Drive Your Art is a unique, immersive platform allowing you to test-drive your outdoor advertisements in a variety of scenes (urban, rural, highways) with full control over the amount of daylight, speed of travel, and weather conditions. Ensure your advertisements are optimized and effective for how your real-world audience will experience them.
Drive Your Art is a great testing tool for ad agencies and designers but it is also useful for organizations purchasing outdoor advertising.
Drive Your Art is resource intensive and requires a Windows based computer with at least an i5-8400 processor @2.80 GHz or better, 8GB of ram, and a GPU: GTX 1060 3GB / equivalent or better. Mac computers need to run at least Mac OS 12.x with 8GB of ram and graphics card of GTX 1060 3GB / equivalent or better. Drive Your Art will also require at least 5GB of hard drive space.
No, Drive Your Art is a computer-based program and requires a Windows or Mac computer with sufficient specs. It will not run on mobile devices or tablets.
Visit the downloads page for links to download the Mac or Windows versions.
After downloading the Windows version of Drive Your Art, double-click on the .zip file. A dialog box will appear. Follow the instructions to install the software. Once the software is installed then double click the Drive Your Art icon to start the program
After downloading the Mac version (non App Store version) of Drive Your Art, In the Finder on your Mac, locate the Drive Your Art program (don't use Launchpad to locate the app.). Control-click the Drive Your Art icon, then choose Open from the shortcut menu. Click Open. This process saves your preferences so that you can just click on the program icon in the future.
Open the App Store on your Mac and search for "Drive Your Art". Click the "Get" button to download and install the platform. Please note that the Mac App Store version of Drive Your Art requires you to purchase credits in the Drive Your Art platform and not on the driveyourart.com website. Credits purchased on the website can't be used in the Mac App Store version. If you purchased credits on the website and would like a refund please contact our support team using the Support page.
A credit is a token allowing you to use the Drive Your Art platform for 40 minutes. To use Drive Your Art you need to have 1 or more credits in your account.
Credits can be purchased on our website: https://driveyourart.com/pricing by going to the pricing page and selecting the amount of credits you want to purchase or the credit subscription package. Create an account and complete the purchase.
No, Drive Your Art credits never expire.
No, Drive Your Art credits never expire. If you have additional credits in your account when the next monthly replenishment occurs they will remain in your account and be added to the total.
Canceling a subscription is easy. Log into your account on driveyourart.com and go to the "My Account" page. Click on Subscriptions. Find the subscription you wish to cancel and then click "Cancel".
No, after you agree to use the credit on the platform the timer begins and will run uninterrupted for 40 minutes. Exiting the platform does not stop or pause the timer.
Please refer to our refund page.
Multiple people can not use the same account at the same time. Accounts are free to set up and it makes sense to provide one to each of your team members who will use the platform. You have complete control to disperse your purchased credits among your team members.
Log into your account and go to the My Account page. Click on "Multi-Accounts" and then click the "New Multiaccount" button. Enter the new sub-account email address (each account or sub-account requires a unique email address), password and Name. Review permissions and then click "Create Multiaccount" button.
Log into your account and go to the My Account page. Click on "Multi-Accounts" and then click "Edit account" for the sub-account you wish to delete. Click "Delete Multiaccount".
Log into your account and go to the My Account page. Click on "Multi-Accounts" and then click "Edit account" for the sub-account you wish to add or remove credits. In the "User Credits" section enter the amount of credits you want this sub-account to have. Then click "Change Credits" button. For example if the sub-account currently has 0 credits and you want distribute 2 of your credits to that account then enter 2 in the "User Credits" field. If the sub-account has 5 credits and you want to return all of that sub-account's credits to your account then enter 0 in the "User Credits" field.
Visit the Log In page on the Drive Your Art website and click " Lost Password?" link. Enter in your account email address and check your email inbox for a reset password link.
Open the Drive Your Art (DYA) platform on your computer and sign into your account. Select the advertising product where you want to place your artwork. Complete the product and environment setup (if prompted). When on the "Artwork Selection" screen, select any artwork that you have previously uploaded or click "Upload Image" or "Upload Video" to add new artwork to the system. Select the artwork that you wish to use and click "Confirm".
If in testing mode on the Drive Your Art platform and you want to change the environment then click the "Home" button on the upper right side to restart the build process. This will allow you to choose a different environment.
In the Drive Your Art platform, select "Billboard" and continue setting up your environment and artwork. Once in the DYA Virtual World then click on the orange ">" icon in the upper left of the screen to view the fliy-out adjustment menu. Select "Weather" and then adjust the amount of rain as well as the lighting and light direction. When finished click the "x" to close that panel.
In the Drive Your Art platform, select "Billboard" and continue setting up your environment and artwork. Once in the DYA Virtual World then click on the orange ">" icon in the upper left of the screen to view the fliy-out adjustment menu. Select "Drive Speed" and then adjust the speed of the vehicle using the "+" and "-" buttons. When finished click the "x" to close that panel.
In the Virtual World environment, click on the “Record Video” icon at the bottom center of the screen. If a billboard has not already been selected then you will be required to select one and make adjustments to its placements if needed. A pop-up screen will allow you to name the saved recording. Then the Drive Approach will begin while being recorded. You can manually change the view to look left or right while the Drive Approach is being recorded which will show up in the video..
After setting the environment and selecting the artwork to display but before clicking "Confirm" on the Artwork Selection page- click the "Save Environment" button in the left sidebar. This allows you to name and save your setup so that you can load it later or send to a client or co-worker.
After signing into the Drive Your Art platform, while on the "Select Advertising Product" click the "Upload Saved Environment" button. Locate and select the saved DYA file.
Contact our support team to let them know what happened and they will work with you to provide a resolution.
Please submit any ideas or requests for improvement to out team via the form on the Contact page.