Out of home giant Clear Channel is finally to escape from the clutches of US radio operator iHeart Media which is restructuring to escape huge debts (a mere $20bn) incurred by private equity “investors.” Clear Channel is best known for ...
Read More »What’s next for Clear Channel as radio owner IHeart files for Chapter 11?
Billboard giant Clear Channel’s owner IHeart Media (mainly a radio operator in the US) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, drowned by over $20bn of debt it incurred in a private equity buyout around the time of ...
Read More »Clear Channel wins Asda digital poster task
Latterly running a big supermarket chain hasn’t been the piece of cake it was before German interlopers Aldi and Lidl made life difficult. Asda has had a particularly torrid time, in terms of market share anyway although it says profits ...
Read More »Decaux tightens grip on London OOH market with Kensington bus shelters award
French-owned out of home giant JC Decaux has tightened its grip on the London market (about half the UK total) with the award of Kensington and Chelsea’s bus shelter advertising contract. The 15-year contract was previously held by Clear Channel ...
Read More »Wells takes over from Eccleshare at Clear Channel – is a company split on the cards?
Former British ad agency executive William Eccleshare has been displaced as boss of out of home giant Clear Channel by Scott Wells who will become CEO of Clear Channel Americas, in charge of the US and Canada. Eccleshare (left) is ...
Read More »JC Decaux to challenge Clear Channel with knockout bid for London bus shelters poster contract
JC Decaux, which claims to be the world’s biggest outdoor company, is ramping up its efforts to win the lucrative ten-year Transport for London (TFL) contract, held by US company Clear Channel. The contract, which includes the capital’s bus shelters, ...
Read More »Google unveils driverless car – mobile billboard anyone?
What do driverless cars have to do with advertising, marketing and media (our ostensible subjects)? Well it’s Google innit and the tech (and ad) giant has just unveiled its first driverless car prototype. Very neat it is too and a ...
Read More »Clear Channel digital campaign ‘sings’ the Star-Spangled Banner to celebrate the fourth of July
More patriot games from the US: outdoor giant Clear Channel is using its network of digital screens to show lines from the Star-Spangled Banner this fourth of July; beginning on the East Coast and ending with ‘the home of the ...
Read More »CURB cleans up at creative out of home awards
Outdoor advertising (or out of home as we should call it these days) is a booming sector with digital this and that all over the place on top of conventional billboards. Poster giant Clear Channel and enterprising UK trade publication ...
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