subway ad

Underground train promotion

A subway ad is an advertisement displayed in or on subway trains and stations—posters on platform walls, panels inside train cars, or digital screens throughout the transit system.

The captive audience of commuters makes these spaces valuable for advertisers: I kept staring at the same subway ad for twenty minutes.

The term sometimes evokes low-budget or quirky marketing: It looked like a subway ad for a personal injury lawyer.

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