Chris Cowlbeck and his staff at IBOUSA have done it again! For the second time in this fateful year of 2020, they’ve managed to plan a fun and informative LIVE and IN PERSON Fall Conference on October 7 through 9. And, rather than in Louisville or Minneapolis, this conference is […]
Company: Missouri Neon Outdoor Markets: Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma. Address: 3160 W. Kearney St, Springfield, MO 65803 Phone: 417-862-1778 Missouri Neon Outdoor was started in 1934 and owns more than 850 static and digital faces in 40 counties in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Vernon Boyce bought the company in 1963 and […]
Emergency response efforts for the recent hurricane Laura have spurred a new program between government, nonprofits and corporate donors to deal with a long standing OOH industry problem of managing and disposal of spent vinyls once a campaign is complete. Billboard Insider met up with Chris Cowlbeck, General Manager of […]
Every OOH media owner that deals in static inventory deals with the issue of vinyl bulletin materials when the campaign is over. Chris Cowlbeck, General Manager of IBOUSA, received an email recently from Every Shelter, a non profit that is trying to develop uses for the spent vinyls in the […]
On yesterday’s Geopath OAAA Virtual Seminar for independent operators LOOK Billboards and IBOUSA General Manager Chris Cowlbeck was asked for tips on managing through trying times and he said this: All of this stuff is cyclical…we’ve been through cycles and will continue to go through cycles…Keep it positive…Wake up and […]
Insider likes asking executives how they got into the out of home business. We reviewed 93 origin stories and here are the results. A surprising amount of company founders advertised their business on a billboard and subsequently realized what a great business it was and entered out of home. First […]
In addition to owning some out of home assets in New York, Atlanta and Chicago, Terry Carmody handles sales for Integration Media, a specialist out of home company which works closely with IBOUSA. Here’s a summary of Terry’s zoom comments recently to IBOUSA Associates on national advertising. How Integration is […]
OAAA President and CEO Anna Bager and VP Marketing Stephen Freitas made a short Zoom presentation to Independent Billboard Operator USA members at a Zoom call which was staged after the IBO Spring convention was cancelled. Here’s a summary of what they said. OAAA President and CEO Anna Bager: The […]
From Chris Cowlbeck, IBOUSA General Manager The coronavirus pandemic has indeed impacted our daily lives and IBOUSA was forced to cancel their Louisville conference last week. In an effort to communicate with the people and companies in the independent billboard space, IBO has scheduled a ZOOM meeting series for Wednesday […]
Covid 19 has unfortunately caused cancellation of the IBOUSA Spring conference in Louisville. Nevertheless, Chris Cowlbeck and his staff at IBOUSA have planned a remote alternative through a Zoom meeting, along with a smaller group attending personally in Ardmore, on May 20. As usual, there’s a great line up of […]
