By Nicole Randall OAAA Communications Senior Director Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, sailed into New York Harbor August 28 and was met by a fleet of 17 sailboats representing each of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on their sails. Thunberg was […]
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Rate This Board by Out of Home Creative
Rate This Board allows a billboard designer to rate a billboard ad using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer recommends how to improve the ad. This week’s rating is provided by Melody Roberts, an OBIE nominated billboard designer […]
OOH Front and Center at Advertising Week New York
OAAA and OOH will have a large presence at this year’s Advertising Week New York, September 23-26. The event takes place at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 movie theater, which OAAA will dominate and surround with the launch of the OOH industry’s latest campaign. OOH is Real, a re-imagining of the successful Feel […]
Daily Billboard’s 3 of a Kind: Sparkle
This month Daily Billboard thought we’d put some added sparkle into your September with these three glittering billboard examples trying to stand out with the help of glistening sequins, gemstones and eye-catchers. First up is a colorful special extension billboard for the sophomore season of The Masked Singer celebrity singing […]
Adam Owen on the 50:40:10 Rule
By Adam Owen, Owen Design Company. Whenever setting up your board, try to keep this simple ratio in mind. 50% image…40% call to action…10% information. A picture is worth 1,000 words so make sure it gets a dominant role in the art. Make your call to action simple and concise. […]
McKinney CEO Joe Maglio on OOH
McKinney CEO, Joe Maglio, was interviewed this week by David Doty in Forbes magazine on Creativity and the Future of Agencies. Here is an excerpt from the article with a comment from Maglio on the power of OOH. Doty: So, there is a lot of convergence in your creative work, digital […]
Intersection Puts Range Rover atop CTA station
To promote the launch of the new Range Rover Evoque, Land Rover created a first-of-its-kind installation in Chicago that will stop people in their tracks: a Range Rover Evoque on top of the CTA’s Chicago and State entrance. Land Rover partnered with Intersection, Posterscope, DentsuX, Illumivation, and Spark44 to create […]
Outfront Media Accepting Submissions for Art Contest
Entry is open for OUTFRONT’s new inaugural art competition – OUTFRAME – which aims to recognize artists in the ad community who have real art to share with real people in the real world. When are submissions accepted? From September 1 to October 1. Who is Eligible to Enter? OUTFRAME […]
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 […]