DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS EXTENDED UNTIL FRIDAY APRIL 18th
We presented our eighth WOO Global Awards at our Congress in Hong Kong last June. These Awards have become a benchmark for excellence in the Out of Home industry.
The WOO Global Awards 2025 will be presented during the next Annual Congress (June 4th-6th) in MEXICO CITY on the first full day of Congress - Thursday June 5th.
This year again the Award recipients will be selected from a list of nominations by an Independent Awards Committee. This will include Tom Goddard the current President, two past Presidents, two current Board members plus a number of other recognised industry experts and creatives who we will be announcing shortly.
Exciting News - This year we are introducing a new Special Build Category.
This category is for campaigns that expand or extend existing ad units or utilise one-off formats, custom locations or external experiential elements.
This can include both Classic and Digital formats as well as bespoke murals. This is a category where imaginations can truly run wild, and campaigns can explore the outer limits of what is possible with OOH.
We would like our members to put forward your nominations for this new award and each of the following awards:
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Lifetime Achievement Award
Someone who has devoted his or her lifetime career to the Out of Home medium and who is widely respected and recognised by his or her peers.
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Leadership Award
Someone who has distinguished themselves by continually demonstrating leadership through a pioneering approach to Out of Home. Someone who is an inspiration to others.
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Technical Innovation Award
A supplier or Out of Home Company that has developed a new product, a breakthrough technology, that pushes our Industry forward.
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The Sustainability Award
A supplier or Out of Home company that has developed a company initiative, new product, a breakthrough technology, that pushes our Industry forward in the area of sustainability.
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Creative Award – Classic and Digital
An Out of Home creative execution that demonstrates a brilliant use of our medium and is considered to be a memorable, and effective piece of work. As in previous years we will be making an award for the best Classic and Digital Executions. Work should have been posted from March 31st 2024 onwards.
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* Creative Award – Special Build *
NEW THIS YEAR
This category is for campaigns that expand or extend existing ad units or utilise one-off formats, custom locations or external experiential elements. This can include both Classic and Digital formats as well as bespoke murals.
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The Rising Star Award
Someone who has already made an outstanding contribution to the OOH industry. The individual should be employed by / connected to / a company directly involved in the OOH Medium, i.e. an OOH media owner, specialist or technology provider. The person nominated must be aged 35 or under on March 31st 2025. We believe this an important way of recognising the undoubted talent which continually emerges in OOH.
WOO CMO Richard Saturley says: "this year the WOO Awards will be bigger and better than ever, reflecting the focus at the Mexico City Annual Congress in June on creativity in all its guises and its ability to grow the OOH medium in impact and scale.
WOO creative-in-residence Dino Burbidge will be convening the Creative Awards which, for the first time, will feature a Special Build category showing how OOH can be an effective and impactful experiential medium too.
Members will be able to make their nominations online. Please CLICK HERE for further details and to complete the simple nomination forms.
Please note you are restricted to one nomination per category, per member, or Country business unit of an international organisation. You will need to be a current member or a National OOH Association to make a nomination.
The Deadline for entry is April 18th 2025. There is no cost to enter.
In the meantime, if you have any queries, please contact do not hesitate to contact richard@worldooh.org
EVENT SPONSORS
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Event Platinum Sponsor
Doohmain
Doohmain is a content management platform (CMS) with a presence in LATAM, the USA, and Europe. It is the soul of Outdoor Advertising screens, Airports, Retail, Clinics, shopping centers, and more.
From a single workspace, content can be created, adapted, scheduled, controlled, and certified, simplifying management and optimizing the performance of DOOH media sales teams.
We offer multiple integrations to revenue sources (SSP & DSP), audience measurement and metrics platforms (AI cameras and SDK bases), CRMs, dynamic content, and any other external source of information through APIs, with a stable and transparent platform.
Our purpose is to empower media owners by making outdoor advertising fast, accurate, stable, and transparent.
Español:
Doohmain es una plataforma de gestión de contenidos (CMS). Con presencia en LATAM, USA y Europa, Doohmain es el alma de las pantallas de Publicidad Exterior, Aeropuertos, Retail, Clínicas, centros comerciales y más.
Desde un único espacio de trabajo, es posible crear, adaptar, programar, controlar y certificar contenidos, simplificando la gestión y optimizando el rendimiento de los equipos comerciales de medios DOOH.
Ofrecemos integraciones múltiples a fuentes de ingresos (SSP´s), plataformas de medición de audiencias y métricas (cámaras IA y bases SDK), CRM´s, contenidos dinámicos y cualquier otra fuente externa de información a través de API´s, con una plataforma estable y transparente.
Nuestro proposito es potenciar a los media owners haciendo la publicdad exterior rapida, precisa, estable y transparente.
