Bauer Media Outdoor celebrates landmark installation of the 2500th Adshel Live panel
02 Mar 2021 / News
The milestone installation further solidifies Adshel Live as the UK’s largest Digital Out of Home network and Bauer Media Outdoor as Out of Home industry leader for national digital reach.
This month, 539 celebrates the installation of its2500th Adshel Livepanel. The completion of the build in Leicester helps solidify Adshel Live as the UK’s largest Digital Out of Home network, capable ofamighty eightmillion impacts dailyand an impressive, nearly 50%weekly reach.
Adshel Live’s wide national presence – fromAberdeen toPortsmouth- puts it within walking distance of over 50,000 high street retailers, many of which will be preparing to re-open their doors on April 12th, thanksto the easing of Government restrictions.
Retail experts are anticipating a boom in consumer spending in the weeks and months following the return of non-essentialretail. The combined reach and impacts of Adshel Livehave the ability toinfluence up to £5.4bn of consumer spend.
Richard Bon, Bauer Media Outdoor’s JointManaging Director, says:“Despite the uncertainty and challenges of the past 12 months, Adshel Live has been hugely resilient as a format.Thanks to its growing presence onlocal high streets as well asinlarger city centres, it continued to be a vital broadcast medium for public service messaging and supporting localbusinesses.”
“Now, as we’relooking towards aspring andsummer of dramatically reducedrestrictions, and people are desperate to get back outside,Adshel Live isthere stronger than ever and willundoubtedlybecome an icon for the renaissance of Out of Home. The timing of this landmark could not be better.”

A multi-million-poundinvestment kick-started the Adshel Live journey and the first screen took root in Cardiff in 2015. Though 2020 saw the network’s expansionslow down, the company wasstill abletoinstalla new screen every1.5dayson average.Those installs have taken place innew areassuch asLeicester,Camden,Barking andDagenham, as well asin existing areas, such as Newcastleand Birmingham, helping tobolsterthe network’s footprint.
In2021, the companyaimsto return to its usual pace, withan additional 500screens expectedto be installedbefore the end of the year.
Adshel Live is not alone in driving Bauer Media Outdoor’s position asthe 539industry leader for national digital reach. The ambitious expansion of Billboard Live has seen the company’s digital 48-sheetnetworknearly doublein the past 12 months. Sights are now firmly set on Billboard Live’s 250thinstall, expected to take place in the coming months.
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