Rate This Ad 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 by Greg Callaham  who has over 30 years of experience in outdoor advertising design. Insider has used and endorses Callaham’s services.

Maroon Kia

Rating: 1 (not good)

• I sometimes joke about advertisers putting too much on their billboard by referencing a half page car dealer ad in the newspaper. I never thought I would actually see one, though. I have now.
• This ad earns a 1 (not good).
• As always, I do not know the details of the art request or components of the campaign this ad may or may not have been part of. But looking at this challenge with the eye of an OOH graphic designer and through the lens of the target audience, I would have urged the advertiser to run the ad pictured below:

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