66 Marketing Trends found for Media / Out-of-home

... media agencies and site owners.

According to the UK's marketing body for the industry, Outsmart (previously known as the Outdoor Media Centre) the 10-digit code allocator, named 'Space', will reduce the number of human input hours formerly devoted to OOH ad trading and planning.

Says Alan Brydon, Outsmart's ceo: “Instead of humans having to do hours [of work], machines can talk to each other and do the same work more quickly”.  

“In any business, if you can get the functional stuff out of the way, your talented people can spend more time doing what is important – having good ideas and working with customers to get better solutions.”

Another innovation announced this month is from Ocean Outdoor, which is gearing up to launch another trading system, The Loop Live, in 2016. This enables brands to buy OOH advertising by the number of ‘impacts’. Advertisers will be able to decide on the audience, time and locations and, using that data, Ocean’s system will optimise the campaign across screens.

The Outsmart system will be rolled-out to twenty double-sided digital screens in twelve locations in Birmingham's city centre, providing full-motion, real-time ad placements. They are also fitted with cameras and NFC [Near Field Communication] technology. The trading system will also be available for other Ocean Outdoor sites known as The Grid, which consists of eight digital screens in six cities.

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... digital displays.

Outfront Media, formerly known as CBS Outdoor, reports that its billboard business in the US has returned to growth, edging up 0.3% in the year's third quarter, thanks to stronger demand from national and local advertisers, as well as improved results in key markets such as New York and Los Angeles.

The company’s US organic revenue rose 2.8%, driven by nearly 9% growth in its transit business. However, international organic revenue was down 0.3% for the period.

According to Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings chief financial officer Rich Bressler: “We think this is particularly relevant for national advertisers as they think about getting the highest return on their advertising spending”.

Continues Bressler: “This is an important time period for national advertisers as they think about their 2016 budget allocation, and as we believe that our team is driving meaningful progress with large national partners, that should position us well for next year”.

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... what's not.

The partnership could have big potential for brands and sponsors who want to build apps for engaging audiences and performers before, during or after an event.

Enthuses AGT International ceo Mati Kochavi: "This exciting new venture is centred on the consumer experience, creating a true social IoT.

WME/IMG, founded in April 2009, after the merger of the William Morris Agency and the Endeavor Agency, represents artists across all media platforms, among them films, TV, music, theatre, digital and publishing. 

Details about the joint venture are still in the works (it won't be rolled out until sometime next year) but the companies envisage brands and sponsors using so-called Deep Web social analytics and platform-agnostic technology to engage with fans and consumers about events.

Hypothetically, this could allow event sports-stadium attendees using a custom app to see which queues for the toilets or concessions are the shortest. It could also allow bands to see where and when in a concert the energy drags. It could enable designers to gauge which fashion lines created most excitement, or an audience to learn how models feel while walking down a runway.

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... the highest number of media-spend dollars hanging in the balance since 2012.

The Morgan Stanley analysis notes that only $700m of the billings currently at stake goes to agencies — an amount the banker deems “unnerving but surmountable.”

According to the report, the majority of advertising dollars shelled-out by marketers go to media owners, while only a meagre 3% is spent on agency fees and commissions.

There are several reasons why marketers are re-evaluating their agencies right now, among them a desire to reduce costs - often by slashing agency fees or consolidating the number of agency partners with whom marketers work. Another key factor in agency cutbacks is clients' drive to adapt to an evolving digital landscape.

There is also the perennial and thorny issue as to the transparency of agencies’ practices and compensation, particularly concerns about alleged rebates from media owners. However, Morgan Stanley doubts that this issue is a significant driver behind the current raft of media reviews.

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... innovation and creativity.

Mr Newman believes that media agencies, creative agencies and brands are starting to recognise digital outdoor opportunities for everything from data-driven dynamic campaigns to date/time sensitive marketing.

In turn, this client/agency recognition triggers extraordinary experiential campaigns via digital billboards.

