Outdoor Targets Creatives, Not Planners
By AAN Staff
october 28, 2003 09:07 am
In an effort to get Madison Avenue focused on the
creative applications of outdoor media, the
outdoor ad industry Monday unveiled plans for a
new ad campaign running - where else - in
outdoor media. Details of the media strategy were
not disclosed, but the effort, dubbed the "Year of
the Creative," was announced during a meeting of
the Creative Committee of the Outdoor
Advertising Association of America in Los
Angeles. The new committee is comprised of
artists, designers and advertising executives who
will concentrate on five specific initiatives:
development of an industry creative positioning
and campaign; initiation of a series of innovative
seminars to introduce agency designers to the
creative opportunities that outdoor provides;
expansion of the involvement by advertisers and
agencies in the industry's annual creative
competition, the OBIE Awards; creation of a
speaker's bureau that will focus on outdoor
design at ad industry conferences and
universities; and improvement of the quality of
public service advertising within the medium.