Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a billboard ad selected by Billboard Insider 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 from multi-OBIE finalist and former OBIE […]
In response to the devastation caused by the wildfires, www.returnthealoha.org was created to aid five local charities and organizations that are helping those in need on Maui. “The recovery on Maui is going to take years – perhaps decades. (Paradise, yes, but also isolated with a small construction workforce.) This is why […]
A Designer Asks, “Where do you get your images?” Out of Home Creative Founder and Chief Creative Officer Melody Roberts says this. There are several stock sites to choose from, depending on your budget. Some popular sites are adobestock.com, shutterstock.com, and gettyimages.com, ranging from $9 to $500 per image (packages and […]
A Billboard Insider reader asks “What are the best colors to use for digital?” Out of Home Creative Founder and Chief Creative Officer Melody Roberts says this. Embrace color and have fun with yellows, blues, reds, purples, and pinks. These are some of my favorites, as well as blurred gradient […]
Three quotes on the importance of out of home design: Functional is easy. Functional and beautiful isn’t. If our canvases look like crap we look like crap. – Eddy Herty, VP National Creative Director, OUTFRONT When people don’t renew it’s generally due to bad creative. If we engage people, they […]
20th Century Studios for “Avatar: The Way of Water” Campaign Created by Disney Takes Home the Gold and Platinum OBIE Awards NASHVILLE, TN. – March 28, 2023 – The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) today announced the 81st Annual OBIE Award winners. For the past eight decades, the […]
By Melody Roberts, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Out of Home Creative Out of home (OOH) advertising offers a diversity of size, scale, location, and creative possibilities unmatched by any other medium, but with it comes one of the most challenging and rewarding canvases for creatives who must simplify a […]
Friends and family bid a sad farewell to a cherished mother, sister, daughter, friend, author, entrepreneur, and legend as Andrea Messimer passed away unexpectedly at her home in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. Long known for her outstanding work in the out-of-home (OOH) and digital advertising verticals, Andrea’s loss is reverberating coast-to-coast […]
OAAA ANNOUNCES 81st OBIE AWARDS ILLUSTRIOUS JURY ROSTER, LED BY FCB NEW YORK CO-CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER GABRIEL SCHMITT Judging Panel Includes The Badger Agency’s Madonna Badger, VMLY&R’s Manuel Bordé,Horizon’s Marc Fenty, Allstate’s David Marsey, Out of Home Creative’s Melody Roberts & Zambezi’s Grace Teng WASHINGTON, D.C. — December 6, 2022 […]
Company: Park Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: PO Box 4680, Ithaca, New York 14852-4680 Markets: New York, Pennsylvania. Phone: 607-257-1477 Email: david.feldman@parkoutdoor.com Park Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 1,500 billboards in upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania. Park operates regional offices in Binghamton, Finger Lakes, Utica and Syracuse. Park is a member of the OAAA. […]
