Outdoor

Digital billboards are a new “cool” method to deliver news and advertising, as well as public notices such as AMBER Alerts, according to the Arbitron Digital Billboard Report: Cleveland Case Study conducted by Arbitron Inc..

Entravision Communications Corporation announced that the Company has entered into a definitive agreement with Lamar Advertising Company for the sale of its outdoor advertising operations for a total consideration of $100 million in cash.

Outdoor advertising is experiencing a new lease on life as a result of emerging digital, video and wireless technologies. A key driver of this evolving market is the growth of video content and advertising in out-of-home locations.

You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.

Outdoor advertising has been around as long as advertising itself, but the old medium is showing new life.

CityReach Latino, the rolling billboard company head by Terri Simpson, founder and CEO of CityReach Latino has just ceased operating their trucks, due to a lack of being able to close on additional funding.

Industry insiders speculate that the company did not achieve the advertising traction required to impress investors and their monthly burn-rate was not manageable.

A new national study by The Media Audit shows that Texans are among some of the heaviest users of outdoor advertising in the U.S. According to the 87-market survey, Houston-Galveston and Riverside-San Bernardino (California) took the top two spots in a survey of the nation’s top heavy outdoor users, followed by Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas. According to the survey, heavy outdoor users are defined as having driven more than 200 miles in a typical week.

Skybus Airlines and Nationwide unveiled the airline’s first “branded” airplane. The Airbus A319 displays a large Nationwide logo and the tagline, “Nationwide is On Your Side,” on the exterior of its fuselage.

Fifty percent (105 million people) of Americans age 21 or older have visited a bar or lounge, including a restaurant with a dedicated bar, in the past month, and 31 percent (65 million people) in the past week, according to a national survey by Arbitron Inc. This makes bars the new out-of-home hot spot for advertisers to reach consumers. (Audience estimates are based on 2005 U.S. population aged 21 or older estimate of 210 million.)

Outdoor advertising will never be looked at the same way again by advertisers and agencies with the development of a new integrated audience measurement system, the first of its kind able to report real commercial data on the number of people likely to see a given ad. The new system, being implemented in phases by the Traffic Audit Bureau for Media Measurement (TAB), will provide comprehensive measures of both pedestrian and vehicular audiences with a complete rollout scheduled by third quarter 2008.