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Event Platinum Sponsor
Wildstone
Wildstone - Shaping the Future of Outdoor Media Infrastructure
Wildstone are Europe’s leading owner of outdoor media infrastructure. The company’s impressive portfolio features over 5,000 Out-of-Home media assets, including digital 48-sheet screens, classic billboards, and super-premium digital sites.
Wildstone is shaping the future of outdoor advertising through the digitisation of Out-of-Home media assets. The company provides high-quality roadside media assets that stand the test of time. Their digital advertising screens offer exceptional picture quality, are energy-efficient, ultra-slim and lightweight.
Some of the biggest names in the OOH industry trust Wildstone with their portfolios' growth and digitisation.
Visit www.wildstone.co.uk
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Event Gold Sponsor
Outdoorlink
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Event Silver Sponsor
BOE
Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the four core subsidiaries of BOE Technology Group, which is dedicated to the research, development and industrialization of sensor technologies and solutions. As a key player in the field of high-performance sensors and system solutions, the company focuses on multiple sectors, including consumer electronics, intelligent perception, healthcare, biology, and industry.
Relying on BOE Group's profound knowledge accumulation in the semiconductor display field, the company has deeply integrated diverse sensing technologies to address customers' problems comprehensively. Our highly customized solutions for DOOH (Digital Out-of-Home) customers are meticulously designed to enhance product reliability, enable fault prediction and alarm functions, and significantly reduce equipment maintenance costs.
For more information e-mail to: zhoujian-hq@boe.com.cn
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Event Exhibitor
City Screen
City Screen by Adtech.Systems is a professional OOH software tailored for media owners, enabling them to make the most of their inventory using interconnected IT solutions for out-of-home business automation.
The software ecosystem consists of three products: CRM, designed for both static and digital inventory; a flexible CMS solution integrated with various external software; and a user-friendly SSP for maximizing revenue with advanced DOOH sales.
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Event Exhibitor
DoohClick
DoohClick is more than a Content Management System (CMS) – it’s a complete ad management platform built for OOH media owners. Designed by industry experts, DoohClick brings together campaign scheduling, sales, reporting, and revenue tracking in one smart, scalable system. Automate proof-of-play, track real-time screen availability, respond to RFPs faster, and generate insights to optimize your business. Seamlessly integrate with existing CMS and finance systems, reduce admin, and unlock new revenue opportunities. Whether you manage static or digital inventory, DoohClick gives you full control—from proposal to final playback. Visit us at our stand in Mexico to see it in action.
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Event Exhibitor
Star Vision
Starvision, a member of the World Out of Home Organization (WOO), operates a 23,000 sqm factory and brings over 20 years of experience in the design and manufacturing of out-of-home street furniture and digital displays.
By integrating classic furniture with LED and LCD digital screens, Starvision delivers smart, well-designed infrastructure for cities and media owners.
We serve global media clients with both standard and custom-built products. Each year, over 6,000 screens and structures are installed in airports, metro stations, shopping malls, and urban streets, including digital totems, signage, and bus shelters.
We stay humble, embrace new technologies, and believe that details define quality.
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Event Exhibitor
The Siroky Group
For over 30 years, The Siroky Group has been a trusted partner to the Out of Home (OOH) advertising industry, delivering tailored software and consulting solutions that generate measurable results. With a strong presence across Canada and the U.S., we bridge the gap between technology and operations—empowering media companies through scalable, user-centric platforms that streamline planning, buying, inventory management, and performance reporting. Our ability to build custom solutions, backed by deep industry expertise and continuous R&D, positions our clients for long-term success in a rapidly evolving OOH landscape.
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MEDIA PARTNERS
WOO GLOBAL SPONSORS
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Platinum Global Sponsor
Broadsign
Broadsign is making it easier than ever for media owners, agencies and brands to harness the power of out-of-home and connect with audiences across the globe. Powering over 1 million signs in airports, shopping malls, health clinics, transit systems, and more, Broadsign is at the heart of people’s lives.
The Broadsign platform helps media owners more efficiently manage their business operations while enabling brands and agencies to easily book OOH campaigns. The platform includes tools for content distribution, playback and proof of performance; sales inventory availability and proposal generation; automated programmatic DOOH transactions; and OOH business operations.
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Platinum Global Sponsor
Daktronics
Founded in 1968, Daktronics is recognized worldwide as the leading designer and manufacturer of electronic scoreboards, programmable display systems, advertising displays and large screen video displays using LED technology. The company has installed more than 35,000 individual video-capable displays in more than 80 countries around the world and has multiple international manufacturing and office locations. These displays inform and entertain people throughout the world including thousands of digital billboards and many custom Out Of Home digital advertising displays in places like Times Square, New York, and Piccadilly Lights in London. Recently the company installed an 8,000 sq. ft. LED video display system at Rogers Centre, Toronto, Canada.
