Outdoor

Billboards in Times Square will explode with Chicago artist Takeshi Murata’s psychedelic colors this November as part of the Times Square Moment: A Digital Gallery, a monthly program that transforms New York City’s iconic digital signs into cutting edge works of art.

With advertisers asking for guidance on how to best approach this audience, leading mall media provider, Eye conducted a study to better understand the Hispanic Shopper’s habits and preferences.

A nationwide Scarborough research survey found that Business Frequent Flyers are 83 percent more likely than all American adults to be the first to try or buy new products and services.

Saks is back with a seasonal 3D holiday projection at its flagship store in New York. The Saks Fifth Avenue Snowflake & the Bubble projection show is bigger and even more spectacular this year. The 3D Projection mapping show runs every night for 5 hours through Jan 6th, making it the longest outdoor video mapping experience in the world. Available at HispanicCMO.com, HispanicPRpro.com and HispanicAccountPlanner.com

Nearly 61% of all U.S. adults have viewed advertising on video screens in public venues in the last 30 days, and more than 64% of them have expressed interest in this form of marketing communication, according to the latest data from GfK MRI.

eMarketer forecasts a fairly rosy outlook for outdoor advertising spending in the US, which is predicted to rise from $6.1 billion in 2010 to $6.4 billion this year and $7.6 billion by 2015. Growth in this area is supported by the continued relevance of outdoor to the daily lives of consumers as well as the growing share of spending devoted to newer forms of outdoor ads that are themselves digital media.

From the airport to the elevator, from the gym to the gas station, digital location-based video ad exposures are seeing marked growth, according to The Nielsen Company’s Fourth Screen Network Audience Report. The quarterly report measures audience exposures by video networks in out-of-home locations like bars, restaurants, retail stores and other place-based venues.

The 2011 Digital OOH Outlook and Planning Guide is an annual reference guide to provide media agencies with a baseline and additional insight to effectively assign budgets during advanced planning stages. DOWNLOAD REPORT HERE.

Telmar announced the first ever market level planning systems for out of home media using the landmark TAB Eyes-On metrics. Clients of Telmar’s software systems are now able to integrate market level data, working up from site level planning to execute media plans.