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America Reopening – Average Travel Miles up 28% over 3 Weeks

As states continue to push towards reopening, the average number of daily miles traveled has increased for 3 consecutive weeks, up 28% since the week of April 6. Week over week, miles traveled increased 9% during the week of 4/27 (12.5 miles) compared to the week of 4/20 (11.5 miles). […]

Real Heroes Project PSA Campaign

OOH Industry Supports The Real Heroes Project Honoring Frontline Medical Workers Some of the most recognizable faces in sports are honoring front-line medical workers in the fight against COVID-19. And they’re doing it in the most visible way possible: plastering the names of emergency-room doctors, obstetricians and EMTs on their […]

Geopath and PMD Present Hyper Local Seminar on May 20

  In the immediate post-Covid-19 world, travel & tourism is gone. People are moving about in smaller areas, trips are shorter.  Local residents, businesses, and neighborhoods will drive the advertising recovery, and the OOH industry itself. Please join us for a lively discussion moderated by Geopath’s Kym Frank,with panelists representing […]

Company of the Day: Harvest Outdoor

Company: Harvest Outdoor Markets: Illinois Headquarters: 2516 Waukegan Road, PMB 350, Glenview, Illinois  60025-1774 Phone: 847-509-8876 Email: info@harvestoutdoor.com Harvest Outdoor operates a wall and billboard plant in Chicago.  Mike McHugh is the company’s owner.  He started the company in 1998 after a stint as a special projects coordinator for the City of Chicago. One of […]

OAAA Adds LaFoy, Maher, McCaffrey and Peppers to Board

May 7, 2020 (Washington, DC) – The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) announced today it has appointed four advertising industry innovators to its Board of Directors. Each new member of OAAA’s Board of Directors is a pioneer in the out of home (OOH) industry, all contributing to […]

Eccleshare: We’re targeting $100 million in operating costs in Q2.

Here’s what Clear Channel Outdoor executives said about expense cuts, selling Latin America or Europe and the future on yesterday’s first quarter 2020 earnings call. Worldwide CEO William Eccleshare on Expense Cuts We are targeting over a $100 million reduction in operating costs in Q2 and at least $25 million […]

Clear Channel Outdoor up in US, down elsewhere in 1Q 2020

Clear Channel Outdoor announced first quarter 2020 financials yesterday.  Consolidated revenue was down 6% as increased revenues in the US were offset by declining revenues in Europe and China.  Cashflow declined 46% due to losses in Europe and China as well as increased corporate overhead.  Here’s a summary of the […]

Lewis Manderson, RIP

Industry legend Lewis Manderson Jr. has passed away.  He was 94.  Manderson founded and ran the out of home advertising company Creative Displays Inc. for over 20 years.  After selling the company he was involved investment and charitable activities.  The University of Alabama’s Manderson Graduate School of Business and the […]

Shoutout to Meadow Outdoor

Meadow Outdoor is running this PSA on California’s Hwy 101 in Redwood City, CA between San Jose and San Francisco. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Company of the Day – Grey Outdoor

Company: Grey Outdoor Headquarters: Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina Markets: North Carolina, South Carolina Email: grey@greyoutdoor.com Phone: 910-620-5168 Grey Vick is a friend of  and regular contributor to Billboard Insider. We thought it would be nice to sit down with Grey and have him share about his business Grey Outdoor. Grey, […]