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Covid-19: Liverpool firm behind fleet of 'ad-vans' pushing social distancing messaging across the country

Huge Media Advertising has worked with councils across Oldham, Pendle, Calderdale and Leicester to push Government messaging about staying safe during Covid

Neil Richards with one of the Huge Media Advertising vans

A Merseyside firm is behind the growing fleet of "mobile billboards" pushing the social distancing message in Covid hotspots around the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ.

Huge Media Advertising says it's been seen as "ideal" for reaching target audiences in areas like Oldham, Pendle, Calderdale and Leicester, where infection rates have spiked.

The Speke-based company said it continues to work with public health chiefs to push the social distancing messages, which were in hot demand most recently on GCSE results day when teenagers traditionally gather together.

The billboards are normally used to advertise the products, services and events of private and public companies.

Launched by managing director Neil Richards in 2011 with one sales rep, the firm now employs eight people and has just moved to a fully equipped 3,500 sq ft warehouse in Speke.

Mr Richards said the ad-vans have proved an ideal way of taking the social distancing message into communities because of their mobility and agility.

He said: “Because our ad-vans are mobile, with two 6m x 3m poster sides and a large rear panel, this gives over 40sq metres of advertising space.

“Advertising can be targeted towards a chosen demographic with strategic positioning, plus the targeting of arterial roads and areas with heavy footfall. More and more businesses and public bodies are turning to this form of outdoor advertising.