Browsing: Outdoor

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The screen guild: how the big outdoor players are hitching their wagons to the digital gravy train
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The outdoor industry is in the middle of a golden run in New Zealand, with 11 consecutive quarters of growth and a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of ten percent since Jan 2013 making it second only to online as the fastest growing media channel. Digital screens are driving most of that growth. And things are changing rapidly as all the big players invest heavily to try and get a piece of the pie, so here’s a rundown on what they’re all up to.

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Are you a robot?
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There’s a whole heap of money flowing into digital media at the moment—and that pot just seems to keep getting bigger. But there are a fair few concerns being raised about whether that money is being spent wisely, whether it’s due to bot fraud, dodgy metrics or viewability issues. Recently, one of the world’s most powerful ad men, Sir Martin Sorrell, said he thought the pendulum had swung too far towards digital and it was time for marketers to reconsider the effectiveness of traditional media (which seemed to warm the hearts of many harried publishers and broadcasters). And in New York during Ad Week celebrations, the US outdoor industry body has launched a clever campaign making the same argument by pointing out that digital has a reality problem.

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Reach and Frequency gives bus advertising a lift
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iSite Media’s head of freshness (yes, that is his official title) Rupert Fenton got botox the last time his company had something to celebrate. As the company launches Reach and Frequency, a targeting tool that allows marketers to further target bus advertising, we wonder how he’ll be celebrating this time around.

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Giving outdoor a voice
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It is truly amazing what advertisers can do with outdoor. Voyages-sncf.com recent campaign shows that there is still plenty of life in the world’s oldest advertising medium.