London Underground
Advertising.
London Underground Advertising and Tube Advertising.
The London Underground is undoubtedly the most important advertising environment for brands of any size and budget simply due to the sheer amount of passengers. With London Underground Advertising you can target an average of 4.5 million Londoners every two weeks.
Brands can target commuters inside train cars, entire stations or just one, specific platform, escalators or access tunnels with a wide selection of options, all listed below. Not only can be cost-effective since the reach is high per format, but there are also great benefits to Tube Advertising: high-dwell time and high frequency.
Be part of the 1.5 billion journeys on the London Underground.
Key stats on why London Tube Advertising is a fantastic opportunity for any advertiser:
5 million passengers every single day will see your Tube Ads.
Commuters and travellers spend a staggering average of 47 minutes travelling across the tube!
64% are classified as ABC1 adults, and 20% of these are aged 15-34
You can handpick your audience and target by selecting one or more stations, for example, business audiences, student audiences or even tourism audiences.
Advertise on the London Underground with One Day.
We have an all-senior team with industry-leading experience across all Tube formats:
Decades of expertise crafting high-performing, highly successful campaigns.
The size, scope and skill to collaborate with brands of every size and in every location.
Hyper-detailed planning specific to your brand size and objectives.
Leading-edge media planning and buying with first-party software.
Options to adjust your exposure to meet key audiences, whether local or international.
As an Integrated Agency, we can deliver campaigns end-to-end, from creative to post-campaign analysis.
Tube Advertising Formats
Cross Track 16 Sheet
The tube cross-track sheets are the most iconic and photographed formats of the entire TfL (Transport for London) network. In full display, they completely dominate the platform and leverage passenger dwell time. For this reason, consumers absorb in at a high degree your marketing message.
Tube Car Panel
With extreme coverage and frequency, popping on top of passengers, tube car panels are a classic tube advertising format that people gaze during their journey. In close traveller’s view, these ads can be great to drive strong call-to-action or simply effective brand awareness as commuters will see these on their daily travels.
Escalator Panels
Print or digital, known as LEP’s and DEP’s respectively, are in full view of commuters as they enter or exist platforms and stations. They can be targeted by location making it great for general brand awareness but effective for location-based businesses. In digital form, escalator panels are eye-catching and dynamic, some allowing full-motion video. This creates an opportunity to do creative and playful placements or to simply switch advertisements when pertinent to the brand or concept. Finally these also leverage dwell time as takeovers are possible (repeated units across a section).
6 Sheet
This classic-sized London Underground format is typically situated in the most attention-grabbing, high footfall areas in the tube stations. Strategically positioned to draw attention, you can buy both in print or digital forms giving the latter an opportunity to change your messaging during your campaign.
Cross Track 96 Sheet
In a word, this format completely dominates an underground platform. A tactical, high-impact format leveraging dwell time with high ad recall. These can a great option for brands targeting specific stations and locations or to complement the frequency of their smaller counterparts 48 & 16 Sheet.
12 Sheet
Like its peers 6 Sheet & 4 Sheet, the 12 Sheet billboards also sit in access areas and tube stations but due to size give a brand more exposure and recognition. Combined, tube advertising reaches 4.8 million passenger journeys across the underground network each day.
Cross Track 48 Sheet
The big advantage of the 48 Sheet versus its smaller brother 16 Sheet is, as the image above shows, being completely standalone. Your advert occupies a single ad space and is clutter or noise-free. Another benefit, besides the ones already described above, is that your ad marks a bigger presence and takes over the platform more. These can also be strategically placed in the entrances of the platform.
4 Sheet
The London Underground is a unique media placement with unparalleled opportunity to introduce your brand, product or service to London’s masses. It’s a powerful location that reaches daily commuters, residents, tourists, business travellers, leisure commuters and more. The 4-sheets, typically located in access areas and tunnels to the tube, are a cost-effective format to target millions of people and gives you the flexibility to scale up or down based on your brief and budget.
Frequently Asked Questions.
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As one of the busiest commuter hubs in the world, tube advertising offers an unparalleled reach, with excellent dwell times – meaning your prospective customers see your ads more often and for longer. That means repeat exposure to messaging and unmatched cost-efficiency owing to the millions of daily visitors passing through every tube station.
TfL reports that its advertising estate constitutes 40% of the advertising space within London-based outdoor advertising and 20% of ad capacity across the UK, with a 31-million-strong daily audience that traverses demographics.
Commuters and visitors don’t simply ‘see’ a billboard, a moving digital ad or an engaging series of take-over ads along their journey; they can recall brand information, promotions, graphics and details, selecting the most impactful and engaging ads to retain within their memories.
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The sheer size of the London Underground audience makes advertising on the London Underground effective, with potential viewer numbers many times higher than those available through conventional media.
Examples include highly versatile digital billboards and video displays, which can be adapted to the time of day, the season, the key traveller group using the tube at that time, or the product launch or event you want to focus on.
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