There’s a new innovation that’s sweeping the outdoor advertising nation, and it has everything to do with mobile billboards powered by retargeting technology. On their own, mobile billboards are great at raising brand awareness and hitting places not normally touched by outdoor advertising. They drive past people on their daily commute, reach out to city folk, and just about anyone on their route and radar. They are advertisements on wheels, meant to display large billboards on vehicles; moving billboards with a gleams of hope.
However, more recently, mobile device retargeting strategies are making sure people don’t just SEE a mobile billboard- but FEEL their presence after the ad leaves their eyesight. Mobile billboard trucks are attaching small retargeting devices on them in order to pick up, and sustain, the presence of a consumer. This experience makes for a longer lasting, impressionable advertisement that taps into consumer demographics, location, and online behaviour. It leads to further interaction. Let’s dissect just how mobile device retargeting works, what its components are, and how mobile billboards partner with these technologies to create a more meaningful contact.
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