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Billboard Insider Classifieds March 9, 2019

“The response has been excellent.  Excellent investment.”  Out of home broker Stephen Minnich. “…we have received no less than 15 responses the ad you ran for us to sell our Quad Cities billboard plant…”  David Buring “FYI, today we got two requests from out of home companies to sign up.  […]

Refusing Strip Club and Massage Parlor Ads

Billups President David Krupp has a post on Media Post Agency Daily called Sex Sells, But OOH shouldn’t help. He ends the column with a call for the out of home industry to take down strip club and massage parlor ads.   Insider sides with Krupp and Nancy Fletcher on this […]

US Out of Home Advertising Up 4.5% to Record $8 Billion in 2018

March 7, 2019 (Washington, DC) – Out of home (OOH) advertising revenue rose 4.5 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year, accounting for $8 billion, based on figures released by the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). OOH spend was up 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter […]

Regulatory Roundup March 8, 2019

The Enid News and Eagle reports that the Enid Oklahoma city council has approved changes to sign regulations to allow existing billboards to be upgraded to digital billboards.  The revised sign ordinance is in the City Council May 7 Agenda.   Here’s a summary of the ordinance’s billboard provisions. The maximum […]

Talon Buys US Out of Home Media Agency Grandesign

March 7, 2019 (San Diego, CA) – Talon, the U.K.’s largest independent Out of Home (OOH) media specialist, has expanded its U.S. coverage with the purchase of Grandesign, a U.S. independent OOH media agency headquartered in San Diego. Grandesign is the second-largest independent OOH agency in the U.S., delivering traditional and experiential […]

Company of the Day: Pattison Outdoor

Company: Pattison Outdoor Markets: Canada Headquarters: 2700 Matheson Boulevard East, Suite 500, West Tower, Mississauga, ON  L4W4V9 Phone: 905-282-6800 Pattison Outdoor is Canada’s leading out of home company with a plant in 200 markets in Canada.  The company is active in the billboards, airports, transit, ferry and digital place based […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Revenues up 5% in 4Q 2018

Clear Channel Outdoor announced 4th quarter 2018 results.  Here are the results of the earnings release, earnings deck and the seeking alpha earnings call transcript. Consolidated revenue excluding exchange rates increased 5% to $765 million for the fourth quarter of 2018.   Americas Outdoor (Clear Channel US and Clear Channel Canada) […]

Seth Garrett on Out of Home and Real Estate

Seth Garrett is Real Estate Manager at Link Media Outdoor’s corporate office in Roswell, GA.  Prior to joining Link, he worked in the same role at Fairway Outdoor in Atlanta and Athens, GA, following 10 years in commercial real estate development and consulting.  Insider talked to Seth about what it […]

Company of the Day – Parker Outdoor

Company: Parker Outdoor Markets: Washington, Idaho & Arizona Headquarters: PO Box 22, Orondo, WA  98843 Phone: 888-800-2001 Email: contactus@parkeroutdoorinc.com Insider caught up with Brad Sourbeer, owner of Parker Outdoor, to talk about the business. Can you share with us the history of  Parker Outdoor? I started the business in November 1987 […]

Cowlbeck on Apparatix

Chris Cowlbeck the General Manager of LOOK Billboards and the IBOUSA talked about about the benefits of using Apparatix on last week’s Billboard Insider podcast. What software do you use to help run your billboards? About four and a half years ago a gentleman named Jim Matalone…the President at Ashby […]