Happy National Roller Coaster Day! National Roller Coaster Day has been celebrated every year on August 16th since 1986. And the out-of-home advertising industry should really be celebrating. According to data from Kantar, “Amusement, Water and Theme Parks,” lowered their overall ad spend by 1.5% last year, decreasing spending on display ads, print, and ...
These days, there is a lot of buzz about ride-sharing and autonomous vehicles, but the fact is, Americans are driving more now than ever before. In the last 5 years, the number of registered vehicles in the United States has grown 11% to more than 276 million. That adds up to a lot ...
This January, CBS released a report listing all of the generations by birth year. Somehow, they forgot to list Generation X, people born between 1965 and 1980. This resulted in quite a bit of hysterical banter on Twitter, and a suggestion that the cohort be renamed the “Forgotten Generation.” The advertising industry would ...
Yesterday, OOH Today ran highlights featuring questions people had asked on www.cohoot.com. One user asked, “How can we get auto dealerships to move dollars back to OOH?” The fact that there aren’t more dealership dollars being funneled into out of home advertising is mind boggling. We took a look at our data, and only 37% of people ...
Do you know how audience composition is calculated, or why it is an important metric in understanding the quality of impressions for a particular OOH unit? Composition expresses the percentage of a unit’s impressions that are made up of a particular audience. It is calculated by dividing the target audience impressions by the total audience ...
You may already be well-versed in GRPs and TRPs when it comes to understanding OOH measurement, but do you know how advertisers judge a medium’s ability to cost-efficiently deliver an audience or market? There are three main media cost parameters typically used in traditional media, consisting of unit cost, cost per one thousand impressions (CPM), ...
New York, NY, June 20, 2019 – Geopath, the not-for-profit organization that provides audience location measurement to the Out of Home (OOH) industry, welcomed two new members to its Board of Directors during their most recent membership meeting, held Tuesday, June 17. Newly elected to Geopath’s Board of Directors is Bernie Shimkus, VP, Director of ...
This week, La Colombe, one of the “largest independently-owned coffee companies,” just launched a multi-market advertising campaign. Featured prominently in their press release is a hand-painted wall executed by Geopath member, Colossal Media. See the press release here ⇒ La Colombe First Ever OOH The mural, Geopath location ID 30616546, which resides at the ...
In addition to social networks like Twitter and Instagram, www.reddit.com is an excellent site to find conversations about, and photos of, unique OOH advertising. Recently, someone posted a photo of this hilarious Clear Channel billboard in San Antonio on Reddit. The gentleman on the billboard told the story behind it: “So basically I dress horribly when I’m ...
What does the term Universe mean when we talk about OOH measurement? Any guess? Universe is the population of the group measured and is based on two components: the demographic profile and the geographic area. Check out the one-sheet below to understand more about why it is important and how demographics and geography impact the universe you are ...
