News Archives - Out of Home Media Blog

April 5, 2022 No Responses

How Will Advertising in the Metaverse Work? The Next Level in OOH

The Metaverse has become an inescapable buzzword over the past year, especially since Facebook rebranded into Meta. However, it’s much more than that, as we’re witnessing the beginnings of an entirely new medium of advertising that could have far-r...

March 22, 2022 No Responses

Women in Marketing: A Roundtable Discussion, Part 2

Part 2 of our roundtable discussion on Women In Marketing

November 2, 2021 No Responses

Reach Event Attendees With Out of Home Media

As tradeshows and conferences are beginning to come back we thought it would be a good time to take another look at how exhibitors can reach event attendees with Out of Home media. Out of Home is often overlooked as...

October 27, 2021 No Responses

Out of Home Media Planning for 2022

The past 18 months has been a roller coaster for the advertising industry, and for the Out of Home industry in particular. Lockdowns, people working – and shopping – from home meant reduced traffic on the roads, and this meant...

October 20, 2021 No Responses

Out of Home Media in the Post-Cookie Marketing World

As marketers prepare for the loss of third party cookies we take a look at the role of Out of Home media in the post-cookie marketing world.

September 1, 2021 No Responses

How You Can Use Out of Home Media to Reach B2B Audiences

Many advertisers look at Out of Home as a media format to reach consumers and may overlook the fact that marketers can use OOH media to reach B2B audiences.

July 29, 2021 No Responses

Conference Comeback: Expectations for Post-Covid Trade Shows

As trade shows begin to come back, there are many things to consider as we move into the new normal. So, what are the expectations for post-Covid trade shows?

July 22, 2021 No Responses

How Out of Home Media Can Drive Consumer Behavior Through the Entire Sales Funnel

Out Of Home media has traditionally been viewed as a Top of Funnel advertising medium that raises brand awareness but has little effect on the rest of the customers' purchase journey. This perception has made many advertisers ignore how Out of Home media can d...

June 23, 2021 No Responses

Out of Home Media Drives Consumer Activity in the Real World and Online

As human beings, we frequently accept certain assumptions as facts just because they are generally believed. This is certainly true of marketers as well, and one belief that has been commonly accepted is that Out of Home media may help...

June 3, 2021 No Responses

Out of Home Traffic is Exceeding Pre-Covid Levels

Based on the most recent Covid mobility reports released by the Geopath, not only has traffic recovered from its 2020 COVID lows, but Out of Home traffic is exceeding pre-covid levels, surpassing 2019 travel for the same period. Since the...

March 19, 2020 No Responses

A Message from EMC Outdoor CEO, Betsy McLarney

EMC Outdoor remains committed to providing the best outcome for you, our client, through these challenging and changing times.

January 14, 2020 No Responses

Best of the Blog 2019

Best of the Blog 2019 is a compilation review of 2019's top-performing, most-read, most-shared articles on the EMC Outdoor blog.

January 10, 2019 No Responses

Betsy McLarney Joins Geopath Board of Directors [Press Release]

Betsy McLarney, CEO of EMC Outdoor, a nationally recognized, location-based marketing agency headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, was elected as a new member to the Geopath Board of Directors.

January 3, 2019 No Responses

Best of the Blog 2018

As we enter 2019, we look forward with excitement at what new opportunities and developments lay ahead. We're eager to gain deeper engagement, more connectivity and a better understanding of the world around us. These are all major focal points that will make ...

October 1, 2018 No Responses

Introducing Account LAB: How Our Strategy Team Can Benefit You

At EMC Outdoor and EMC Events, we have officially launched our strategy team and named it Account LAB. This team acts as a strategic and creative plug-in, ready for engagement with you around your goals, challenges, and KPI’s related to out of home, experie...

April 13, 2018 2 Responses

The ABCs of Out-Of-Home Measurement

The methods for measuring out of home media have changed drastically over the last few years - if you haven't been paying close attention you might have missed out. Let us get you up to speed on where OOH has come from, and the exciting new tools that are just...

