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OOH remains the flexible canvas for which a guaranteed audience is never too far away

OOH remains the flexible canvas for which a guaranteed audience is never too far away

Dino Myers-Lamptey , Head of Strategy, the7stars | 2016-03-24

The Out of Home market continues to be one of the most robust and predictably exciting sectors in our industry.  Other channels continually compete for share of attention and media time, so are regularly adjusting themselves to new audience behaviours though are  frequently distracted by this, often responding to behaviour rather than shaping it.  OOH however remains relatively consistent, as our lives of travel and socialising remain as regular and routine ever.  Consistent doesn’t mean complacent. OOH despite having the advantage of consistent audiences, who conveniently don’t have to pay, opt in or choose to opt out with adblockers or skipping, has continually pushed on with innovation.  Digital OOH screens are now bigger, smaller, better, responsive and all-round more intelligent responding to data feeds, environments and everything from facial recognition to sounds and contactless payment tech. Even paper and printing technology is having a positive impact as cost come down while flexibility and localisation at scale possibilities only increases.

Increasingly, clients are realising the staying power of the medium in doing the things it almost uniquely does best. Delivering confident public announcement communications with presence. OOH creates space for brands to physically state their intentions and ambitions, which in the digital age we live in is of growing importance.  Digital Brands such as Google & Facebook who heavily invested in OOH in 2015 are perfect proof of the power of persuasion through physical public presence of communications in OOH.  While some of our larger clients, such as Iceland, Supercell, and Trainline have used OOH to great success over the year, the new tech and developments in OOH will entice smaller spenders in who can benefit from the greater flexibility and locality that OOH is continuing to develop and offer.

The exciting part of the up and coming future is the development of tech and data on the buying side of OOH that will allow for smaller and new to OOH brands to tightly target their most valuable audiences, whilst seeing robust accountability and return through advanced tracking in the medium.  Whilst we get excited about all the tech of the day, from drones, 360 cameras, AR and VR, wonderfully OOH remains the flexible canvas for which a guaranteed audience is never too far away.  Whatever the tech we can be assured that an important part of its success will be with how it is used in OOH.

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"DOOH offers deeper engagement than other media, more of a story and feedback"

Victoria Buchanan, JT Executive Creative Director, Tribal Worldwide

"In advertising, we have the power to change minds, change beliefs and change the world"

Madonna Badger, Chief Creative Officer, Badger & Winters

"Media isn’t about the number of impressions you make. Media is about the power of the impression you make."

Dave Trott, Creative Director, The Gate and Author

"For a brand to live, it needs to appeal not only to the people who buy it, but also to the people who know about it "

Sir John Hegarty, Founding Partner, BBH

"Super premium digital Out of Home is one of the quickest ways to get into the conversation and make your brand famous"

Dave Trott, Creative Director, The Gate and Author

"London is the most valuable city for OOH advertising... and among the most important in the world "

Phil Stokes, Entertainment & Media leader, PwC

"Using data to plan OOH enhances campaign performance by up to 200%"

Russell Smither, Insight Planning Director, Posterscope

"OOH engages hard to reach audiences on the move with inspiring and innovative communications"

Malcolm Stoodley, Commercial Director, Exterion Media

"I would advise marketers using OOH not to see a poster as a Wikipedia entry, think of it as a piece of art"

Jennie Sallows, Head of Insight EMEA, Kinetic

"Posters are the purest and most effective form of communication"

Jon Fox, Creative Director, Leo Burnett

"Reaching people in the right place, at the right time is still Out of Home’s biggest strength"

Chris Pelekanou, Commercial Director, Clear Channel

"Out of Home is an accountable, measurable and effective media for advertisers"

Ross Wilson, Head of Insight at Rapport

"The combination of classic and DOOH should be an intoxicating mix for any marketing director"

Richard Malton, Marketing Director, Ocean Outdoor

"Immediacy, targeting and excitement are what DOOH can offer that other media can't - its just very very cool.The opportunities are endless"

Sean Kinmont, Co-Founder and Creative Director, 23red

"Poster sites really are the last true broadcast medium capable of near universal reach"

James Murphy, CEO at adam&eveDDB

"Smarter brands are contextualising their ad messaging, reaching a target audience when it matters most and can change behaviour"

Nick Mawditt, Director of Insight & Marketing, Talon Outdoor

"OOH may be the oldest medium, yet it has shown remarkable resilience in reinventing itself"

Grant Branfoot, Sales Director at Outdoor Plus

"OOH remains the flexible canvas for which a guaranteed audience is never too far away"

Dino Myers-Lamptey, Head of Strategy, the7stars

"It makes sense for the most welcomed and least intrusive media to deliver presence for brands interacting through the media"

Chris Forrester, Managing Director at Primesight

"Central London will undergo a transformation and cities like Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds will get even brighter and more connected"

Steve Parker, Co-CEO, Starcom Mediavest Group

"Digital OOH networks are multi-sensory and with the development of touch technology things are moving fast. Stimulating the senses more creatively generates social shares, great PR and awards."

