Greg Wise shares practical advice on out-of-home advertising, including how brands can plan campaigns around retail launches, target markets, and connect billboards with digital marketing. His posts also describe campaign work and marketing at Onescreen.
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Key takeaways
New OOH advertisers often spend under $1M yearly; campaigns start at $50K to $150K.
Two gaps stall first-time buyers: a confidence gap and an execution gap.
Growth in OOH is coming from mid-market brands, not the biggest spenders.
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Main ideas
Out-of-home advertising should be judged by how much it improves every other channel · Two gaps explain why first-time buyers stall: confidence and execution · Growth in OOH is coming from mid-market brands, not the biggest spenders
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Greg Wise is known for practical explanations of out-of-home (OOH) advertising: how it can support retail expansion, reach audiences beyond a media plan and work alongside digital campaigns.
Their LinkedIn posts combine campaign examples with planning advice, including a focused four-to-eight-week plan for a small budget and a proposed $200,000 Atlanta retail-expansion plan.
The posts identify their work at Onescreen.
Before treating this as a complete account of their public identity, ask whether they have signature books, shows, earlier work or other public roles that also explain searches for the name.
Wise makes OOH easier to evaluate by linking a channel-level argument to a business moment and a practical decision.
In the Hiya example, they trace a sequence from roadway billboards to street-level panels and screens near Target stores, showing how placements can follow shoppers toward a product on shelves.
In the under-$30,000 playbook, they also explain when OOH may be a poor fit—such as when a brand cannot focus on one market or expects fast, direct attribution—then offer a compact plan for brands that proceed.
This mix of examples, usable planning detail and limits is more useful than presenting OOH as a universal solution.
The posts consistently argue for measuring effects beyond last-click attribution, while some promote Onescreen's services and report campaign outcomes without independent evidence.
Marketers interested in planning and assessing OOH, especially for mid-market, B2B or retail-launch use cases, will find the work worth following.
Greg Wise writes about out-of-home advertising as a business decision rather than a media buy.
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Across their posts, a few arguments recur: OOH should be judged by how much it improves every other channel; growth is coming from mid-market brands rather than the biggest spenders; and most first-time buyers stall on two specific problems, one about internal confidence and one about execution.
Wise also argues that billboards are a retail-launch and distribution channel, physical placements are scarce assets whose value rises as AI makes digital content abundant, and campaigns should be planned around business moments before the best inventory is gone.
The posts are unusually concrete for the genre, with named spend levels, line-item budget splits, and stated conditions under which Wise tells readers not to buy the channel at all.
Out-of-home advertising should be judged by how much it improves every other channel
Wise's most repeated argument is that OOH is a performance layer, not a standalone awareness buy.
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They point to branded-search lift, higher click-through on paid search and social, better conversion rates and lower blended customer acquisition cost as signals of buyer confidence and reduced friction, not vanity metrics.
More branded search means demand creation rather than demand capture, they write; lower acquisition cost over time means buyers were warmed earlier and cost less to convert later.
Their conclusion: OOH is not meant to be measured dollar-in, dollar-out, but to make every other dollar work better.
The real obstacle, they say, is the internal conversation: many marketers believe OOH works but cannot explain it to a chief financial officer who wants cost-per-lead on everything.
After Onescreen ran OOH work for BetMGM, DraftKings, Tipico, the LA Clippers, the ACC and the Premier Lacrosse League, Wise says the campaigns consistently saw lower CPCs on paid search and social, higher branded search volume, improved down-funnel conversion and lower blended acquisition cost across the market.
Two gaps explain why first-time buyers stall: confidence and execution
Wise names and revisits two obstacles.
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The confidence gap is the distance between believing OOH works and feeling able to defend the investment internally; when a marketer says "I can't measure this," they hear "I can't confidently explain this to my CEO, CFO, or board."
The execution gap is the distance between deciding to invest and running a good campaign, driven by fragmented inventory, widely varying formats, inconsistent lead times and single-city campaigns that can involve a dozen vendors with different contracts, specs and timelines.
Their advice: ask the right people all the questions rather than avoid the channel.
As they put it, OOH is not hard to do, but it is easy to screw up.
The execution gap in practice: one campaign in one city may require a dozen vendors, each with its own contract, creative spec and timeline.
Growth in OOH is coming from mid-market brands, not the biggest spenders
Wise argues the interesting data point is not the large national advertisers but the smaller ones moving in behind them.
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They report that most new OOH advertisers spend under $1M a year, campaigns typically start between $50K and $150K, the fastest repeat spending comes from brands with roughly $20M to $500M in revenue, and B2B tech, fintech and modern DTC expand fastest.
The arithmetic: digital CPMs rose sharply, incrementality became harder to prove and frequency was wasted on the same users.
Well-planned OOH, they write, delivers city-level reach at competitive CPMs and hits buyers outside the algorithm.
