oOh!media and News Corp Australia sign exclusive multi-year news content innovation partnership to increase consumer engagement with Out of Home

oOh!media has today announced an exclusive multi-year partnership with News Corp Australia to deliver innovative and customised content experiences for audiences across oOh!’s national digital Out of Home network.

Leveraging the market leading national scale of oOh!’s thousands of digital screens in metropolitan and regional locations, News Corp mastheads news.com.au, The Australian, the Herald Sun and The Daily Telegraph will produce bespoke, localised and contextually relevant breaking and general interest news, lifestyle, sport and business articles, alongside exclusively created video content designed to increase consumer engagement with oOh! screens.

Commencing from October, compelling editorial content from each publication will for the first time be rolled out in rotation with advertising across oOh!’s network on a seven day a week news cycle.

oOh! CEO Cathy O’Connor said: “As the market leader in Out of Home we are constantly looking for ways to innovate and reframe perceptions of Out of Home. Technology advances in digital Out of Home and ongoing investment in expanding our digital network offer exciting new possibilities to do just that. The partnership with News Corp will deliver contextually relevant, customised news content, that keeps Australians informed in real-time when they are on the move at a scale not seen before.

“This is the first step in expanding our content program and in coming months we will be rolling out a number of industry-first initiatives, further extending the value exchange oOh! has with audiences and advertisers and building on the company’s purpose of making public spaces better and brands unmissable.”

Michael Miller, Executive Chairman at News Corp Australasia added: Michael Miller, Executive Chairman at News Corp Australasia added: “Integrating the trusted and breaking journalism from our key mastheads with oOh!media’s outdoor screens will deepen further the public’s relationship with Australia’s most consumed media brands. The teams at news.com.au, The Australian, and our state mastheads such as The Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun are looking forward to providing another connection point for their multimedia journalism.”

News Corp will appoint a dedicated editor to oversee the curation, optimisation and output of content distributed by oOh!’s digital network. Editorial selection will be based on real-time data on audience engagement and supported by a growing team of Digital Media Hub journalists, producers and motion graphic specialists, as part of the company’s newly established Tech Networks Partnerships team.

Neil Ackland, Chief Content, Marketing and Creative Officer, said: “News Corp share our passion for innovating with content in Out of Home. For the first time we will be able to expand our news offering across the entire oOh! network, utilising the full digital capabilities and unrivalled national scale we have. We see this as a major advancement in the development of Out of Home content in Australia.”

Picture: Jane Dempster/The Australian