By Anna Bager, OAAA President & CEO I began my new role at OAAA in mid-September. What a month it has been! Over the past four weeks, I’ve commuted between our headquarters in Washington and a temporary office in New York, and I’ve begun to travel around the country on […]
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You Asked, We Answered: Cannabis Ads
By Ken Klein OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs Following the September 18 webinar on cannabis advertising OAAA received many more questions on the topic. What about taxi tops? Yes. Taxi tops carry ads for cannabis businesses. Here are examples of cannabis ads in Las Vegas, Miami, and Los Angeles: […]
The Virality of Positive OOH
By Nicole Randall OAAA Communications Senior Director “People gravitate to a positive message.” That’s what Josh Wilson, owner of Living Water Irrigation in Tulsa, OK, told OAAA over the phone last week. Wilson’s digital billboard messages professing this love for his wife went viral last week. When Wilson told his […]
Top 5 Quotes From the IBOUSA Show
Here are Insider’s top 5 quotes from the Independent Billboard Operators fall show which concludes today. Daktronics Lighting Expert Eric Johnson on the importance of lighting studies More and more regulatory authorities are requiring a lighting analysis for digital sign permitting. I was getting 1 request a month a year […]
Pete Hautem Says Visit Your Out of Home Customers
By Pete Hautem, Sales Consultant, Paragon Printing I read the David English post on Out-of-Home sales rep mistakes. Very good. Let me follow up on that if I may. I’m a sales/marketing “veteran” in this crazy business. Started in 1977 in Atlanta working for Lance Bell’s. Lance’s ABC which was […]
OOH Supports Sustainability Efforts Globally
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 […]
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 […]
Former Prosecutor Klobuchar Calls Out Billboard Power in DEM Debate
By Ken Klein OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs In the fog of the (long) 10-way presidential debate in Houston, out of home media (OOH) got a shout-out as an effective problem solver for crime fighters. “There was a kid named Byron Phillips that was shot on his front porch,” […]
Consider This, By Anna Bager OAAA President & CEO
Why I Joined OAAA Today is my first day as the new President & CEO of OAAA, and I am super excited to take on this new role. During my first 90 days, I’ll work with CEO Emeritus Nancy Fletcher and the OAAA staff to get up to speed as […]
A Personal Message for OAAA and OOH
From Nancy Fletcher OAAA President and CEO Poet Chaucer made the profound point, “All good things must come to an end.” As I prepare to pass the baton to a new OAAA leader next week, I’d like to share three sentiments. First, thank you. Second, we share confidence in […]
