Creative

Billboards for Safety

  By Ken Klein, OAAA   As a high-traffic holiday approaches, the nation’s road-safety agency will communicate with the public via digital and standard billboards. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) aims to boost seat belt use among young people.  Half of “tweens” who died in car crashes were […]

Pest control billboard wins award

Camel City Posters congratulates Shelly Greer, Creative Director at AdSource Outdoor, and winner of the Camel City April Art Challenge.   Pest control is usually one of those categories as an industry that we can have a little fun with.  The client really liked a previous design which had extensions of a […]

Those Who Tell Stories Rule the World

Media Village posted their thoughts on the top 5 takeaways from last weeks 2017 OAAA\Geopath National Convention.  Here they are:   1.Storytelling.  “Those who tell stories, rule the world” said Shane Snow  Chief Creative Officer of Contently.   2. Media Amplification.  There is a consistent blending of the offline and virtual worlds. […]

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 […]

2017 Local Case Study Winners

In 2016, OAAA and Geopath established the annual Local Case Study Contest contest to generate quantifiable proof of the value of OOH within local ad communities. The response to the contest has been tremendous, and the 2017 winners were announced at the OAAA\Geopath National Convention + Expo in New Orleans,LA. The […]

Twitter Takes Home Platinum OBIE Award

OAAA presented 48 awards this week at the 75th OBIE Awards Show, held during the 2017 OAAA\Geopath National Convention + Expo in New Orleans, LA. The OBIE Awards recognize exceptional OOH advertising design. Twitter was honored with the first Platinum OBIE Award for its in-house #What’sHappening campaign. Looking to position itself […]

The Value of a Buck

Billups, on their web page, explain that they are the ones agencies and brands call to make amazing happen.  Below is a short video they produced on the power of OOH and their thoughts on the value of Out of Home Media. https://vimeo.com/216539692 [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Now, Where to put that Logo…

Evan Schultz, Art Director, Adams Outdoor See, here’s the thing… the LOGO is the punchline to the advertising. It’s the brand. It’s the exclamation to the sentence. You can’t really advertise without it. And yet, in a lot of cases, it’s hard to integrate into the advertising when you have […]

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 […]

East-West Media Wins Camel City Design Award

The vinyl printer Camel City Posters has a monthly creative design contest called Good Design is Good Business.  The March 2017 winner was East-West Media for an imaginative use of a double stack billboard campaign in Athens, TN.   Congrats to East-West Media and Boaz Goudzward.  A big thank you […]