For most people, buses are a means of transportation to get around in your daily life, but the masterminds of the advertising world see a bus as a perfect moving canvas for the most creative and effective ambient ads. In a competition-fueled digital world, clever agencies still turn to traditional outdoor advertising with an original twist that catches people‘s eye and is thought-provoking. And they are definitely doing it right!
I collected a list of the most ingenious bus wraps spotted around the world. And some of them are so engaging, you might actually miss your bus.
Be sure to read on for Bored Panda’s in-depth interview about the benefits of going for out-of-home, transit, and bus advertisements with the Senior Director of Marketing of Vector Media, Luke Leonard.
#1 Copenhagen Zoo: Snake Bus
Image source: Bates Y&R
#2 National Geographic
Image source: unknown
#3 Netflix: Stranger Things
Image source: Cantioy87
#4 King Kong Movie
#5 Ready To Quit?
#6 SF: Americans Abroad, Vote!
Image source: Uncle Grey
#7 The Accordeon World Championship
Image source: franknystuen
#8 Aladdin
Image source: vectormedia
#9 Colorectal Cancer Association Of Canada
Image source: Ogilvy
#10 Arts University Bournemouth: Boombox Bus
Image source: Creative Forager
#11 Specsavers: Bus Crash
Image source: Smart
#12 International Organization For Migration
Image source: McCann
#13 Duracell
#14 Compassion In World Farming: Stop Live Exports
Image source: Elvis
#15 Perth Zoo: Come To The Zoo Before The Zoo Comes To You
Image source: The Brand Agency
#16 Keep Holland Clean Foundation: Garbage Bus
Image source: GREY Amsterdam
#17 Nice Legs
#18 Optical Illusion
#19 Careerbuilder: Don’t Jump
Image source: The Martin Agency
#20 Dallas Morning News: More Reporters. More Reporting
#21 Dr. Best Flexible Toothbrush
Image source: Kim Sokola&Julia Neumann
#22 Bad Weather, Perfect Timing
Image source: Mocomedia
#23 Copenhagen Zoo: The Giant Pandas Have Landed
Image source: Advice A/S
#24 Air New Zealand
Image source: mikebarti
#25 Visa, Wellington On A Plate Culinary Festival
Image source: TBWA
#26 Tiernitos Dog Food
#27 Toydirect.com: Batteries
Image source: Robson Brown Ltd.
#28 Bernmobil: Airport Bus
Image source: Neue Lgk
#29 X-Games: Real Street Skate Festival
Image source: Kit Walker Associates
#30 Smint: “Bus Opened-Doors”
Image source: DDB Barcelona
#31 All Laundry Detergent Bus
#32 Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo
Image source: /hireimagination
#33 Nzdating.com
Image source: Draft, New Zealand
#34 Mercedes: Glow In The Dark Bus
Image source: FHV BBDO
#35 Potawatomi Zoo
Image source: extracreditprojects
#36 Toy Bus: Children’s Charity
#37 Eyes
#38 Seriously Transparent Capital Metro Buses
Image source: bigpicture
#39 Compassion In World Farming: Stop Live Exports
Image source: Elvis
#40 Canon’s Bus Ad
#41 Burger King
Image source: BurgerKingUK
#42 Tabasco Bus
Image source: duvalguillaume
#43 Kontanten: Wallet
“ATMs close by”
Image source: Faltman & Malmen
#44 Just One Bite
#45 Seattle Mariners Bus Back Scoreboard
Image source: mister_pjm
#46 Community First Credit Union: Flexible Bus
Image source: I.D.E.A.S.
#47 National Council Against Smoking In The US
Image source: Lowe Bull, Johannesburg, South Africa
#48 Weight Watchers
Image source: Lowe
#49 Outofhomedia: Ad Block This
Image source: &Co
#50 Topfit: Exceed. Be At The Top
Image source: martpet
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