by Nick Coston By now, unless you lost your internet, you’ve been overwhelmed by OOH industry peeps showing all of us they are flying to the upcoming Cannes Lion Festival in France. Why not, if I were going I too would be plastering my LinkedIn page with photos of me […]
By Nick Coston I don’t know about you, but I just noticed I have over 41,000 photos hanging around my iCloud. That’s just since 2001 and doesn’t include all the prints, negatives, pre-digital tech, scattered around both my office and on our third floor where we never go save for […]
by Nick Coston CES, Advertising Week, OOH NYC, which this year includes the DPAA Global Summit and OAAA’s OBIE Awards, POSSIBLE, IBO (twice), Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity, ANA Masters, Programmatic I/O, World Out of Home World Congress, OAAA OOH Media Con, Discover OAAA Regional Events, AdClub NYC ANDY Awards, […]
by Nick Coston Fact: I haven’t missed an OAAA OOH Conference since I began going in 2013, that year being in Los Angeles when it went by the name OAAA/TAB National Convention & Trade Show. The show’s theme back in 2013 was IGNITE, where Sean Reilly from Lamar Advertising and […]
By Nick Coston Beginning this Sunday, a few thousand advertising and marketing execs, influencers, founders, salespeople and some just looking for new work will camp out either in or out of this year’s POSSIBLE Conference in the sun and fun capital of the world, Miami Beach. The lobby bar […]
by Nick Coston Whether you call you them billboards, screens, displays, panels, posters, digitals, 3-D or Holograms, the name doesn’t matter. What does matter is that current ad copy has gotten bland. That goes for all these OOH products mentioned. Compared to the 40’s and 50’s, with its bright colors, […]
by Nick Coston I had a call today with a buddy of mine, he’s been in OOH for several years. He was all excited about digital urban panels -aka screens in the store windows-that he was installing at a rapid pace throughout the east coast. Good for him, as I […]
By Nick Coston Out of home media is surrounded by acronyms and it’s getting worse. When I began my journey into “out of home” way back before the term OOH came on the scene, we called most everything billboards, posters or transit. They all fell under the name “outdoor”. “Hey […]
by Nick Coston I’ve been writing about new, revolutionary OOH products for over 10 years. Some make it, some bomb. The one I’m writing about today blows all of them away simply because it can scale big time. Not only that, the product also has been around since 2017 and […]
by Nick Coston Each year as a combo media buyer and salesperson, I do my best to see which products, which revenue streams, which companies, which brands are the hot ones. Year over year, that trophy doesn’t change all that much as it appears to only move the needle every […]
