Taxi Advertising in Westminster
The busiest borough on the report. Westminster is where a London taxi campaign spends more of its week than anywhere else, and the borough where we can show you, by daypart and by vehicle, that it actually did.
Why Westminster carries a taxi campaign
Westminster sits in Zone 1, central London, for a simple reason: taxis spend more productive time there than anywhere else in the city.
- Where the cabs already are
- Taxi advertising is unlike a fixed billboard: you are not buying a site, you are buying the time a working vehicle spends in a place. Westminster is where black cabs naturally accumulate that time. The government quarter, the West End theatres, the Victoria and Charing Cross termini and the hotel trade all generate cab journeys that begin or end inside the borough. You do not have to route a campaign into Westminster; the working day does it for you.
- Slow traffic is an advantage here
- The thing that makes Westminster difficult to drive through is the thing that makes it valuable to advertise in. Congestion around Parliament Square, Piccadilly and the Strand means a wrapped cab is stationary or crawling in front of dense pedestrian traffic for long stretches: the Zone 1 profile we describe as highest footfall, longest dwell time. A panel that would flash past in outer London is legible for seconds at a time here.
- Proven, not projected
- Most out-of-home sold as covering Westminster is sold on a modelled estimate. Because the Helix Pay metering platform is already in these cabs, we report the borough from the vehicle's own GPS trail: the hours it was on street, the split by daypart, and which vehicles delivered them. If a campaign underdelivers in Westminster, the report says so.
What the sample report shows in Westminster
These are the Westminster figures from the illustrative sample delivery report on our homepage, the same document shape a live campaign produces. It is illustrative: the shape and structure of a real report, not a real campaign.
- of the sample campaign's total on-street time was spent in Westminster
- 14%
- the daypart the borough peaks in across the sample
- Daytime
- the zone the report places Westminster in: Central
- Zone 1
Your own campaign reports the same way, from the vehicle's GPS trail rather than a model. See the full sample report, or read how pricing works.
Ways to run in Westminster
Every format runs on the same GPS-logged fleet, so the Westminster reporting is identical whichever you book.
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No. 1 Full wrap
Total exterior coverage: the biggest canvas in the fleet.
3-month minimum
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No. 2 Supersides
Full-length side panels at a lower entry cost than a wrap.
1-month minimum
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No. 3 Tip seats
Eye-level advertising for every passenger, every ride.
1 month when bundled with supersides; 3 on their own
Westminster is usually the first borough a brief asks for and the easiest to over-promise on. We would rather quote you a realistic share of a campaign's time there and then prove it, than sell you a number nobody ever checks.
Other London boroughs we report on
A campaign is rarely one borough. We cover all 33 London boroughs; these are the other Zone 1 areas with dedicated pages, and the sample report breaks down 16 in total.
- City of London 11% of the sample campaign's on-street time, peaking am peak. Taxi advertising in the City
- Camden 10% of the sample campaign's on-street time, peaking pm peak. Taxi advertising in Camden
- Every borough in the sample The full 16-borough breakdown, with hours and share of time for each. See the sample report
Free coverage forecast
See this for your area.
Tell us where your customers are. We’ll email you how much time a 25-cab campaign would spend on the move there each week, when it’s busiest, and a heat map of your patch.
- From the last 28 days of our fleet’s GPS.
- Up to five postcode areas or boroughs.
- In your inbox within a few minutes.
Tell us the campaign. We'll send a price.
Share your budget, timing and target areas. We'll come back with a clear, fixed price for a campaign weighted toward Westminster, and the delivery reporting that backs it up.
- One fixed price, agreed before you commit.
- Format guidance if you are not sure which fits a Westminster campaign.
- No obligation: this starts as a conversation.
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