March 19, 2018 one Response

10 Reasons Out of Home and Experiential Marketing are Essential to Strategic Account Planning

As strategic planners, our job is to consider the most effective and creative approaches that we can bring to market based on our clients’ goals, maximized budgets and, hopefully, a mix of genius creative spin. As an out of home and experiential marketing st...

February 26, 2018 2 Responses

Out of Home’s Remarkable Shift from Media Measurement to Audience Measurement

The inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen once said, “Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation” Out of Home media is currently on the cusp of just such a “once in a while” moment, a foundational chang...

February 22, 2018 one Response

What is Experiential Marketing?

It goes by a lot of names…. "experiential marketing", "event marketing", "on-ground marketing", "live marketing", "participation marketing", or "special events". But no matter what name people use, it’s clear that there is one thing experiential marketing ...

February 1, 2018 2 Responses

Intro to OOH: Pt 3 – How to plan your Out of Home Media

Recent changes in data & technology are transforming the industry into a media that can be planned with the same types of targeting and precision as other channels. With the wide variety of media options available, the variability of media efficacy across ...

December 14, 2017 one Response

Why Should You Include Out of Home in Your Media Plan?

In this increasingly digital age, why should you be including Out of Home media? Why consider OOH when digital online and mobile are king? In this second installment of our 3-part series, “An Introduction to Out of Home”, we are going to touch upon not j...

December 1, 2017 No Responses

How to Reach Family Decision Makers: A New Media Plan for a New Lifestyle

Marketing to Family Decision Makers has changed drastically over the last few years, as consumer behavior and media channels have shifted. How can marketers reach the Family Decision Maker? With a combination of digital media and Out of Home.

December 1, 2017 one Response

How are Mobile Advertising and Out of Home Media Aligned? [Infographic]

We all know that the use of mobile devices is reshaping both consumer behavior, and the ways advertisers reach them. But have you stopped to think about how this newest media format relates to the oldest media format? Our new info-graphic shares some interesti...

November 20, 2017 one Response

Millennial Mindset Pt 3: The Experiential Element

What if I told you the best form of advertising to reach millennials isn’t really “advertising” at all? – at least not in the traditional sense. Our lives are centered around relationships, and while marketers seem to think those relationships are all ...

November 14, 2017 No Responses

Expand Exhibitor Marketing Footprints With Unique New Promotional Sponsorships

Trade shows and conventions are critical marketing opportunities for exhibitors. Many companies devote relatively large portions of their marketing budget to these events recognizing the benefit of the face to face meetings. One important part of trade show...

October 11, 2017 No Responses

The Numbers Behind Trade Shows

Trade show marketing is one of the most effective ways to advertise in Out of Home. Here are some numbers that prove why that is.

August 25, 2017 3 Responses

The Link, The Bridge & The Billboard: Could Out-of-Home provide the breakthrough that unlocks Omni-Channel Advertising?

The omni-channel paradigm is the Holy Grail of modern advertising, yet there have been significant obstacles in achieving it. Out of Home can provide a powerful additional touchpoint and tool by improving the ability to positively identify audiences (one of th...

July 26, 2017 one Response

Realizing the Full Potential of Out Of Home Media

For years, Out of Home has struggled with competing against other, more high profile media for budget dollars. But recent, major studies may change all that, showing that Out of Home has been overperforming, and undervalued all this time.

June 27, 2017 No Responses

OOH: The Spice in Your Media Plan

Chili is one of my favorite dishes to prepare for my family. There must be a million different recipes out there, but if nothing else, you gotta have some type of meat, beans and a sauce. Think of the basic ingredients to any chili recipe and compare it to tra...

June 20, 2017 No Responses

San Francisco | A Day in the Life of a Convention Attendee

San Francisco is one of the top trade show and convention markets in the country and possibly the world. It also happens to be a fantastic city for food, drink, sights, and shopping. I often spend a lot of my...

