Tag: Clear Channel Outdoor

Clear Channel Outdoor Introduces CCO RADARView™

Advanced OOH Advertising Solution Gives Brands Insights Across all CCO Digital/Printed Roadside and Pedestrian Inventory & Against Audience Segments for Optimal Campaign Planning Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA) (NYSE: CCO), a subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc., today introduced RADARView™, a significant evolution of its Clear Channel Outdoor RADAR suite of Out-of-Home (OOH) advanced advertising […]

Avoiding Fraud

Clear Channel Outdoor took a $10 million charge during the fourth quarter of 2017 for accounting fraud in the company’s China subsidiary.  Some employees opened fake accounts in the company’s name and deposited advertising funds into those accounts. This game can be played with payables as well.  Insider remembers a […]

FBI Salutes Clear Channel Outdoor

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) honored the Las Vegas office of Clear Channel Outdoor for helping law enforcement after the October 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas and also for fighting human trafficking. Clear Channel Branch President Adam Barthelmess was scheduled to accept an FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award […]

QSR Billboards Entice Hungry Commuters & Backseat Drivers

Insider thanks Clear Channel for permission to reprint their blog post on marketing to Quick Service Restaurants.     The average adult decides what they’re going to eat an hour before. For others in go-go-go mode the choice isn’t made until the HANGRY sets in, and they can’t tell if […]

Gene Ely’s Advice to Clear Channel Outdoor’s Parent

Insider agrees with Forbes Contributor Gene Ely in Here’s How to Turn iHeart Media Around : “Do radio, just radio, and do it right. Done right, radio alone can be very profitable. Sell off the other businesses that don’t directly support radio, such as Clear Channel Outdoor. Those businesses were acquired, and […]

City Wants To Buy Clear Channel Billboards

Insider saw this article and wanted to provide it as an example of a novel approach Framingham Massachusetts is taking given Clear Channel Outdoors’ involvement in the iHeart bankruptcy. The Framingham web site Wicked Local reports that Framingham Councilor at Large Cheryl Tully Stoll got the backing of the City […]

Why Clear Channel Outdoor Employees Should Welcome A Spin-off

“I’ve said for years that CCO is just a piggy bank that Bain/Lee have totally abused.”  Insider heard those words recently from an experienced investor and dealmaker. Insider took a look at Clear Channel Outdoor’s financial statements to investigate this claim and the results were staggering.   Here’s what the equity […]

Who Buys Clear Channel Outdoor?

Some people tell Insider that Clear Channel Outdoor will be put up for sale and JCDecaux will have the inside track.  Insider doubts Clear Channel Outdoor will go to a single buyer. It’s too big. Look at the analysis below.  Insider assumes a sale of Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (North and […]

CCO stock outperforms market during first quarter.

Clear Channel Outdoor stock was up 3% for the first quarter while the S&P 500 was down 2%.  The market seems to be viewing the iHeart bankruptcy as a good thing because it means Clear Channel Outdoor may find independence and owners who will stop mortgaging the future to pay […]

Billboards Celebrate Women’s Achievements

By Rainbow Kirby-Stearns, Director, Corporate Communications and Marketing, Clear Channel Outdoor At Clear Channel Outdoor, one of the most fulfilling aspects of my role in corporate communications is bringing light to social causes through the lens of the outdoor screen. In today’s attention-deprived society and fragmented media landscape, billboards can’t be […]