Ocean Outdoor
Tony Ridd is an experienced account director with a career spanning over two decades in the outdoor advertising industry. Currently serving as an Account Director at Ocean Outdoor since December 2012, Tony previously held the same position at PSI Advertising from May 2007 to December 2012, where responsibilities included coordinating pan-regional campaigns for international ad agencies and overseeing a major digital screen installation for Reebok in Moscow. Earlier in the career, Tony worked as an Account Manager at Posterscope from March 2003 to May 2007. Tony Ridd completed education at Plymouth College of Art & Design from 1993 to 1995 and attended Oathall Community College.
Ocean Outdoor
Ocean is a boutique media company that fills a unique position in the Outdoor advertising landscape. Specialising only in large-format digital, iconic landmark and super-premium banner locations, Ocean creates inspirational canvases for inspirational advertising.The Out of Home landscape is changing at a rapid rate, and with change comes newopportunities.Ocean are now operating in a multi media channel market as out of home, digital, mobile, online and screen media all converge to create deep and meaningful consumer conversations in the out of home space.The behaviour behind The Art of Outdoor allows us to capitalise on the latest technology, research and creativity ensuring that an Ocean location continually adds value and drives our clients business forward in this new out of home, connected world.Every site in our portfolio is hand picked for its unique quality and personality. We encourage brands to “Ask for it by name”, because Ocean is about quality rather than quantity. Our company ethos and principles based around Freedom, Quality, Passion and Enterprise have helped us become a dynamic force in the global media market place.Ocean have a genuine national footprint covering the key cities of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Newcastle and Bristol. Ocean Group's position was further enhanced in Birmingham and Manchester with the acquisition of Signature Outdoor and MediaCo (now operating under the Signature Outdoor Brand).Signature is the premium Out of Home company in the UK's second and third cities, operating a mixture of city centre premium backlights, banners and key digital assets.