Creative

An OOH Tribute: Smokey Bear Turns 75

Posted by Jennifer Hurley on Sept 3, 2019 Smokey Bear, the face of the longest-running PSA campaign in United States history, turned 75 this August, continuing his legacy of bringing awareness to unwanted, human-caused fires in America. Smokey Bear’s wildfire prevention campaign has had a dramatic impact since its introduction in 1944, […]

JAJA Tequila uses out of home to create buzz

The team behind JAJA Tequila is anything but traditional. Rather than matching the behemoth marketing dollars of their competitors and blowing their entire year’s budget on a single billboard in Soho, they opted instead for a guerilla outdoor and social strategy to create buzz around the up-and-coming brand. By poking fun […]

Vinyls – Does Ink Make a Difference?

Most of us have our “go to” vinyl printers, but do we ever stop to think about the ink they print with?  Insider spoke with Baud Ramirez, General Manager at Blue Sky Digital Printing about ink and ink durability. Do you look at durability of  ink as an important issue? […]

2020 Political Billboards Have Begun

By Nicole Randall, OAAA Communications Senior Director Political ad spending in 2020 is expected to hit $10 billion, with presidential election spend to reach record levels, surpassing $2.7 billion. According to data published by Advertising Analytics, about two-thirds of the presidential ad spending will come from President Trump and the Democratic […]

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 […]

Daily Billboard Blog’s 3 of a Kind: Emmy FYC

In Tinseltown campaigning for awards and Emmy consideration has become big business for the outdoor industry, so this month Daily Billboard thought we’d look at three examples of how studios and networks try and make their shows stand out and garner TV academy voter attention in the crowded skies of […]

Pepsi and Billboards at the 2019 Super Bowl

“People were writing stories, people were tweeting…it got a lot of interesting buzz.” says Pepsi VP of Marketing Todd Kaplan on Pepsi’s use of billboards at the February 2019 Super Bowl: “Culturally in Atlanta Coke runs in the veins of people…if there’s Pepsi signs all over Atlanta, these Atlanta folks […]

Why Great Creative is Essential

Every advertising channel investment includes several critical components, but creative impact can be the most important according to marketing research. The recent empirical evidence shows up to 75 percent of ad effectiveness can be attributed to the proper creative. This statistic should be an alarm for all OOH users to […]

What Does Good Billboard Creative Look Like?

By View Chicago, LLC. Good billboard creative is simple, but not easy.  When advertisers get it right, we look to examine what they’re doing that’s working. Our featured billboard creative for this post is @ Properties.  @ Properties is Chicago’s largest residential real estate brokerage. They are neighborhoods experts, and […]

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 […]