Tag: creative

Rate This Board by Owen Design Co

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 […]

End Of An Era In Spartanburg

GoUpstate.com has a terrific article on Wade’s restaurant and their billboards that have entertained the community for the past 22 years. Brother and sister co-owners Hamp Lindset & Carols Miller recently announced that the are ending their long time billboard campaign which used vegetable puns to advertise their restaurant which […]

Design Tips From Stott Outdoor

Stott Outdoor Advertising has a nice website page talking about out of home design.   Paid Advertisement

Strata Partners with DOmedia for out of home buying tools.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 1, 2016 — Today, STRATA, a leader in media buying and selling software that processes $50 billion of annual ad transactions, announced a partnership with DOmedia, the leading platform for buying and planning out-of-home (OOH) advertising. DOmedia’s demand-side platform (DSP), which automates much of the OOH media […]

Oh no, not my picture

By Chris Cowlbeck Very few people like their own picture and even fewer want to use their picture in advertising.  By using your picture, however, you associate yourself with your Brand and reinforce familiarity.  The next time you cross paths, a customer may say, “Hey, you’re the person on the […]

Virgin Trains and Grand Visual run dynamic digital out of home campaign.

Virgin Trains is launching an innovative data-driven, dynamic Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) campaign aimed at UK car drivers to remind them that there is a stress free, fast, viable alternative. The reactive campaign automates messages based on local traffic data and vehicle recognition technology, to add relevance and context to messages […]

Temperature dependent Lamar Baywatch Billboards

Lamar Advertising and Paramount Pictures kicked off a cool (pun intended) new digital out of home campaign to promote the upcoming release of the Baywatch movie.  Using Lamar’s dynamic digital capabilities, each billboard automatically displays a contextually relevant Baywatch ad triggered by the current weather. The campaign is running through Feb. […]

2 words not 3

By Chris Cowlbeck We cram as much as we can into a flyer, document, brochure, yellow page or paper ad, knowing that more is better – we have to “get our money’s worth”.  It’s easy to do – just write down everything you can think of and send to the […]

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) or 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This week’s rating […]

From Concept To Vinyl

  Burkhart and Extra Credit Projects have posted a terrific 1 minute video on how a billboard design moves from concept to art to mockups to vinyl.  Fun to watch the Burkhart and Extra Credit Projects creatives at work.     Paid Ad