connors

On Monday we ran a post celebrating out of home leaders who had passed away in 2020.  We left out Bob Connors of Mid America Outdoor Advertising.  Bob passed away suddenly last March at the age of 55. Bob started Mid America Outdoor out of college in the late 80’s […]

Company of the Day: Regency Outdoor

Company: Regency Outdoor Advertising Markets: California Headquarters:  8820 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, CA  90069 Phone: 310-657-8883 Email: sales@regencyoutdoor.com Regency outdoor advertising is a privately held company which operates a plant of billboards and spectaculars in Southern California.  The company is owned by Brian and Drake Kennedy.  In July 2018 Regency sold 35 billboards along the […]

The Lesson of 2020 for the Out of Home Industry

Remember last March when it was fashionable to show pictures of empty streets and some media pundits thought that out of home would be crippled and crushed by the pandemic?  The hysteria peaked March 23, 2020.  And if you kept your cool and you purchased out of home stock you […]