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Clear Channel Outdoor & Associated Press Bring Worldwide New Year’s Eve Celebrations to America and Canada With Digital Billboards and #NYE4all

December 31, 2013 by David Grabert

Campaign Marks First Use of Digital Out-of-Home as International News and Content Platform

Fireworks go off behind a pagodaNew York, NY – December 30, 2013 – Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO) today announced a groundbreaking campaign which leverages the flexible capabilities of its visual digital out-of-home network to deliver New Year’s Eve celebrations from around the world to the U.S. and Canada.  Starting at approximately 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time, December 31st, when New Zealand, Australia, Japan and China are among the first countries to enter 2014, Clear Channel Outdoor will begin displaying AP’s images of international New Year’s Eve celebrations across its inventory of more than 1,000 digital billboards in 37 major U.S. markets and select locations in Canada.  The campaign will conclude when Alaska, American Samoa, and the U.S. Islands of Baker Island and Howland Island are the final countries to enter into the New Year between 4AM and 7AM Eastern Time on Wednesday, January 2nd.

Pushing the creative boundaries of out-of-home, especially via our national digital platform, is a strategic imperative for us.

AP Images, the commercial photo unit of The Associated Press, was selected by Clear Channel Outdoor to collaborate in this groundbreaking use of out-of-home digital media because AP owns the world’s largest collection of historical and contemporary photographs, including timely, powerful and informative images that cover topics including breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather, fashion, and travel.  Clear Channel Outdoor will place AP’s images of New Year’s Eve into outdoor creative emblazoned with #NYE4all to encourage social engagement and sharing on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms.

Clear Channel Outdoor’s growing digital inventory and innovative use of these screens have moved the company from a traditional outdoor advertising business to a powerful real-time broadcast medium that provides a more creative, timely, flexible and relevant way for brands to message and interact with consumers.  Advertisers are increasingly using these new capabilities to engage consumers with contextually aware messaging that stimulates deeper brand experiences and dialogue in social media.

“Consumers are a very important part of the out-of-home advertising value chain.  Our New Year’s Eve displays will provide interesting, topical news and images via our digital platform, a clear illustration that out-of-home advertising is a more flexible and useful medium for advertisers than ever before, while encouraging increased consumer focus on the messages found there,” said Vicki Lins, Chief Marketing Officer of Clear Channel Outdoor – North America.  “Our digital screens can enable consumers to find the scores of a big game, or the results of an election, or the winner of last night’s reality show competitions — and sometimes they’ll find important safety information like FBI Wanted searches or AMBER alerts.  Today, out-of home is a vital new real-time medium in an increasingly fractured media environment.”

“Pushing the creative boundaries of out-of-home, especially via our national digital platform, is a strategic imperative for us at Clear Channel Outdoor,” said Paul Livornese, Vice President & Creative Director, Clear Channel Outdoor – North America.  “It’s my goal to elevate the creativity of the medium, and I can think of no better way to do that than by using our digital screens to give some of AP’s most amazing photography a whole new stage.  There will be much more to come as our creative teams across the country help clients dramatically expand their creativity with our new digital capabilities.”

The following North American Clear Channel Outdoor markets are participating:

  1. Akron
  2. Atlanta
  3. Baltimore
  4. Boston
  5. Chicago
  6. Cleveland
  7. Columbus
  8. Dallas
  9. Denver (at Denver International Airport)
  10. Des Moines
  11. El Paso
  12. Fort Smith
  13. Houston
  14. Indianapolis
  15. Jacksonville
  16. Las Vegas
  17. Los Angeles
  18. Melbourne
  19. Memphis
  20. Miami
  21. Milwaukee
  22. Minneapolis
  23. New Jersey
  24. Oakland
  25. Ocala
  26. Orlando
  27. Philadelphia
  28. Phoenix
  29. Portland
  30. Reno
  31. Sacramento
  32. Salisbury
  33. San Antonio
  34. Seattle
  35. Tampa
  36. Toronto, Canada (including Toronto Pearson Airport)
  37. Vaughan, Ontario
  38. Wichita

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About Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., (NYSE: CCO) is one of the world’s largest outdoor advertising companies, with more than 750,000 displays in over 40 countries across five continents, including 48 of the 50 largest markets in the United States. Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings offers many types of displays across its global platform to meet the advertising needs of its customers. This includes a growing digital platform that now offers over 1000 digital billboards across 37 U.S. markets. Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings’ International segment operates in nearly 30 countries across Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America in a wide variety of formats.

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