Amazon Prime Campaign on Clear Channel's Storm Cromination site

About Clear Channel

Clear Channel UK is part of Clear Channel Outdoor – one of the world’s leading Out of Home media owners.

Clear Channel's UK Managing Director Richard Bon presenting on stage at an Upfront event

01 Our Mission

Creating the future of media

Our bold mission is to Create the Future of Media, transforming our estate to the benefit of all our stakeholders, through data-driven digital innovations and infrastructure that's environmentally and socially conscious.

We see a future where our infrastructure is connecting people, actively enhancing the environment, and playing a positive part in everyone’s lives.

02 Our Purpose

A Platform for Brands & a Platform for Good

Clear Channel’s purpose is twofold: A Platform for Brands & a Platform for Good. We are delivering advertisers’ media objectives whilst positively impacting the world around us.

Clear Channel's digital advertising screen in Centre MK shopping mall showing a John Lewis ad with people walking past

A Platform for Brands

As a Platform for Brands, we offer a flexible, creative and accountable medium to deliver our advertisers’ media objectives.

A school child harvesting potatoes in an Edible Playground funded by Clear Channel

A Platform for Good

As a Platform for Good, we responsibly serve communities & municipalities, whilst going above and beyond to have a positive impact on the world around us.

A bus shelter in Brighton with a living roof and a solar panel

03 Responsible Media Owner

Sustainability

We acknowledge our responsibility to help protect the environment and the communities we serve, not only for the future of our business, but for the future of the planet.

We’re focusing on reducing our carbon footprint and other environmental impacts across our operations and are committed to being Carbon Net Zero by 2030 (Scope 1 & 2) and by 2045 (Scope 3).

Discover our sustainability journey

A Clear Channel operative installing a living roof on a bus shelter standing on a cherry picker

04 People Behind the Posters

Our People

Our talented team of more than 600 people work in 14 locations nationwide to provide stunning advertising, as well as cleaning and maintaining street furniture to make the urban environment better for local communities. Clear Channel has long-term partnerships with brands, agencies, landlords and local authorities, helping advertisers reach people in public spaces across the country.

We are the People Behind the Posters.

Careers

Gender Pay Gap report

05 Our Leaders

Our Leadership Team

JustinCochrane

CEO, UK & Europe

WillRamage

Joint Managing Director

RichardBon

Joint Managing Director

KateDouglas

Chief People Officer

MartinCorke

Chief Marketing Officer

LouiseStubbings

Partnerships & Creative Director

MarkSmith

UK Sales Director

AimeeMcKay

Client Partnership Director

BryanO’Sullivan

Delivery Director

DavidShepherd

Trading Director

KellyMoore

Sales Operations Director

LeeMead

Direct Sales Director

GeorgeManns

Portfolio Strategy Director

SalvatoreViola

Strategy Director

AprilSmith

Finance Director

06 History

Our History

1936

More O’Ferrall is formed.

1967

The Adshel brand is launched.

1996

More O’Ferrall is rebranded as More Group.

Clear Channel advertising panel outside Sainsburys supermarket with a shopper walking past

1998

Clear Channel Communications acquires More Group and Town & City Billboards and is awarded the Sainsbury’s Outdoor Media Estate contract.

An advertising panel in a shopping mall, part of Clear Channel's acquisition of Foxmark

2001

The company acquires Foxmark, making it the major player in the shopping mall market.

2002

The company is renamed as Clear Channel UK.

2006

Clear Channel UK buys Van Wagner in the UK and launches the Pinnacle brand, making it the market leader in premium format advertising.

2008

The digital roadside network is formed and the Interact mobile services division is launched. Bain Capital Partners LLC and Thomas H Lee Partners LP acquire the company.

A Magners ad on a Clear Channel roadside billboard

2009

The digital malls network, national dry-posted billboards and WAVe ‘proof-of-posting’ technology are launched. William Eccleshare is appointed President and CEO of Clear Channel International.

2010

The ‘Cromination’ (six consecutive panels on the Cromwell Road) becomes available for the first time in 10 years.

A Socialite digital advertising screen in a bar

2011

The Socialite network of digital screens in bar environments is launched. The UK’s first roadside network of digital bus shelter panels is launched in London (LD6) and Clear Channel creates the Play division. Clear Channel is named as a Sunday Times ‘Best Green Company’ for the first time.