Agencies are adding OOH, they argue, because it opens larger budgets and new lines of business beyond paid media.
Wise calls the biggest myth in OOH the idea that you do it once you have made it. In reality, they say, mid-market brands use it to break through a ceiling, then keep it as evergreen spend.
OOH is a retail launch and distribution channel, not just top-of-funnel awareness
Wise argues that billboards tell consumers a product is now on shelves and show a retailer the brand is serious about selling it.
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They recommend layering placements by proximity to the moment of purchase: broad-reach roadside units for awareness, street-level formats to stay present through the day, and screen placements at or near the stores where the product is sold. Billboards, transit and gas stations form one ecosystem along the path to purchase, they say, while mall media is an overlooked channel that reaches shoppers in a premium environment near the point of decision.
For Hiya's launch on Target shelves, the media mix followed the customer journey: billboards on major roadways, urban panels and bus shelters on street-level routes, then EV charging screens at the entrances of the Target stores where the product is sold. Wise makes the same argument about Ritual's Walmart rollout, bridging digital demand and physical availability.
Small budgets can work in OOH, but only with focus—and Wise will tell you when to wait
Wise's most practical posts offer plans, not opinions.
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For budgets under $30K, they say to first decide whether OOH makes sense at all: it is a poor fit if you cannot focus on one market, run for at least four weeks, plan to buy scattered single units or expect fast direct attribution.
If it does make sense, they recommend one market, two to four units in the same geography, priority on commute routes, office density or retail corridors, a four-to-eight-week run, and support from paid search and retargeting in that market.
Success looks like branded search lift, direct traffic in-market, better efficiency across paid media and sales conversations that open with "I've been seeing you everywhere."
Wise's $200K, four-week Atlanta plan for a DTC brand entering Target and Walmart puts roughly $120K into high-reach digital bulletins on the I-75/I-85 Connector and I-285, $50K into static bulletins near priority Target and Walmart stores, and the remaining $30K into street-level and place-based formats in retail-heavy suburbs. They invite readers to slice the budget differently, but advise starting with the audience and stores that matter most and working backward.
Physical placements are scarce assets, and scarcity gains value as AI makes content abundant
Wise's case for physical media rests on scarcity.
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They compare a billboard to commercial real estate and ask the same questions of each: is the location irreplaceable, will demand endure, is the income stream durable, and will the asset appreciate?
AI can generate unlimited digital content but cannot create another Sunset Boulevard, Times Square or iconic wallscape, they argue, so a finite supply of good physical locations becomes more valuable rather than less.
They trace the same logic to retail: when digital acquisition costs rose, online-native brands opened stores because the real world had been mispriced.
The advantage in media, they argue, also shows up wherever the crowd is not.
Wise dates their full-time move into commercial real estate to 2017 and uses that period's retail-death headlines—including the closures and bankruptcies of Macy's, Sears, JCPenney, Toys R Us and Payless—as the setup for the counter-trend of Warby Parker, Rothy's, Everlane, Glossier, Boll & Branch and Casper opening stores.
Wise argues that buyers move across too many environments for one channel to carry the story, and that OOH is the memory anchor that helps someone recognize a brand later in an ad, an email or a demo page.
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Their mini playbook: map at least twelve touchpoints from awareness to conversion; keep one core message across formats while adapting it for freeway, concourse, feed and inbox; tailor creative by environment; bridge OOH to search lift, geo panels, vanity URLs or CRM capture at activations; and track leading and lagging metrics instead of last click.
The twelve-touchpoint claim comes from a guest, not Wise.
They quote Kamron Kunce, CMO at RJ Young, saying, "Out-of-Home is more important than ever because attention is fragmented.
It takes 12+ touchpoints for a consumer to really see you, then you double down on the message."
Kunce joins Wise on the Beyond the Billboard podcast to discuss omnichannel planning.
Plan around specific business moments—and plan early
Wise keeps a running catalog of moments when OOH creates leverage: account-based marketing around a tight target list, retail launch or expansion, product launch, funding and momentum announcements, and events or cultural moments.
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They add a less obvious pair—hiring and fundraising—because physical presence signals that a company is winning.
The recurring criticism is timing: teams think about OOH after the moment has arrived, when the best inventory is gone and timelines are tight.
They argue these moments should be mapped early to unlock better placements and smarter pricing.
Listen Labs spent about $5,000, one-fifth of its marketing budget, on a cryptic billboard puzzle.
Engineers dug into it, the stunt spread on X, and the company went on to raise $69M to scale its AI platform.
Wise reads it as one effort bridging real life, social, PR, recruiting and fundraising.
A billboard reaches people who are not on the media plan
Wise argues that every brand operates inside an ecosystem of investors, job candidates, partners, customers, and competitors, and that OOH reaches all of them at once, even though none will appear in a CRM as an attributed lead.
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This answers the question of who a billboard is actually for, alongside the measurement argument: it offers another way to value a channel that resists last-click accounting.
