Tag: IBOUSA

Today at the IBOUSA Convention – Health Plan

IBOUSA announced today that it will be making a full-service health plan available to its associates that will cost substantially less than otherwise available. “Health care is a concern of all Americans,” says IBOUSA Executive Director, Chris Cowlbeck. “But to-date, small to mid-sized businesses and sole proprietorships have been excluded […]

Rothfelder On Billboard Leases And Disputes With Landlords

The IBOUSA Spring Conference is scheduled in Savannah, GA on May 8-10, 2019, and once again, Chris Cowlbeck and his staff have planned a fun and educational event. As usual, we can expect to see an outstanding mix of vendor tables, interesting seminars, networking opportunities, and fun dinners and other […]

Company of the Day: Saben Outdoor

Company: Saben Outdoor Market:  Georgia Headquarters:  1380 Collingsworth Road, Palmetto, GA Phone:  770-463-4158 Email:  rentabillboard@sabenllc.com Saben Outdoor is a small, family owned firm which owns static and digital billboards in the Atlanta area.  Many of the billboards are along I-85 south of Atlanta and I-20 west of Atlanta.  The company also provides management […]

Judges Rejection of Association Health Plans and the IBOUSA

Many of you might have seen the stories at the of last week  where a federal judge in Washington ruled the Trump administration’s push to make health insurance plans available outside the Affordable Care Act that avoid the requirements of the health-care law was illegal, calling the efforts “clearly an […]

Company of the Day: Primary Media

Company:  Primary Outdoor Media Markets:  Texas Address:  2511 Boll St, Dallas, TX  75204 Phone: 972-584-1000 Email:  info@primarymedia.com Primary Outdoor Media operates a plant of billboards around Texas.  Josh Feferman is the firm’s managing partner.  The firm is an operator associate in the IBOUSA.  In early 2018 Primary acquired 50 billboards […]

Formetco Software Connects Independents

ATLANTA, Ga. (March 26, 2019) Formetco announces its new enterprise grade F360 CMS software’s open architecture design will connect independent operators, turning many small operations across the country, into a larger group with a stronger voice. F360 allows independent operators access to an array of services that cannot be easily […]

Cowlbeck on Apparatix

Chris Cowlbeck the General Manager of LOOK Billboards and the IBOUSA talked about about the benefits of using Apparatix on last week’s Billboard Insider podcast. What software do you use to help run your billboards? About four and a half years ago a gentleman named Jim Matalone…the President at Ashby […]

Chris Cowlbeck of the IBOUSA

This week’s podcast guest is Chris Cowlbeck.  Chris is General Manager for Look Billboards an out of home company with more than 100 traditional faces and 5 digital billboards in Oklahoma.  Chris is also General Manager of the IBOUSA a networking group which promotes the interests of independent billboard operators […]

Company of the day: Media South Outdoor

Company:  Media South Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:  Jackson, Tennessee. Markets:  Tennessee, Mississippi. Phone: 866-945-0243 Media South was started in 2007 by Norm Isbell.  The company has 28 faces placed strategically in Tennessee and Mississippi.  Most of the faces are 10.5′ by 36′.   Prior to starting Media South, Isbell was a division manager for […]

Chris Cowlbeck’s 3 Predictions for 2019

Insider is running a series of columns in which out of home leaders give their predictions for 2019.  We’ve previously heard from Vistar’s Michael Provenzano and OUTFRONT Media’s Jodi Senese.  Today we hear from Chris Cowlbeck the General Manager of the Independent Billboard Operators USA. We at the IBOUSA headquarters […]