It’s been 10.5 years since the last recession. That’s the longest recovery this century. No one wants a recession, but a prudent out of home manager needs to keep recession risk in the back of their mind. What happens to out of home revenues in a recession? Out of home […]
Tag: Clear Channel Outdoor
New and Noted: Streaming Wars, Attribution and Digimedia
“The streaming services know they have to break through with consumers” says Clear Channel Outdoor Chief Revenue Officer Bob McCuin in Bloomberg’s Billboards Love Streaming Wars Because That’s where Ads End up. The Bloomberg thesis is that out of home is a clear winner in the streaming services wars as […]
Eccleshare: Out of Home is a GDP Plus Performer
William Eccleshare talked about Clear Channel Outdoor’s growth prospects, plans to reduce leverage and China at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference this week. A selection of his comments. On out of home’s growth prospects. We see outdoor as being a GDP plus performer…Nothing that I can see…in […]
Senior Debt at OUTFRONT, Lamar, Clear Channel and Link Media
This week OUTFRONT Media issued $500 million of 4.625% senior notes to retire $450 million of 5.875% notes. Insider thought you might want to see how this note issue stacks up with the senior debt of the other public out of home companies. As you can see from the debt […]
Eccleshare: We’re looking at every option for our investment in China.
Clear Channel Outdoor had a great 3rd quarter 2019 in the US but struggled internationally. Here’s a summary of comments from the company’s senior execs on the 3rd quarter 2019 earnings call. William Eccleshare, CEO, Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings on the China subsidiary’s 19% drop in revenue In the International […]
Clear Channel Outdoor Wins Five Year Barbados Airport Contract
Barbados ‒ Brands targeting airline passengers in Barbados now have access to cutting-edge marketing opportunities in Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) via a first of its kind partnership with Clear Channel Airports (CCA), the Americas-based airports business of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO). GAIA awarded CCA this contract […]
Clear Channel Outdoor 3Q 2019: Good in U.S., Poor Overseas
China problems dragged down Clear Channel Outdoor’s performance during the third quarter of 2019. Here are the results from the earnings release and investor deck. Insider is focusing on the results excluding effects of foreign exchange. Consolidated revenue increased by 0.7% to $668 million during the third quarter of 2019. […]
Clear Channel Integrates with Broadsign Programmatic Buying
MONTREAL, Canada and New York, NY — November 5, 2019 — Broadsign, the leading digital out-of-home (DOOH) marketing platform and Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE: CCO), one of the world’s largest OOH providers, today announced a new partnership that enables brands to tap CCO’s U.S. DOOH inventory via Broadsign’s programmatic supply-side […]
American Tower and Out of Home
American Tower has entered the out of home business with the purchase of RSA in Boston and some Total Outdoor assets in Boston. Kalil and Company handled the RSA transaction. PJ Solomon handled the Total transaction. The company has been low profile about its investments. No mention of out of […]
OOH Gets Its Moment with Marketers
By Dan Levi EVP-CMO, Clear Channel Outdoor Americas Last week, the world of marketing and advertising was focused on Orlando for the ANA Masters of Marketing conference, the annual gathering of the industry’s top marketing professionals, and a universe of media, creative, data, AdTech and MarTech companies. The theme of […]