Tag: dave westburg

All You Need to Know About Vinyl – Part 2

Billboard Insider’s Dave Westburg moderated a panel  titled All You Need to Know About Vinyl at last week’s IBO show.  The panel included Robert Arnold of Associated Posters, Alex Job of OAI Visual Technologies and Cody Golliher of Circle Graphics.  Yesterday the panelists discussed vinyl turnaround and vinyl life.  Today […]

Billboard Insider OAAA Show Plans

In two weeks I will be attending the OAAA show March 27-29 in Nashville.  Here are some of the events I’m looking forward to.  My focus is out of home finance and operations but there are lots of great marketing events. Tuesday March 28 8:45 am. Main Stage.  Anna Bager’s […]

A New Lending Fund for Small Out of Home Borrowers

Billboard Loans Management, LLC has launched Billboard Loans Fund Three, LLC, an income-oriented loan and investment fund which commenced operation on June 1, 2022.  The fund was formed with capital from accredited investors, supplemented by a line of credit from Washington Trust Bank.  The fund seeks senior secured out of […]

Don’t Let Success Bring You Down

On this week’s Digital and Dirt Podcast, Lamar Advertising CEO Sean Reilly said this:  “A lot of people can handle adversity.  Success sometimes brings people down…Right now we’re at a moment of time when Lamar is really successful.  It’s not going to change my management style…”. Reilly has a point.  […]

Billboard Insider Co-Publisher Dave Westburg at IBOUSA Conference

Billboard Insider Co-publisher Dave Westburg will attend the IBOUSA conference Wednesday-Friday this week and moderate a panel on Out of Home Mergers and Acquisitions on Thursday from 11:05 to 11:45 AM. Please introduce yourself to Dave at the show and let him know if you have news or if you’d […]

The SignValue/Billboard Insider 2021 List of OOH Lenders

Out of Home financing is a specialized form of finance.  To save you the time and trouble of having to educate your lender on the ins and out of out of home here’s an alphabetical list of 51 out of home lenders prepared by SignValue and Billboard Insider.   We’ve included […]

WBEZ on What’s Up With All Those Billboard Ads For Lawyers?

Last week OAAA’s Anna Bager and Billboard Insider’s Dave Westburg were interviewed by WBEZ for a podcast titled What’s Up with All Those Billboard Ads For Lawyers?  Here’s what they said. OAAA CEO Anna Bager on why lawyers like billboards When you’re driving down the highway you’re not on your […]

What’s New at Billboard Insider

At Billboard Insider we’re committed to publishing the leading free daily source of news for the out of home industry.  Here’s what’s new. We’ve averaged 61,500 views per month so far in 2020. Our daily newsletter subscribers have topped 2,900. We just updated our website’s look and functionality. We’re emphasizing […]

Out of Home Companies Form Fund to Finance Ad Agencies

The nation’s 200 largest out of home companies have formed a lending fund to provide working capital advances to ad agencies.  Any US-headquartered ad agency will be eligible for a working capital advance of up to $250,000 from the Lending Enterprise Empowering Corporate Heuristics Fund (the “LEECH Fund”).  “It’s clear […]

Billboard Insider Grows 45% during 2018

Billboard Insider just finished an outstanding year but don’t take our word for it.  Look at the data.  A 45% increase in site views. 2015 – 23,217 views 2016 – 220,036 views 2017 – 410,000 views 2018 – 598,608 views A big thank you to all of you readers who […]