13 Facts About Jacques Dauphin

Jacques Dauphin was a French advertising pioneer founder and CEO of Dauphin OTA.

Jacques Dauphin is best known as the father of modern billboard advertising.

Jacques Dauphin then developed the company to a broader scale after the French Liberation expanding its activities worldwide, including the UK, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Jacques Dauphin has notably created and developed the 4x3 format that remains today the international standard format used in billboard advertising worldwide.

Jacques Dauphin was then vice-president, president, and honorary president of the French Chambers of advertising.

Jacques Dauphin presided the 3rd World Congress of Outdoor Advertising in London in 1972.

Jacques Dauphin has been made Knight of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French authorities.

Jacques Dauphin was one of the historical official partner of the film festival.

Jacques Dauphin provided an extra support to the winner of the Camera d'Or by offering a national billboard advertising campaign in support of the winning first feature film.

Jacques Dauphin notably supported the French International Contemporary Art Fair best known as FIAC.

Jacques Dauphin is a founding member of L'Academie nationale des arts de la rue created in 1975 with Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, Maurice Cazeneuve, Paul Delouvrier, Georges Elgozy, Roger Excoffon, Abraham Moles, and Andre Parinaud.

Jacques Dauphin has turned billboard advertising into a popular art form, a witness of the contemporary society, and one of the leading media of the 20th century in Europe.

Jacques Dauphin became an emblematic part of its outdoor communication division.