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Out-of-home advertising (or outdoor advertising) is made up of more than 100 different formats, totaling $6.99 billion in annual revenues in 2008 in the USA.[1] Outdoor advertising is essentially any type of advertising that reaches the consumer while he or she is outside the home. This is in contrast with broadcast, print, and Internet advertising. Out of home advertising, therefore, is focused on marketing to consumers when they are "on the go" in public places, in transit, waiting (such as in a medical office), and/or in specific commercial locations (such as in a retail venue). Outdoor advertising formats fall into four main categories: billboards, street furniture, transit, and alternative.[2]

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1 Overview 2 Digital Out Of Home - DOOH 3 Non-Digital Out-Of-Home 4 Selling billboard advertising space 5 Regulations on outdoor advertising 6 Emerging Technologies 7 See also 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Overview
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Billboard advertising is a traditional out of home advertising format, but there has been significant growth in digital out of home advertising (billboards and place-based networks) in recent years; for example, about 1,500 digital billboard displays have been installed in the United States alone.[3] Traditional roadside billboards remain the predominant form of outdoor advertising in the US with 66 percent of total annual revenue. Today, billboard revenue is 73 percent local ads, 18 percent national ads, and 9 percent public service ads.[1] Street furniture is made up of formats such as bus shelters, newsracks, mall kiosks, and telephone booth advertising. This form of outdoor advertising is mainly seen in urban centers. Additionally, this form of advertising provides benefits to communities, as street furniture companies are often responsible for building and maintaining the shelters people use while waiting for the bus. Transit advertising is typically advertising placed on anything which moves, such as buses, subway advertising, truckside, and taxis, but also includes fixed static and electronic advertising at train and bus stations and platforms. Airport advertising, which helps businesses address an audience while traveling, is also included in this category. Municipalities often accept this form of advertising, as it provides revenue to city and port authorities. Finally, alternative advertising includes ads in stadiums, on gas pumps, bike racks, rest areas, and other non-traditional formats. Alternative advertising provides a way to address consumers in places they may not expect.

Street furniture, transit, and alternative media formats comprise 34 percent of total outdoor revenue in the US. Some of these formats have a higher percentage of national ads than traditional billboards.[4] The outdoor industry includes more than 2,100 operators in 50 states representing the four major outdoor format categories. These outdoor media companies range from public, multinational media corporations to small, independent, family-owned businesses.

[edit] Digital Out Of Home - DOOH

Digital out-of-home refers to dynamic media distributed across placed-based networks in venues including, but not limited to: cafes, bars, restaurants, health clubs, colleges, arenas, gas stations, and public spaces. DOOH networks typically feature independently addressable screens, kiosks, jukeboxes and/or jumbotrons. DOOH media benefits location owners and advertisers alike in being able to engage customers and/or audiences and extend the reach and effectiveness of marketing messages. It is also referred to as Digital Signage. The overall industry grew more than 15 percent last year(2010) to $2.1 billion, according to Patrick Quinn, CEO and founder of PQ Media, a Connecticut-based research and consulting firm. Quinn said gas station television is one of the largest and fastest growing segments of that category, based in part on its verifiable audience. With digital TVs in gas stations, nearly 52 million customers are getting snippets of weather, sports highlights, celebrity gossip and commercials with their gas each month, according to Nielsen. The weekly reach is actually larger than most of the prime-time TV shows. The largest company in the space is Gas Station TV with 27.5 million monthly viewers at more than 1,100 stations across the U.S., according to Nielsen. [5] In addition to the large number of viewers, the audience profile of TVs at gas stations is unique. 100 percent are drivers. 76 percent are adults from age 18-49 with a median age of 40 and Median HHI $70k+. [6] According to the Nielsen Intercept Studies, 89 percent of the consumers are engaged and watching TV at the gas station and 88 percent love watching every time they fuel because they have nothing else to do. The reason that this category is growing so rapidly is because busy people are typically busy at home and with the introduction and acceptance of digital video recorders, it has diluted the frequency with which traditional television commercials are viewed. Every day more TV viewers are skipping past commercials with their DVRs which in turn has made out-of-home advertising all the more appealing. [7] A Nielsen media research study in 2009 showed that 91 percent of DVR owners skipped commercials. As a result, traditional TV advertisers are hungry for an effective substitute, and digital out-of-home ads appear to be one of the solutions. DOOH also includes stand-alone screens, kiosks, and interactive media found in public places. The availability of inexpensive LCD screens with built-in media players has opened the door for companies to add interactive video messages in Point of Purchase (POP) Displays. The displays allow consumers to get additional information at the moment of decision on a product or service. Growth in the DOOH industry has been increasing in 2009, with more POP manufacturers, advertisers, and content developers moving to digital.[8]

