Top things to consider while planning OOH ad campaigns

Published On
June 18, 2025
Planning a successful outdoor advertising campaign requires selecting high-traffic locations, defining your target audience, crafting creative visuals and copy, timing the campaign perfectly, and ensuring clear calls to action. These strategies help maximize brand visibility, engagement, and conversions.

Outdoor advertising is a prominent method of grabbing audience attention, creating awareness, boosting brand recall, and making sales.
However not understanding the marketing landscape of outdoor advertisement can lead to a devastating failure. It may cost thousands of rupees, if not lakhs, and multiply the losses.
If you don't want to get those unwanted losses, it's better to understand the factors that make an outdoor ad successful.
If you are hiring an outdoor advertising company such as Vigyapan Mart, we will look after everything. However, we suggest understanding the factors to understand what's going on!
In this blog, we will discuss factors that you must consider for an outdoor advertising campaign.

Factors to Consider for A Successful Outdoor Campaign

1. Search for the best locations

One of the most important factors of successful outdoor advertising is its location. Now, the question revolves around finding an ideal location where the ad would get the best visibility, traffic, and recognition.
The idea behind setting up an outdoor advertisement is to expose your brand and products to hundreds and thousands of people. This means you need to reach lakhs of people each day. How can you make that possible? Focus on the following factors when you choose the right location for your ads.

  • The viewability: head-on or parallel view.
  • Dwell time: the amount of time a viewer sees an ad.
  • Traffic- number and kinds of viewers that site gets.
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2. Consider the frequency of the ad

One thing that comes with the visibility is the frequency of the viewers. The term ‘Outdoor Ad Frequency’ directly refers to the number of times a person sees your ads. One of the most comprehensive ways to do so is to place ads on multiple touchpoints, which will help spread more awareness and improve brand recall.
For example- places like hoardings, theatres, airports, railway stations, etc.
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3.  Audience

Before you create an outdoor advertising campaign, define your audience. If you have not defined your audience group, you will shoot arrows in vain.
Identifying the right group of viewers who would be willing to buy your products will help you choose the right location, the language of the advertisement, and custom visual interaction. Here are some examples of doing so:

  • Using pop culture references to attract millennials.
  • Include memes and funky language to target Gen-Z.
  • Using color psychology to attract different demographic groups.
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4. Go Creative with Designs

‘Eyes see before the mind reads’. This statement is solely true for outdoor advertisements. People don't read your ad nor do they gather information. They see and decide whether to interact with it or not.  
This makes your visual interaction as important as your message. What to do to create a not-to-miss design?

  • Use bright bold colours.
  • Make the tests large.
  • Use bold non-serif fonts.
  • Stick to one message at a time.
  • Use contrasting colors to attract.
  • Avoid white backgrounds.
  • Put high-quality images only.
  • Test your ideas.
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5. Attention-grabbing ad messages

An average viewer sees an outdoor advertisement for only 3 to 5 seconds. So all you have is 3-5 seconds to grab a viewer’s attention and compel them to engage with your brand.
We discussed the visual interaction, and now come to the ad copy.
Your ad copy should be compelling and easy to read. If you are targeting young generations, you should go with funky language, memes, and pop culture references to connect with the new generation.
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Write something that the audience would relate & love, and slow down to read.

  • A humorous copy.
  • Write crispy ideas.
  • Go witty.
  • Use trends to get noticed.
  • Use visual storytelling.
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6. Relevant call-to-action

A copy works like magic for an outdoor advertisement. However, only a copy is not enough. Your outdoor ads must have a clear and compelling call to action. Don't feel shy to tell your audience what to do next. Include a call-to-action to all your outdoor ad campaigns and ask for a specific action from them. The call-to-action allows the viewers to connect with you and potentially make a purchase.
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Example-

  • Call Now!
  • Download
  • Create a reel and tag.
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7. Choose the right timing

Besides everything else, one of the deciding factors for the success of outdoor advertisements is the right timing. Note it down, never miss it! If you run a jewelry brand or an electronic store, Diwali is your big time to cover the market and make the most sales.
Similarly, if you're a clothing store, the best time is around festivals and wedding season. Launch your outdoor ad a few weeks before the festival. However, days are not the limit for the right timing.
Digital outdoor ads can switch from one ad to another to increase the overall frequency of an ad. Now your task is to decide the right time for the advertisement in a day.

Conclusion

Outdoor advertisement is a promising method to increase brand awareness, and brand recall, and make more sales. However, if you don't consider a few factors, all your efforts will be in vain. In this blog, we have discussed all the major factors to consider for successful outdoor ads.
They are as follows.

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  • Ad frequency
  • Audience
  • Designs
  • Ad messages
  • Call-to-action
  • Timing

See you in the next blog! Are you searching for an experienced and result-driven outdoor advertising agency to launch your next advertising campaign? Connect with Vigyapan Mart outdoor advertising experts!

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