Out-of-home (OOH) advertising campaigns for travel fare aggregator Kayak and Metro Vancouver’s municipal government have won the OOH Marketing Association of Canada’s (OMAC’s) Iris Awards for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2017.

Out-of-home (OOH) advertising firm Outfront Media, which operates billboards, transit posters and digital displays throughout Canada and the U.S., has hired Joel Melby as chief technology officer (CTO).

This month, Out-of-Home Marketing Association of Canada (OMAC) member companies displayed curated tweets on their digital billboards in major cities to pay homage to the Tragically Hip during the band’s farewell tour.

A recent Outfront Media digital out-of-home (DOOH) campaign at Toronto’s Yonge-Eglinton Centre (YEC) helped publicize Max’s Big Ride, an effort to raise awareness of and funds for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) research.

When RioCan, reportedly the largest real estate investment trust (REIT) in Canada, began to renovate and expand Toronto’s Yonge Eglinton Centre, it took advantage of the opportunity to include digital signage in the plans...