Tag: Clear Channel Outdoor

Steve McNeely: The future has never been brighter.

  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 […]

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 […]

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 & […]

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 […]

Amortization in Wenatchee

Amortization refers to the practice of forcing a billboard company to remove a billboard after an arbitrary period of time without compensation for the loss. Amortization has reared its ugly head in Wenatchee, Washington. In November the city of Wenatchee sent a letter to the city’s out of home companies […]

Feedback on Premiere Panels

Insider received some comments on the Clear Channel Outdoor’s announcement that it had transformed 1,300 sign faces into “Premier Panels.” One reader comments: ClearChannel has offered these wrapped 30 sheets for decades in the California market as an upgrade to traditional poster showings. The presser about this “new” thing confused […]

Billboard Leader at White House Summit to Fight Human Trafficking

The White House invited the president of the Outdoor Advertising Association of Texas to a national summit against human trafficking. On January 31, Lee Vela of Clear Channel Outdoor-Houston attended at all-day summit at the White House, with President Trump, Vice President Pence, Ivanka Trump, and Attorney General William Barr. […]

Wrapping an Entire Poster Face

Yesterday Clear Channel Outdoor announced it had upgraded 1,300 structures to “Premiere Panels”.  Looks to Insider like Clear Channel is wrapping the entire face of of certain posters rather than installing the vinyl under the face’s frame.  The result is this… in place of this… Insider likes the bigger bolder […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Transforms 1,300 Displays to Premiere Panels

New York, NY – Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (CCO) (NYSE: CCO), one of the world’s largest outdoor advertising companies, recently debuted over 1,300 new visually-striking, printed out-of-home (OOH) displays across its small, mid and large U.S. market footprint. CCO’s transformed “Premiere Panels” bring nearly bulletin-size media down-to-earth for even […]