A Penguins movie ad on a digital screen in a busy shopping mall

2012

The first campaigns are run on interactive digital screens through our Create division. Clear Channel acquires Vision Media Group, making it a leader in the digital mall environment, and becomes a Silver Patron of the Prince’s Trust.

Mobile tag on a bus shelter, including a QR code and NFC

2013

Clear Channel rolls out the Mobile Platform, a network of 10,000 mobile tags at city centre roadside panels, and launches Storm, a new super-premium brand for large format digital advertising.

An Audi ad on a digital billboard on a busy road

2014

The Mobile Platform is rebranded as Connect. Clear Channel installs the world’s first Twitter-activated vending machine and trials its first solar powered 6-sheet bus shelter. Clear Channel launches the playLondon proposition: a purpose-built network of 40 large format digital screens, the expansion of Storm to 20 sites and LD6 is rebranded as Adshel Live.

Cromination advertising site in London that became part of the Storm network

2015

Clear Channel launch first contactless donation campaign, ‘Tap to Beat Cancer’. Clear Channel and Amscreen announce digital screen partnership, Justin Cochrane is appointed CEO of Clear Channel UK, and Storm begins nationwide expansion transforming the ‘Cromination’ into Storm, Cromination London.

A tree being planted in the ground as part of the roll-out of new phone kiosks

2016

Adshel Live is rolled out nationwide, Clear Channel acquires New World Payphones business to transform UK high streets with state-of-the-art digital kiosks, Clear Channel retains Sainsbury’s advertising contract and wins Asda advertising contract.

2017

Automation programme goes live with the launch of the ad platform, national digital footprint continues to grow, driven by Adshel Live & installation of NWP kiosks in London.

2018

Clear Channel integrates its proprietary automated buying system with Posterscope’s location analytics, planning and trading platform, ECOS; Adshel Live is launched in the West End; and Clear Channel launch ‘The Difference’.

An Adshel Live advertising screen on a busy high street with a Nivea ad

2019

Clear Channel separates from parent company iHeartMedia, Justin Cochrane becomes European CEO, Richard Bon & Will Ramage become Joint Managing Directors, and Adshel Live becomes the UK’s largest digital Out of Home network.

An easyJet ad on a digital roadside billboard at nighttime

2020

Clear Channel remains committed as a Platform for Good during the COVID-19 pandemic, launches campaign planning mobile data platform RADAR in Europe, and installs its 100th Billboard Live screen in Manchester.

An Adshel Live advertising screen promoting LaunchPAD, Clear Channel's programmatic offering.

2021

Clear Channel joins Ad Net Zero in support of climate action, installs its 2500th Adshel Live panel in the UK, introduces new dedicated programmatic offering – Clear Channel LaunchPAD, and established Clear Start to aid start-ups seeking to scale through Out of Home advertising.

A group of men in reflective jackets standing in front of a living roof bus stop.

2022

Clear Channel becomes one of the biggest programmatic media owners in Europe, delivering over 1 billion impressions monthly, expands LaunchPAD in the UK, installs the 100th Bee Bus Stop in the UK, and becomes the first Out of Home media owner to commit to ambitious Science Based Targets initiative.

07 Industry

We’re an active member and champion of the Out of Home sector, the wider advertising industry and its people.

Advertising Association

We’re a member of the Advertising Association alongside more than 50 other businesses across advertising and media. As a collective, we work to drive engagement and advocate for advertising’s contribution to the economy, society and people.

Balance OOH

We’re a contributing member of BALANCE, a collective of media owners and specialist agencies from the Out of Home media sector, working side-by-side to attract and develop the best talent for Out of Home media.

NABS

We work closely with NABS who provide support to improve the wellbeing of people working in the advertising and media industry.

Outsmart

We’re founding members of Outsmart, the Out of Home industry body. Outsmart’s goals are to inform, educate and inspire advertisers and people to do wonderful things in Out of Home.

The Marketing Society

We're a part of The Marketing Society, a global community of marketing leaders. The Marketing Society's community of over 2800 members unites change-makers who aim to achieve a positive impact together, as a community.

A poster advertising White Stuff clothing on an Adshel Live screen at a bus shelter on a busy high street.

08 Nationwide

Here in the UK, we’re one of the largest Out of Home media and infrastructure companies, operating more than 33,000 advertising sites nationwide and employing more than 600 people in 14 locations.

We are committed to delivering effective advertising solutions for global brands and local advertisers while making a positive contribution through our own ventures and partnerships across many community, environmental and social projects.

Clear Channel Europe

09 Accreditations

BMTrada ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certification