Sales Tip: The Year’s Best OOH Campaigns: OAAA Media Plan of the Year Award Winners

The OAAA’s OOH Media Plan Awards were created to recognize the essential role media planning plays in the development of successful OOH campaigns. This year’s winners, which were announced at last week’s New York Ad Club’s 16th annual Out-of-Home event, exemplify how the elements of good creative design, thoughtful placement of messages, and proper allocation of budgets unite to produce an outstanding communications strategy.

The 2023 OOH Media Plan of the Year (MPOY) went to MilkPEP for its “26.2” campaign. MilkPEP’s powerful, interactive campaign repositioned milk as a performance drink while celebrating the power and perseverance of female and female-identifying athletes participating in the 2022 New York City Marathon. The four-pronged strategy launched on digital out of home (DOOH) units across NYC’s most popular running routes ahead of the NYC Marathon. QR codes incorporated in the OOH ads drove consumers to a customized website to learn about the health benefits of milk while also encouraging female runners to register as a Team Milk marathon runner. A milk photobooth invited runners to snap photos that were dynamically inserted into DOOH creative throughout the city, along with congratulatory messaging along the marathon route. 

OAAA members can access summaries of this year’s winning campaigns, and those of past MPOY contests, in the case study library, which now also features a KPI search feature.  

The additional 2023 winners include: 

Gold Winners

General Motors Chevrolet 
Dentsu & Commonwealth | McCann 
Chevrolet: Data-driven Programmatic for Silverado 

MilkPEP  
GALE | TALON 
26.2 

Plenty of Fish 
OMD Vancouver | 123W | TALON 
Redefining Dating Norms 

Williamsburg Tourism Council 
NPRP Media | Connelly Partners 
Life. At Your Pace 

Zola 
PJX Media 
Zola – Engagement Season & Vendor Marketplace OOH 

Silver Winners

FBI
Clear Channel Outdoor
FBI- Houston Division

Glossier 
PJX Media 
Glossier – Q1 2023 OOH 

Match.com 
NPRP Media
Adults Wanted 

Nissan Ariya 
Omnicom Media Group 
Nissan Ariya 2023  

Q Mixers 
PJX Media 
Q Mixers – Better Mixers 

For an engaging video review of the winning submissions, please click here.