Monday, January 18, 2010

What are the trends of airport and out of home advertising?

There are different means, arts and tools of communication. Advertising is one such art of communication that bridges the gap between the product and the consumer.

Advertising promotes a particular product, idea or service to its target audience. There are different types or means of advertising. Advertisers deploy the right means of advertising as per their requirement.

For example a publishing house will deploy print medium to promote his product while a digital agency will use internet advertising to promote his product. However, under certain circumstances various advertising means may be inter-dependent to one another as per requirements. For example publishing houses take help of digital agencies for online promotion of their product or service.

Advertising is generally classified as online advertising, outdoor advertising, print advertising, broadcast advertising etc. There are various means of outdoor advertising, out of which airport advertising is becoming popular day by day. Airport advertising is considered one of the newest means of outdoor advertising. Because of its effective reach, this type of outdoor advertising has become quite popular and been widely carried on during recent times.

Trends of Airport advertising

Airport advertising is one of the budget friendly mediums of reaching its target audience by an advertising firm. Extremely low cost, this type of advertising is affordable by any advertiser. The cost of airport advertising is much lower as compared to other advertising Medias. Airport advertising also effectively reaches out to a large number of target audiences as compared to other means. Exclusive features of airport advertising include its high-glamour look, high-tech and attention-grabbing duration.

Airports are generally meeting places of different types of people from across the world. In this regard, airport advertising is also considered as a tool of advertising India to the rest of the globes.

Trends of out of home advertising (OOH advertising)

Out of home advertising also known as Ooh advertising is primarily directed towards those customers who are ‘on the go’ at public places, at transit or in specific locations like commercial retail show rooms. Ooh advertising is a complete contrast to print, broadcast or internet advertising. Out of home advertising is classified as digital out of home advertising and non-digital out of home advertising. Digital out of home advertising comprises of kiosks, jukeboxes or jumbotrons, screens etc. Though out of door advertising requires a proper budget planning and implementation, this type of advertising is effective and result-orienting in nature. Many corporate sectors use this means of advertising for heavy promotion of their product or service.

Reference website: www.tdiindia.com

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