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OU1A - Out Of Home

Check the Preparation tab on how to submit your entry.

The Out of Home category includes the following media:

  1. Outdoor Media
    All  fixed outdoor media spaces, including billboards, electronic screens, bus shelters, street pole advertising, building wraps, murals, & playing fields.
  2. In-Store
    Includes all in-store promotional media including all areas common to the in-store environment:  elevators, point-of-purchase, promotional branding, stair risers, trolleys, washroom advertising, window displays.
  3. Transit & Air
    Includes anything involving a road vehicle (cars, bikes, buses, taxis, trains, trucks) or flying and floating objects (aeroplanes, blimps, helicopters, inflatables, hot-air balloons).
  4. Direct Mail
    Flat and 3D media delivered via post, courier or hand-delivery including: cards, catalogues, gifts, invitations, promotions, samples, etc.
  5. Ambient
    All free-format, non-traditional forms of media, including: use of public spaces, handouts & giveaways, kiosks & displays, and never before used media.

Please ensure that you provide as much information on the background of your entry. If possible and where necessary, provide a walkthrough explaining all aspects of your entry, including the strategy, innovative ideas, target audience and provide any results you have.

Overview videos must be limited to 2 minutes. If it is felt necessary, the full-length work may accompany the 2-minute entry, check the “Preparation Guidelines” for more information.

 


 

Out Of Home

Physical media can be submitted for DIRECT MAIL entries in the OOH Category. All physical entries must be accompanied by an electronic image of that piece. ALL non-English work must come with English translations.

WE WILL NOT ACCEPT REPLACEMENT MATERIAL, so please make sure that the version you have uploaded or sent to us is the correct and final material.

DO NOT PLACE YOUR NAME OR YOUR AGENCY BRANDING ON YOUR ENTRY
As all work is judged anonymously, you must ensure that no reference to your agency is included on the entry.

SINGLE ENTRIES – must be entered individually. For example, three posters that are part of a campaign theme must be entered as individual entries, not all as one entry. If in the opinion of the jury, several pieces constitute a campaign, then these entries will be combined into one campaign award. However, for street pole entries, if one communication is executed across three boards, then enter all three boards as one entry.

IF USING JPEGS: MAXIMUM OF 10 JPEGS ALLOWED.

  • 7063 x 5008 pixels
  • File size is 5MB - 15MB per image
  • Maximum of 10 JPEGS
  • Text must be legible when projected to a screen.
  • Submit close up images of small details that need to be seen by the jury.
  • Keep text to a minimum, utilise the ‘description’ section of the entry form for additional information about the entry.

How to send your JPEG files – Upload via our online entry system
You can upload your files directly to your media library via the online entry process. You have the option of uploading your files while completing your entry form, or you can choose to upload them at a later stage. Just login to your account to create an entry or manage your media.

IF USING VIDEO

You can provide footage of the entry itself, as well as supporting information about your work. Please follow the Film preparation guidelines. Overview videos must be limited to 2 minutes. If it is felt necessary, the full-length work may accompany the 2-minute overview.

DIRECT MAIL ENTRIES ONLY - the original material may be submitted with the entry and the entry may include boards, JPEGS and/or video.

IF SUBMITTING BOARDS, DO NOT USE FOAM BOARD

  • Use thin, stiff cardboard up to a maximum size of A2.
  • Maximum of 10 boards – multiple boards should not be attached to one another.
  • Use a combination of imagery as well as written descriptions wherever necessary to make up your board.

PRINT AND AFFIX YOUR ENTRY LABEL TO THE BACK OF EACH BOARD OR 3D PIECE
After you've completed your online entry and printed your entry labels, tape the correct label to the back of the corresponding physical entry. If your entry consists of more than one piece, please affix a label to each piece, and mark the pieces accordingly, e.g. Part 1 of 4, Part 2 of 4, etc.

DO NOT PLACE YOUR NAME OR YOUR AGENCY BRANDING ON YOUR ENTRY
As all work is judged anonymously, you must ensure that no reference to your agency is included on the entry. Only use the provided labels to identify your entry all mounting, folders, trimmings, etc. must not have any agency branding. If necessary, the Loeries staff will remove or cover any such branding.

PROVIDE JPEGS OF BOARDS – MAXIMUM OF 10 JPEGS
You must provide JPEG files of any physical work submitted for judging – whether presented on boards or as a 3D piece. This will be used on screen at the awards ceremony, should your work win. For campaigns and work submitted on boards - YOU MUST SUPPLY EACH IMAGE AS A SEPARATE JPEG FILE. Note: If your entry is an electronic-only jpeg presentation, we will use this material for the awards and there is no need to submit additional JPEGS. Please follow the specs provided above.

Out Of Home

Tip No 1: The judges are looking at hundreds of entries - where necessary, provide additional information to help them to understand your entry in terms of our judging criteria: Innovation, Quality of execution, relevance to the Brand, Target Audience and Chosen Medium.

Tip No 2: View the Preparation tab for full entry formats and guidelines.

Tip No 3: Remember no boards or physical material will be accepted for Outdoor Media, Street Pole, In-store and Alternative Media & Field Marketing. You must submit a video OR a JPEG presentation but not both.

Tip No 4: If you are using JPEGS to present your entry, make sure the work is clearly visible as judges will view this on plasma TV screens. Long paragraphs of text is not advisable. Use the description box on the entry form for all information regarding the entry.

Tip No 5: You can submit physical material for Direct Mail Only.

Tip No 6: No more than 10 boards or JPEGS will be accepted.