Today’s podcast guest Steve McNeely has 30 years experience investing in out of home companies. Steve talks about his newest out of home investment, what he thinks of the public out of home companies and private equity’s biggest issue with out of home. Last July you assisted Blackbird Media […]
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Coronavirus Triggers Layoffs at Chinese OOH Firm
A chinese out of home firm is laying off 10% of its workforce in response to the coronavirus. Deal Street Asia reports that Xinchao Media, which places ads in and near elevators and escalators, laid off 500 workers. When people aren’t commuting to work they aren’t seeing ads. The company’s […]
Watchfire Selected for Louisville Airport Welcome Wall
DANVILLE, Ill, — (February 11, 2020) — Watchfire Signs, a leading provider of exterior and interior LED signs, was select by Louisville Tourism to manufacture a “Welcome Wall” at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. . The nearly 6’ x 27’ high-resolution welcome wall is viewable by the more than […]
Vistar Adds Foursquare as Out of Home Partner
NEW YORK – February 11, 2020 – Vistar Media, the global leader in programmatic technology for digital out-of-home, today announced a partnership with Foursquare, the leading independent location technology platform. This partnership allows brands to measure the effectiveness of digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising in driving foot traffic to store locations […]
Company of the Day: Dangerfield Outdoor
Company: Dangerfield Outdoor Markets: Georgia Headquarters: 245 University Avenue SW, Atlanta, GA 30315 Phone: 404-418-8417 Dangerfield Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 5 static faces and 1 digital face in Atlanta, Georgia. Two of the faces are 20 by 60, 2 of the faces are 19 by 48 and two of the faces […]
Dan Levi: “Giving consumers more control over how data is shared is a good thing.”
Two headlines caught Insider’s eye recently. There’s been a nearly 70% decline in always on location data, since IOS 13 rollout. Marketing Land January 23, 2020 Ajit Pai: Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment. ars technica, January 31, 2020 Insider asked Clear Channel Outdoor’s EVP & […]
Court Strikes Warnings for Premium Cigars
A federal judge ruled that regulators “failed to articulate a reasoned basis” for mandating warning labels for premium cigar advertising and packaging. Warnings for premium cigars, which had not gone into effect, were vacated by US District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta on February 3, 2020 (Cigar Association of America […]
Rate This Board by Greg Callaham
Rate This Board 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 […]
Visit Philadelphia Taps Clear Channel Boards in Times Square
New York, NY, & Philadelphia, PA – Last week in Times Square, and through the power of streaming and digital out-of-home media (DOOH), VISIT PHILADELPHIA®, the region’s official tourism marketing organization, teamed with Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE: CCO), one of the world’s leading OOH companies, in an evolution for Greater […]
Geopath Issues 1,500 Learning Lab Certificates
New York, NY, February 10, 2020 – Geopath, the not-for-profit organization that provides the industry-standard currency for out-of-home (OOH) advertising, today announced that it has issued more than 1,500 certificates through its online Learning Lab. Introduced in September 2019 to support the launch of Geopath’s new Insight tool, the Learning […]