Formats

Advertising Formats.

Every channel, every format. From billboards to podcasts, bus wraps to programmatic display. We plan and buy across every advertising medium in the UK.

Each guide covers real UK costs, targeting options, expected reach, and the strategy behind making the format work for your brand. Whether you need to reach commuters on the London Underground, shoppers in supermarkets, or millions of listeners on Spotify, there is a format here that fits.

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Facebook Advertising

Facebook remains the largest social advertising platform in the world, with over 3 billion monthly active users. But scale alone does not win campaigns. The difference between profitable Facebook ads and wasted spend comes down to audience architecture, creative strategy, and relentless optimisation. We build campaigns across the full Meta ecosystem, from prospecting through to retargeting, using data to inform every decision.

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TikTok Advertising

TikTok is not just a trend. It is where attention lives. With over 1 billion monthly active users and the highest average engagement rates of any social platform, TikTok offers something other channels cannot: genuine cultural relevance. But the platform punishes traditional advertising. Success here requires content that entertains first and sells second. We help brands create TikTok campaigns that earn attention instead of interrupting it.

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Programmatic Advertising

Programmatic advertising automates the buying and placement of digital ads in real time, using data and algorithms to serve the right message to the right person at the right moment. It accounts for over 90% of all digital display spending in the UK for good reason: it is faster, more precise, and more efficient than traditional media buying. We manage programmatic campaigns across display, video, audio, and digital out-of-home, bringing all the complexity under one roof.

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YouTube Advertising

YouTube is the world's second-largest search engine and the UK's most-watched video platform. People go there with purpose: to learn, to be entertained, and increasingly, to research purchases. YouTube advertising lets you place your brand in front of these audiences with video content that can tell a story in ways static ads simply cannot. From six-second bumper ads to long-form content, the platform offers formats for every objective and budget.

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Billboard Advertising

Billboards are the original mass-reach medium, and they remain one of the most effective ways to build brand awareness. A well-placed billboard delivers thousands of impressions every day to a captive audience of commuters, shoppers, and pedestrians. Unlike digital channels, there is no ad blocker for a 48-sheet poster on a busy high street. We plan and buy billboard campaigns across the UK, from single high-impact sites to nationwide networks.

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LinkedIn Advertising

LinkedIn is the only major advertising platform where you can target people by their professional identity: job title, seniority, company name, industry, and skills. For B2B marketers, this precision is unmatched. No other platform lets you put your message directly in front of CFOs at mid-market SaaS companies, or procurement managers in the manufacturing sector. We build LinkedIn campaigns that connect your business with the decision-makers who matter.

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Display Advertising

Display advertising has evolved far beyond simple banner ads. Today's display campaigns use dynamic creative, contextual targeting, and sophisticated audience data to deliver relevant messages across millions of websites and apps. The Google Display Network alone reaches over 90% of internet users worldwide. When done well, display drives measurable brand awareness, retargets warm audiences, and supports your other channels. When done badly, it burns budget on irrelevant placements. The difference is strategy.

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OOH Advertising

Out of Home advertising encompasses every advertising format that reaches people outside their homes: billboards, bus shelters, train stations, shopping centres, airports, and beyond. OOH reaches 98% of the UK population every week, making it the true mass-reach medium. In an age of ad blockers and subscription services, OOH remains one of the few channels that delivers guaranteed exposure. We plan and buy OOH campaigns across every format and location in the UK.

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Instagram Advertising

Instagram is a visual-first platform with over 2 billion monthly active users, and it has become the primary discovery engine for products, brands, and experiences. People actively use Instagram to find new things to buy. Over 70% of shoppers use the platform for purchase inspiration. With Reels, Stories, feed posts, and the Explore page, there are multiple surfaces to reach your audience with creative that feels native to how they already use the app.

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Bus Advertising

Buses are moving billboards that carry your message through the heart of towns and cities every day. With over 4.5 billion bus journeys made in the UK each year, bus advertising delivers enormous reach at a fraction of the cost of static billboards. A single bus can generate hundreds of thousands of impressions per week as it travels through high streets, residential areas, and commercial districts. From bus sides and rears to full wraps and interior panels, the format options are versatile and effective.

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Supermarket Advertising

Supermarket advertising puts your brand in front of consumers at the exact moment they are making buying decisions. The average UK shopper visits a supermarket 2 to 3 times per week, spending 40 to 60 minutes per visit. That is a significant window of attention in a commercial environment where purchase intent is at its highest. From trolley ads and floor graphics to digital screens and shelf-edge media, supermarket advertising offers formats that reach millions of shoppers every week.

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London Underground Advertising

The London Underground carries over 5 million passengers every weekday, making it one of the most concentrated advertising environments in the world. Commuters spend an average of 30 to 40 minutes per journey in a setting with limited distractions, no phone signal on many lines, and nothing to look at except the advertising around them. Tube advertising offers a rare combination of scale, dwell time, and audience quality that few other channels can match, especially for reaching London's professional and affluent demographics.

