Coke Zero Serves Soda From A Billboard In Indianapolis
Out Of Home advertising is certainly the most creative and most FUN to produce – especially when you have a client like COKE! I worked on the Coca-Cola International account for a few years so I do have first hand experience when it comes to spending some big bucks on big installations. We never did […]
British Airways Billboard Interacts With Passing Planes In Picadilly [video]
This is a amazing! What other products could this technology be used for and where? From YouTube: Courtesy of a little digital magic, the young man in this poster really does know when it’s a British Airways plane. And that really is the actual flight number and where it’s flying in from. Full article here: Kids Point […]
Paramount Pictures Taps NFC To Deliver Exclusive Star Trek Content In Airports
Travelers passing though O’Hare, LAX, DFW and JFK will have an opportunity to open a channel and hail some exclusive “Star Trek Into Darkness” video content via NFC technology. By tapping their NFC enabled phones onto Capt. Kirk’s communicator pictured in the out of home displays airport visitors will be transported to a unique mobile […]
Exploring Some Of The Largest Posters Ever Made
Excited to have Chris Taylor sharing content with PMC! He writes about wide format, and certainly started off BIG with this topic! As will be evident below, Chris is from the UK so sizes are provided in metrics (ACK!) and a “football pitch” is a “football field” in American… enjoy! Exploring some of the largest […]
College Uses Augmented Reality OOH Banner To Recruit Students
Here is a great use of cross media marketing! A printed banner connects people (and potential students) with a digital experience that offers them a glimpse into campus life. The video below doesnt show if there was a way to connect and get more information, but that would just be icing on the cake since […]
Cake-Ejecting Posters Sweeten The Ride for UK Commuters
I love this idea… Mr. Kipling is a big brand in the UK – so if you already eat their cake this is a bonus, and if you dont, no better way to create a new customer than by giving away a free sample. Perhaps the truly amazing thing here is that this cake […]
Gap Is Now Running Light Box Ads On Buses
Love this! A creative use for Print vs moving to Digital signage! It’s been a while since Ive used the term or thought about Duratrans, so thanks to the GAP for activating my brain cel archives this morning. Gap first to use illuminated bus format By Maisie McCabe Gap, the clothing brand, has become the […]
Nivea Demos Sun Protection in Brazil with a Million Beads and a Billboard
Another cool and creative use of outdoor space and clever marketing. The video is in Portuguese, but if you click on the (CC) button it will provide English subtitles! AgenciaClick Creates Mosaic for Rio de Janeiro that Dazzles in Sunshine but Prevents Sunburn By: Laurel Wentz It’s summer in Brazil, and Nivea Sun is demonstrating […]
Coca-Cola tests NFC advertising in Singapore
It’s very nice to see that NFC and QR are living happily together in Singapore 🙂 Coca-Cola has launched an NFC out-of-home advertising campaign in Singapore. By Sarah Clark The campaign promotes the company’s Coca-Cola and Fanta drinks brands and uses the NFC-enabled Mobile Life! network of two hundred advertising panels introduced by Clear Channel Singapore […]
New VW Beetle Ads: OOH Print + Augmented Reality
This is just very cool… The New VW Beetle Gets Extreme, Augmented By Bob Marshall It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 13 years since we were introduced to VW’s “New Beetle,” aka the vehicle that saved Volkswagen from years of declining sales. Boosted by a worldwide ad blitz that featured work from, among […]
Literary Novelist Is a Times Square Novelty
This is a novel idea! A billboard to advertise a BOOK! Let’s hope the trend catches on… win/win for print! Literary Novelist Is a Times Square Novelty By Alexandra Alter via Jeffrey Eugenides New Book The Marriage Plot on Times Square Billboard – Metropolis – WSJ. Literary novelists — even those who’ve been anointed by […]
U.S. Media Biz To Rise To $1.1 Trillion In 2011
The excerpt below is from a post on MediaPostPublications.com yesterday which you can read in it’s entirety here. I pulled this section out as I thought it would be most relevant to our audience, but the article provides some interesting data related to advertising as well. Seems still there is still no great news for newspapers […]