Successful Campaign Planning with Public Transport in Cymru

First Cymru’s Tenby Coaster open-top bus on the Pembrokeshire coast

Reflecting on Route’s locally targeted summer campaign with First Cymru, promoting the famous Tenby to Saundersfoot open-top Coaster. Delivered with creative partners Cravens across broadcaster VOD, Sky AdSmart, radio, social media and programmatic display, the campaign engaged over 250,000 people and helped smash passenger targets.

How to Maximise Impact with OOH Advertising within the Transport Sector

Out of home advertising in the transport sector

Out of home advertising gives transport brands a vibrant, innovative channel for awareness, engagement and footfall – from busy hubs and captive audiences to location-specific targeting, digital OOH creativity and measurable impact through footfall tracking, web traffic and brand sentiment.

Capturing Your Key Audience: Effective Strategies for Travel Advertising

It is tough to identify your audience or audiences and deliver relevant messages to them. Route can help travel marketers to define their audience and deliver effective campaigns

Travel can be a thrilling escape or a stressful juggle, and advertisers need to tap the moments that matter within the journey. Know your audience – planner, seasoned traveller or newbie – focus your message on one clear goal, choose channels contextually, and plan the campaign through the customer’s eyes.

7 Essentials for Public Transport Marketers: Crafting Successful Campaigns

First Bus Leeds City campaign creative

Marketers in public transport face a diverse set of audiences, from daily commuters to infrequent travellers. Seven key considerations for successful campaigns: understanding audience segments, data-driven insights, multi-channel strategy, inclusive communication, hyperlocal expertise, seasonal and event-based campaigns, and sustainability.

10 Key Advantages for Public Transport Travellers in the UK

Public transport in the UK

Public transport in the UK is more than getting from A to B: ten benefits of buses, trains and the tube, from cutting carbon emissions and easing congestion to saving money, supporting local economies, opening up employment and fostering community connections.

Public Transport: Planning Your Journey

Railway bridge - planning public transport journeys

Planning New Year journeys? Public transport usage grew in 2023, consumer expectations keep rising, journey-planning apps keep growing, and AI is improving timetables and trust. Six reasons why transport advertisers should always connect with audiences before the journey, from live data to celebrating positive travel stories.