Digital Out-Of-Home

On Tuesday, digital out-of-home (DOOH) ad tech startup Place Exchange was acquired by Broadsign, another out-of-home SSP.

Ride-hailing app company Curb Mobility is bringing TikTok’s user-generated content to Taxi TV, its network of more than 15,000 in-taxi screens across 65 US markets.

On Monday, T-Mobile announced plans to acquire Vistar Media, an ad platform that specializes in digital out-of-home for roughly $600 million in cash.

Billups, a managed services agency that specializes in OOH, is making its attention measurement solution and a related analytics dashboard available for general use.

Data platform Quorum wants to serve publishers and advertisers at the same level as walled gardens can, but without all the walls.

Screenverse plans to add about 20 employees over the next 12 months with the help of its new cash reserve. The company also earmarked a portion of its funding for enhancing its publisher suite.

GSTV is trying to win a larger share of spend earmarked for TV. In GSTV’s case, it wants to reach a broad and captive audience – while they’re at the fuel pump.

Whether taxi riders like it or not, backseat screens are ad inventory, too. Curb, which operates a network of digital screens within taxi cabs, has technology that helps advertisers get in front of cab passengers.

Now, advertisers have more flexible access to the MTA’s four million daily riders while they’re inside the stations, waiting for their trains.

Loop Media is squarely focused on monetizing out-of-home streaming in public venues such as bars and restaurants. But it takes legwork to convince advertisers to give “sorta CTV” a try.

Nexxen announced an integration with out-of-home ad tech platform Taiv to extend its CTV ad campaigns to TV screens in restaurants and sports bars. Guess what’s old is new again when it comes to marketers using TV as a way to reach as many people as possible.

Su Kwon of Publicis Media on where DOOH is today and where it’s going. Kwon will speak at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference Sept. 26–7 in New York.

Plenty of Fish is trying to establish itself as a relatively genuine, low-stress dating service. That’s why the company did a full rebrand and changed up its media mix last October.

The programmatic digital out-of-home (DOOH) market has been growing at a steady clip, and ad buyers are now looking at media quality metrics beyond audience reach and impressions. But assessing the quality of physical screens across a variety of real-world locations requires new mechanisms. To encourage more brands to enter the channel, programmatic DOOH platforms […]

Clear Channel Outdoor plugs into four clean room tech providers to help advertisers link their first-party data with out-of-home ad exposures and outcomes.

Before DOOH can court bigger ad budgets, it must adapt the automated tools marketers use for measuring and buying against performance to a media channel that straddles the online and offline worlds.

DOOH has been thought of as pure branding, according to Elliott Hasiuk, principal for digital media at Part and Sum. That makes sense, considering out-of-home media might just be a big picture of, say, a Big Mac and the McDonald’s arches plastered 40 feet in the air. “Now we’re able to tie that branding to bottom-of-the-funnel metrics that matter more to the business.”

The IAB Tech Lab has updated its OpenRTB standard to include objects specifically designed for DOOH. It also published new DOOH-specific guidelines and technical resources for real time bidding in collaboration with the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) and Outsmart, the Out of Home Advertising Association for the UK.

Betterment, an investment and financial services app that competes with Robinhood, has typically focused its digital advertising efforts on the bottom of the marketing funnel, including search and social. But spurred by the meme-stock-driven rise of retail investing, the company decided to change up its tactics and pursue a brand awareness campaign centered on digital out-of-home (DOOH).

With its new geospatial ad units, programmatic OOH SSP Place Exchange built a programmatic way for marketers to serve their ads across any mobility media inventory located within a particular geographic location. The company announced Tuesday it is rolling out geospatial ad units for all of its mobility media partners.

Smartify Media launched in 2020 as a digital out-of-home platform to allow small businesses in Boston to share real-time updates with customers during the pandemic. Now, the company is trying to create a retail media network with small businesses nationwide, like bodegas and other mom-and-pop shops, through its Small Business Revenue+ program.

A few immutable truths about living in New York City: Almost everyone takes the subway, the weather is volatile, and most people are too busy (or lazy?) to plan what to make for dinner. FreshDirect, a grocery delivery service based in NYC, was inspired by these realities of city life to launch a digital-out-of-home (DOOH) campaign promoting different recipes to commuters depending on the current weather.

People who pull off the road to a gas station are an audience both waiting and on the go. Someone fueling up provides a good opportunity to serve video ads at the pump for candy and soda brands available at the convenience store invariably located a few steps away. But gas stations are also one […]

Many brands quickly pulled out-of-home (OOH) campaigns when the country went into lockdown in March. After all, nobody would be outside to see them. That claw back sent OOH prices plummeting across the market. And now that parts of the country are open again, OOH is a steal. In May, direct-to-consumer men’s grooming brand Manscaped […]

2020 was going to be a breakout year for out-of-home media. GroupM forecasted 8% growth in the OOH category this year – the fastest-growing (and only growing) traditional media channel. And digital signage had finally reached meaningful scale and been integrated into major DSPs. While it’s still too early for updated OOH projections, the spread […]

Where there’s a screen, there’s an opportunity for a programmatic ad. Curb Media Network, the media division of taxi technology provider Curb Mobility, has turned on programmatic access to 1,200 digital screens across its fleet of yellow cabs in New York City. Curb has operated a media network for years in partnership with 15 thousand […]

Background music in stores is often heard but rarely listened to. But perhaps that will change with more precise messaging. In that spirit, Vibenomics, whose software curates and sells ads against custom in-store radio stations, will enable targeted messaging via a partnering with Triton Digital’s programmatic audio marketplace. Vibenomics’ digital radio stations operate in 4,000 […]

Toyota needed to put out a wide-reaching message to raise awareness about its hybrid vehicles in Turkey, a market where the concept is new and not widely adopted. To do so, it turned to the broadest reach medium there is: out of home (OOH). But Toyota wanted to introduce some targeting to reach its intended […]

MAC Cosmetics wanted to increase footfall to its three most important storefronts in Turkey. The makeup brand buys out-of-home (OOH) inventory on mall displays to drive awareness, but it wanted a less static and more measureable way to target shoppers and get them in store, said Tugba Cetegin, marketing manager at MAC Cosmetics in Turkey. […]

The Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA), an industry trade group spanning out-of-home media and advertising technology, on Monday released its first programmatic standards for digital out-of-home (DOOH) campaigns. The DPAA hopes these standards, which are like existing openRTB guidelines from the IAB, will facilitate digital out-of-home buys. The DPAA’s standards outline video ad formats […]