Creative

National Geographic’s Photo Ark Reaches Millions

This summer, millions will see National Geographic’s rare animal photos on billboards and other out of home formats. On May 19, 2017, Endangered Species Day, the National Geographic Society and members of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA), launched a groundbreaking OOH campaign driven by user generated content and […]

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 […]

Lamar uses traffic & weather trigger ads in emoji movie campaign

Lamar Advertising and Sony recently kicked off a fun new digital out of home campaign to promote the upcoming release of The Emoji Movie. Using Lamar’s dynamic digital capabilities, each billboard automatically displays a contextually relevant ad for The Emoji Movie triggered by the current traffic and weather conditions. This is […]

NY Landlord Sues Over $15K Fine

A Brooklyn landlord is suing the city over a $15,000 fine for placing a Shepard Fairey mural on her building’s wall. The landlord, Jean Sausa, hired Fairey to paint the mural on 556 Driggs Avenue in 2014. She removed it after the Department of Buildings fined her $15,000. The mural […]

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 […]

March for Giants Wins With Interactivity

Several creatives who were interviewed at the Cannes Festival three weeks ago mentioned  The March for Giants as an outstanding out of home campaign which took advantage of a couple strengths of digital billboards: interactivity and worldwide reach. The campaign was designed by the London’s 18 Feet & Rising to […]

Want To See your Billboard? Not in Maine!

The state of Maine and WCSH6 noted last week the 40th anniversary of Maine’s billboard ban.  It was 40 years ago, last week, that then Governor James B. Longley signed the act that eventually removed 8,500 billboards across the state. It took almost seven years for that task to be […]

Project Yellow Light Presentation

Insider posted in June about the sixth annual Project Yellow Light scholarship competition. The contest calls on students to create a billboard, radio or video PSA (public service advertisement) to educate their peers about the dangers of using mobile devices behind the wheel of a vehicle. Several of the winners […]

OUTFRONT Powers MBTA’s GIF-based Public Service Announcements with GIPHY

NEW YORK, July 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT) today announced its campaign launch to bring Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) riders friendly and easy to understand public service announcements. Using GIPHY, the world’s first and largest GIF search engine, OUTFRONT will be integrating full-motion GIFs on its […]

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 […]