The 5 most creative OOH campaigns

Kicking off our list is Heinz, who captured the attention of Londoners early this year with a cheeky advert for their own-brand pasta sauce. Heinz has an office inside the Shard building and on the iconic landmark’s ten-year anniversary, decided to celebrate with a personalised message. 

The brand placed a twist on its existing ‘Ridiculously late, ridiculously good’ campaign by comparing the length of time it took to create its own pasta sauce to the relatively expedited building of the Shard. The creative was adapted to show the sauce jars stacked in the shape of the Shard, mimicking the building itself, which is visible from the advertising site.

Through contextually relevant advertising, Heinz capitalised on a one-off event while earnestly congratulating their landlord’s success. 

Timberland ran an OOH campaign during winter to keep the boots front of mind during the cold and wet weather to which they’re best suited. 

The campaign brought focus to some of Timberland boots’ key selling points: their sturdiness and their cosiness. Creative imagery and messaging depicted their ability to weather any storm (“don’t cry over spilt milk”) and the importance of comfort for heavy-duty footwear (“the gravity of comfort”).

Timberland used a special build billboard to incorporate 2D and 3D elements that bring the campaign to life. We particularly love the vinyl floor ‘spilt milk’ droplets, which brought the creative to pavement level for an all-encompassing experience.

We also applaud the fact that Timberland used recycled glass to create the natural highlights. This is creativity with a conscience!  

True crime podcasts have been a surprising hit with the public and Amazon Audible decided to capitalise on this with an advertising campaign for their listening services.

They came up with a special creative installation that replicated a cassette tape at magnified size, and a corresponding street-level control board. When the play button at street-level was pressed, snippets of new featured podcasts were played while a recording light appeared on the tape.

The street-level panel also showed a QR code taking audiences to the podcast page so that they could save it for later listening.

We’re huge fans of the quirky creativity displayed here. By utilising both an interactive panel and a prominent billboard, Amazon Audible have made the real world feel like a playground.