Outdoor advertising

, displaying an ad for the Digital out-of-home (DOOH) refers to dynamic advertising media distributed across different locations. DOOH advertisements might be purchased through programmatic platforms which ask marketers to specify desired audience characteristics. These platforms then attempt to automatically locate advertising space to reach that audience. These platforms may allow buyers to plan, execute and monitor campaigns across multiple media platforms. == Printed ==

Printed out of home refers to static media distributed across physical spaces. Examples include: • Aerial advertising: Aerial advertising includes towing banners via a fixed-wing aircraft as well as airships like blimps and other airborne inflatables above beaches, events and gridlock traffic. • Billboard bicycle: is a new type of mobile advertising in which a bike tows a billboard with an advertising message. This method is a cost-efficient, targeted, and environmentally-friendly form of advertising. • Brochures, pamphlets, and flyers: Providing printed material, either in an information display or by hand in public gathering spaces, is a targeted method to advertise to a specific audience. • Billboards: (or Bulletins) are usually located in highly visible, heavy traffic areas such as expressways, primary arterials, and major intersections. In the US bulletins are usually illuminated. The ad artwork, commonly digitally printed on large vinyl-coated fabric membranes, is often "rotated" by the outdoor plant operator amongst several locations in a metropolitan area to achieve the desired reach of the population as defined in the sales contract. This is the largest standard out of home advertising format, usually measuring at 14ftx48ft in overall size. • Bus advertising includes advertising placed directly buses, as well as on bus-related infrastructure such as bus shelters or benches. • Digital billboards: (or Digital bulletins) Introduced in 2005. • Mobile billboard can stand freely and can be moved to different locations as needed. This product can also be used a inflatable movie screens. • Poster: Standardized poster formats measuring 12'3" x 24'6"; formally known as a 30-Sheet Poster. • Walking billboards: These billboards are strapped on to the human shoulder and are carried along the targeted geographic area. Space advertising, by use of an array of small satellites that reflect sunlight, has been evaluated by researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. == Regulations ==

United States • The states of Vermont, Hawaii, Maine, and Alaska prohibit all billboards. • The other 46 states permit multiple forms of OOH advertising. • Billboards are regulated by all levels of government. The regulatory framework, created by the federal Highway Beautification Act (HBA), calls for billboards to be located in commercial and industrial areas. Billboard permits are issued by state and local authorities. Under the Highway Beautification Act, states have strong regulatory powers including the authority to ban billboards. • Most states have taken steps to regulate digital (electronic) billboards, which feature static images that change (typically) every six or eight seconds. In 2007, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued Guidance to the states regarding regulation of digital billboards. Scenic America challenged the federal Guidance in federal court on procedural grounds. On June 20, 2014, US District Court Judge James E. Boasberg dismissed this case, with prejudice. • Regulations governing digital billboards prohibit animation and scrolling. Digital billboards are equipped with light sensors to adjust billboard lighting to surrounding light conditions to avoid glare, per the industry code. Brazil São Paulo, Brazil, established an almost total outdoor advertising ban in 2006. The ban required that all billboard and banner advertisements be removed and that store signs be greatly reduced in size and prominence. Switzerland The Swiss municipality of Vernier banned outdoor advertising. Finland in 1989. Outdoor advertising in Finland is subject to license. According to section 52 of the Finnish road law outdoor advertising along roads is forbidden in principle, but a Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment can grant an exceptional permit for advertising, if it does not endanger traffic safety and is not in conflict with the environment. In places subject to zoning the permit is granted by the local municipality. Outdoor advertising has also been criticised because of landscape protection or because it would cause environmental damage or "visual pollution" in the landscape. Loose advertising billboards placed on sidewalks in front of businesses cause harm and danger to the visually impaired. Many municipalities in Finland require a minimum of 1.5 metres' width of free passage space and that billboards can only be used while the businesses are open. Municipalities also give guides and grant permits for placing construction signs, signs about events and other advertising devices. In 2002, the predecessor of the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency published a guide for advertising along roads together with the Ministry of Environment and the Finnish Municipal Association. The difference between outdoor advertising and display window advertising was discussed because of a series of 16 illuminated advertising displays placed inside a series of windows on the corner of the streets Runeberginkatu and Mannerheimintie in Helsinki showing animated advertising for several years. This advertising display had been criticised because of dazzling and light pollution. According to the advertising company, the display was a case of common display window advertising. In May 2024, the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland confirmed the decision given by administrative court in January 2023 about evicting the display but specified that advertising displays can only be removed by officials, not by the housing cooperative. One form of criticism towards outdoor advertising is about which images are considered appropriate for outdoor advertising because of sexual equality or in the interest of child protection. In 2003 the ethical council for advertising received a complaint about a Christmas advertising campaign for Hennes & Mauritz underwear showing Naomi Campbell and other famous international models in 1930s-style glamour images. The council ruled the campaign as a whole did not go against the international rules for advertising or the council's own equality principles. In contrast, in 2008 the council gave the same advertiser (H&M) a warning about "sexualising the public space". According to the council, the six-story high underwear advertisement on the corner of the Forum shopping centre in central Helsinki featured the 24-year-old model Isabeli Fontana in "unnatural positions" and thus was a "passive object" of the advertisement. == See also ==