By Nick Coston I don’t know about you, but I just noticed I have over 41,000 photos hanging around my iCloud. That’s just since 2001 and doesn’t include all the prints, negatives, pre-digital tech, scattered around both my office and on our third floor where we never go save for […]
Creative
Visit Lauderdale runs NYC Campaign
TAMPA – SPARK, a top independent creative agency known for hospitality and travel work and the creative AOR for Visit Lauderdale, partnered with the destination marketing organization to launch a sweeping out-of-home (OOH) campaign promoting Greater Fort Lauderdale as a premier Florida destination. The campaign took over all 22 […]
The Billboard That Said Nothing and Made People Talk
At multiple locations across Accra, the capital city of Ghana, including the arterial Ring Road East in Osu and in Legon, Out-of-Home advertising is doing something unusual. Billboards normally designed to sell products and project aspiration have been stripped of all commercial content and covered entirely in second-hand clothing. The […]
Melody Roberts on Designing the Photo Ark Launch
We recently published a press release for the OAAA and National Geographic’s Photo Ark Launch Nationwide “Pledge to Pollinate” Campaign to Celebrate Photo Ark’s 20th Anniversary. We wanted to learn more about the campaign’s development and reached out to Melody Roberts, Founder & CCO of outofhomecreative.com, who designed it. Can […]
Paulie Dery on good out of home design.
Paulie Dery is the CMO AG1 and the former CMO of Yeti. David Shing interviewed Dery at the 2026 OOH Mediacon. Here are some of Dery’s quips interspaced with his work for Yeti: The brief is always with out of home for me – would you take a photo […]
Rate This Ad by Greg Callaham
Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a random piece of billboard artwork using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This week’s rating is […]
John Morgan Likes Out of Home
Attorney John Morgan spends several hundred million dollars each year on billboards. In these excepts from his OAAA Mediacon 2026 keynote, Morgan talks about he uses billboards. Most of the billboards I look at aren’t creative. I was inspired by that gap, because the firms doing great creative work […]
OUTFRONT Runs LA Union Station FIFA takeover
NEW YORK, May 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — OUTFRONT Media (NYSE: OUT), one of the largest and most-trusted IRL media companies in the U.S., today announced the launch of its inaugural advertising and experiential program at Los Angeles Union Station, one of the city’s most recognizable destinations. This milestone marks the first […]
Adams Outdoor Partners with JustDane
Madison, WI — May 15, 2026 — Adams Outdoor Advertising is proud to announce JustDane as a 2026 recipient of the Adams Collaborate Public Service Advertising Program, an initiative that provides local nonprofit organizations with professionally designed outdoor advertising campaigns at no cost. Beginning May 11, 2026, JustDane’s year-long campaign […]
Trends IN OOH Content: Which Creatives Stand Out?
Trends in OOH Content: What Types of Creative Are Dominating Billboards Today? Out-of-home creative has evolved far beyond basic messaging into a strategic form of visual communication designed to quickly capture the attention of oncoming traffic. In high-speed environments, billboards only have a few seconds to make an impression, making […]
























