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The History of Billboards [Infographic]
Take a journey through history to see how billboard advertising has developed over the years, from illustrated posters to digital screens!
Tag: OOH
5 Reasons Out of Home is Important for Trade Show Marketing
Trade show marketing beyond the convention hall is a valuable strategy that helps brands attain key business goals and better engage their audience.
Coyote at a Crossroads: Thoughts on the OAAA/Geopath Conference and the Future of Out of Home
The OAAA/Geopath Conference addressed important themes in out of home today. It also exposed the unprecedented capabilities of location-based marketing and how we in the industry need to catch up.
The Push and Pull of Out of Home Today
Advertising used to focus on pushing out messaging to consumers. Today, we see data, technology and creativity feed brands' abilities to pull-in audiences.
Pro POV: Interview with Jeff Gunderman, President & CEO of EYE Corp Media
EMC Outdoor interviews Jeff Gunderman of EYE Corp Media to understand the current state of out of home, success stories, and exciting growth opportunities!
The Brave New World of Location Based Marketing
As out of home sees rapid digitization of media and more accurate audience targeting, location becomes key in building audiences and targeting advertising.
How to Drive Enrollment for Health Insurance Brands Using Out of Home Media
Marketing for health insurance brands can be extremely challenging. They face several different complex and unique hurdles to acquiring new subscribers. So how can a health insurance brand stand out in the marketplace while facing stiff competition? How can th...
Top Tech Trends Impacting Location-Based Marketing
In a world full of digitized interactions, location based marketers need to embrace emerging technology and understanding how to harness its dual nature of disruption and innovation.
Out of Home’s Shift from Knowledge to Skill-based Planning
The average consumer spends 70% of their time out of their home. Being able to reach them with relevant content or brand story is what makes out of home advertising a key component of the marketing mix. In this age of digital and big data, OOH planning and str...
![Finding My Outdoor Voice in Out of Home [Intern Spotlight]](https://www.emcoutdoor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/header-1-410x260.jpg "Finding My Outdoor Voice in Out of Home [Intern Spotlight]")
Finding My Outdoor Voice in Out of Home [Intern Spotlight]
Since May, I've held an internship at EMC Outdoor. I'm grateful to be one of the 80% of students who intern at least once in college and 50% who intern more than once. The Out of Home industry and location-based marketing were exciting and new, and this intern...
How to Leverage Your Emotions for Better Selling
When you go through a full sales cycle, you experience the myriad of emotions which accompany it: rejection, fear, resiliency, purpose, fulfillment, defeat, and success. Closing a deal feels great, but the losses don't. We must learn to bounce back from reject...
Innovating With the Oldest Ad Medium
In recent years, Out of Home advertising has gained greater recognition as a core part of an integrated media plan. The digitization of assets is rapidly transforming how and why advertisers use it. With new technological advances, we look at what brands are d...
![The History of Digital Out of Home [Infographic]](https://www.emcoutdoor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Header-410x260.jpg "The History of Digital Out of Home [Infographic]")
The History of Digital Out of Home [Infographic]
In the last half-century, we've witnessed the development of Digital Out of Home technology, which has brought new messaging and media planning capabilities to an age-old format. Reflect with us on the history of DOOH to get a glimpse of where it began and whe...
The Rhythm of Advertising
I’ve come to think about advertising in a different way. There is a flow by which we live and a rhythm by which we walk, and if any of those things go off beat, we know it fast. When an advertising message falls into our rhythm, it breaks through and is on b...
Destination Marketing Done Right
Out of Home and Experiential marketing can be the difference-maker for your travel and tourism brand. The strengths of OOH—a variety of formats and targeting techniques—make it a valuable strategy for a destination brand. Experiential marketing can create ...
The Power of Good Creative
As advertisers, we want to put branding on everything under the sun to reach our target audience. The consumer's focus and attention are in high-demand and every brand is fighting for a slice of the pie. Good Out of Home creative grabs the consumer's attention...
6 Common Planning Mistakes in Out of Home
What advertisers who are new to OOH don’t realize is that there are many factors to consider when building a campaign, such as viable media formats, audience targeting, location, etc. Gain a better understanding of OOH and strategies that will increase its e...
