Creative

OAAA’s Take on Advertising Week 2017

By Alli Collier, OAAA Marketing Programs Manager Last week’s Advertising Week was nothing short of “remarkable,” in true New York City style. With hundreds of panels and networking events to choose from, it was hard for any advertising professional not to participate in the outstanding content offered this year. Throughout […]

Rate This Board by Greg Callaham

Rate This Board 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 weeks rating is […]

Digital Billboard Content: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By Gina Kuck, Daktronics Commercial Services “Digital billboards in the OOH space have an unmatched ability to impact consumers. The ability to create a connection comes from leveraging the characteristics of the technology with best practices as a foundation,” says Gina Kuck.  Good and bad content We created the industry’s content guidelines […]

Rate This Board By Out of Home Creative

Rate This Board 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 provided […]

“NETFLIX IS A JOKE” Revealed

Insider is sure many of you have seen this billboard in the news recently as it created quite a buzz about who was behind it and what it was for.   We thought we would end this week with the following clip that wraps up what turned out to be […]

Warren Brown asks “What Can I Take Out?”

Warren Brown is a creative partner at Gutthink and Partners and has represented Australia at Cannes.  In his Open3 interview, Brown says that what you leave out is more important than what you put in: “OOH trains you to constantly ask yourself, “What can I take out?”  It’s what you […]

OOH Events at 2017 Advertising Week

Stephen Freitas OAAA Chief Marketing Officer This year’s Advertising Week is jam packed with informative and fun events. Beginning Monday, September 25 and finishing on the following Friday, the activities include breakfasts and receptions, workshops and panels, boot camps, an array of networking opportunities. The OOH industry is well represented throughout […]

Rate This Board By Greg Callaham

Rate This Board 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 […]

Matthew Dearden on digital out of home

Insider has been rereading Open3, a grand book on out of home creativity which was given to LOOKOUT2017 attendees.  Here’s a quote from Matthew Dearden, President-Europe at Clear Channel Outdoor, on digital out of home: “Digital OOH (DOOH) creative is now scaling without losing its new-found smarts…With the flexibility of […]

So How Does A Media Strategist Propose?

So how do you convince a former out-of home media strategist to marry you? AdAge has an article on what Evan Kory, a Zenith Senior VP of Strategy, decided to do in asking Alli Grabell to marry him. The two met at media services agency, Horizon Media. The end result was […]