Advertising in transport started as unassuming stickers on the doors and windows of busses and metro carriages. However this could not satisfy demanding advertisers for long. Quite soon digital advertising enters the field: informational and advertising LED signs with running letters and LCD displays. This approach is more professional, based on high-tech solutions, requires large investment but is seriously more effective due to massive audience coverage.
Today we propose to discuss several approaches to managing and controlling digital transport advertising.
Broadcasting is most obvious but an extremely hard method to implement. However, this is the method that is widely used in modern China. It all started with a tiny company that selected a dynamically developing city of Shenzhen as its HQs. In three years Vision China Media n mushroomed to 23 other cities and expanded its transit network (busses and metro) to 121 000 LCD displays. Recently Vision China Media started trading in Nasdaq. The advertising of Vision China is based on broadcasting a TV signal from local TV stations to all busses within the active signal range. The company claims that its daily audience reaches 40 million people which is hardly an overstatement considering the total population of China.