Gill Huber Joins @Posterscope

Friday, June 27th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

Former Starcom MediaVest Group marketing and communications director Gill Huber has joined Posterscope in the newly created position of group communications director.

#JCDecauxLive Served 2 Perfection w/ @Posterscope @vizeumUK

Friday, June 27th, 2014

Andrew Neale

#JCDecauxLive keep doing great experiential events at Waterloo, utilising the space available in combination with the world’s largest indoor advertising screen… Here we see JCDecaux’s experiential division running a very clever Stella Artois #herestoperfection campaign at London’s Waterloo Station. Booked by Posterscope and Vizeum we believe.

Kevin Henry Joins Ocean Outdoor

Friday, June 27th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

Ocean Outdoor has set up a new screen planning and trading unit to fulfil growing demand from outdoor and media agencies for multi-screen planning and buying solutions for clients that span all screen based media platforms AND recruited Kevin Henry to head it. Based in London and initially concentrating on London planning and buying points, […]

Luis Suárez ‘should Have Gone to Specsavers

Thursday, June 26th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

UK retailer Specsavers deployed a tactical campaign on JCDecaux’s Transvision network last night reacting to footballer Luis Suárez apparently biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini in a World Cup match earlier this week. With the well-known slogan “should have gone to Specsavers”, the tongue-in-cheek DOOH campaign pointed out the difference between cannelloni and Chiellini and promoted the […]

Surf Campaign Has Smell of Success

Thursday, June 26th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

Kinetic Active, Kinetic Worldwide’s new in-house technology division, is launching a multi-sensory campaign for Unilever’s new Surf fragrance. Bespoke digital 6-sheet units will appear in six shopping malls across the country from June 30 for a high-profile, two-week campaign booked with JCDecaux Innovate. The interactive drive will be spearheaded by brand mascot Surfy, encouraging shoppers […]

Andrew Morley Joins Clear Channel UK

Tuesday, June 24th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

Andrew Morley has become the new CEO of Clear Channel UK, he replaces Matthew Dearden, who becomes Clear Channel Europe President. Morley was most recently Motorola’s vice-president and general manager in the UK and Ireland and previously marketing director at Harrods Group and BSkyB, and a European marketing director at Ford. Matthew Dearden will still […]

Forrest Media Branches Out In Newcastle

Wednesday, June 18th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

Forrest Media, Scotland’s biggest OOH inventory owner, has just announced that its latest site will be in Newcastle, seeing the continuation of the company’s sizeable expansion into the north of England. The site, which goes live in September, is dubbed ‘CityScreen Newcastle Central’ and will be a giant LED screen, measuring 14m x 3.5m (50sq […]

RAF Red Arrows In DOOH And Experiential Campaign With JCDecauxLive

Wednesday, June 18th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

BAE Systems invited commuters at Victoria Station (London, U.K.) to celebrate with the Red Arrows on their 50th anniversary with an experiential and Digital Out-of-Home campaign with JCDecauxLive yesterday (June 17, 2014). Commuters had the opportunity to meet and have their photographs taken with pilots from the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team at the event […]

#Lookup Campaign Wins Cannes Lions’ Direct Grand Prix

Tuesday, June 17th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Well, it appears that DailyDOOH and its readers aren’t the only ones who found the wonderful British Airways ‘Magic of Flying’ advertising campaign interesting. The campaign, which we wrote about last November when it first appeared on Clear Channel Storm’s Chiswick Towers and again on Piccadilly Circus took home the Grand Prix in the direct category at […]

The Art of Outdoor 2014

Saturday, June 14th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Watch out for an announcement from Ocean Outdoor shortly that this year’s Art of Outdoor competition awards will be presented in London on October 9, 2014.