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.
#1 Copenhagen Zoo: Snake Bus
Image credits: Bates Y&R
#2 Netflix: Stranger Things
Image credits: Cantioy87
#3 National Geographic
Image credits: unknown
#4 Ready To Quit?
#5 SF: Americans Abroad, Vote!
Image credits: Uncle Grey
#6 King Kong Movie
#7 The Accordeon World Championship
Image credits: franknystuen
#8 Aladdin
Image credits: vectormedia
#9 Colorectal Cancer Association Of Canada
Image credits: Ogilvy
#10 Arts University Bournemouth: Boombox Bus
Image credits: Creative Forager
#11 Specsavers: Bus Crash
Image credits: Smart
#12 Perth Zoo: Come To The Zoo Before The Zoo Comes To You
Image credits: The Brand Agency
#13 International Organization For Migration
Image credits: McCann
#14 Keep Holland Clean Foundation: Garbage Bus
Image credits: GREY Amsterdam
#15 Compassion In World Farming: Stop Live Exports
Image credits: Elvis
#16 Nice Legs
#17 Dallas Morning News: More Reporters. More Reporting
#18 Duracell
#19 Copenhagen Zoo: The Giant Pandas Have Landed
Image credits: Advice A/S
#20 Careerbuilder: Don’t Jump
Image credits: The Martin Agency
#21 Dr. Best Flexible Toothbrush
Image credits: Kim Sokola&Julia Neumann
#22 Bad Weather, Perfect Timing
Image credits: Mocomedia
#23 Bernmobil: Airport Bus
Image credits: Neue Lgk
#24 Visa, Wellington On A Plate Culinary Festival
Image credits: TBWA
#25 Smint: “Bus Opened-Doors”
Image credits: DDB Barcelona
#26 All Laundry Detergent Bus
#27 X-Games: Real Street Skate Festival
Image credits: Kit Walker Associates
#28 Toydirect.com: Batteries
Image credits: Robson Brown Ltd.
#29 Optical Illusion
#30 Nzdating.com
Image credits: Draft, New Zealand
#31 Air New Zealand
Image credits: mikebarti
#32 Mercedes: Glow In The Dark Bus
Image credits: FHV BBDO
#33 Tiernitos Dog Food
#34 Tabasco Bus
Image credits: duvalguillaume
#35 Potawatomi Zoo
Image credits: extracreditprojects
#36 Canon’s Bus Ad
#37 Eyes
#38 Toy Bus: Children’s Charity
#39 Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo
Image credits: /hireimagination
#40 Seriously Transparent Capital Metro Buses
Image credits: bigpicture
#41 Compassion In World Farming: Stop Live Exports
Image credits: Elvis
#42 Kontanten: Wallet
“ATMs close by”
Image credits: Faltman & Malmen
#43 National Council Against Smoking In The US
Image credits: Lowe Bull, Johannesburg, South Africa
#44 Weight Watchers
Image credits: Lowe
#45 Outofhomedia: Ad Block This
Image credits: &Co
#46 Burger King
Image credits: BurgerKingUK
#47 Topfit: Exceed. Be At The Top
Image credits: martpet
#48 Community First Credit Union: Flexible Bus
Image credits: I.D.E.A.S.
#49 Just One Bite
#50 Seattle Mariners Bus Back Scoreboard
Image credits: mister_pjm
#51 Use The Crosswalk
#52 Field Museum
Image credits: Vector media
#53 Domestos
Image credits: Point Of View
#54 Shanghai Essilor Optical Co. Anti-Fatigue Lenses
Image credits: Grey
#55 Stuck
#56 Asics New York Marathon Sponsor
Image credits: Vitro Robertson
#57 Hell On Weels
Image credits: Entertainment One
#58 Daiya Foods: Hard To Notice
Image credits: TDA_Boulder
#59 Weight Watchers: Watch Yourself Change
#60 Road Safety Message
Image credits: Saatchi & Saatchi Simko
#61 Air India: Air Travel At Land Travel Fares
Image credits: MudraDDB
#62 ZVV Public Transportation
One ticket for everything.
Image credits: Publicis
#63 Limo Bus: In An Absolut World
#64 The Real Housewives
Image credits: Miami Ad School
#65 Air New Zealand
Image credits: mikebarti
#66 Rocky Rococo Pizza
Image credits: JustusGS
#67 Kaiser
Image credits: Vector media
#68 Corona Routine
Image credits: Addict
#69 1st Bank: Heli-Skiing, Now As Affordable As Free Checking
Image credits: TDA Boulder
#70 Save The Children Denmark: Would You Walk 6a’s Route To Get To School?
Image credits: Robert/Boisen & Like-minded
#71 Air New Zealand
Image credits: mikebarti
#72 Norwegian: The London Bus
“To highlight airline company Norwegians low fare flights to London, we brought left-hand traffic to Sweden by turning the back of Stockholm buses into the front of Londons classic double deckers.”
Image credits: Volt
Read more: boredpanda.com
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