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Piccadilly Lights: Physical Installation Complete

  The journey of LED display cabinets from Brookings, South Dakota, to London’s iconic Piccadilly Lights location is complete. The new massive, curved 4K LED display has been put into place on the building side in London’s Piccadilly Circus. This final cabinet was put in place last week completing the […]

Why 5 times cashflow is your debt capacity.

On Friday Insider wrote that debt for an out of home advertising company should not exceed 5 times cashflow (earnings before interest, depreciation and amortization) or 3 times revenue.  This is the upper limit.  It’s OK to operate way below this if your risk tolerance is less.  This analysis is […]

GEFT Sells Indy Signs To Lamar

Indiana out of home advertising company GEFT Outdoor has sold its Indianapolis billboards to Lamar.  No price was disclosed. In early 2017, GEFT received approval for two high profile digital billboard structures with 4 faces inside the I-465 beltway in Indianapolis after winning a Reed v Gilbert lawsuit against the […]

Rate This Board By Out of Home Creative

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 provided […]

Company of the Day: Logan Outdoor Advertising

Company:  Logan Outdoor Advertising Markets: Florida Headquarters:  1716 W. Lemon Street, Tampa, Florida  33606 Phone: 813-253-3367 Email: info@loganoutdoor.com Logan Outdoor operates a billboard plant in Central Florida.  The company’s markets include: Tampa, St Petersburg, Clearwater and the surrounding counties. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Billboard Insider Classifieds August 12, 2017

Now’s the time to look for an out of home job.  Plenty of listings.  Classifieds cost $60 for 3 months or $120 for 12 months.  To place you own Billboard Insider classified click here. Appraisals Signvalue appraises billboards. Art and Creative Billboards, Etc designs and prints billboard ads. Out of Home Creative designs billboard […]

Four Tips When Seeking an Out of Home Loan

Here are four tips when seeking out of home financing:  look for debt before you need it, cultivate multiple lenders, know your lender and don’t borrow too much. One: Look For Debt When You Don’t Need It. Start talking to lenders before you need them.  It will allow you to […]

Driverless Cars? Not So Fast

McKinsey Partner Scott Nyquist takes a skeptical view of driverless cars in Why Driverless Cars Might Not Hit The Road So Fast. Next time you hear someone say they think that we’ll all be driving driverless cars in 10 years remind yourself that the error rate on futuristic projections is […]

Company of the Day: Logan Communications

Company: Logan Communications Market:  Massachusetts Headquarters: 129 Border Street, East Boston, MA  02128 Phone: 617-569-8720 Email: info@logancommunications.com Logan Outdoor is a family owned business which was founded in 1980 and operates a billboard plant in the Boston area including a portfolio of prominent displays near Logan Airport. [wpforms id=”9787″]   […]

Going all Out for the Arts

Jason D. King, VP, Corporate Communications, Clear Channel Outdoor Americas   For the second year in a row, Clear Channel Outdoor Americas proudly partnered with the New York Musical Festival to help give a space, voice and visibility to new works of art from a diverse range of writers and performers. And since it’s inception, […]