A CMO Greg Wise worked with was pressured into OOH by her board and was skeptical herself. After the campaign went live, her investors messaged to say they had seen the ads, candidates brought it up in job interviews, and a $30K deal came from a prospect who started a sales cycle after driving past a billboard.
Wise argues about marketing practice itself, not just OOH
Wise writes as a marketer discussing marketing, not just as a channel seller.
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They describe Onescreen's approach as marketing to marketers about marketing and say the company invests heavily in brand, content, events, partnerships, and community, then hires to grow that work.
Wise is publicly skeptical of gating reports behind forms, at least on organic social posts: if a post earns the scroll stop, the click, and the interest, adding a form afterward throws that attention away.
What follows—screenshotting, forwarding, or summarizing for a boss—never shows up as a lead anyway.
Wise also describes a Tech Week event Onescreen hosted with Brainlabs about rebuilding confidence in brand investment when finance wants cost-per-lead on everything.
At that event, Wise writes, the room's energy shifted around the question "What's the ROI on that?" as people relived budget fights they felt they should have won. They note that the largest brands still spend heavily on awareness, trust, and staying top of mind before a buying cycle starts.
Shows that out-of-home advertising isn’t only for huge brands and where campaigns often start budget-wise.
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Greg Wise argues that growth in out-of-home advertising is coming from mid-market brands, not the largest spenders.
Drawing on more than six years at OneScreen, they point to a clear pattern: most new OOH advertisers spend under $1M annually, campaigns typically start between $50K and $150K, and brands with $20M–$500M in revenue are the fastest to repeat spend.
B2B tech, fintech, and modern DTC are quickest to expand.
Wise attributes the shift to rising digital CPMs (up 30%–60%), harder incrementality proof, and wasted frequency.
Well-planned OOH, they say, delivers city-level reach at competitive CPMs and lifts branded search, direct traffic, and pipeline.
For brands planning a campaign
A co-marketing webinar could target mid-market B2B tech, fintech, and DTC teams, using the $50K–$150K starting range to frame realistic entry points.
Explains why first-time out-of-home advertising is difficult, even when the channel works.
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Wise identifies two obstacles that keep marketers from using OOH.
The confidence gap is the distance between believing OOH works and feeling able to defend the investment internally: when a marketer says, "I can't measure this," Wise hears, "I can't confidently explain this to my CEO, CFO, or board."
The execution gap is the distance between deciding to invest and running a good campaign.
Inventory is fragmented, formats vary widely, lead times are inconsistent, and campaigns can involve a dozen vendors with different contracts, specs, and timelines.
For brands planning a campaign
A webinar could pair internal buy-in arguments with practical vendor-coordination steps.
A concrete example of OOH following the customer journey from awareness to point of purchase.
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Wise uses Hiya's launch on Target shelves to show an OOH plan built around a retail moment. The campaign layers billboards on major roadways for broad awareness, urban panels and bus shelters on street-level routes to stay present through the day, and EV charging screens at Target store entrances where the product is sold.
For brands planning a campaign
Useful for retail-expansion brands; shows how to sequence placements by proximity to stores.
Shows whether small budgets can work in out-of-home advertising and outlines a minimal viable plan.
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Wise lays out a step-by-step playbook for small OOH budgets.
First, decide whether OOH makes sense: it’s a poor fit if the brand can’t focus on one market, run for at least four weeks, avoid scattered single-unit buys, or move beyond expecting fast direct attribution.
If it does make sense, choose one market, buy two to four units in the same geography, prioritize commute routes, office density, or retail corridors, run for four to eight weeks, and support the campaign with paid search and retargeting in that market.
Measure branded search lift, direct traffic in-market, better paid-media efficiency, and sales conversations that start with "I've been seeing you everywhere."
For brands planning a campaign
A practical lead magnet or webinar segment for budget-constrained prospects.
Shows that out-of-home advertising reaches beyond the audiences a media plan typically counts.
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Wise tells the story of a CMO pressured by her board into OOH despite her skepticism.
After the campaign went live, investors messaged to say they had seen the ads, candidates brought it up in interviews, and a $30K deal came from a prospect who started a sales cycle after driving past a billboard.
None of those people were on the media plan.
Wise argues every brand operates in an ecosystem of investors, job candidates, partners, customers, and competitors, and OOH reaches them all at once.
For brands planning a campaign
Reframe measurement beyond CRM leads to include investors, recruiting, and partner awareness.
Provides category proof and measurable outcomes for out-of-home advertising in sports and entertainment.
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Wise lists sports, league, and betting brands that use OOH alongside digital. When OOH is layered into the mix, they say, campaigns consistently see lower CPCs on paid search and social, higher branded search volume, improved down-funnel conversion rates, and lower blended CAC across the market.
For brands planning a campaign
Useful for outreach to sports, betting, and entertainment brands; supports claims about digital efficiency.
