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The Spring IBO Conference in Five Big Quotes

  Great wrap up to the second day of a fun and informative IBO conference in Houston. Insider wanted to give everyone a few of the highlights of the last two days with quotes from five presenters. Becky Smith, IBO Enterprise Manager  “The best thing about of Out of Home […]

Chris Cowlbeck on Why MRC Accreditation Matters to Your OOH Company

Media Rating Council has announced a public webinar on Friday, February 24th, at 1 PM ET, to be a one-hour session where the they will take you through how this process was developed, why it was developed in the manner it was, the controls that are in place and how […]

Cowlbeck Named to MRC Executive Committee

Billboard Insider notes that the IBOUSA’s Chris Cowlbeck has been named to the MRC executive committee.  Chris has been a committee member of MRC for 4 years. He has served on three MRC OOH committees in the past as a committee member only. He is now appointed as the chair […]

MRC to Issue Draft OOH Measurement Standards in 1Q 2022

The Media Ratings (“MRC”) council hopes to issue draft OOH measurement standards in the first quarter of 2022.  That was the key takeaway from MRC CEO George Ivie’s talk at last week’s IBOUSA show.  Here are some excerpts: We’ve been around for 55 years.  Non-profit located in New York.  7 […]

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’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 […]

George Ivie on the Media Rating Council

You may not have heard about the Media Rating Council but that’s about to change because the Media Rating Council (“MRC”) is developing out of home measurement standards.  Insider interviewed MRC CEO George Ivie. George, what is the MRC? The MRC is a non-profit industry association established in 1963 at […]