Nowadays, we are watching so many advertisements, wherever we go right from the pan shop to departmental stores, railway stations, bus depot, on pillars, on walls etc.

The new forms of advertising are wall paintings, electric board, neon sign board, acrylic board, sandwich board, florescent lights and lots more. But all these methods consume lot of electricity.

These electric boards create a startling impact on people, they can be placed at high traffic areas, the various sizes, shapes and illumination and to grab more attention of people there are certain 3-dimensional effects in these boards.

A lot of creativity can be used on these boards and they provide visibility from a distance. They appear 24 hours a day without fail with the help of light and vinyl colours. They can be used as directional like pointing out the locations. It’s a good way to remind the audience about the product which is being advertised. Ad agencies in Mumbai hardly fail to create a stir.

Disadvantages: It demands that the message should be brief and simple, so it’s relatively difficult to communicate about the product details. The construction of new boards is restricted by cost, space availability and certain codes of municipality and regulations of environments act. The fragmented nature of ownership of these media makes it difficult for the advertisers. Obstruction by streetlamps, trees, branches which makes it of no use. Sometimes it may lead to wastage of resources and adversely affect the beauty of this city. Even illegal boards create loss of revenues to the respective government.

The media agencies in Mumbai are trying hard to deliver rich advertisements in form of videos, apps based adverts on mobile devices, social media adverts which not only make the environment cleaner and healthier but also reaches straight to the user’s lap and pockets.

In this new tech savvy world, viral videos have also become a great way of advertising, these videos serves as a promotional vehicle which helps in replacing the conventional ways of advertising. People nowadays spends a very less time in reading newspapers and listening to radio, as the newer ways of advertising like videos, social media ads and mobile based ads are readily available to the users and can generate more earnings for companies.