My Favorite Examples Of Ingenious Bus Advertising (72 Pics)

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 King Kong Movie

#6 SF: Americans Abroad, Vote!

Image credits: Uncle Grey

#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 Keep Holland Clean Foundation: Garbage Bus

Image credits: GREY Amsterdam

#14 International Organization For Migration

Image credits: McCann

#15 Nice Legs

#16 Dallas Morning News: More Reporters. More Reporting

#17 Duracell

#18 Compassion In World Farming: Stop Live Exports

Image credits: Elvis

#19 Careerbuilder: Don’t Jump

Image credits: The Martin Agency

#20 Copenhagen Zoo: The Giant Pandas Have Landed

Image credits: Advice A/S

#21 Bad Weather, Perfect Timing

Image credits: Mocomedia

#22 Dr. Best Flexible Toothbrush

Image credits: Kim Sokola&Julia Neumann

#23 Visa, Wellington On A Plate Culinary Festival

Image credits: TBWA

#24 Bernmobil: Airport Bus

Image credits: Neue Lgk

#25 All Laundry Detergent Bus

#26 X-Games: Real Street Skate Festival

Image credits: Kit Walker Associates

#27 Toydirect.com: Batteries

Image credits: Robson Brown Ltd.

#28 Smint: "Bus Opened-Doors"

Image credits: DDB Barcelona

#29 Nzdating.com

Image credits: Draft, New Zealand

#30 Optical Illusion

#31 Air New Zealand

Image credits: mikebarti

#32 Tabasco Bus

Image credits: duvalguillaume

#33 Mercedes: Glow In The Dark Bus

Image credits: FHV BBDO

#34 Tiernitos Dog Food

#35 Potawatomi Zoo

Image credits: extracreditprojects

#36 Toy Bus: Children’s Charity

#37 Eyes

#38 Canon's Bus Ad

#39 Seriously Transparent Capital Metro Buses

Image credits: bigpicture

#40 Compassion In World Farming: Stop Live Exports

Image credits: Elvis

#41 Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo

Image credits: /hireimagination

#42 National Council Against Smoking In The US

Image credits: Lowe Bull, Johannesburg, South Africa

#43 Burger King

Image credits: BurgerKingUK

#44 Weight Watchers

Image credits: Lowe

#45 Community First Credit Union: Flexible Bus

Image credits: I.D.E.A.S.

#46 Kontanten: Wallet

"ATMs close by"

Image credits: Faltman & Malmen

#47 Outofhomedia: Ad Block This

Image credits: &Co

#48 Topfit: Exceed. Be At The Top

Image credits: martpet

#49 Just One Bite

#50 Use The Crosswalk

#51 Seattle Mariners Bus Back Scoreboard

Image credits: mister_pjm

#52 Domestos

Image credits: Point Of View

#53 Field Museum

Image credits: Vector media

#54 Stuck

#55 Shanghai Essilor Optical Co. Anti-Fatigue Lenses

Image credits: Grey

#56 Weight Watchers: Watch Yourself Change

#57 Asics New York Marathon Sponsor

Image credits: Vitro Robertson

#58 Daiya Foods: Hard To Notice

Image credits: TDA_Boulder

#59 Road Safety Message

Image credits: Saatchi & Saatchi Simko

#60 Hell On Weels

Image credits: Entertainment One

#61 The Real Housewives

Image credits: Miami Ad School

#62 Air India: Air Travel At Land Travel Fares

Image credits: MudraDDB

#63 Limo Bus: In An Absolut World

#64 ZVV Public Transportation

One ticket for everything.

Image credits: Publicis

#65 Rocky Rococo Pizza

Image credits: JustusGS

#66 Air New Zealand

Image credits: mikebarti

#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 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

#72 Air New Zealand

Image credits: mikebarti