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Bus Stop Advertising

Bus stop advertising is one of the most accessible and versatile formats in outdoor media. With over 70,000 bus stop panels across the UK, it delivers street-level visibility to pedestrians, drivers, and public transport users in virtually every town and city. The standard 6-sheet poster format is large enough to command attention but affordable enough to build network coverage. Bus stops sit at the heart of commercial areas, high streets, and residential routes, putting your message exactly where people live, work, and shop.

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Digital Billboard Advertising

Digital billboards combine the unmissable impact of traditional outdoor with the flexibility of digital. LED screens in high-traffic locations display your ad in vivid, full-motion colour, rotating with a small number of other advertisers for maximum share of voice. The real advantage is agility. You can change creative in real time, schedule different messages for morning and evening, trigger content based on weather or events, and launch campaigns within hours instead of weeks. Digital out-of-home is the fastest-growing segment of the UK advertising market for good reason.

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Bus Shelter Advertising

Bus shelter advertising is one of the workhorses of outdoor media. The 6-sheet poster format, displayed within illuminated shelter structures on busy pedestrian routes, delivers consistent, close-range exposure to foot traffic and road users alike. What makes bus shelters particularly effective is their location. They sit on high streets, outside train stations, near shopping centres, and along the routes people walk every day. The illuminated panels ensure your ad is visible from early morning commutes through to late evening, giving you round-the-clock presence.

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Spotify Advertising

Spotify has over 600 million users globally, and the free tier delivers your ads to a highly attentive audience during natural breaks in listening. Unlike visual media where attention is split, audio advertising lands in moments of genuine focus: commutes, workouts, cooking, studying. Spotify's first-party data is remarkably rich. You can target by music genre, podcast category, listening mood, time of day, device type, and demographic. This means your message reaches people in contextually relevant moments, not just demographic buckets. We build Spotify campaigns across audio, video, and display formats, using the platform's self-serve and managed buying options depending on your budget and objectives.

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DOOH Advertising

Digital out-of-home advertising has transformed what outdoor media can do. DOOH screens are now in shopping centres, railway stations, roadside locations, airports, gyms, and office lobbies, delivering dynamic content that can change by time of day, weather, audience, or live data triggers. The real shift is in buying. Programmatic DOOH lets you purchase screen inventory the same way you buy online display, with audience targeting, dayparting, and real-time optimisation. This means outdoor advertising is no longer a blunt awareness tool. It can be precision-targeted, measured, and integrated into a wider digital strategy. We plan and buy DOOH campaigns across every major screen network in the UK, from large-format roadside to small retail screens.

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Google Shopping Ads

Google Shopping ads appear at the top of search results with product images, prices, and your brand name. They capture high-intent traffic from people who are actively searching for what you sell. Unlike text ads, Shopping ads are driven by your product feed rather than keywords, which means Google matches your products to relevant searches automatically. The quality of your feed, your bidding strategy, and your campaign structure determine whether you show up profitably or waste budget. We manage Shopping campaigns from feed optimisation through to bid management, ensuring your products appear for the right searches at the right cost.

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Retargeting Ads

Most website visitors leave without converting. Retargeting puts your brand back in front of those people as they browse other sites, scroll social media, or watch videos. It is one of the highest-ROI tactics in digital advertising because you are reaching people who already know you. The challenge is doing it well. Poor retargeting annoys people with the same ad for weeks. Effective retargeting segments audiences by behaviour, serves relevant creative at the right frequency, and excludes people who have already converted. We build retargeting campaigns across display, social, video, and native channels, turning your existing traffic into revenue.

Advertising panels along a London Underground escalator

Tube Advertising

The London Underground carries over 1.3 billion passenger journeys per year, and advertising within the network delivers sustained exposure in an environment where people have time to absorb your message. Dwell times on platforms average two to three minutes, and carriage journeys give you a captive audience for considerably longer. Tube advertising spans a wide range of formats: escalator panels, cross-track projections, carriage card strips, platform posters, and digital screens at stations. Each format serves a different purpose, from quick brand impressions on escalators to detailed messaging in carriage panels where passengers have time to read. We plan tube campaigns that use the right mix of formats to achieve your coverage and frequency goals across the network.

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Shopping Centre Advertising

Shopping centres concentrate consumers who are already in a spending mindset. Advertising within these environments reaches people at the point closest to purchase, whether through digital screens, promotional stands, hanging banners, or experiential activations. The UK's major shopping centres attract millions of visitors monthly, and the audience profile is well documented through footfall tracking and loyalty card data. This makes shopping centre advertising one of the most targetable out-of-home formats available. We plan campaigns across Westfield, Intu, Hammerson, and independent shopping centre networks, matching your brand to the venues where your customers shop.

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Cinema Advertising

Cinema is the last truly captive advertising environment. Audiences are seated, screens are off, and lights are down. Your ad plays in full sight, sound, and motion to people who have chosen to be there and are primed for visual storytelling. The attention quality in cinema is unmatched by any other medium. Research consistently shows cinema delivers the highest ad recall, emotional engagement, and brand favourability of any advertising channel. We plan cinema campaigns across all major UK chains including Odeon, Cineworld, Vue, and Curzon, with options ranging from national blockbuster packages to targeted local screen buys.

