What is Out of Home Media? – An Introduction
What is Out of Home Media? Well…..Billboards right? […]
Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 10:09 AM
What is Out of Home Media? Well…..Billboards right? […]
The Reports of Retails’ Death are Greatly Exagerated We’ve all seen the headlines – “Brick and Mortar is Dead”, “Online shopping is the biggest thing in the universe”, etc… The growth of online shopping has been a popular headline for several years now, you can hardly look at any advertising related news sites without seeing an article with dire pronouncements about the death of real stores, and the huge growth of Amazon and other online retailers. But just the other day Starbucks announced they were closing their online store. […]
A recent study by Omnicom’s Benchmarketing suggests not only using Out of Home in your media plan, but allocating more media dollars towards it. Agencies need to be having the discussion with their clients that OOH is no longer a novel afterthought, but a critical piece to their media mix. And for those advertisers that are currently using OOH in their marketing efforts, experts are recommending that spend be ramped up significantly. […]
What would you do if we were to tell you that in order to make your advertising campaign work to its fullest extent, you should not only triple your Out of Home budget, but take dollars away from television and radio to do so? […]
I like to cook. By no means am I a gourmet chef, but I get by. Chili is one of my favorite dishes to prepare for my family. […]
San Francisco is one of the top trade show and convention markets in the country and possibly the world. It also happens to be a fantastic city for food, drink, sights, and shopping. I often spend a lot of my time in markets checking out the media we place for our clients in and around the convention center. […]
The first time I placed Virtual Reality (VR) goggles on my head, I was not too impressed with the immersion experience that I was having. The goggles were bulky, I was tripping over the tether cord, and I was accidentally hitting people as I doodled a squiggle masterpiece with Google Tilt Brush. In short, I could not untether from the real world — as the technology promised. […]
I’m going to the circus, I’m going to the fair, To see the pretty ladies With flowers in their hair! Getting ready for a festival day in NYC combines the best of both worlds; the sense of being free that comes with the festival life, and the hustle and bustle of a large city. […]
There is a theory in evolution called punctuated equilibrium. Essentially what it says is that evolution is not a steady, plodding, gradual accumulation of incremental changes over time. Instead, it says that evolution is long periods of relative stasis where very little changes, punctuated by short bursts of rapid, major changes, moving forward in fits and starts. […]
How do you ensure your marketing plans are reaching busy working adults looking to return to school? With over 7,000 higher education institutions in this county, the market is saturated and competition is at an all-time high (https://nces.ed.gov/, U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. […]
The scale of Digital OOH will continue to grow – and will soon overtake traditional Out of Home media. The first digital billboards were installed in the US around 2005 and started slow, by 2010 there were still only about 2000 digital billboards installed in the US. Since then the growth curve has taken a sharp upward turn. […]
Part 1 of a series featuring insights into millennial behavior – by an actual millennial One year ago, I was introduced to the Out of Home world. OOH was not a common term used in any of my Penn State communications classes so the last year has been quite the learning experience. […]
A trade show is both a sales and marketing event for the exhibitor. With over 1.9 million exhibitors at events every year (2015 CEIR Exhibition Industry Census), exhibitors now more than ever are competing for attendees’ attention. But how can event organizers, both large and small, work with exhibitors to create effective means of brand enhancement? […]
The standard grocery store layout can be broken down into 2 main sections: the perimeter with fresh items like produce and dairy, and the center, filled with the packaged goods. This “center” store is disappearing. And where is it going? […]
With other traditional media channels like print, radio and broadcast TV waning amidst the ever-changing consumer landscape, many brands have been investing huge dollars in digital ads. “Revenue from digital advertising, driven largely by search and mobile, reached $32.7 billion for the first half of 2016, an increase of 19 percent from $27.5 billion last year (2015)”. […]