Offers a clear menu of ways to use out-of-home advertising beyond brand awareness.
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Wise lists business moments when OOH can create leverage: ABM for B2B (dominate the physical world around a tight ICP and target accounts—HQs, airports, commute routes, conferences), retail launch or expansion for CPG and DTC brands (new store rollout, new market, wholesale launch at Target/Whole Foods/regional grocers), product launch (new flavor, new SKU, limited drop, seasonal product), funding or momentum moments (physical presence signals winning), and events or moments in time (conferences, pop-ups, cultural moments, category creation). The mistake, they say, is waiting until the moment arrives to think about OOH, when the best inventory is gone and timelines are tight.
For brands planning a campaign
A webinar could focus on one use case, such as retail expansion or ABM, and show a planning timeline.
Explains how out-of-home advertising shows up in performance metrics.
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Wise connects OOH to metrics that are often misread.
Branded search lift, higher paid CTR, lower CAC, and higher conversion rates are not vanity metrics; they signal buyer confidence and reduced friction.
More branded search means demand creation, not capture.
Higher CTR on paid media with the same spend means the brand is doing work before the click.
Lower CAC over time means buyers are warmed earlier and cost less to convert later.
Wise says OOH is not meant to be measured dollar-in, dollar-out; it is designed to make every other dollar work better.
For brands planning a campaign
Measurement-focused content for performance-minded marketers.
A specific direct-to-consumer-to-retail case showing how out-of-home advertising connects online demand with shelf availability.
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Wise uses Ritual's launch into Walmart to show how OOH can support a retail rollout.
The goal was not broad awareness or vanity metrics, but bridging digital demand and physical retail availability.
They highlight geographic precision around retail locations, high-frequency visibility during shopping journeys, and reinforcing existing brand equity when consumers can buy.
Billboards, transit, and gas stations form an ecosystem along the path to purchase.
For brands planning a campaign
Useful for DTC brands expanding into retail; shows how to turn shelf space into sell-through.
Shows an unusual out-of-home advertising use case for hiring and fundraising, not just customer acquisition.
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Wise highlights Listen Labs, which spent about $5,000—one-fifth of its marketing budget—on a cryptic billboard puzzle.
Engineers went down a rabbit hole, the stunt went viral on X, and the company raised $69M to scale its AI platform.
They point to a hyper-targeted audience (engineers and builders), contextual placement in a tech-heavy urban market, and a message designed for curiosity and shareability rather than impressions.
The effort bridged real life, social, PR, recruiting, and fundraising.
For brands planning a campaign
Creative format ideas for startups; supports a webinar angle on non-traditional OOH applications.
Marketing practice beyond OOH: events, gating, and community5
OOH as a performance layer, not just a brand-awareness buy4
Moments brands should plan OOH around4
The confidence gap and the execution gap3
Mid-market brands are where OOH growth is coming from3
Worked budget playbooks at named spend levels3
Full-funnel touchpoint math and channel pairing3
Scarcity, physical media, and the AI-content argument2
OOH as a performance layer, not just a brand-awareness buy
Wise's most repeated argument is that out-of-home should be judged by how it improves everything else.
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In posts about Onescreen campaigns, they point to branded-search lift, higher click-through on paid media, better conversion rates, and lower blended customer acquisition cost instead of tying a billboard to a single closed deal, calling those numbers leading indicators of buyer confidence rather than vanity metrics. They locate the real obstacle in the internal conversation: marketers often believe OOH works but cannot explain it to a chief financial officer who wants cost-per-lead on everything.
Wise names a metric, explains its business meaning, then generalizes to the channel.
For brands planning a campaign
A session framed around making OOH defensible to finance fits Wise's existing material better than a generic channel-awareness pitch. Expect them to want downstream signals such as branded search, direct traffic, and blended acquisition cost built into the outline.
The confidence gap is the distance between believing OOH works and feeling able to defend the investment internally.
The execution gap is the distance between deciding to invest and running a good campaign, caused by fragmented inventory, wildly varying formats, inconsistent lead times, and campaigns that can involve a dozen vendors with different contracts and specs.
They use the pair to explain why first-time buyers stall, and advise asking more questions of the right people rather than avoiding the channel.
For brands planning a campaign
Marketers new to OOH are Wise's self-selected audience. A webinar that covers vendor selection, timing, and internal approval mechanics—not just creative—matches how they already frame the problem.
Mid-market brands are where OOH growth is coming from
Wise argues the interesting data is not the big national spenders but the smaller ones.
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They report that most new OOH advertisers spend under $1M a year, campaigns typically start around $50K to $150K, the fastest repeat spending comes from brands with roughly $20M to $500M in revenue, and B2B tech, fintech, and modern DTC expand fastest.
Their explanation is arithmetic: digital CPMs rose sharply, incrementality became harder to prove, and well-planned OOH delivers city-level reach outside the algorithm.
They also write that agencies are adding OOH because it opens larger budgets and new lines of business.