[edit] Non-Digital Out-Of-Home

Vinyl decals allowing use of windows, on a side and rear advertisement for alcohol on a Berlin bus Non-digital out-of-home refers to other types of media distributed across physical spaces. These are:[citation needed] Airship Advertising - An airship can provide one of the physically largest out-of-home advertising platforms. Bulletin - Bulletin billboards are usually located in highly visible, heavy traffic areas such as expressways, primary arteries, and major intersections. With extended periods of high visibility, billboard advertisements provide advertisers with significant impact on commuters. Bus advertising - Firmly establish brand awareness and generate quick recall with high profile exposure near point of purchase locations. Commuter rail display - Reaches a captive audience of upscale suburban commuters. Additionally, reaches lunch-time patrons, shoppers and business professionals. ComPark advertising - ComPark is a device used for car park advertising; which is placed onto the parallel lines of a bay and is able to gain instant exposure from motorists that have just parked their vehicle. The ComPark also serves as a guide to assist motorist in adhering to the parking bay size. Lamppost banner advertising - Lamp columns are sited everywhere, allowing advertisers and events to use banners to target precise geographical locations and create massive promotional awareness. Mobile billboard - Mobile billboards offer a great degree of flexibility to advertisers. These advertisements can target specific routes, venue or events, or can be used to achieve market saturation. A special version is the inflatable billboard which can stand free nearly everywhere. This product can also be used for outdoor movie nights.

Mobile inflatable billboard Poster - Target local audiences with these billboards, which are highly visible to vehicular traffic and are ideal for the introduction of new products/services. Marketers use posters to achieve advertising objectives and increase brand awareness by placing multiple units in strategic locations while lowering the cost per thousand impressions. Premier panel - Premiere panels combine the frequency and reach of a poster campaign with the creative impact of a bulletin. Premier square - Bright top and bottom illumination on a premiere panel provide extra impact after dark. Street advertising - The use of pavements and street furniture to create media space for brands to get their message onto the street in a cost-effective approach. Taxi advertising - Taxi advertising allows advertisers to highlight their products, whether brand awareness, or a targeted message, directly to areas where people work, shop, and play. Wallscape - Wallscapes are attached to buildings and are able to accommodate a wide variety of unusual shapes and sizes. These billboard advertisements are visible from a distance and provide tremendous impact in major metro areas. Other types of non-digital out-of-home advertising include airport displays; transit and busshelter displays; headrest displays; double-sided panels; junior posters; and mall displays.

[edit] Selling billboard advertising space

Billboards in Times Square, New York

If a private property owner wants to sell advertising space to one of the outdoor advertising companies ('media sellers') he or she directly approaches the company. A media seller may also approach the owner of an interesting property and make a bid. The media seller typically requires a long term land lease due to the expense of erecting a new billboard. The private property owner is generally paid an annual land rent. The media seller erects a structure for displaying the ads and rents out the space to the clients. The world's largest media sellers are Van Wagner, CBS Outdoor, JCDecaux, Clear Channel Outdoor,and Lamar Advertising.

[edit] Regulations on outdoor advertising

Different jurisdictions regulate outdoor advertising to different degrees. In the US, the states of Vermont, Hawaii, Maine, and Alaska prohibit all billboards. Scenic America estimates the nationwide total of cities and communities prohibiting the construction of new billboards to be at least 1500.[9] In 2007, the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, banned all billboards within the city.[10] There are also concerns within major cities about how many billboards and other forms of outdoor advertising are not in compliance with local by-laws, such as this website's database of alleged illegal billboards in Toronto, Canada. However, in the United States, strict laws protect against the taking of property without just compensation, making a Sao Paulo-like action highly unlikely in the U.S.

[edit] Emerging Technologies

Media fragmentation, competition from online media, as well as the need for greater efficiencies in media buying prompted companies to offer billboard inventory aggregation services[11] Interactive services are becoming increasingly more common with the move to digital outdoor advertising, such as allowing the public to connect, share and interact through their mobile devices in particular through WiFi connections.[12]

[edit] See also

Advertising Billboard Bus advertising Digital billboard Digital signage Flyer (pamphlet) Inflatable movie screen Neon signage Outdoor Advertising Association of America Point of sale display Skywriting Street Furniture Transit media

[edit] References
1. ^ a b [1], OAAA 2. ^ [2], Outdoor Media Formats

3. ^ [3], Number of Displays 4. ^ [4], Outdoor Pie Chart 5. ^ By Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune November 29, 2011, entitled "Networks Compete For Gas Station Viewers 6. ^ Nielsen Intercept Studies 2006-2011, 2010 Doublebase GfK MRI 7. ^ Los Angeles Times, May 27, Alana Semuels , Staff Writer "Now showing very near you ..." 8. ^ Digital Signage Today 9. ^ http://www.scenic.org/billboards/background/communities 10. ^ http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jun2007/id20070618_505580.htm?chan=top +news_top+news+index_innovation+%2Bamp%3B+design 11. ^ http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/entry/50508/book-a-billboard-aggregates/ 12. ^ http://publicdataweb.com/interactive-outdoor/about

[edit] External links

International Billboard Identity - is a database of all Indoor/Outdoor Advertisements with unique machine-readable identification number. Outdoor Advertising Association of America Scenic America - an organisation critical of outdoor advertising Digital Signage Today Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Outdoor advertising

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