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Connected TV Advertising

Connected TV has fundamentally changed how brands buy television advertising. Instead of broad demographic buys through traditional broadcasters, CTV lets you serve targeted video ads to specific households through streaming services and smart TV apps. Over 70% of UK households now have a connected TV device, and streaming viewership continues to grow year on year. CTV combines the impact of big-screen, full-sound video with the targeting and measurement capabilities of digital advertising. You can reach specific audience segments, cap frequency, and track outcomes, capabilities that traditional TV has never offered. We plan and buy CTV campaigns across all major platforms including ITVX, Channel 4, Sky AdSmart, Samsung TV Plus, and programmatic CTV inventory.

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Van Advertising

A branded van generates between 30,000 and 70,000 visual impressions per day depending on its route and location. For businesses that already operate delivery or service vehicles, van advertising is one of the most cost-effective media channels available because the media cost is zero after the initial wrap. Even for brands without their own fleet, contracted van advertising through delivery networks and dedicated media vans offers mobile coverage that no static format can match. Your message moves through high streets, residential areas, business parks, and motorways, reaching audiences in locations where traditional advertising does not exist. We handle everything from creative design through to wrap production, installation, and fleet management.

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Taxi Advertising

London black cabs are some of the most recognisable vehicles in the world, and advertising on them gives your brand mobile, street-level presence across the capital and major UK cities. A single wrapped taxi generates hundreds of thousands of impressions per month as it moves through busy commercial districts, entertainment areas, and residential streets. Taxi advertising goes beyond wraps. Tip seat screens inside the cab reach a captive passenger audience, receipts carry your message home, and branded fleet campaigns create moving convoys of brand visibility. We plan taxi campaigns across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, and other major UK cities, using a mix of formats to maximise reach and frequency.

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Airport Advertising

Airports concentrate an audience that is affluent, attentive, and in a receptive state of mind. Passengers arrive early, move through structured environments, and have extended dwell times while waiting for flights. This creates an advertising environment where people actually have time to engage with your message. The audience profile is exceptional. Air travellers over-index heavily on household income, business decision-making authority, and luxury purchase behaviour. Airport advertising reaches C-suite executives, frequent international travellers, and high-net-worth individuals in a single environment. We plan airport campaigns across all major UK airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Edinburgh, and regional airports, using formats from digital screens and lightboxes to experiential activations and sponsorships.

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Train Station Advertising

UK train stations handle over 1.7 billion passenger journeys per year, making them one of the highest-traffic advertising environments in the country. Stations combine the footfall of a shopping centre with the structured dwell times of an airport, creating an environment where your ads get sustained, repeated exposure. The audience is commercially attractive. Rail commuters over-index on income, professional status, and digital engagement. Major terminus stations like London Waterloo, Victoria, and Manchester Piccadilly concentrate hundreds of thousands of passengers daily in a contained space where advertising dominates the visual landscape. We plan rail advertising across Network Rail managed stations, smaller regional stations, and the London Underground interchange points, using formats from massive digital gateways to platform-level posters.

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Radio Advertising UK

Radio reaches 89% of the UK adult population every week, making it one of the most penetrative media channels available. Listeners tune in for an average of over 20 hours per week, often during commutes, at work, or at home, when they are engaged and receptive. What makes radio particularly effective is its intimacy. A voice in someone's ear carries authority and builds trust in ways visual media cannot replicate. Presenter endorsements and sponsorships add credibility, while the repetitive nature of radio listening builds frequency rapidly and cost-effectively. We plan radio campaigns across all major UK stations including Global (Capital, Heart, LBC, Classic FM), Bauer (Kiss, Magic, Absolute), BBC partnership opportunities, and hundreds of local and regional stations.

Advertising panel displayed in a UK pub washroom

Pub Advertising

The UK has over 45,000 pubs, and they remain one of the most important social spaces in British life. Advertising in pubs reaches people when they are socialising, relaxed, and receptive to new ideas and brands. The environment creates a unique opportunity: dwell times are long, distractions are low, and the social setting means ads often spark conversation. Pub advertising spans a wide range of formats, from washroom panels and digital screens to beer mats, table talkers, and experiential activations. Each format targets a different moment in the pub visit, and combining them creates layered exposure throughout the experience. We plan pub campaigns through major washroom media networks and direct venue partnerships, covering everything from local pub activations to national network campaigns across thousands of venues.

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Motorway Billboard Advertising

UK motorways carry over 70 billion vehicle miles per year, and roadside billboards along these routes deliver some of the highest reach figures in outdoor advertising. A single motorway billboard can generate millions of impressions per month, making it one of the most efficient ways to build mass brand awareness. Motorway advertising works through sheer repetition. Regular drivers see the same billboards on every journey, and the large format commands attention in a way that smaller roadside ads cannot. The 96-sheet and 48-sheet formats are visible from hundreds of metres away, ensuring your message reaches drivers and passengers even at speed. We book motorway billboards across all major UK routes including the M1, M25, M4, M6, M62, and M8, working with media owners to secure the highest-traffic sites for your campaign.

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