Repairing a Community Through Advertising
What comes to mind when you think of advertising? It can have a strong, meaningful purpose by creating awareness about an important value or idea. For the past 26 years, Camden County Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse (CCCADA) has filled the role of alcohol a...
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Out of Home and the Casual Consumer [Infographic]
Out-of-Home advertising is something we encounter on a daily, even hourly basis. Paired with other forms of advertising, it can amplify any campaign. Check out the stats below and the story of Jane, your average consumer. Follow her on a routine day where Out-...
How to Create a Brand Presence Off of the Trade Show Floor
For many brands, trade show marketing is a major component of the integrated marketing mix because it offers such a unique brand engagement opportunity. With the right audience in the right place at the right time, it’s a no-brainer to market to them. How ca...
Why Top Brands Spend More on Out of Home
In the latest World Advertising Research Center (WARC) Global Ad Trends report, it states “successful brands allocate an average 13% of their media budget to out of home.” Since reading the report, I have been interested in understanding more about these s...
5 Keys to Planning Your Experiential Campaign
The dynamics of today’s market and how companies reach consumers is shifting. To address the new market dynamics, implementing experiential marketing in your marketing mix is quickly becoming a necessity. The question is no longer if you should be doing expe...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Day in the Life: Summer Festivals
I always look forward to this time of year -- when the weather is just right, the atmosphere in the city is hopping, and everyone is ready to attend a calendar of summer events. With so many options for summer events and festivals to choose from, what type of ...
Thoughts on my first OAAA Convention, or, What do Punctuated Equilibrium, Usain Bolt, and Thanksgiving Dinner have to do with Out of Home?
Last week I had the distinct pleasure of attending my first OAAA/Geopath conference in New Orleans. With all the changes we’ve been seeing in the industry over the past few years I was excited to see where this was all headed. Out of Home media is ready to t...
How out of home media helps reach continuing education students
The adult student looking to go back to school not only has distractions at their job and family life, but is bombarded with messaging in the digital space. How do you ensure your message is getting delivered, standing out and making an impact?
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.
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.
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.
Amplifying Your Digital Media Plan with Out of Home
Based on the level of investment in digital ads, agencies and brands alike have started asking critical questions…are we getting what we expect from our digital online ad spend? How can we be more assured that our message is getting to our consumer and movi...
Summer is Coming: Use Experiential to Connect with Your Customer
Summer is a time when you’re sure to see people outside, open to new experiences in the beautiful weather. Experiential marketing is the smartest way to reach your target audience to create positive lasting impressions, promote new items, boost sales and mak...
Chicago | A Day in the Life of a Convention Attendee
Attending a convention in Chicago puts you in the middle of the largest city in the Midwest. With so much to do outside, why limit yourself to the walls of McCormick Place? We've put together a list of 7 Things to Do While in Chicago for a Convention.
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 ...
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...
A New Year, A New Lesson Plan: OOH & Data
Are you having trouble reaching potential students in a media saturated market? There is a need for a more focused and calculated media plan, utilizing data to reach potential students. Learn how big data can inform your out of home placements, and help focus ...
Creative Hindsight is 20/20
Out of Home is a powerful strategy to help drive attendee traffic to your trade show booth, but the rules and regulations can be confusing at times. How can you maximize your creativity while encountering (and abiding by) hurdles? Our VP, Media Strategy, John...
Out of Home in the Era of Big Data
Out of home media has been relatively static for quite a long time, but with the introduction of big data the industry is poised for some major changes to the fundamental landscape of how the media is planned, bought and used by advertisers.
Outdoor Advertising: So Much More Than Billboards
You’ve been hearing it for a while – outdoor advertising today isn’t your father’s billboard media any longer, even though billboards still represent two-thirds of total OOH revenue investment. Outdoor encompasses a whole lot more, including ...
Out of Home Strategies: a Tale of Two Cities
OOH is ubiquitous and larger than life, making it ideal for brand launches and broad reach in just about any market. For those who haven’t forayed into the wild and wonderful world of outdoor advertising recently, you’d be forgiven for...