St. Patrick’s Day on a Friday!

St. Patrick’s Day on a Friday!
Guinness billboard photo courtesy of EMC Outdoor Having an office in Times Square makes our team’s commute to our office an obstacle course on a normal day.  But March 17th presents our team with a true challenge – St. Patrick’s Day…on a Friday…in Manhattan. According to the National Retail Federation, this perfect storm has pushed ...

Results of the 2016 Geopath Benchmarking Study

In June of 2015, right after I joined TAB, I launched a survey among our members.  The purpose of this survey was to identify the perceptions the industry held of our organization, what they wanted improved, and how we could better help their businesses.  More than 230 members participated. The results of that survey, helped ...

Millennials: Always On The Go, Always In The Know – With RealityMine TouchPoints Data

Millennials: Always On The Go, Always In The Know – With RealityMine TouchPoints Data
Joanne Van der Burgt and Paul Street of RealityMine, gave a presentation focusing on a day in the life of Millennials during Geopath’s thought leadership webinar series, Out of Home Office Hours, on June 9th, 2016. The study was conducted using RealityMine’s TouchPoints methodology.  The approach consists of a unique consumer centric multi-media database that ...

The BIG Picture & BIGger Changes at TAB

29. April 2016 Uncategorized 0
For the first time in fifteen years, the entire TAB team was invited to join the audience of OOH advertising professionals for the joint TAB/OAAA Out of Home Media Conference & Expo. This year’s theme was “The BIG Picture.” President Kym Frank announced major changes taking place at TAB and discussed a series of events ...

The BIG Picture Sponsorship Opportunities

25. March 2016 Uncategorized 0
“What can I help you with?” – Siri, aka Susan Bennett, the original voice of Siri on the iPhone, is booked to help us handle speaker introductions and make conference announcements throughout The BIG Picture general sessions. That’s right, original Siri will be ‘in the house.’ And that’s not all … For 2016, TAB/OAAA introduces ...

Integration into models – The TAB is here to help!

Claire-Marie Panno of Posterscope penned an opinion piece on LinkedIn, highlighting a recent study conducted by BrandScience.  This study demonstrates the positive ROI lift generated by OOH in cross-platform campaigns. Her thoughts can be read here. She writes: Agencies, Advertisers and Operators in the USA must take on the challenge to prove that OOH performs ...

VAI: What Every Medium Wants and What OOH Already Has

12. February 2016 Uncategorized 0
VAI: What Every Medium Wants and What OOH Already Has
VAI in Out of Home definitely belongs at the cool kids table. It is our differentiator in media measurement and is worthy of special attention. VAI stands for Visibility Audience Impact and was first released by the Traffic Audit Bureau six years ago. It is defined as the percentage of passers-by who notice the ad ...

LinkNYC is the Future of Public Wi-Fi

02. February 2016 Uncategorized 0
by Nick Guercio & Nickelina Noel If you haven’t heard about LinkNYC, then you need to check out the free, high speed Wi-Fi network set to launch at least 7,500 Link kiosks across NYC. The program, funded through advertising, contributes to digital OOH advertising by providing a well-positioned and innovative platform. We took a trip ...