Tag: place-based

A Possible New Out of Home Place Based Application

Kevin Conlin of Autonomous Power Solutions tells Billboard Insider he is working on a solar powered hydration station.  The station has advertising possibilities in that it can be wrapped or have a digital display or both.  The system is in design prototype stage.  Kevin would like your feedback on the […]

US Billboard Revenues Flat, Place Based & Transit are Recovering

Last week the OAAA announced that US out of home revenues increased 1.1% in the third quarter of 2023.  A look behind the numbers finds that three out of home sectors grew and one declined. Roadside billboards which account for almost three quarters of the US market, grew 0.9% in […]

Transit and Place Based Rebounding but not Back to Pre-covid

Four observations after reviewing the OAAA’s fourth quarter 2022 US out of home revenue figures. All sectors up. All US out of home industry sectors grew during the fourth quarter.  Place based led all sectors (up 31%), followed by transit (up 9%), billboards (up 7%) and street furniture (up 2%). […]

US Billboard Revenues Beyond Covid – Transit and Street Furniture Close the Gap

Billboard revenues are surging, transit and place based revenues are coming back and place based revenues continue to lag versus pre covid.  That’s what’s apparent in the third quarter 2022 revenue figures reported yesterday by the OAAA. US billboard revenues grew 7% in the third quarter of 2022 and are […]

Billboards Over Covid, Other OOH Sectors Lag

US Billboards have completely recovered from covid and then some.  The other US out of home sectors still lag.  Here’s what Billboard Insider found after reviewing the last three years of quarterly US out of home revenues by sector as reported to the OAAA. US billboard revenues are 12% above […]

Billboards over Covid but Street Furniture, Transit and Place Based Lag

A rising tide lifted all out of home sectors in 2021.  Here are the 2021 annual US revenue figures broken down by sector.     Street furniture revenue grew 43% in 2021, followed by billboards (up 17%), transit (up 11%) and place-based (up 3%). Roadside billboards have recovered and are […]

Covid’s impact by OOH Sector

Here’s a chart showing the impact of covid on US out of home revenues by sector.  Billboards were down the least and have come back the fastest.  Place based and transit fell farther and have yet to fully recover. Change in US Out of Home Revenues by Industry Sector Billboards […]

Whither Covid?

Insider is a fan of MIT-educated data scientist Youyang Gu. His work suggests that the US will reach covid herd immunity and we will return to normal by mid summer.  Look at these two charts.   The number of daily new US covid infections has dropped since December 24 and […]

Geopath Adds Place-Based Measurement

New York, NY, April 30,2019 — Geopath, the not-for-profit organization that provides audience location measurement to the Out of Home (OOH) industry, today announced that it has added measurement of place-based advertising to its Insights Suite. This addition makes it possible for buyers and sellers, for the first time, to […]