Author: Dave Westburg

Billboard Business

Five Reasons A Billboard Company Should Be Cautious When Dealing With Landmark

Landmark Infrastructure is seeking to purchase easements under billboard sites. I’ve seen several Landmark easement transactions and have been hearing the outdoor company landlords are being approached by Landmark. Remember the proverb about having a long spoon when you sup with the devil? Here are five reasons to be careful […]

Miscellaneous

New Billboard Insider website is launched.

Today marks the launch of Billboard Insider (www.billboardinsider.com) a website devoted to news and analysis of the billboard and digital sign business.  The online magazine will fill the void in outdoor industry specific news and analysis caused by the demise of Outdoor Magazine and Out of Home Advertising.  Billboard Insider […]

Billboard Values

Outdoor Values June 2015

Public company valuations declined by about 4% during the second quarter of 2015 as can be seen in the Table Below. The three large public outdoor companies were valued at 4.3 times revenue and 13.6 times cash-flow at June 30, 2015.  Clear Channel trades at a much lower valuation than […]

Billboard Business Interviews

Five Questions for Matt Schulze, Selective Structures

Matt Schulze is a partner at Selective Structures, an Athens Tennessee company which fabricates and installs sign poles, billboards, scoreboards and digital signs. Selective Structures annually fabricates over 1000 billboards each year. You can contact Matt at  [email protected], 706-473-3250. 1. Matt, how did you get in the outdoor business? My first media sales job […]