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Out of Home trends for 2025

By Gillian Abrahams · AdVantage archive
From the AdVantage archive. This report was published on this domain when AdVantage covered the South African media, marketing and advertising industry as a monthly title. It is kept online for reference and has not been updated; people, prices and companies named in it have moved on.
Out of Home trends for 2025
2018 02 26 Advertising hoarding for cross country event, Estrada de Ferreiras, Albufeira. Photo: Kolforn ( Kolforn ) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

By Craig Page-Lee, Managing Director Posterscope

  • In the out of home sector we will see the formation of smaller networked-agencies with teams structured to client’s specific needs and the bringing together best-in-class per project.  There will be an increased movement of key marketing heads into agency lead roles and vise versa.
  • Every campaign will now have a digital component to it and in many cases it will lead the communications platform.
  • We will see many specialist media agencies partnering with specialist creative agencies offering through the line integrated communications solutions to clients.
  • The key challenge in 2025 for both agencies and media alike will be EFFECTIVE MEASUREMENT, which provides an accurate R.O.I measure across highly integrated campaigns.
  • ‘Mass-customization’ will continue to grow and move brands from appealing to all, to making the consumer feel that the brand is speaking directly to them.
  • Consumers will continue to have even more power to influence brand success, or failure, than ever before.
  • We will also see a continued increase in ‘open-source’ consumer participation that ultimately shapes and defines the behavior of a brand, product or service.

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