Long shot but - Has anyone seen these billboards in St Pete?
Hey Guys! I know this is a total long shot but figured it was worth a try.
Any chance anyone has seen either of these two billboards anywhere this weekend? (These are just mockups as we were working through the design process - not real billboard photos obviously)
Someone in the Pinellas sub said they think they spotted one of them playing off of I-275 between Gandy and downtown St Pete - so I thought I’d check in here with you guys too for the St Pete area.
Here's the conundrum - These billboards are for my non-profit organization and they also support one of the local animal shelters in the area. Having a photo of one of these bad boys live on the billboard would be so SO incredibly special to have for both The Dog Breath Foundation non-profit's website and also for the Manatee County Bishop Animal Shelter.
That said - these billboards are live right now somewhere in Pinellas County (I've been told they're likely on 5 or 6 different boards throughout the area) but there's no way for me to know exactly where they're located because OutFront (the billboard company) randomly generates based on an algorithm of some kind and their locations and can only tell you where they appeared after the campaign is finished running, and not during. 🙃
They're digital billboards, and they're on a rotation within something like a set of 20-ish other ads, it sounds like. I'm staying 3 hours away and was going to drive out toward Pinellas to try to find and photograph one - but finding it would be like a needle in a haystack without having SOME idea of where to head. (especially with the digital rotation factor) My odds of finding and hitting it right would be like one in a million.
They're only running through this weekend, so I was hoping maybe someone in this sub might have seen one when driving around this weekend- and if so, might be able to tell me where they saw it? Would be AMAZING to get out there before they stop running Sunday night to get a photo - if I only knew exactly where to go. 😢
Other thought: if anyone sees this post first and then happens to see the billboard afterward, if there's any chance in heck you can snag a photo of it with your phone (safely of course - and only if you're not driving and you can see it from a nearby parking lot or something) and DM me here on Reddit - I'd be over the moon with endless gratitude. Honestly I could even pay a small fee to someone if they were able to capture a photo they’d be willing to share.
These photos attached here aren't the actual billboards of course - just mockups that were created as previews as we were working through the designs. But these are the final designs and generally what they would look like in real life! We worked so hard on a long photoshoot day with these two shelter dogs and it would be so amazing to see the final results up on the big boards in person!!
if anyone has any insight - I'd be grateful beyond words! Thank you, thank you, thank you!