For brands planning a campaign
Positioning for mid-market budget owners is well supported by Wise's own posts. A co-marketing webinar should assume participants with five- or six-figure budgets who need specific local markets rather than national reach.
A repeated claim is that out-of-home is not only a top-of-funnel awareness channel; it is how a brand announces that a product is now on shelves.
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Wise describes Ritual's Walmart rollout, a Hiya campaign built around Target stores, a worked plan for a DTC brand entering Target and Walmart in Atlanta, and mall media as an overlooked channel reaching shoppers in premium environments near the point of purchase. They frame the goal as turning shelf space into sell-through and showing the retailer the brand is serious about selling product.
The named brands in these posts are Onescreen client campaigns Wise worked on. The posts here contain no personal sponsorship or paid-partnership offer from Wise.
For brands planning a campaign
Retail-adjacent formats and store-level targeting are concrete, fundable use cases for a B2B martech audience. Bring location and store-list mechanics into the session outline.
Several posts are structured as plans rather than opinions.
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One handles a sub-$30K budget with a market-selection test, two to four units in one geography, four to eight weeks of flighting, and paired paid search and retargeting.
It says plainly to wait if the budget cannot focus on one market or run for at least four weeks.
Another allocates a $200K four-week Atlanta budget across highway bulletins, store-adjacent static units, and street-level formats.
Wise shows the arithmetic and invites readers to split it differently.
Numbers first, then the reasoning behind each line item, closing with the assumption that would change the plan.
For brands planning a campaign
Wise is comfortable being specific with numbers and saying when OOH is the wrong buy. A webinar can use one of these frameworks as its spine and ask attendees to adapt it to their own market.
Scarcity, physical media, and the AI-content argument
Wise's case for physical media rests on scarcity.
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Comparing billboards to commercial real estate, they ask whether a location is irreplaceable, whether demand will endure, and whether the asset appreciates.
They argue AI can generate unlimited digital content but cannot create another Sunset Boulevard or Times Square, so the finite supply of good physical placements grows more valuable.
They trace the same logic to retail: when digital acquisition costs rose, online-native brands opened stores because the real world had been mispriced.
Wise dates the full-time move into commercial real estate to 2017 and uses the retail-death headlines of that period as the setup.
For brands planning a campaign
This is Wise's most conceptual thread and a natural hook for a session on durable channels versus AI-generated content volume, best suited to brand and media strategy audiences rather than campaign operations.
Wise argues that a plan with three touchpoints is not a plan, quoting a chief marketing officer's claim that it takes twelve or more touchpoints before a consumer really sees a brand.
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Their mini playbook maps at least twelve touchpoints, keeps one core message across formats, adapts creative by environment, bridges OOH to search and CRM capture, and tracks leading and lagging metrics rather than last click. They make the pairing argument with sports, league, and betting brands, saying OOH made their paid search and social more efficient and lowered blended acquisition cost.
For brands planning a campaign
A joint session can be framed around omnichannel planning discipline—one message across many canvases—instead of another single-channel case study.
One post catalogs business moments: account-based marketing around a tight target list, retail launches or expansion, product launches, funding and momentum announcements, and events or cultural moments.
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Wise adds a less obvious pair—hiring and fundraising—through a startup that ran a cryptic billboard puzzle, went viral, and closed a $69M round.
They also argue that a billboard reaches audiences outside the media plan, including investors, candidates, partners, and competitors.
Their consistent criticism is that teams think about OOH after the moment has arrived, when the best inventory is gone and timelines are tight.
For brands planning a campaign
This catalog doubles as a webinar agenda or co-marketing outline. The account-based marketing and product-launch items are the closest fits for a B2B martech audience, and the funding and hiring angle gives the session a shareable hook.
Marketing practice beyond OOH: events, gating, and community
Wise writes about marketing practice itself, not only OOH.
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They co-hosted a Tech Week event with Brainlabs about rebuilding confidence in brand investment and described the room's shared frustration with click-only measurement.
They criticized gating a report behind a form on an organic LinkedIn post, arguing that the scroll, the click, and the interest were already earned.
They say Onescreen invests heavily in brand, content, events, partnerships, and community and is hiring to grow that effort, calling the company's approach marketing to marketers about marketing.
For brands planning a campaign
Wise actively participates in industry conversation and speaks openly about their own marketing choices, making them a better fit for a co-hosted event or joint point-of-view piece than a one-way sponsorship read.
Greg Wise’s posts place them at Onescreen, an out-of-home advertising company.
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They write about it as “we” and “here at Onescreen” and reference more than six years of watching the market from there.
Most of the brand relationships in the posts involve work Onescreen ran or supported: campaigns for Invoca and Hiya, and OOH work for a sports and betting roster including BetMGM, DraftKings, Tipico, the LA Clippers, the ACC, and the Premier Lacrosse League.
