Outdoor advertising can be a Force for Good argues Outdoor Media Centre chief Mike Baker
Outdoor advertising can be used as a force for good having improved its standing as a communications platform in recent years, the chief executive of the Outdoor Media Centre (OMC) Mike Baker has claimed.
Speaking to The Drum Baker discussed how outdoor media can be used as a force for good and opened up on the undertakings and partnerships it has formed in order to improve its reputation in recent years, where he said that it had fallen from becoming the second most complained about media to fifth.
Baker spoke about Government messaging and how it is used to inform the public on health messaging around responsible drinking and safe sex, the organisation’s charter that prohibits outdoor media sites from being located within the vicinity of schools and how it has worked with the ASA to improve messaging standards.
“People see it as a source for good and a source of information and entertainment. Broadly they are very happy to pass billboards and to edit the experience that they get themselves from the messaging that they see displayed on those advertising sites,” stated Baker on the positivity that outdoor media can now claim to generate.
The Outdoor Media Centre will headline partner this year’s Creative Out of Home Awards, which will take place on 26 November in London. Other sponsors include Primesight, BlowUp Media, Ubiquitous, KBH on Train Media, VeriFone and Rapport.