Our thoughts on OOH
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How to Use Location-Based Marketing to Capitalize on Holiday Spending Trends
This time of year, people’s thoughts turn to the holiday shopping cycle. Forecasters predict a four percent increase in holiday spending. This marks a persistent uptick in the adoption of targeted marketing strategies by retailers who are using location based marketing aimed at an increasingly digitized society.
Does Brand Authenticity Matter?
We’ve all heard the popular slogans companies use to position themselves as socially supportive organizations. Since this positioning strategy can be a value-add for a brand, but it can also be perceived as disingenuous, it’s important that brands understand authenticity and why it matters.
Introducing Account LAB: How Our Strategy Team Can Benefit You
At EMC Outdoor and EMC Events, we have officially launched our strategy team and named it Account LAB. This team acts as a strategic and creative plug-in, ready for engagement with you around your goals, challenges, and KPI’s related to out of home, experiential and events.
Meet Rainy McGrew, EMC’s Experiential Extraordinaire
Rainy McGrew, is EMC Outdoor's Director of Insights & Development. Rainy is a woman who is always on the move, furiously exploring new ideas and clients. We ask her some questions about her background in Experiential Marketing, her perspective on the industry, and what the future of EXP looks like!
Innovating With the Oldest Ad Medium
In recent years, Out of Home advertising has gained greater recognition as a core part of an integrated media plan. The digitization of assets is rapidly transforming how and why advertisers use it. With new technological advances, we look at what brands are doing with this extraordinary opportunity to innovate.
6 Traits of Good Relationship Development
The key to being successful in sales is the ability to forge a trusting relationship with clients or prospects. Successful selling is dependent upon an established rapport, being likable and trustworthy, and a willingness to dig-in to a business to understand their point of view.
What is the Power of an Experience?
Experiential marketing is one of the fastest growing areas of advertising, but nobody seems to talk about why it is so powerful. The novelty of experience makes our memories stronger, builds social connection, and impacts our perception and mental processes in everyday life.
Digital Tactics for Trade Show Marketing
The rule of seven is one of the founding concepts in marketing: a recipient must hear or see a message at least seven times before they will take an action. For trade shows, it's important to deliver multiple messages to an audience. Digital marketing tactics offer dynamic and customized messaging capabilities.
Your Tradeshow Forecast: Experiential with an Abundance of Technology!
Tradeshow marketers must engage their audience and measurement that impact. Integrated Experiential Exhibit Technology, or IEET, allows an audience to have a profound multi-sensory experience with a brand, while capturing impression data. As marketers embrace IEET, it will change the way audiences experience the world.
The History of Digital Out of Home [Infographic]
In the last half-century, we've witnessed the development of Digital Out of Home technology, which has brought new messaging and media planning capabilities to an age-old format. Reflect with us on the history of DOOH to get a glimpse of where it began and where future advancements will take us!
How to Build a Creatively Successful Team
Success in Out of Home is about cultivating a collaborative (and creative) environment. It’s the people who are at the table. Combine talent, the process of agile thinking, and a culture of high performance teams, and you have the right chemistry for generating creatively successful outcomes.
The Rhythm of Advertising
I’ve come to think about advertising in a different way. There is a flow by which we live and a rhythm by which we walk, and if any of those things go off beat, we know it fast. When an advertising message falls into our rhythm, it breaks through and is on beat with our life, and that’s a connection that sticks.
Destination Marketing Done Right
Out of Home and Experiential marketing can be the difference-maker for your travel and tourism brand. The strengths of OOH—a variety of formats and targeting techniques—make it a valuable strategy for a destination brand. Experiential marketing can create a one-to-one connection and differentiation for a brand.
The Power of Good Creative
As advertisers, we want to put branding on everything under the sun to reach our target audience. The consumer's focus and attention are in high-demand and every brand is fighting for a slice of the pie. Good Out of Home creative grabs the consumer's attention, makes them take an action, and helps you achieve your ROI!
6 Common Planning Mistakes in Out of Home
What advertisers who are new to OOH don’t realize is that there are many factors to consider when building a campaign, such as viable media formats, audience targeting, location, etc. Gain a better understanding of OOH and strategies that will increase its effectiveness, and avoid these common mistakes!
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