Digital Out-Of-Home

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Digital out-of-home (DOOH) is growing, but it’s still the minority of the market, and programmatic is just a fraction. Learn what’s accelerating the industry’s transition to digital and programmatic and what’s holding it back.

DOOH has been thought of as pure branding, according to Elliott Hasiuk, principal for digital media at Part and Sum. That makes sense, considering out-of-home media might just be a big picture of, say, a Big Mac and the McDonald’s arches plastered 40 feet in the air. “Now we’re able to tie that branding to bottom-of-the-funnel metrics that matter more to the business.”

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Privacy Tech And Privacy Theater The ad industry, particularly publishers, need programmatic ways to convey signals of trust. There’s the IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework. But that was ruled illegal by the Belgian data privacy regulator and is being overhauled.  The regulators say […]

People who pull off the road to a gas station are an audience both waiting and on the go. Someone fueling up provides a good opportunity to serve video ads at the pump for candy and soda brands available at the convenience store invariably located a few steps away. But gas stations are also one […]

Sometimes, capturing a shopper’s heart and mind involves their ears. On Thursday, Place Exchange, a supply-side platform for out-of-home inventory, said it will start facilitating programmatic audio-based ad buys in grocery and drug stores through its partnership with Quotient, a digital ad services platform for retailers. The audio inventory will come courtesy of InStore Audio […]

After a tough year for the out-of-home industry, the world is starting to open up – and so are advertiser budgets. Digital out-of-home (DOOH) alone is projected to grow 20% next year, according to MAGNA. There are an estimated 1.25 million digital screens in the US across billboards, street furniture, service kiosks, screens in bars, […]

MAC Cosmetics wanted to increase footfall to its three most important storefronts in Turkey. The makeup brand buys out-of-home (OOH) inventory on mall displays to drive awareness, but it wanted a less static and more measureable way to target shoppers and get them in store, said Tugba Cetegin, marketing manager at MAC Cosmetics in Turkey. […]

The Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA), an industry trade group spanning out-of-home media and advertising technology, on Monday released its first programmatic standards for digital out-of-home (DOOH) campaigns. The DPAA hopes these standards, which are like existing openRTB guidelines from the IAB, will facilitate digital out-of-home buys. The DPAA’s standards outline video ad formats […]

New York City has more than 8,000 public pay phones, most of which are in various stages of decline and decay – but Sidewalk Labs, a company under Google’s Alphabet umbrella, is helping put a plan in motion to revive those aging kiosks. Through a project called LinkNYC, the city’s neglected phone boxes are in […]