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 […]
TV & Magazines Most Effective Affluent Marketing Media
Multichannel is all about finding the channels your audience tune into and communicating with them on their own turf. While sometimes we assume multichannel MUST contain a digital component including social media, in the case of households with incomes of $100k, the study conducted below shows traditional methods of advertising are the way to go. […]
Out-of-Home Revenues Jump 4.5 percent
Out-of-home advertising revenue grew faster than the economy, as well as many other media, in the second quarter, rising 4.5% to just over $1.9 billion, according to the latest figures from the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. The increase is due, in part, to the expansion of digital out-of-home advertising, but OAAA executives also credited […]
Dominos Posts Feedback On Times Square Billboard
Would you be willing to have unfiltered customer comments streaming across Times Square? If not, perhaps it’s time to look into that… From Marketing Daily… Ratcheting its “Oh Yes We Did” brand transformation campaign up another notch, Dominos Pizza is now posting comments from customers on a 125-foot-wide electronic billboard in New York Citys Times Square. The […]
Some Really Creative Outdoor Print!
A handful of some really creative uses of outdoor space and creative brain-power combined with the power PRINT! OOH has always been my favorite medium as a Print Producer. I have been very fortunate to experience in real life projects I have been involved with as I walked through Times Square, or as it drove […]
Coca-Cola's Green Billboard Made of Plants That Absorb Air Pollution
Advertising doesn’t get much greener than this: Coca-Cola and the World Wildlife Fund have unveiled a new 60-by-60-foot billboard in the Philippines that’s covered in Fukien tea plants, which absorb air pollution. Each plant can absorb up to 13 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. “This billboard helps alleviate air pollution within its proximate areas […]
McDonalds Brilliant Interactive Billboard Campaign
via McDonalds Brilliant Interactive Billboard Campaign – Social Media. We thought we had seen every type of app and interactive billboard campaign under the sun until we came across this brilliant one from Mcdonald’s that the company ran in Sweden recently. The concept is a simple one in that users get to control the billboard and […]
Advertising and the Power of NFC
The advertising world is always quick to capitalize on new technologies with broad reach. Dan Trigub, vice president of business development for Blue Bite, a mobile marketing firm, sees no end to the possible uses for NFC in his business. Trigub describes a world saturated with digital content, where the consumer can pretty much be […]
QR Code Made From 3,844 Paint Cans
AXA bank Belgium has constructed a QR Code from 3,844 paint cans. The video below shows the assembly and the final positioning at the junction of Dansaertstraat and Charles Quint, Brussels. The 220 square feet QR Code resolves to the Axa ‘renovation loan campaign’ mobile site. via QR Code Made From 3,844 Paint Cans. Related […]
8 great guerrilla marketing ads
Sharpie: awakening the graffiti artist in all of us Sharpie is a company that makes marker pens. And this interactive advert is a great example of how (potential) customers can really be encouraged to engage with a brand. The interactive e-cast billboard allows the public to leave messages on the plaster-cast image. But real graffiti […]
Billboards Go Interactive With Help of WiFi
Billboards and posters are one of worlds oldest forms of advertising. Now, some marketers and start-ups say wireless technology could revamp outdoor advertising by bringing interactivity and pay-for-performance models. Over the last few months, Google Inc., Nokia Corp. and France Telecom SAs Orange have run pilot advertising campaigns that let a person interact with posters […]