Today’s podcast guest is Scott Lafoy a 35 year out of home veteran and CEO of Link Media Outdoor says Link Media is always looking for acquisitions and it’s looking now. Here are the highlights of our conversation. Talk about your career and why you came to Link Media. I […]
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Geopath Updates DMA reports
Geopath’s DMA report dated 8/10/2020 shows that average daily miles travelled for July 27-August 2, 2020 is flat or slightly up in 115 markets and down slightly in 95 markets. In most markets average daily miles travelled is close to normal. Here’s the graph for Chicago. The Geopath report […]
Oprah and Animal Rights Group Know How to Communicate
Two current examples of Outdoor as a communication and free speech platform come courtesy of media mogul Oprah Winfrey and animal rights advocates LA Animal Save and The Animal Alliance. This month, Oprah Winfrey did something she had never done before. She dedicated the cover of The Oprah Magazine to […]
Company of the Day – M&M Outdoor
Company: M&M Outdoor Inc. Headquarters: 6473 Cherokee Drive, Indian Head Park, IL 60525 Market: Chicago, Illinois Phone: 708.784.0886 M&M Outdoor offers 23 Billboard locations & wallscapes all around the metro Chicago, Illinois area. Their inventory includes locations near Wrigley Field and the United Center. M&M Outdoor is a member of Geopath and OAAA. […]
Eccleshare: We expect to be down in the low thirties third quarter.
Who would think that the management of a major public out of home company would celebrate a 35% revenue decline but COVID has changed everyone’s perspective. Here are comments of Clear Channel Outdoor Worldwide CEO William Eccleshare and CFO Brian Coleman on last Friday’s earnings call. William Eccleshare on the […]
Clear Channel Outdoor Revenue Down 55% in Second Quarter 2020
Better than JCDecaux but worse than OUTFRONT or Lamar or Link Media was how you could summarize Clear Channel Outdoor’s second quarter 2020. Here are the results from the second quarter 2020 earnings release. Consolidated revenue declined 55% to $315 million during the second quarter of 2020. Americas was down […]
Link Media Revenues Down 7% in 2Q 2020
Boston Omaha, the public parent of Link Media Outdoor released second quarter 2020 financials. Here are the results of the second quarter 2020 earnings release. We’ve broken out Link Media’s performance below. Link Media Outdoor Performance for Second Quarter 2020 (000’s) Link Media Outdoor revenues declined 7% to $6.7 million […]
New York Times Accurate and Informed on Out of Home
After Taking a Pandemic Hit, Billboard Ad Companies See Signs of Hope. When it comes to out of home the New York Times is accurate, informed and up to date. Things have been bad but they are getting better. Urban and transit systems still have a ways to go. Much […]
Company of the Day: Logan Outdoor
Company: Logan Outdoor Markets: Florida Address: 1716 W. Lemon St, Tampa, FL 33606 Email: info@loganoutdoor.com Phone: 813-253-3367 Logan Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 133 faces in Central Florida, including Tampa, St Pete, Clearwater and 7 surrounding counties. Lelia Clewis is the company’s President. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement
Sean Reilly: Small and middle markets doing better than larger markets.
It’s good to own small and middle markets was how you could summarize Lamar CEO Sean Reilly on yesterday’s second quarter earnings call. Here are some other Reilly comments. Improving sales At present our pacings are showing sequential improvement every month…that implies full year revenue decline for 2020 of approximately […]