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TE LL M E A STO RY | CONTINUED ... Australia. OOH will not only get more relevant, but also more contextual. It will know it’s your spouse’s birthday this weekend and will offer gift or restaurant suggestions. Or, that you’ve just had a baby and are ready for nappies. Billboards will become mood walls, shifting content to create emotion and evoke a response. Third, precision. Mobility and data are going to underpin the precision of how OOH works. But behind the scenes, all that data will enable marketers to better understand how OOH really works in the mix to drive marginal improvements in revenue. Systems such as those from MarketShare will enable marketers to understand the marginal improvement delivered by specific OOH units. They’ll understand, for instance, that up-weighting OOH around certain malls, impacts sales disproportionately more over, say, a spend on a digital campaign. OOH can no longer be ‘out of mind’ for marketers. It’s a medium rapidly becoming as dynamic as digital and a go-to platform for launching campaigns. By starting the marketing journey with OOH and extending it into rich content, commerce and community, marketers stand to reap rich rewards. They just need to say ‘Can’. ADVERTISER Commonwealth Bank PRODUCT Financial Services MEDIA Billboard, Street Furniture AGENCY M&C Saatchi COUNTRY Australia YEAR 2012–2014 / 110