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CCO Appoints New EVP Replacing Brian Coleman, Reaffirms Guidance

David Sailer to Assume Role effective March 1, 2024 Brian Coleman to Transition to Consultant Role Focused on Strengthening Company’s Balance Sheet Company Reaffirms Guidance for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year of 2023 SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO) (the “Company”) today announced that David Sailer, currently the Executive […]

PATTISON Outdoor and ONroute Announce Highway Ad Partnership

PATTISON Digital Superboard at ONRoute travel plaza in Cambridge, Ontario TORONTO, Dec. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In a transformative move that promises to redefine highway advertising, PATTISON Outdoor Advertising, Canada’s leading Out-of-Home advertising company, has announced a pioneering partnership with ONroute, the premier operator of highway travel service centres […]

Company of the Day: Gotcha Covered Media

Company:  Gotcha Covered Media Markets:  Washington Headquarters: PO Box 1488, Gig Harbor, WA  98335 Phone: 866-355-6267 Gotcha Covered Media operates a billboard plant with 22 faces in Western Washington in the following communities: Everett Fife Gig Harbor Port Orchard Belfair Kelso Kalama Most of the company’s faces are 10′ by 20′ due to […]

What’ll Drive OOH Revenues for you in 2024? – YOU!

Billboard Insider has asked key players in our network to take a look at 2023 and ahead to 2024. By Chris Cowlbeck, CVO IBO USA and Media Rating Council OOH Committee Chairman I’m looking back a bit at some unprecedented times (yes that phrase has been worn thin) to note: […]

Huntington Outdoor Gives New Life to an Old Building

Huntington Outdoor recently bought an empty church in Gordon, Ohio and converted the space into offices.  Billboard Insider talked with Haleigh Powell Bayer about the project. Haley, how did the project come about? We used to have two offices about 45 mins apart. This January we bought this old church […]

Remi du Preez to Speak at WOO Africa Forum

Polygon Founder and Managing Director Remi du Preez has been named as the second keynote speaker at the World Out of Home Organization’s Africa Forum, to be held in Cape Town from March 11-13 2024. He will headline the second day of the Forum which focuses on the Science of […]

Company of the Day – GR Outdoor

Company: Grand Rapids Outdoor Headquarters: P.O. Box 2626, Grand Rapids, MI 49501 Market: Grand Rapids Michigan Phone: 616-874-8283 Email: sales@groutdoor.com Grand Rapids Outdoor is a locally owned and operated billboard advertising company.  In December of 2021, the Company sold the bulk of their signs to OUTFRONT Media. The Company now operates their 2 […]

Clear Channel Outdoor – What Might Have Been Is Not What Is

  Clear Channel Outdoor stock finished at $1.66 Friday, down from $10.59 ten years ago.  Over the past decade almost everything that could go wrong did.  Bad ownership.  Bad overseas assets.  No one watching expenses.  Covid. iHeart’s looting One of the first things that you’ll notice is that revenues and […]

L.A. City Council Approves Metro’s Proposed 80 Digital Billboards

The Los Angeles City Council, on Friday, approved a plan for the installation of about 80 digital billboards on properties owned by Metro throughout the city.  As reported by My News LA, the Council members voted 10-4 to amend city law to establish the Transportation Communication Network, a Metro program […]

Rate This Ad by Greg Callaham

Rate This Ad 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 […]