Exterion has continued its roll out of updated ad sites across the London Underground with the introduction of new Digital Ribbons at three of the busiest tube stations in the city. King’s Cross, Tottenham Court Road and Piccadilly Circus welcome the strings of 42-inch Ultra HD screens to their roster of ad sites, spanning the […]
Outdoor
Route launches a 6 year research project
Route, the audience research body for outdoor advertising, has commissioned an expanded and renewed 6 year research project. Worth £20 million, the project will deliver audience data at a more granular level. Since 2008, Route has used behavioural and observational studies to inform models for movement in interior spaces. From last month, multi-sensory tracking (MST) […]
Sadiq Khan bans ‘body-shaming’ ads
It was announced last month that Sadiq Khan, the new Mayor of London, had banned all ‘body-shaming’ ads on the Transport for London (TfL) network from July 2016 onwards. This includes adverts that promote ‘unrealistic expectations’ about body image and health. He had previously pledged to tackle advertising on the tube network during his campaign, […]
Advertisers to pay for drive-by viewings
Google is full of surprises this year more than others; first they agree to pay some taxes, and now they have announced that the launch of their self-drive cars will offer advertisers the chance to increase impressions on their ads by getting the cars to drive past specific outdoor sites. Whilst fundamentally the cars will […]
BARB’s Project Dovetail: The new gold standard?
Earlier this week, the launch of the second phase of Project Dovetail was announced by BARB, the UK’s television ratings reporting organisation. The first phase of Dovetail saw the integration of VoD and online viewing figures into BARB’s standard ratings, but was found to have relatively limited scope as it was device, not user, centric. […]
