Tag: Scott Wells

Hoya Capital on the US Out of Home Business

Hoya Capital published a decent out of home review titled Billboard Reits: We’re Paying Attention (Lamar Vs Outfront).  Forward a copy to your banker.  The article explains how out of home works and summarizes industry strengths (e.g. regulatory barriers to entry, digital billboard upside, attractive CPM versus other media, low […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Sells Switzerland Assets for $92 million

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (CCO) (the “Company”) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its business in Switzerland to Goldbach Group AG, an affiliate of TX Group AG, for CHF 86.0 million, or US$ 92.7 million1. The Company’s Swiss business […]

Clear Channel Americas Revenue up 8.6% in Q3 2022

“Our third quarter results were at the high end of the revenue guidance we provided” was how Clear Channel Outdoor CEO Scott Wells led of the company’s earnings call.  Here are the results of the Clear Channel Outdoor 3Q22 earnings release, 3Q 22 investor deck and conference call. Clear Channel Outdoor […]

Scott Wells Says OOH Demand is Strong

Here’s a selection of Scott Wells comments on out of home demand, self service ad models, digital billboard conversions and the European sale at last week’s Goldman Sachs Communicopia conference. Demand is strong The tone with advertisers actually continues to be strong.  We are having good dialogs heading into 2023…We’re […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Projects 4-6% Annual Revenue Growth for 2022-2025

A team of Clear Channel Outdoor execs provided a detailed review of Clear Channel Outdoor’s operations and strategy at last week’s Clear Channel Outdoor Investor Day.  Here are the financial highlights from the investor day press release, investor day powerpoint and 2.5 hour investor day livestream.   We’ll review the operating, […]

Restructuring Charges at Clear Channel Outdoor

Restructuring charges are one-time expenses that a company recognizes when reorganizing operations.  A company separates these expenses out on their financial statement and does not include them when computing cashflow (EBIDTA).  Restructuring charges are in theory one-time events but you can see that in the last stages of the William […]

Key Moments from WOO’s 2022 Global out of home conference.

June 7th, 2022.  Striking the right balance between Classic (traditional) Out of Home and all-conquering digital is one of the keys to sector growth for the medium, World Out of Home Organization President Tom Goddard told delegates at WOO’s Global Congress in Toronto. OOH has recovered strongly from the pandemic […]

Scott Wells Says the Vibe is Positive

Clear Channel Outdoor CEO Scott Wells was bullish on out of home at yesterday’s 50th Cowen Tech, Media and Telecom conference. The big picture The last two weeks we’ve had our US Outdoor conference and the global outdoor conference…the vibe at all of those is really positive.  The industry has […]

Day 2 of the 2022 OOH Media Conference in 5 Quotes

Here are six quotes which summarize the second day of the 2022 OOH Media Conference OAAA CEO Anna Bager says out of home works! “At a time when digital companies boast of click through rates in single digits, a whopping 50% of people exposed to out of home campaigns have […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Revenue Up 42% in 1Q 2022

Here are the results from the Clear Channel Outdoor 1Q 2022 earnings release, Clear Channel Outdoor 1Q 2022 investor presentation and conference call. Revenue increased by 42% to $525 million during the first quarter of 2022.  European revenues grew 45% and US revenue grew 39%. Cashflow (EBIDTA) increased by to […]