Two other brands appear as participation rather than client work: Brainlabs helped make an Onescreen event happen during a16z’s Tech Week, and Billboard Insider published Wise’s contributed perspective on physical media.
Ritual appears only as an admiring third-party example.
Ask whether Onescreen had any role in Ritual’s rollout and whether any personal sponsorship, endorsement, or investment sits behind these posts.
Onescreen
Employment
Greg Wise writes about Onescreen as a company they are part of, using “we” and “here at Onescreen” while describing its customers, hiring, and OOH market observations accumulated over six-plus years.
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They do not state their ownership status, only that they are part of the team.
A Onescreen campaign supporting Hiya’s launch into Target featured billboards on major roads, street-level panels and bus shelters, and EV charging screens at store entrances.
Credited with helping make an Onescreen-hosted event happen during a16z’s Tech Week: a session on rebuilding confidence in brand investment when finance teams want a cost per lead on everything.
Published Wise’s contributed perspective arguing that scarce physical media, including prime billboard locations, holds value as AI makes digital content abundant.
Greg Wise is worth following if you want to understand out-of-home advertising as a business decision, not just a billboard buy.
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Start with their budget playbooks, which show how they split spend at named levels and when they tell readers to wait.
Then read their posts on retail launches, where they explain how physical placements support store openings and sell-through.
Their measurement argument runs through much of the work: OOH should make search, paid media, and acquisition costs work better.
For broader context, read their scarcity case for physical media and commentary on marketing practice.
For adjacent perspectives, Linda Johansen-James covers retail activations and in-store experience, Yohann Georgel covers performance and lifecycle measurement, and Marko Stupar covers platform commerce shifts.
Johansen-James and Wise both write about physical retail environments and how brands use real-world places to influence buying.
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She covers retail activations, pop-ups, dwell time, and in-store experience; Wise covers out-of-home media near stores and its use as a retail launch channel.
Johansen-James focuses on retail real estate, experiential formats, and grocery innovation and operations. Wise focuses on paid out-of-home media planning, measurement, and mid-market campaign budgets.
Georgel and Wise both write about marketing measurement and channel strategy.
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Georgel connects ROAS, CAC, and lifetime value to profitable growth and local or franchise marketing systems; Wise argues out-of-home should be judged by branded-search lift, lower acquisition cost, and how it improves other channels.
Georgel focuses on performance marketing, lifecycle, CRM, and franchise or local marketing. Wise focuses on physical out-of-home media, retail presence, and mid-market brand campaigns.
Stupar and Wise both analyze how advertising channels are changing and what that means for commerce.
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Stupar covers ChatGPT ads inside Shopify and HubSpot and Sephora launching on TikTok Shop; Wise covers out-of-home as a physical channel for retail launches and buyer attention outside digital platforms.
Stupar's subject is digital commerce platforms, creator marketplaces, and marketplace ad formats. Wise's subject is out-of-home media, physical placements, and mid-market brand campaigns.
Greg Wise's audience supports a reach decision, but not yet a targeting decision.
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Their LinkedIn following stood at 22,608 on October 8, 2026—a plausible base for a co-marketing webinar on mid-market OOH strategy, given that their posts address the marketers such an event would target.
Topics include what mid-market advertisers spend and why growth is coming from $20M–$500M revenue brands; a worked $200K plan for a DTC brand entering Target and Walmart in Atlanta; a sub-$30K playbook for smaller first-time buyers; and a blunt take on gated reports aimed at working marketers rather than lead-capture targets.
These topics suggest appeal to people planning or evaluating OOH campaigns, but follower geography, age, gender, company size, job function and seniority are unknown.
For a webinar aimed at mid-market OOH marketers, ask for recent audience survey results or LinkedIn follower demographics broken out by seniority, industry, company size and geography, plus registration and attendance results from a comparable webinar or engagement data for a mid-market OOH post.
Without that evidence, treat this as a reachable topical audience, not a verified professional one.
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Greg Wise's partnership activity runs through their work at Onescreen, an out-of-home advertising company.
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The posts show four recurring ways brands and marketers work with them: building OOH campaigns, appearing on the Beyond the Billboard podcast, joining marketing-leader events and roundtables, and contributing to co-branded guides and articles.
The documented operational details are campaign market, unit count and run length, alongside Onescreen's benchmark figures for the cost of a first out-of-home buy and how long it should run.
Ask Onescreen for pricing, lead times and exclusivity terms.
OOH campaign planning and buying with Onescreen
Buyer requirement
Start with one market and a run of at least four weeks.
Onescreen recommends four to eight weeks to build real frequency, with two to four units in the same geography rather than scattered placements along commute routes, office density or retail corridors.
Onescreen reports that new OOH advertisers typically start between $50K and $150K a year, and most spend under $1M annually.
Pair the buy with paid search and retargeting in the same market to read results across channels.
Measure branded search lift, in-market direct traffic and paid-media efficiency rather than last-click attribution.
