Emojis, GIFs and memes: the rise of digital culture in offline advertising

Jodi Senese | July 28th, 2017

In today’s digital world, people are moving so quickly that symbols, short video clips and catchy acronyms have become a primary form of communication and emotional expression. This is well established and evident not just throughout...

Five Reasons I Support Photo Ark

Mike Norton | May 31st, 2017

When National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore visits Cincinnati on today (May 31), he will provoke us. Joel will ask us to help protect animals facing extinction. His sobering thesis is that animal extinction hurts humans (and...

Art + Science: Making OOH Powerful Advertising

Stephen Freitas | October 7th, 2016

One of the compelling debates to come out of Advertising Week last week is whether it’s better to rely on precise data targeting to reach individual consumers or to use mass marketing to influence consumers more...

The Dynamic Difference – Using Real-Time Creative to Stand Out from the Crowd

Jeff Tan | July 13th, 2016

This is a four part series exploring the blurred lines between digital and OOH. Part One – Describes the 3 forces driving disruption in OOH Part Two – Explores Geo Audience Insights; using mobile data to...

Cannes: Parties Are Great, but it’s Creativity that Counts

Stephen Freitas | July 8th, 2016

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is an opportunity to celebrate the world’s best advertising alongside the luminaries who conceived these great ads. The event can be overwhelming – the harbor is jam-packed with branded...

OOH Advertising: The Age-Old Medium That’s Now ‘New Media’

Jim Copacino | May 23rd, 2016

There’s something in our DNA that wants to fill a large, blank public space with images and words that tell a compelling story. This basic instinct goes back 20,000 years to the cave paintings of Lascaux,...

The Art of Pause

David Krupp | May 14th, 2016

There is a beauty in out of home (OOH) advertising that is not often discussed when planning the media. It’s the moment when a great piece of copy posted on a perfect location makes you do a...

There is Beauty in Simplicity

Mendi Robinson | May 10th, 2016

In OOH, we’re lucky. We have an audience BUILT IN, but as creatives, it’s still our job to get the attention of that audience. We still have to make them look. I believe we can achieve...