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Bressler highlights RADAR success.

Clear Channel Outdoor’s RADAR system uses mobile data to assist in out of home buying. Channel Outdoor CFO Rich Bressler spoke favorably about RADAR on this week’s earnings conference call: “By leveraging our aggregated and anonymized mobile location data, RADAR has achieved impressive results for both national and local brand […]

Billboard Insider Turns 3

Billboard Insider just entered its fourth year and is thriving.  These figures show the growth in our monthly page views: July 2015:  188 page views July 2018: 18,483 page views July 2017:  36,513 page views July 2018:  52,228 page views Our cumulative page views passed the 1 million mark this […]

Company of the Day: Elevation Outdoor

Company: Elevation Outdoor Advertising Markets:  Colorado Headquarters: Phone: 303-365-9124 Email: info@elevationoutdoor.com Elevation Outdoor operates a billboard plant in the following communities: Craig, Colorado Estes Park, Colorado Salida, Colorado. The company is run by Steve Richards and Lolly Block.  Richards is also the President of Mile Hi Outdoor in Denver and […]

Link Media Acquires Tammy Lynn Outdoor

Link Media Outdoor (“Link”), a subsidiary of Boston Omaha Corporation (BOMN), has completed the acquisition of Tammy Lynn Outdoor, LLC (“Tammy Lynn”), based in Bluefield, West Virginia. For over 25 years, Tammy Lynn has been owned and operated by Bud and Tammy Acken and grew to become West Virginia’s 5th largest […]

Out of Home Legal: Record Your Easement.

Record your easements and record a memorandum of lease for your billboard leases.  That’s the lesson of Tiller White v Canyon Outdoor.  Here are the facts. In February 2003 Glen and Rachel Knapp entered into a lease with Lockridge Outdoor Advertising Agency to place a billboard on their property..  The […]

Court Supports Transit Ban on Religious Ads

A federal appeals court upheld the Washington, DC regional transit system’s ban on religious ads, rejecting free speech arguments from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese. The ruling, issued July 31 by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, reflects broader points: Transit systems typically set limits on advertising, […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Renews Kalamazoo Airport Deal

Kalamazoo, MI  – – Clear Channel Airports (CCA), a brand division of Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA) (NYSE: CCO), an indirect subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc., today announced it won a five-year renewal with an option to extend for an additional five years, with Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport (AZO) to provide brands with innovative advertising solutions. The […]

Company of the Day – El Paso Bench Ads

Company: El Paso Bench Ads Headquarters: 1423 E. Missouri St. A, El Paso, TX 79902 Market: El Paso Phone: 915.533.3771 Email:  sales@elpasobenchads.com El Paso Bench Ads has been providing quality outdoor, street-level advertising in El Paso to businesses of all sizes since 2008. The Company offers 1,600 bench ad locations […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Revenue and Cashflow Grow

Clear Channel Outdoor revenues and cashflow grew for the second quarter of 2018.  Here are links to the second quarter earnings release and conference call powerpoint. Americas revenue (North America) declined 0.1% to $300 million.  Americas revenue grew 2.1%, however, when adjusted for divestitures.  Growth resulted from higher digital and […]

Your OAAA: Untying Regulatory Knots

The OAAA hosted a webinar July 25 for non-members, to offer a look inside the national trade association.  Insider will publish a three-part series with the webinar highlights.  The first of three parts features longtime OAAA expert Myron Laible, explaining problem-solving. By Myron Laible I came to OAAA over 30 […]