The Birth Of The Vehicle Wrapping Industry

By:Raheem Quadri




As lifestyles became faster than ever, the only way for marketers to stay abreast with their clients is to catch up with their speeds -- thus, the birth of mobile ads and the vehicle wrapping industry.The trend is believed to have started with long-haul trucks in the mid-90s. Since these vehicles travel great distances, advertisers saw an opportunity to reach a wider audience by placing colorful vinyl ads on their bodies. And, because it proved effective in generating recall, delivery trucks and vans followed suit. Before long, vinyl graphics were on all types of vehicles, like cars, motorcycles, buses, and even planes and hot air balloons.

Even the racing world caught on. What started with simple vinyl decals and stickers has now evolved into a full-body finish of the racers' sponsors. Even road racers embraced the trend and took to vinyl graphics to give their respective vehicles edgy looks.

Vehicle wrapping is not just aesthetic, it is also functional. The philosophy of vehicle wrapping rests on the fact that not do the interestingly designed graphics catch attention, they also encompass a wider clientele by virtue of being always in motion.

If you're stuck in traffic and starting to get annoyed, a bus wrapped in humorous ads will be a welcome sight. If you're beginning to feel bored while waiting in between train stops, vinyl decals on the train's body will serve as effective amusement. And because these ads kept up with you during your long commute or drive home or to the office, you are more likely to remember them than the full-page colored ad you saw while reading the newspaper.

How did we get to this point, you might ask? Plain ingenuity. Because human behavior is fickle and attention spans are short, nothing would impact greater recall than ads that move -- and not just that, move alongside present lifestyle speeds. And vehicle wraps provide just that. This is why it is not surprising that it continues to grow every.

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