Guest slot on the Beyond the Billboard podcast
Buyer requirement
Bring a practitioner who can walk through a specific campaign, not a general pitch.
The reviewed episode features a CMO discussing omnichannel work: sports fan activations, auto-plant-area billboards and launching new markets with localized OOH plus OTT.
It is framed around a reusable playbook of around a dozen touchpoints: one message across many canvases, creative tailored to each environment, and OOH bridged to search lift, geo panels and CRM capture.
Have concrete campaign details and usable takeaways ready.
Marketing-leader events and roundtables
Buyer requirement
Come with a co-host or partner and a topic marketing leaders will actually argue about.
One documented example is a Tech Week event hosted with Brainlabs on rebuilding confidence in brand investment when finance wants a cost-per-lead on everything.
Attendees traded stories about lost budget fights.
The session focused on the shared challenge of measuring what cannot be tied to a click, rather than a product demo.
A partner can contribute a credible angle for an audience of senior marketers.
Co-branded guides and contributed articles
Buyer requirement
Bring a specific audience and practical detail.
Documented examples include a guide to mall advertising covering the most effective mall media formats, what drives campaign pricing, how to reach shoppers at the point of decision and tips to maximize investment.
Another is a contributed perspective piece on why physical media becomes more valuable as AI makes digital content abundant.
The buyer supplies the subject-matter angle and supporting data; the output is an educational asset tied to a distribution link, not an ad placement.
Good fit for a B2B martech platform seeking a co-marketing webinar on mid-market out-of-home advertising strategy.
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The target buyer is a demand generation or marketing leader at a software, fintech, or modern DTC company with a five- or six-figure test budget.
Greg Wise already speaks to that buyer.
Their posts share Onescreen’s benchmarks: most new OOH advertisers spend under $1M a year, campaigns typically start between $50K and $150K, and the fastest repeat spend comes from $20M–$500M revenue brands, with B2B tech, fintech, and modern DTC expanding fastest.
They also identify two obstacles that stall first-time buyers: the confidence gap between believing OOH works and defending it to a CEO, CFO, or board, and the execution gap created by fragmented inventory, varying formats, inconsistent lead times, and multiple vendors.
Those are webinar problems, not product-demo problems.
The measurement story also suits a martech audience: branded search lift, better paid search and social efficiency, higher down-funnel conversion, and lower blended acquisition cost.
OOH is framed as making every other dollar work better, not as a channel to judge dollar-in, dollar-out.
Commercial formats are documented: podcast guest slots, marketing-leader events and roundtables, and co-branded guides or contributed articles.
The audience composition remains unverified.
The LinkedIn following is 22,608, but the posts do not publish demographics, seniority breakdown, company size, or per-post engagement.
Before booking, ask for audience demographics or results from a comparable webinar on OOH or brand measurement.
When to choose a specialist
Poor fit for a consumer snack or beauty brand seeking a creator to post short-form taste-test or product-review videos and drive sales with a personal coupon code.
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Greg Wise’s posts show a B2B out-of-home advertising and marketing practitioner, not a consumer product creator.
They cover campaign planning, retail launches, measurement, and marketing practice; there are no product reviews, lifestyle posts, personal endorsements, or consumer-facing promotional offers.
The DTC and retail examples—Ritual at Walmart, Hiya at Target, mall media—are Onescreen client campaign commentary.
They show how brands use OOH, not how Greg Wise personally promotes products or converts a consumer audience.
The posts publish no audience demographics, so there is no basis to conclude that a consumer brand would reach shoppers through this account.
A consumer snack or beauty campaign’s likely need for fast direct attribution in a short window also conflicts with Greg Wise’s guidance: OOH works best with one market, two to four units in the same geography, a four- to eight-week run, and paired paid search or retargeting.
A short coupon-code campaign would be a forced fit.
Redirect the campaign to a consumer creator with documented shopper reach, or reframe it as an OOH planning engagement for the retail launch rather than an influencer deliverable.
A worked campaign example
Worked campaign angle: a 45-minute co-marketing webinar, 'The mid-market OOH playbook: making a $50K–$150K test defensible to finance.' The host is a B2B martech platform selling measurement, demand generation, or marketing analytics.
The audience is demand generation, media, and marketing operations leaders at B2B software, fintech, and modern DTC companies.
Greg Wise presents the channel and planning side; the martech co-host presents the measurement and pipeline side.
Agenda: first, why mid-market OOH growth is happening—rising digital CPMs, harder incrementality proof, and city-level reach outside the algorithm—using Onescreen’s benchmark that campaigns often start between $50K and $150K and that B2B tech, fintech, and DTC expand fastest.
Second, the confidence gap: how to explain an OOH test to a CEO, CFO, or board when the request is cost per lead.
Third, a live worked plan.
Use the sub-$30K playbook as the base—one market, two to four units in the same geography, commute routes or retail corridors, four to eight weeks, paired paid search and retargeting—or adapt the $200K Atlanta plan for a retail launch into a blank worksheet.