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Platinum Global Sponsor
Moving Walls
Moving Walls is a media technology group with a presence in seven markets across four continents. The group operates a myriad of technology for both the demand and supply sides of Out-Of-Home (OOH). For planners and buyers, Moving Walls operates ‘Moving Audiences’, a patented multi-sensor approach to location-based media measurement like billboards, digital signage, and transit media. For asset owners, the group’s supply-side subsidiary, Location Media Xchange (LMX) is a platform for marketers to profile locations based on the types of audiences around the site and activate mobile and physical place-based media like digital billboards to reach them during this offline journey.
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Platinum Global Sponsor
Perion
Hivestack is the largest independent, global, full stack, marketing & ad tech company, powering the buy and sell side of programmatic digital out of home (DOOH) advertising. On the buy side, marketers use Hivestack’s Demand Side Platform (DSP) to create measurable campaigns that activate DOOH screens in real-time based on consumer behavior and audience movement patterns. On the sell side, DOOH media owners use Hivestack’s Supply Side Platform (SSP) & Ad Exchange to attract programmatic revenue. DOOH media owners can also use Hivestack’s Ad Server to power impression-based, directly sold campaigns. Our suite of solutions allows advertisers to plan, activate and measure DOOH campaigns at scale.
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Platinum Global Sponsor
Vistar Media
Vistar Media is the world’s leading end-to-end programmatic ecosystem for digital out-of-home (DOOH). Vistar Media’s demand-side platform (DSP) and supply-side platform (SSP) empower buyers and sellers to easily transact on DOOH inventory, while applying intelligent data insights that improve media performance. Vistar’s SaaS solutions (unified ad server and Cortex for device and content management) deliver enterprise-grade solutions for monetizing and operating digital signage networks at any scale.
Founded in 2012, Vistar Media is headquartered in New York City and has offices across the United States, Canada, EMEA and APAC. Through its global reach, direct platform integrations, data partnerships, and complete technology stack, Vistar Media continues to power innovation and growth across the digital out-of-home industry.
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Gold Global Sponsor
Ipsos
Ipsos - world leader in Out of Home measurement.
Ipsos operates OOH solutions in 17 different countries. (11 recognised industry currencies). We offer the most accurate and reliable insights for media owners, media agencies and brands. People-centric measurement Ipsos provides a total understanding of audiences. Our approach centres around understanding people and is how we build solutions reflective of local environments. We leverage the best in technology, national data sources and our research expertise to deliver realistic representative OOH data for any market need.
Global Expertise Ipsos is present in over 90 different countries. Our local knowledge is supplemented by a central global OOH team which includes the expertise of MGE Data. (OOH Data and Technology specialists who design, develop and manufacture equipment and software.) This mix of global and local expertise enables us to offer tailored contemporary solutions, ensuring our clients have the most accurate datasets for media planning and advertising. We continually invest in our audience measurement capabilities.
Our scale and expertise in data science ensures our tools are future ready. We help our clients to unleash the power of audiences.
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Gold Global Sponsor
AllUnite
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Silver Global Sponsor
VIOOH
VIOOH is a leading premium global digital out of home supply-side platform that connects buyers and sellers in a premium marketplace, making OOH easily accessible.
Led by a team of digital OOH and programmatic tech experts, VIOOH is pioneering the transformation of the OOH sector, championing its role in enhancing omni-channel digital campaigns through the use of programmatic capabilities and data. VIOOH currently trades programmatically in 22 markets and provides access to inventory from some of the world’s top DOOH media owners, including APG, Branded Cities, Framen, In-store Media, JCDecaux, Media Frankfurt, Media Transports, and more.
For more information about VIOOH, please visit www.viooh.com or follow us on X (Twitter) and LinkedIn.
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Global Exhibitor Sponsor
Absen
Established in 2001, Absen Optoelectronic Co., Ltd (SZSE: 300389) is a trusted global brand providing LED display solutions and services. Featuring reliable visual performance and proven product quality, Absen’s LED displays have been exported to over 120 countries and regions around the world.
Amongst the Chinese manufacturers of LED, Absen has been ranked number one Chinese exporter for the last, consecutive, nine years. With more than 30,000 successful installations in OOH advertising, retail, sports, entertainment, spectaculars, branding, corporation and broadcasting, Absen has an LED product solution for every application.As a truly global company, Absen continues to develop its international sales and service network globally with 18 subsidiaries. For our Latin American partners and customers, we have two subsidiaries in Latin America, located in Mexico and Brazil. The Mexican subsidiary is located in Polanco, Mexico City, the Brazil subsidiary is located in Vila Olimpia, Sao Paulo, and we welcome the opportunity to meet you and demonstrate the proven quality and cost-effectiveness of our award-winning products.
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