Shamy Naidu

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 [...]

Shamy Naidu, Executive at Transit Ads recently had a chat with the FM Redzone and Arye Kellman on the topic of why brands are making increased use of train station advertising. Shamy notes how approximately 21,5 million commuters make use of public transport on a daily basis with about 1/4, or 5,5m traveling through rail infrastructure daily. They are economically active decision makers, so in this respect they are influencers.  This is ideal for advertisers in terms of wanting to engage with these decision makers. They have a choice of what brands they use, and provides an ideal opportunity for [...]

Shamendran Naidu, Executive: Transit Ads™ shares key research insights into how and why digital television network TRANSIT.TV delivers highly effective, incremental reach when bundled with terrestrial TV campaigns. As marketers, we know that TV viewing is no longer limited to the living room. Today’s viewers watch what they want, when they want across multiple devices and screens. In this respect there is no doubt that television viewing has become fragmented and this is posing a challenge for brands and agencies. So how do you maintain reach and continue to influence viewers? We conducted a research study with Kantar Millward Brown [...]

Shamy Naidu, Executive: Transit Ads™ outlines the milestones on the growth trajectory of national digital television channel TRANSIT.TV™. In 2007 Provantage Media Group launched an in-taxi television channel called Provantage Transit TV. It aired in 500 taxi nationwide to an audience of just over 2 million consumers in the primary metropolitan areas of Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu Natal and the Western Cape. The channel offered entertaining, informative and relevant content. The idea was borne out of a marketing need for a unique out of home visual communication touchpoint that ran 365 days a year to a highly sought-after commuter audience. The groundbreaking [...]

Shamy Naidu, Executive: Transit Ads™ outlines the need for authentic data within the realm of out of home advertising, especially when it comes to the transit environment. Over the past few years we’ve been witness to an enormous growth within the transit environment in South Africa. Public Transport nodes and facilities have been upgraded, extended and added to. We’ve seen the inception of the Gautrain, the BRT and IRT systems and overall, most bus, rail and taxi facilities across the country have had a significant makeover. Information and advertising and the way we access it, consume it and share it [...]

Shamy Naidu, Executive of out of home transit environment specialist Transit Ads™ outlines the new taxi advertising regulations as recently gazetted by the South African Department of Transport. On the 18th of August 2017, the Department of Transport gazetted the new taxi branding and advertising regulations. The new regulations affect how brands and media owners advertise on minibus taxis. Unfortunately, the broader advertising and media industry was not consulted during the lead up to the proclamation of the new regulations. The decision to implement these changes followed a process of exclusive interaction between government, taxi bosses and taxi associations. It [...]

Transit Ads is proud to announce the launch of an exciting content driven TRANSIT.TV™ partnership with leading entertainment digital platform SlikourOnLife. The site, currently one of the top 1 000 websites in South Africa, shares information on urban culture and music. It features videos and interviews to give substance to the music and musicians who may not have access to traditional platforms, and provides an accessible place for their videos. Content which is engaging, interesting and relevant is critical in terms of ensuring that consumers and commuters  remain engaged with the TRANSIT.TV™ channel.  The addition of entertainment and music content [...]

Rebranding is akin to a business adopting a new look, and success is not necessarily assured. Courage and planning are two essential ingredients that put to rest fears that wrong decisions are being made. media update’s Adam Wakefield spoke to Shamy Naidu, executive at Transit Ads™, about how the recent rebranding sought to establish Transit Ads™ as its own brand and highlight specialisation within the Provantage Media Group.  Read the interview here: (more…)