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OUT-OF-HOME MEDIA
By our News Team | 2023
Out-of-home media is bucking global trends and economic instability, world body’s president says at inaugural MENA event.
The stars are aligned,” World Out of Home Organisation President, Tom Goddard, told delegates at WOO’s inaugural MENA Forum (Middle East and North Africa) in Dubai last week.
“Why, in a world so unsettled with a war in Europe, an energy crisis, climate change concerns, political instability and economic headwinds, are forecasters so buoyant about Out of Home? Because we have so many positive dynamics driving us forward.”
World Out of Home Organisation President, Tom Goddard. Photo credit: WOO
According to Goddard these dynamics for OOH include:
MENA, he said, was a region that “is not only bucking the global economic downturn but actually booming”, thanks to factors including a young, well-educated workforce and the United Arab Emirates’ open-door policy and business-as-usual stance throughout the recent pandemic.
“MENA’s unique geographical location, with easy access to so many large markets, is really starting to tell,” he continued, with OOH; especially digital (DOOH), well-placed to benefit from the ever-growing number of exciting physical locations with consequent marketing and creative opportunities.”
As always, there remains work to done, Goddard said. He highlighted the need to grow the industry at sector level in an increasingly competitive global media market. The most effective way, he believed, was to increase industry collaboration at all levels and shift focus from internal competition to sector-level activity.
“Don’t misunderstand me,” he emphasised, “local competition in some areas – like bidding for site contracts – is healthy and should continue” but a bigger medium means more for everyone.
In concluding his presentation, Goddard referenced the need for strong trade associations to build sector growth. These bodies, he believed, would play an even bigger role as the industry grows and consolidates.
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