Enthuses Newman: "It's almost as if a perfect storm has been created to finally empower brands to communicate and broadcast campaigns outdoor with the same level of relevance that has become so commonplace online."

"Yet with all of the signs, momentum and opportunity being created we are still absolutely scraping the surface of what can and will be achieved by DOOH [digital out-of-home] advertising in driving forward the outdoor advertising industry in its battle against TV.

Newman concludes: "Going from £66m in spend in 2008 to £214m in 2013 isn’t bad; but real challenges still remain if DOOH is to become ubiquitous across the industry and be the principal part of the outdoor plan for every brief – not just the ones who want to do something that little bit special."

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... tell a cash and carry store's retail customers about the success of the campaign to date and suggest how they can maximise shopper interest in their own stores. Ultra Isabelle will also play shoppers the new Share a Coke TV ad.

Additionally, she will hype Coca-Cola's summer campaign plans to retailers visiting any of the seven Dhamecha cash and carry warehouses in the Greater London area.

Enthuses Coca-Cola Enterprises' digital director Simon Miles: “After the success of the ‘Share a Coke’ campaign last year, we were keen to ensure our customers understand how the campaign can benefit them and how they can get involved.

“Digital shopping marketing innovation, such as ‘Isabelle’, is a creative and fun way to reach our customers with the campaign and is a piece of genuine digital innovation that we’re excited to bring to the market to build on the success of last year’s campaign.”

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... "we literally just pour the nanoparticles into the polymer before it solidifies."

The nanoparticles are invisible to humans, creating the transparency, but images projected in blue light show up.

However, transparent screens are not new and there are many currently in commercial developmen, among them Google Glass.

But these employ complicated, expensive technology (a head-up display projected onto a tiny prism embedded in Google glass, or LEDs actually embedded within transparent computer screens), compared with which this latest method is extremely simple.

"We literally just pour the nanoparticles into the polymer before it solidifies," explains Mr Hsu. "Since it's so simple to deploy, you could paste this [plastic] sheet onto any surface."

The technology is also relatively cheap, requiring only a few thousandths of a gram of nanoparticles per square centimetre of screen.

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... shoes and sunglasses purveyor Toms, Sony and apparel retailer Rebecca Minkoff.

“It really changes what it means to be a retailer. We want to be the change agent for how people shop. This is the future of shopping being created by us,” enthuses Steve Yankovich, eBay's vice president of innovation and new ventures.

The storefronts use infrared technology to track how many customers walk by and how engaged they are.

The sensors are smart enough to distinguish between a person who merely walks by, a person who walks by and turns his head, and one who stops and faces the glass.

The data obtained can be shared with the stores to modify the experience to better appeal to customers.

The goal is a seamless, frictionless buying experience. Currently customers enter their phone number on the glass screen to complete the purchasing process to their smartphones, for security purposes.

Yankovich says one of eBay’s next steps is finding a way to glean customers’ cellphone numbers, so that the buying process is even easier for them.

The days of a cashier asking for your e-mail address or phone number are apparently numbered.

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... showed a higher return on investment than TV for products in the consumer packaged goods category. 

The new research is manna from heaven for the US cinema industry, currently in the throes of a long-term campaign to woo advertising dollars away from TV - a trend likely to be enthusiastically emulated by the industry's European counterparts. 

The eight-week-long campaign, which ran from July to September of this year, used cinema advertising, national broadcast and cable TV,  plus local TV and syndication. The cinema ad element of the campaign included placements on both NCM MediaNetworks and Screenvision, the two dominant cinema ad networks.

Stacey’s analysis compared ad spending with incremental units of sales volume, as collected via IRI InfoScan, and showed cinema yielding ROI 37% higher than equivalent ad placements on TV.

Says Professor Stacey of the study's methodology: “Our particular type of statistical modeling is time-series based in order to get a truer read in sales response over time. In addition, these models are well-suited for measuring the interdependencies and synergies among media channels in today’s complex marketing ecosystem.”

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