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The Week: Best of the blogs - The new spirit of outdoor.(Brief article)

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Digital outdoor advertising will be the most interesting format of the next ten years. With a little thought, it can also do something for the reputation of the ad industry.

One exciting aspect is that the posters move. But, perhaps more interesting: they change. Unfortunately, they also share with conventional billboards that problem with which ad people have expressed discomfort. They do nothing for the people who are forced to look at them. This is not to say great poster advertising cannot be a pleasure to look at - it can. But whereas all other forms of ads (bar spam and, arguably, direct mail) clearly bring a secondary benefit to a voluntary viewer or reader (by paying for the programmes or subsidising the coverprice of a magazine or newspaper), this is not true of outdoor. With the ...

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