Tag: IBOUSA

Terry Carmody: The Last Few Weeks Have Been Encouraging

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 […]

Bager and Freitas Address Independent Operators

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 […]

IBOUSA Spring Video Meeting in Lieu of Conference

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 […]

Rothfelder on IBOUSA Conference and Force Majeure Provisions

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 […]

Jeff Bohnert, RIP

Jeff Bohnert, President and General Manager of DSW Signs has died.  He was 57 years old.   Bohnert spent 33 years with DSW after graduating from Southeast Missouri State University.  The Cape Girardeau Missouri company has over 800 faces in Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico. DSW Signs was an […]

IBOUSA: Location Traffic Metrics Request For Proposal

ABOUT IBOUSA Our network of media owners emerged a few decades ago and combined efforts with common ties as Independent Billboard Operators (IBO), mostly from smaller rural and suburban markets.  Challenged by our size and access to resources, contacts and ideas, we created an organization whereby we helped each other […]

IBOUSA Endorsement Program

By Chris Cowlbeck, General Manager, IBOUSA Recent advancements in technology and the speed of delivery of data have created some challenges for small and medium sized Out of Home (OOH) companies to fully understand and evaluate all the data nuances being used in the OOH industry.  The skills and access […]

Chris Cowlbeck on 4 letter words – good ones!

By Chris Cowlbeck, General Manager, IBOUSA I’m writing now again from the Sunny Side of the Arbuckles in the isolation of the ranch looking out over the horses walking by as the spring grasses and flowers come to life.  In the midst of all that is impacting us I recently […]

Coronavirus: Bad But Not The Apocalypse

There’s a lot of sky is falling talk about the coronavirus.  Traffic counts are down 30-60% in Washington State.  Transit ridership is down by an average of 64% according Transit to app.  Insider is concerned and sheltering in place.  He lives 2 miles from the Kirkland Life Care Center where […]

Out of Home Advertising Reaches Children with Message of Love and Hope

To the many billboard operators who supported the Samaritan’s Purse project Operation Christmas Child by donating available space on your digital boards in 2019, thank you! We are excited to share 2019 results. More than 10.5 million shoebox gifts were collected worldwide in 2019! More than 8.9 million were collected […]