Product News | October 11, 2021

PATTISON Modernizes its Out-of-Home Technology Stack with Broadsign

Partnership streamlines daily operations and unlocks new revenue potential; enables PATTISON clients to maximize OOH campaigns

Montreal, Canada, April 25, 2024 – Out-of-home (OOH) ad tech leader Broadsign today announced that PATTISON Outdoor Advertising, a leading Canadian OOH media owner, has adopted the full Broadsign OOH technology stack. With Broadsign already providing a centralized hub for its programmatic digital OOH (DOOH) workflows, the expanded partnership now enables PATTISON to dynamically manage and optimize its OOH inventory to unlock previously untapped revenue opportunities. The partnership also opens up new ways for brands to book campaigns on PATTISON inventory with a more targeted, impression-based approach and accelerates the rate at which PATTISON can display client ads across its OOH inventory, spanning urban pathways, residential and office buildings, transit hubs, airports, and other venues across Canada.

Providing a near real-time ad scheduling workflow comprising advanced optimization and prioritization tools, the Broadsign platform is helping PATTISON reallocate time previously spent on manual campaign pacing and adding daily plays to bump up the delivery of low-pacing campaigns. Broadsign’s optimization engine works on a play-by-play or impression level based on each campaign’s goals, and enables PATTISON’s sales team to easily find more available inventory, even in high sellout periods. With the updated OOH platform, PATTISON can now easily customize campaigns to align with client needs. Since beginning its rollout of the new platform in early March, it has powered OOH campaigns for some of PATTISON’s largest clients, including Holt Renfrew, Lotto Quebec, McDonald’s, and Tim Hortons. 

“In evaluating our options, the Broadsign tech stack quickly emerged as the best fit, especially for our ad-serving needs. It lets us maximize yield and revenue potential while ensuring pDOOH campaigns can be seamlessly executed based on client goals, with little to no manual intervention,” shared PATTISON Director of Digital Innovation Jessica Littlejohn. “Our digital product offering has never been more robust than with Broadsign at its core, and our team has more time to do what we do best – understand and help our clients achieve their objectives.”

Echoing Littlejohn’s sentiments, PATTISON President Steve McGregor, added, “The support the Broadsign team has provided along the journey has been instrumental in helping us to achieve our business goals and prepare for our next phase of growth.”

“PATTISON is an industry trailblazer with a reputation for always being one step ahead of the curve. It was one of the first media owners to offer full-scale programmatic DOOH and advanced audience-based targeting options,” shared Maarten Dollevoet, Chief Revenue Officer, Broadsign. “PATTISON’s commitment to evolving its digital toolset to prepare for the next wave of OOH is inspiring, and we’re excited to partner with them to help them reach their goals.”

About Broadsign

Broadsign empowers media owners, agencies, and brands to harness the power and reach of out-of-home to connect with audiences in ways unlike any other advertising channel. More than 1.5 million static and digital signs along roadways and in airports, shopping malls, retailers, health clinics, transit systems, electric vehicle charging stations, and more run on Broadsign, reaching audiences at multiple touchpoints throughout the consumer journey. The Broadsign Platform helps media owners such as Outfront, Pattison Outdoor, Global, and Intersection streamline business operations and maximize revenue opportunities while enabling marketers and agencies to more easily plan and execute dynamic OOH campaigns that resonate with audiences. Brands spanning AB InBev, Disney, FanDuel, H&M, Honda, HP, Johnson & Johnson, KLM, Uber Eats, Sea-Doo, Samsonite, and many more have run successful programmatic DOOH campaigns enabled by Broadsign technology. https://broadsign.com

About PATTISON 

PATTISON Outdoor Advertising, a division of The Jim Pattison Group is Canada’s largest Out-of-Home advertising company. PATTISON Outdoor helps brands and businesses harness the power of Out-of-Home advertising by providing the most comprehensive range of products, markets, insights and customer support services. With its roots reaching back to 1908, PATTISON has been providing innovative solutions for Out-of-Home advertising opportunities with products ranging from traditional billboards to transit, digital, airport, residential, office, and street level formats. PATTISON is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with over 25 sales offices across the country, providing advertisers unmatched reach and coverage with products available in over 200 markets coast to coast.

Product News | October 11, 2021

How Visit Arizona drove a 30% increase in arrivals with programmatic DOOH

Visit Arizona, the official tourism board, launched a programmatic digital out-of-home campaign to inspire consumers nationwide to plan a trip to Arizona. The initiative was a strategic move to engage potential travellers in target markets and communicate with them at every stage of the planning process, from initial awareness to final booking.

Objective

The campaign aimed to build top-of-mind awareness and drive measurable results in the form of increased arrivals, with effectiveness measured through a combination of mobile retargeting and an arrival lift study to track actual consumer visits.

Strategy

Planned by agency of record, Off Madison Ave, OutMoove DSP was used to strategically place DOOH ads across high-traffic venues in key markets, to specifically target the client’s core High Value Personas. Programmatic DOOH was selected due to the ability to target these specific audience segments through a variety of placements. The media strategy maximized visibility and engaged consumers throughout their daily routines, guiding them along the travel planning journey.

Results

Success was measured through mobile retargeting via Native Touch and an arrival lift study conducted with Arrivalist.

High mobile engagement in key markets

Mobile retargeting was used to continue the conversation with consumers who saw the DOOH ads. This retargeting effort was highly successful, with mobile ads achieving a viewability rate of over 90%. The campaign drove strong results in key markets, demonstrating its ability to create a lasting impression and bridge the gap between OOH and mobile engagement.

Significant arrival lift

Visit Arizona saw a 30% arrival lift, exceeding the national average of 23% for similar campaigns. This result confirms the campaign’s strong influence on consumer travel decisions and its effectiveness in translating ad exposure into real-world arrivals.

“At Off Madison, we are thrilled with the success of Visit Arizona’s programmatic DOOH campaign. By strategically placing digital ads in high-traffic venues across key markets, we not only captured the attention of potential travellers but also drove significant results. Our collaboration with Broadsign and the deployment of a multi-faceted media strategy enabled us to surpass the national average in arrival lifts, reinforcing the power of innovative, targeted OOH advertising. This campaign is a testament to our commitment to engaging audiences in meaningful ways and transforming inspiration into action.” – Kriss M. Scheid, Associate Media Director, Off Madison Ave

Want the campaign highlights? Check out the infographic below.