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Repairing a Community Through Advertising
What comes to mind when you think of advertising? It can have a strong, meaningful purpose by creating awareness about an important value or idea. For the past 26 years, Camden County Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse (CCCADA) has filled the role of alcohol and drug abuse prevention in Camden County, New Jersey.
Out of Home and the Casual Consumer [Infographic]
Out-of-Home advertising is something we encounter on a daily, even hourly basis. Paired with other forms of advertising, it can amplify any campaign. Check out the stats below and the story of Jane, your average consumer. Follow her on a routine day where Out-of-Home and Digital media influence her as she commutes, shops, and makes a buying decision.
Offline to Online: Integrating Your Out of Home & Digital Media Channels
A few years ago, most media buyers probably would have said that digital media = the future and out of home media = the past. Over the last couple of years, however, an increasing number of studies is showing that the two channels are more aligned than we might have guessed.
How to Create a Brand Presence Off of the Trade Show Floor
For many brands, trade show marketing is a major component of the integrated marketing mix because it offers such a unique brand engagement opportunity. With the right audience in the right place at the right time, it’s a no-brainer to market to them. How can your brand make the most of the investment and opportunity?
Why Top Brands Spend More on Out of Home
In the latest World Advertising Research Center (WARC) Global Ad Trends report, it states “successful brands allocate an average 13% of their media budget to out of home.” Since reading the report, I have been interested in understanding more about these successful brands. Who are they and why do they buck the 6% average adspend in Out of Home? How do they use OOH to strategically position their products and services? Most importantly, why should we pay attention to the trend?
Using Sports to Engage and Connect with Consumers
Successful brands position themselves to take full advantage of an opportunity by understanding consumers’ interests and by being creative and engaging. Sports offer infinite ways to reach your audience, and keeping your messaging around your teams, will allow your brand to stand out from the rest.
Understanding the Trade Show Attendee Experience
Successful trade show marketing is about developing a media plan that aligns with and capitalizes on attendee behaviors in the market to accomplish a brand’s marketing goals. An effective trade show marketing strategy must be unique and specific for reaching attendees going to the convention market, during the event, and throughout their time moving around the city.
The ABCs of Out-Of-Home Measurement
The methods for measuring out of home media have changed drastically over the last few years - if you haven't been paying close attention you might have missed out. Let us get you up to speed on where OOH has come from, and the exciting new tools that are just on the horizon.
5 Keys to Planning Your Experiential Campaign
The dynamics of today’s market and how companies reach consumers is shifting. To address the new market dynamics, implementing experiential marketing in your marketing mix is quickly becoming a necessity. The question is no longer if you should be doing experiential, but how. If you’re new to the game, these five important keys-to-success will get you started.
The Budget & The Booth: A Trade Show Tale as Old as Time
Exhibiting at your first trade show can feel like venturing into unknown territory. Doing your research and putting together a strong team are some key steps. Our guide will help you make sense of the chaos, maximize your budget and achieve your fairy tale ending.
10 Reasons Out of Home and Experiential Marketing are Essential to Strategic Account Planning
As strategic planners, our job is to consider the most effective and creative approaches that we can bring to market based on our clients’ goals, maximized budgets and, hopefully, a mix of genius creative spin. As an out of home and experiential marketing strategist, my job is to ensure that media planners, buyers and strategists are considering the often-overlooked channels that I work in throughout the year. In that spirit, here are 10 reasons why you should be taking a deeper look at Out of Home media and experiential marketing.
Mobile Tours: A Cost-Effective and Impactful Way to Reach a Hyper-Targeted Audience
A Mobile Tour allows a brand to maximize resources by designing a self-contained, fully-customizable, mobile exhibit space that creates a brand personality and easily travels where the target demographic actually lives, works and plays.
The Numbers Behind Experiential Marketing [Infographic]
Experiential marketing is becoming a more popular tool in the advertisers tool belt. Brands and agencies are realizing how it can effectively establish a one-to-one relationship with consumers, generate positive brand awareness, and drive customer loyalty.
Out of Home’s Remarkable Shift from Media Measurement to Audience Measurement
The inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen once said, “Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation” Out of Home media is currently on the cusp of just such a “once in a while” moment, a foundational change that will completely reshape the future of the industry.
What is Experiential Marketing?
It goes by a lot of names…. "experiential marketing", "event marketing", "on-ground marketing", "live marketing", "participation marketing", or "special events". But no matter what name people use, it’s clear that there is one thing experiential marketing is, and that’s confusing. Experiential is still a (relatively) new channel, and it’s continuing to develop before our eyes. So, let’s take a look at some of the key features of what Experiential Marketing really is…
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