Fourth, measurement: branded search lift, in-market direct traffic, better paid-media efficiency, lower blended acquisition cost, and sales conversations that begin with 'I keep seeing you everywhere.' If the audience includes retail-expansion brands, add the moment map: store rollout, product launch, funding or momentum, and events, with examples such as Ritual at Walmart and Hiya at Target.
The asset is a one-page OOH test worksheet participants complete during the session.
Distribution runs through Greg Wise’s LinkedIn audience, Onescreen’s channels, and the co-host’s list, with a 60-second clip cut for follow-up.
Success measures: registrations from target accounts, attendance rate, worksheet downloads, and post-webinar meetings.
The angle uses Greg Wise’s own frameworks, gives the session a specific buyer and budget, and avoids a generic brand-awareness pitch.
Before proposing terms, ask for availability, partnership rates, lead times, and exclusivity; none are published in the posts here.
Also ask for audience demographics or comparable event results, or position the webinar as a topically reachable audience rather than a verified title-level match.
Pick Linda Johansen-James for the same webinar when the room is retail property and retail brand teams rather than marketers who buy out-of-home media.
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Her posts approach physical retail from the destination side: she moderated the panel "Emerging Concepts and Retail Activations" at the Flex Retail Summit in Nashville, cites research that in-centre experiences can lift customer dwell time by about 40%, and describes ideas such as using 20–30 acres of unused mall parking overnight for paid truck parking, flower-field and solar placemaking, and IKEA furnishing mall common areas as a brand partnership.
She also argues grocery has become one of retail's biggest adopters of AI—demand forecasting, smart carts, personalised offers, prepared food—and is writing a book on AI in grocery.
For platforms selling store-traffic, activation, or in-store experience measurement to retail brands, her retail-property framing meets buyers where they already argue; a billboard planner does not.
You give up channel depth.
Her posts do not cover OOH formats, budget tiers, CPMs, vendor fragmentation, or the search-lift and acquisition-cost measurements a martech co-host would want to co-present.
The comparison also rests on two posts from March and July 2026, with the retail-activations post carrying most of the detail.
Ask for a published method before building the session around her panel and event experience.
Choose her when the topic bends toward retail destinations and activations; keep Greg Wise when it’s about planning and defending an OOH test.
Choose Yohann Georgel when the product being marketed is measurement rather than a physical channel—attribution, CRM, lifecycle, or customer-value software sold to franchise and local marketing teams.
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His argument is that a good ROAS does not prove a good growth strategy, and that ROAS, CAC, and lifetime value have to be read together, with email, CRM, loyalty, retargeting, and repeat-purchase work deciding whether growth is actually profitable.
His second post attacks the split between corporate and local franchise marketing: separate messages, priorities, timelines, and success metrics create friction across the customer journey.
The fix is a connected system where both layers support each other instead of competing for budget.
For a martech platform whose buyers sit in franchised or multi-location businesses, that corporate-versus-local tension is a sharper webinar spine than an OOH planning walkthrough.
The tradeoff is the channel.
His posts do not discuss out-of-home, media inventory, placements, or campaign budgets; they focus on digital lifecycle and channel-role questions.
A webinar built around his material would be about measurement economics, with OOH mentioned only by the co-host—a different promise from a webinar on mid-market OOH strategy.
The comparison rests on two posts, from May and July 2026, and the franchise post ends by pointing readers to a vendor's services, making his content partly vendor-adjacent.
Ask for independent examples before using his material as the measurement half of the story; use Greg Wise for the planning, pricing, and first-timer confidence half.
Choose Marko Stupar if the same co-marketing effort shifts from physical media to new digital ad surfaces.
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His posts read like a seller's briefing on platform changes: ChatGPT ads arriving inside Shopify and HubSpot, a Shopify app that lets US merchants connect catalogue and measurement and run campaigns without leaving the platform, sponsored agent conversations, and the observation that reach is capped to free and lower-tier users, so budgets should be treated as tests.
The second post dissects Sephora piloting monthly product drops on TikTok Shop ahead of its own site and stores, and what that does to creator retainers, order values, and exclusivity windows.
A martech platform selling to Shopify and direct-to-consumer sellers, or running a webinar on where ad inventory is moving, gets a more current and specific perspective from him than from a billboard practitioner.
The tradeoff is the buyer and the channel.
His audience is ecommerce and marketplace sellers, not the demand-generation leaders at $20M–$500M brands weighing a first OOH test.
His content offers no placement, pricing, or measurement guidance for physical media, leaving no counterpart to the confidence-gap and execution-gap framing that anchors Greg Wise's posts.
His urgency framing also relies on dated platform launches and pilot windows, which can quickly age.
Choose him when the webinar topic is digital marketplace competition; keep Greg Wise when the deliverable is a defensible mid-market OOH plan.
