MyCiTi

To create awareness for the Compensation Fund, the brand commissioned Transit Ads to implement a highly impactful 2-month campaign in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. The strategy included 45 branded Rea Vaya bus backs, 20 MyCiTi bus backs and a commercial flighted for 3 months on the national place-based digital television network Transit.TV™. The bus rapid transport systems in both Cape Town and Johannesburg transport over 4 million and just under 2,5 million passengers per month respectively, which means that the branding and messaging had excellent exposure and frequency during its intense awareness burst. Busses are moving billboards that move [...]

Shamy Naidu, Executive: Transit Ads outlines the benefits and effectiveness of advertising within the train station environment. Advertising within the transit environment and train stations in particular, has come a long way. Cast your mind back to ten years ago when the transit infrastructure in South Africa was given a facelift, started expanding considerably, was significantly improved. The transit environment can now boast world-class facilities and the ability to reach any location in the country no matter how out of the way or rural. We have new bus rapid transport systems including MyCiTi in Cape Town and Rea Vaya in [...]

Transit Ads™, South Africa’s largest transit media company, has been awarded the exclusive advertising rights to the Rea Vaya Rapid Transit System (BRT) 1B in Johannesburg, along specific routes. In addition to a comprehensive, national and impactful portfolio of branding opportunities, Transit Ads now offers advertisers another highly valuable engagement point, increasing audience reach by 1,7 million every month. Transit Ads™ already reaches 12,5 million weekly taxi commuters, 2,8 million bus commuters and 1,2 million train commuters weekly. This audience is economically active, tech-savvy and usually the main household purchasing decision maker, making them a key consumer for brands. Shamy [...]

Nando’s has renewed its MyCiTi bus branding campaign with Transit Ads™ until the end of 2018. The recent campaigns have been extremely successful, testament to the impact, frequency and ROI delivered by this highly visible medium. MyCiTi busses are large-scale, moving billboards that take brand message to commuters, pedestrians and motorists within the greater Cape Town area. Their frequency along high traffic routes ensures that the strong creative elicits the desired response from the target audience – keeping Nando’s top of mind.  

To celebrate 30 years of peri-peri, Nando’s used the powerful advertising impact of the MyCiTi bus to spread its birthday message. MyCiTi busses are moving billboards that are visible to commuters, pedestrians and motorists within the greater Cape Town area. Their frequency along high traffic routes ensure that brand creative and messaging is seen and assimilated by the target audience. Following the Birthday campaign, the restaurant brand has implemented a Spring campaign using the same, highly effective media platform.

Transit Ads™ has implemented a campaign for African Extracts that sees the brand showcased on MyCiTi buses travelling on major routes within the greater Cape Town area. Transit Ads™ has exclusive advertising rights to MyCiTi buses in Cape Town, providing a golden opportunity for brands wanting to stand out within this bustling major city. The bus network clocks 75 000 commuter journeys per day, so advertising on this medium provides unparalleled visibility and frequency. “Buses are giant billboards that have the ability to showcase brand messaging in areas where other forms of out of home are limited; or the opposite [...]

Transit Ads™ has implemented a geographically targeted campaign for Linctagon within the greater Cape Town area. The campaign incorporates the exterior and the interior branding of MyCiTi buses travelling on specific routes; as well as the branding of lightboxes within the Civic Centre MyCiTi Bus Terminal precinct. The Linctagon branded lightboxes are situated within 4 of the total 12 routing pods within the Terminal, providing the opportunity for the brand to benefit from consumer engagement when dwell time is high. The Civic Centre MyCiTi Bus Terminal is classified as a mega station and it bustles with activity from 06h00 till [...]