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Countdown to Christmas!
Did you know that Santa is going to be here in less than 7 days?! Did you also know that our digital billboards offer many unique and fun ways to interact with the community? Merry Christmas!
OOH Media and Online Activity
In April I shared my thoughts regarding the Nielsen Poster Advertising Study. You may recall Nielsen is the highly regarded S&P 500 audience measurement company that conducted a study on the effectiveness of poster advertising in various markets including...
Thoughts on the 2017 Nielsen Poster Study
For several reasons I read with great interest the Poster Advertising Study recently released by the audience measurement firm Nielsen. First, Nielsen is a highly regarded S & P 500 company. While perhaps best known for its TV audience measurement, it engages in...
The responsive nature of digital displays
On February 12, nearly 200,000 local residents were evacuated when the Department of Water Resources anticipated catastrophic failure of Oroville Dam's emergency spillway. Upon hearing about the emergency evacuation orders, Stott was able to immediately...
Spreading holiday cheer through outdoor advertising!
Here are some great examples of our advertisers using creative designs to spread some Christmas spirit in Chico! Outdoor advertising offers the unique opportunity to communicate with entire communities year-round as they go about their lives. Merry Christmas and...
Unexpected (and possibly unethical) ways to advertise
Advertisements and advertising campaigns come in all shapes, forms and sizes. Some make you laugh, some tug on those heartstrings. And others just make you go, “Huh?” Ads are designed to be memorable, and many are – but we remember them for the wrong reasons....
Tatvertising: A perfect fit for the struggling book industry?
Imagine you have a business, or you have a product or service, and it’s your job to get the word out. To what extremes would you go to maximize your message to your audience? Some companies take chances with unorthodox advertising placement (some succeeded,...
Interactive billboards: You react to them, they react to you.
Whether they’re on a billboard, a poster on a busy street or at a bus shelter, advertisements want you to take notice. And that can encompass a lot. You can take action and call a number. You can notice a restaurant’s logo and message, and take the next exit...
Trust in advertising
Way back in 2006 Jay Walker-Smith, President of the Marketing Firm Yankelovich, said that we poor human beings could be exposed to as many as 5,000 ads per day. Back in 2006! That number could easily be doubled today. However, with ads coming at us in multiple...
Call to Action
Advertisers often have several measures of success when evaluating a campaign, but one common measure is simply to increase sales of a given product or service. Campaigns typically fall into one of two types – branding campaigns or call to action campaigns. The...
Frequency vs. Recency
While at a recent business convention in St. Louis there was some discussion around the term “Recency Theory” in advertising. I decided to do a bit of research to better understand this theory, as more and more media planners around the country are considering...
Delivering Your Message
Choosing which medium to use to deliver your advertising concept is an important decision, and therefore not an easy one. As you consider your options keep three factors in mind; your audience, your message, and your budget. We often recommend a media mix to...
Directional Billboard Design Tips
As discussed in my previous blog, the directional billboard (directional for short) is the simplest and perhaps most frequently used billboard. Directionals can have the greatest and most measurable impact on a business. I have seen businesses in decline, as...
Choosing an effective billboard for your business
In a previous post we discussed how to determine who owns a specific billboard and how best to contact the billboard’s owner. The next step is determining how to use a billboard to its greatest advantage. Once you have determined who owns the billboards you are...
Ad Campaign Tips – Compelling Ads
Imported from Detroit. With this simple, yet powerful slogan Chrysler motors became one of the great advertising success stories in recent history. After rolling out this highly effective campaign in 2011 they posted two years of record sales. But how did they...
Ad Campaign Tips – Repetition
In advertising there is one sure fire way to really make your campaign effective-repetition, repetition, repetition. Simply put, the more times customers are exposed to your ad, the more likely they are to remember and act on it. Repetition is the name of the...