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IOAA invites Tony Jarvis to India for discussions with OOH industry leaders

By Rajiv Raghunath - January 08, 2015

Global advertising and research architect Tony Jarvis, Proprietor & Research Architect at Olympic Media Consultancy, will hold discussions with heads and representatives of OOH media owning firms, OOH specialist agencies and advertisers in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Lucknow during January 10-16 to make an assessment of the ground realities to be considered for developing an OOH audience measurement system for the industry

Indian Outdoor Advertising Association (IOAA) has arranged for global advertising and research architect Tony Jarvis, Proprietor & Research Architect at Olympic Media Consultancy, to visit India and hold discussions with heads and representatives of OOH media owning firms, OOH specialist agencies as well as advertisers on the ground realities to be considered while designing an audience measurement system for the industry.

Jarvis will hold discussions with media owners in Mumbai on January 10 at the Intercontinental hotel, and carry forward the discussions with specialist agency heads and advertisers at the same venue on January 12. He will meet with media owners, specialist agency heads and advertisers in Kolkata on January 13 at Taj Bengal hotel, and then move to Lucknow on January 14 to meet with media owners there. In the final leg of his India visit, Jarvis will meet with media owners in Delhi on January 15 at Hyatt Regency hotel, and hold similar discussions with specialist agency heads and advertisers on January 16 at the same venue.

Jarvis, who has been appointed as the lead consultant to IOAA for this much-anticipated project, will build a detailed project report (DPR) based on his discussions with the industry and his own observations while surveying the markets. Meanwhile, IOAA is in discussions with the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) to form an independent body - a not-for-profit company called Outdoor Media & Audience Research Council (OMARC) - with IOAA as the major shareholder, and specialist agencies and advertisers as other shareholders - which will drive the project and own the audience measurement tool.

Based on the DPR, OMARC will mobilise funding for the project from the industry stakeholders, and with Jarvis as the lead consultant, will call for request for proposals (RFP) for taking up the research project for developing the measurement tool. IOAA Executive Director Indrajit Sen told Outdoor Asia that given the complexity of the project, groundwork and building of the DPR will take 1-2 years.

Jarvis has played a key role in the development of'Route' (earlier'New Postar') in the UK and'Eyes-On' in the US. He has worked closely with OOH industry bodies, both in the developed countries as well as developing countries like Turkey and Pakistan. In his own view, a robust audience measurement system is a definitive way for the OOH industry to accelerate revenue growth and attract more advertising brands.

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