Tim Lumb, Insight and Effectiveness Director, Outsmart

"London’s very large public transport network carries a great deal of OOH advertising. As a result, London alone has 170,000 advertising sites, more than 40 per cent of the national total. This makes London the most valuable city for OOH advertising in Europe and among the most important in the world."

Phil Stokes, UK Entertainment and Media Leader, PwC

"Show me any brief, for any client and any campaign and I guarantee that OOH will be able to have a justifiable role to play as part of the media solution. That role maybe big or small; local or national, classic, digital or both, large format, small format or anything in between... but it will be justifiable and worthwhile. There isn’t any other medium that can replicate that claim, or indeed come anywhere near doing so."

Alan Brydon, CEO, Outsmart

"DOOH is a really interesting storytelling medium, beyond advertising. It allows you to touch and feel and interact in a way no other medium does. That's the real beauty of it, and usually overlooked"

Laura Jordan, Creative Partner, Mr President

"OOH inhabits a wonderful space in which we benefit from a rich heritage of memorable, iconic campaigns and a truly exciting future unfolding before us. A broadcast medium that just keeps getting better."

Katie Ingram, Strategy Planning Director, Outsmart

"By its very nature, Out of Home’s remoteness from the consumer living room, from the office, and from the home computer, has made it a natural bedfellow of mobile marketing."

Ben Bold, Freelance Journalist, M&M Global

"As DOOH becomes more “digital,” it becomes more agile, richer, and better able to play its part in a big idea. As a plugged in medium, DOOH can be the active element in a multi-layered campaign. It can create buzz, break news, invite interaction, and help to drive content and discussions online. Great DOOH campaigns are ones that sit comfortably within the wider brand strategy and capture the imagination."

Neil Morris, Founder and CEO, Grand Visual

"I love OOH because the diversity of opportunities makes it a realistic option for almost any client. Add to this the ever growing possibilities for new innovation and it’s a media channel that is truly exciting to both agencies and clients alike."

John Morton, Account Director / Head of Out of Home, MEC MANCHESTER

"Speed of change is all around us and no more so than in the rate at which advertising investment in traditional posters is being transitioned to include a far more flexible Out of Home canvas; the digital poster."

Mungo Knott, Marketing and Insight Director, Primesight

"Posters decorate the world "

Russell Ramsey, Executive Creative Director, JWT

"Out of Home is booming right now: OOH is the most ubiquitous media – you can’t turn the page, change the channel or switch it off, and Out of Home continues to integrate itself brilliantly with other new and innovative technologies."

Justin Cochrane, CEO, Clear Channel UK

"The Out of Home sector has been tremendously resilient throughout the recessionary years, showing consistent growth driven by its fundamental benefits. In an ever-fragmenting media landscape, you can still reach pretty much the entire population, all at the same time."

Glen Wilson, Managing Director, Posterscope

"Media changes, driven by digitisation, have left consumers facing a tyranny of choice—yet OOH is a channel that can still deliver huge audiences, and can increasingly do so in creative and engaging ways."

Paul Sambrook, Marketing Director, Rapport

"OOH is constantly evolving, and its ability to integrate so brilliantly with new technology is one of its main strengths."

Chris Pelekanou, Commercial Director of Clear Channel UK

"The beauty of OOH is that it can double as a TV screen, a social feed, a camera, a vending machine, a download site, or a purchase point."

Phil Rowley, Global Innovation Director, PHD’s Global Strategy Unit

"We've chosen to use digital to make everything more efficient...but we've forgotten how to explore and discover. It's a loss of serendipity and we've lost a lot of the humanity. We're becoming very reliant upon digital and the internet to make us incredibly efficient and we're losing out."

Anna Bateson, Director of Digital, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

"Out of Home is the oldest medium of all There’s still huge power in the public message – the power of the public comment. It’s a big thing – it’s why people get married in front of an audience of 150; it gives a public sense of commitment."

William Eccleshare, Chairman and Chief Executive, Clear Channel International

"And then there’s advertising’s past. The intrusive, inflexibile and mute billboards. They feel like throwbacks to the old way of doing things. A flat image with an unyielding rule that the consumer can take in no more than eight words (unless they’re Economist readers). How boring. How old school. Until you remember 2015's ‘Shot on iPhone 6’ campaign. Simple, traditional and utterly un-missable pieces of art in the urban landscape."

Nadja Lossgot, Creative Director, AMV BBDO

"Advertising isn’t supposed to be private. It’s supposed to be overheard, shared, stumbled across and discovered."

Charles Vallance, CoFounder and Chairman, VCCP

"As an industry, I believe, we have forgotten the power of repetition. Effective communication isn't small. It isn't cheap. It isn't once."

Dave Trott, Creative Director, The Gate and Author