Monday, June 23, 2014

The Significance Of OOH Advertising

By Ina Hunt


Marketing can be done to consumers who are in transit, at given commercial locations (such as malls), waiting (for example in queues) and to those in public places. OOH advertising is used to do this. It is an acronym for out of home advertising and it is that which reaches the consumer while they are out of home. It is split into four main categories, namely: billboards, transit, street furniture and alternative.

Billboard promotion is a long-time out of home marketing format that has seen significant growth over the years. Though traditional billboards are still common, digital billboard displays have been installed and they too are becoming popular. Billboards still remains as one of the most dominant forms of outdoor advertisement, taking up a sizable chunk of the out of home marketing market. They generate a lot of revenue hence their popularity.

Street furniture advertisement is another form of out of home publicity. It is common mostly in urban centers. It is most visible in newspaper stands, bicycle shelters, bus shelters, retail outlets as well as malls. They are placed in close proximity to pedestrians and shoppers to make more visible for eye-view. This form is beneficial to the community since it provides them with amenities such as bus shelters. Also, the building and maintenance of these amenities is not the responsibility of the community but rather that of street furniture companies.

The third form of out of home promotion is known as transit promotion. Here, advertisements are out on the move through placements on trucks, taxis, buses and also in subway advertising. As part of this form, fixed static advertising in train and bus stations is included. Transit advertisements are also found in airports, where businesses use advertising to address travelling audiences. Because of its capacity to generate revenue, municipalities and city authorities accept it.

Alternative marketing can be found in rest areas, stadiums, lunch trucks, lunch trucks, on gas pumps and other formats that are non-traditional. Alternative advertisements gives business enterprises the chance to communicate with consumers in areas where they least expect.

Put together, street furniture, transit and alternative promotion methods provide a large sum of the total revenue generated by outdoor marketing. Some of these formats even account for more advertisements than traditional billboards. Lunch truck publicity, as another form, gets placed on industrial lunch trucks and they then serve people for break, lunch and for dinner. These trucks offer out of hand materials, billboard styles and samples.

The out of home publicity industry consists of numerous operators in different parts all around the world. Together, they cover all four major forms of outdoor marketing. They range in size, with some being large multinational corporations and others being small independent companies which may be family-owned.

Given the ease with which they can get the message to consumers from relatively any point outside their home, out home publicity has become the most sought after medium of advertisement by advertisers. Several brands in sectors such as real estate and finance have become reliant on his medium. Its capacity to engage and influence consumers is appealing to them. Additionally, it benefits a lot of other people other than the advertisers.




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