June 14, 2017 one Response

Digital Immersion & Its Impact on OOH – A Future Look

The first time I placed Virtual Reality (VR) goggles on my head, I was not too impressed with the immersion experience that I was having. The goggles were bulky, I was tripping over the tether cord, and I was accidentally...

June 5, 2017 No Responses

How can Out of Home complete the media puzzle? – Thoughts on the recent OAAA Conference

I left our industry conference, OAAA/Geopath #LookOut2017, a couple of weeks ago with profound excitement about where our industry is headed. All the right questions were asked as the industry is moving towards an embrace of technology, data and audience iden...

May 2, 2017 No Responses

Millennial Mindset: A Day in the Media Life of a Millennial

This is the first in a series that will look at millennials and how they interact with out of home media. This first segment goes through the daily interactions that a millennial can have on any given day of the week with OOH media.

April 13, 2017 No Responses

How to support your event with sponsorship strategies & exhibitor marketing tactics

The event organizer is committed to producing a successful event for all its members in attendance. While there are many tasks at hand when producing an event, sponsorship-advertising solutions are but one element that requires special attention.

March 31, 2017 No Responses

Changing Aisles: How the shift to online shopping will affect grocery stores & marketing

The shift to online grocery shopping is poised to make a dramatic shift not just to the fundamental ways in which grocery stores operate, but also how grocery chains will market themselves in the future.

March 9, 2017 No Responses

Summer Vacation: Reaching tourists in major markets with Out of Home

This summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Americans will take over 600,000,000 long distance trips (TripAdvisor). Combine that with the fact that in 2015 leisure travelers in the U.S. spent over $650 billion (US Travel Association), it becomes clear that...

March 2, 2017 No Responses

The Benefits of Partnership: How an Out of Home Expert Can Bring Focus to Your Media Planning

We as consumers commonly face situations when we have to seek out experts or professionals to handle tasks we either are unfamiliar with, or don’t have the time to handles ourselves. In the advertising world, ad agencies as well as brands can face the same ...

February 22, 2017 No Responses

How are Conventions Thriving When Communication is at Our Fingertips?

Desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone. Email, phone call, text, Skype, FaceTime, video-conferencing – with so many forms of digital communication at our fingertips 24/7, making clients just a tap away why is it that tradeshows are not just surviving, but thriv...

December 7, 2016 No Responses

Thriving Through The Years: EMC Outdoor Celebrates 25 Years in Out of Home

Like many outdoor advertising companies, EMC Outdoor was launched to serve a need, driven by a mix of intuition, vision, an entrepreneur’s willingness to take a calculated risk, and simply being in the right place at the right time. 25 years later our CEO, B...

June 22, 2016 No Responses

Out of Home Considerations in an Election Year

If you want to reach Americans to ask for their vote, Go Outdoor! Although there are many OOH media options, it’s not a surprise that when people run for a political office, they first think of billboards. Once thought of...

June 1, 2016 No Responses

Study shows 74% of website traffic driven by OOH campaign came from mobile!

For a couple of years now we’ve been evangelizing the natural link between out of home advertising and mobile search/devices. And now the numbers are in to back that up. Search is going Mobile: One of the long standing pillars...

November 23, 2015 No Responses

The Pleasures & Perils of Working Remotely: 7 Tips for Staying Productive

I never thought of myself as a trendsetter, though if I look at trend lines today, the ‘remote worker’ is being carefully watched as the wave of the future. As reported in the magazine Fast Company, 34% of business leaders...

June 10, 2015 No Responses

Proof That Out-of-Home Works & Provides a Link to the Mobile Consumer

Do You Need Quantitative Proof That Out-of-Home Media Works? Are you a data-centric marketer with a brand or business that you’re trying to promote? Then listen up, for the brand new USA Touchpoints / Reality Mine study “OOH and Today’s...

March 5, 2015 No Responses

A Buyer’s Wish List for Out of Home Ratings

The out of home advertising industry took a great leap forward in 2010 when TAB published its long awaited EYES On Ratings, later to be called TAB OOH Ratings. A collaborative effort between outdoor advertising suppliers and leading research and...