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By our News Team | 2023
WOO’s first in-person forum on the continent has been scheduled for Cape Town in mid-March 2024, following successful 2022 online event.
The World Out of Home Organization (known as WOO) has announced plans for its first in-person Africa Forum following a successful online event held in 2022.
It will take place in Cape Town, South Africa from March 11-13, 2024. It comes in the wake of successful in-person WOO Forums in Asia, as well a number of online events focused on the OOH media environment in Asia.
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The second Asia Forum is taking place in Bali, Indonesia, from November 1-3. Omnicom Media Group Singapore CEO, Chloe Neo, is to be a keynote speaker.
Speaking about the event in Cape Town, WOO President, Tom Goddard. Says: “Our online event in Africa in 2022 received amazing support and we have been determined to return to the continent for an in-person event since then.
“Out of home is an incredible force in Africa and our in-person forum in 2024 will be a global milestone for the medium.”
Worldwide association of outdoor advertising companies
The World Out of Home Organization is a worldwide association of outdoor advertising companies. Among other things, it engages in worldwide lobbying for outdoor advertising: with authorities, international organisations, political opinion-formers and the communication media. It also plays a lead role in the standardisation of labels for outdoor advertising research data.
At its most recent world congress held in Portugal in June 2023, Goddard said the global out-of-home media industry has recovered the ground lost in the pandemic.
However, the industry must raise its focus from maintaining global market share at around 5%, to increasing to 10% by 2030 through incremental 1% annual increases. Among the strategies to achieve this, Goddard said, are:
Further information on the planned Africa event in Cape Town can be obtained from Richard Saturley, Chief Marketing Officer at the WOO. Email: richard@worldooh.org
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