A good billboard today is judged less by how many people pass it and more by how many pull out their phones and share it. Between September and October 2026, three out-of-home (OOH) campaigns showed this clearly: Wet Ones in New York, Sour Patch Kids in London and Bristol, and One Eyeball Billboard in Bangkok. Each one is a creative billboard built for the street but designed to travel on social feeds.
New to the term OOH? Start with what is ooh, then come back to see how these brands turned out of home advertising into shareable content.
| Campaign | City | Core idea | Why people shared it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wet Ones “Just for Hands” | New York | Close-ups of hands that look like bottoms | Rival goodwipes answered with its own Times Square board |
| Sour Patch Kids “Not As Sweet As They Look” | London / Bristol | The candy characters tear the OREO poster next door | A social media rivalry brought onto the street |
| One Eyeball Billboard | Bangkok | Boards that name nine executives on their daily routes | Colleagues photographed them and passed them on in chats |
The idea started with a OnePulse (Publicis) survey of 250 Americans, in which about half admitted using a hand wipe on intimate areas. Wet Ones and BBH USA responded with “Just for Hands”: close-up photos of fingers, palms and knuckles posed to look like bare bottoms, shot by Ale Burset, with the line “Just for hands. No ifs, ands or butts.”
According to press reports the work did not run in the New York subway, so the brand took it above ground: 100 LinkNYC kiosks, 60 transit shelters, 20 digital newsstands, a five-screen Times Square spectacular and two wrapped buses. A teaser photo of reality star Kyle Cooke on the DeuxMoi gossip account looked like his bare backside and turned out to be his hand.
The campaign really took off when goodwipes, a wipe made for bottoms, bought a Times Square board right next to Wet Ones from 6 to 9 October, plus a mobile van, reading “We’re actually just for butts.” B&T reports the response was turned around in under 24 hours. Wet Ones then updated its own screen with “Very Cheeky @goodwipes”, and the two brands followed up with a joint social post.
Sour Patch Kids and OREO both belong to Mondelez International and had already teased each other on social media. In “Not As Sweet As They Look”, agency VCCP moved the joke onto real sites: four special builds, three in London and one in Bristol, where the Sour Patch Kids appear to rip the neighbouring OREO poster off its frame.
The UK and Ireland rollout in September and October 2026 added a tug-of-war scene and an overly competitive tennis match. Brand manager Sarah Haworth said the aim was to introduce the brand with a bit of attitude and mischief. No reach or sales figures have been published. For a primer on formats, see what is a billboard.
This Thai case flips the usual brief from “reach the most people” to “reach the right person”. Journey-based OOH specialist MJ Master Journey and agency Wolf BKK picked nine CEOs, founders and decision-makers, mapped the routes they were likely to take between home and work, and placed a board on each route that greets the person by nickname, such as “Peach, you pass this way every day. Not interested?” at the Makkasan expressway interchange.
The boards were never meant to be seen by one person only. They were designed so that colleagues would photograph them and share them in chats, putting MJ in front of each executive several times over. No results have been published, but MJ uses it as its first public business case to show that mass media does not have to stay mass. Read how the idea borrows from account based marketing in our full breakdown.
All three campaigns give people a reason to look twice: an optical illusion, a joke at the neighbour’s expense, or the viewer’s own name. Boards that only show a logo and a promotion get skimmed. It is the same thinking behind UGG’s city-by-city ooh campaign.
goodwipes sat next to Wet Ones, Sour Patch Kids sat next to OREO, and One Eyeball Billboard chose the exact roads its targets drive. Placement was part of the creative, not just empty space for a poster.
Decide in advance which angle people will shoot, where they will post it and how they can act online, for example with a QR code or a campaign hashtag. The goodwipes response, built in under 24 hours, shows how much a brand gains from having a team and media ready to react.
Media that travels with people, such as taxi advertising and fully wrapped tuk-tuks, follows the same rule: vehicles pass many districts in a day, and an unusual convoy is exactly what people film. In Bangkok, Pepsi’s Songkran tuk tuk advertising bangkok campaign is one example, and brands that want copy to change by area and time can pair it with dooh bangkok screens.
Out-of-home advertising designed so that people want to photograph or film it and share it on social media, extending the campaign beyond the people who physically pass the site.
A clear story that rewards a second look, a placement that is part of the idea, and an easy next step online such as a QR code or hashtag.
A September 2026 Bangkok campaign by MJ Master Journey and Wolf BKK that placed boards on the daily routes of nine executives and greeted each one by nickname.
Partly, if it is planned into the brief: campaign hashtags, social listening, site-specific QR codes or promo codes, and branded search before and after the flight.
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Sources: B&T · MediaPost · Famous Campaigns · ContentGrip · Ads of the World · BrandAge. Campaign images are the property of their brands and agencies: Wet Ones / BBH USA (photo: Ale Burset), Sour Patch Kids / Mondelez International (VCCP) and MJ Master Journey / Wolf BKK, used for news reporting.
