From the OAAA Outlook Newsletter When driving the cross-town freeway (Interstate 105), second-generation billboard owner Chris Zukin spots environmental progress, in lights. Zukin, general manager of Meadow Outdoor Advertising sees new more efficient, longer-lasting LED lights his company is installing on all its lighted billboards in Oregon and six other […]
By OAAA staff. In the newest Nielsen OOH research study from OAAA, more than half of US adults 18+ report they have noticed a poster billboard in the last month. Given today’s highly competitive and fragmented media environment, another important finding is most respondents agree poster ads stand out more […]
William K. (Bill) Reagan started Reagan Outdoor Advertising in 1965, the year he and his wife Julia were married. The company and the marriage are thriving, and their three adult children are active in the business. Reagan Outdoor Advertising now operates 4,000 billboard faces in Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and […]
By Nancy Fletcher, President, OAAA Thank you, OAAA principals, for sharing your honest thoughts with senior staff, in our recent telephone interviews. Here are 10 take-aways from owners and top executives at more than 75 OOH media companies, large and small. This valuable input, via one-on-one interviews: Helps guide […]
The Foundation for Outdoor Advertising Research & Education (FOARE) has completed a successful fundraising campaign for its Fiscal Year 2016 program with donations totaling $252,150. Of this total, more than $202,000 is dedicated to the FOARE general fund and $50,000 is a direct contribution by the Ron & Nancy Fletcher […]
By Kerry Yoakum (OAAA) One out of three states could consider proposals this year to tax services traditionally exempt from sales taxes (advertising is a service). Several factors are driving this trend: Some states face budget stress The service sector is a growing part of the economy Politically, taxing services […]
OOH PSA Campaign Reaches Rival Audiences in a Politically Turbulent Year February 27, 2017 (Washington, DC) – A recent out of home (OOH) advertising campaign aiming to increase voter participation in the 2016 Presidential election demonstrated OOH’s ability, especially when connected with digital media, to contextually and geographically target and […]
By Kerry Yoakum, OAAA Legal challenges to billboard controls were filed in four states, prompted by a 2015 Supreme Court ruling that bolstered free speech protections. Two of those four cases recently have been dismissed, in Rhode Island and Georgia. In late January, the Rhode Island case (Rhode Island DOT […]
Insider thanks the OAAA for allowing us to reprint their recent article. As highlighted in the new 2016 repositioning, OOH is more creatively impactful, more contextually relevant, and more of a media amplifier than ever before. OOH is also the fastest growing traditional media in the US. All of these […]
OOH synergy with digital was expressed in the Outdoor Advertising Association of America’s (OAAA) highly-successful Feel the Real campaign, and the tenets showcased are just as relevant today as they were 18 months ago when it launched. Exactly what percentage of OOH impressions are generated by humans? 100 percent real human […]
