Digital billboards · South Africa

Bringing brands to life.

Digital billboards at traffic-light intersections across South Africa.Pioneers in digital billboard advertising since 1996.

Alive's digital billboard over the M1 at the Houghton flyover, above slow traffic at sunset

Motion advert by InfoDasher: the Alive mark draws itself in light, becomes an LED screen showing 1996 and multiplies into a lattice of 80+ sites, then a map of South Africa fills province by province, "Across all 9 provinces", and the Alive Advertising logo lands with "Bringing Brands to Life" and aliveadv.co.za.

The M1 at the Houghton flyover. Motion adverts by InfoDasher on Alive's own site photos.
Alive's photo of the Sandton · Benmore intersection: cars queued at a red light under an Alive digital billboard

Stack Burger Co.

Sample

Double stack.

R59

Drive-thru open late · 1 km ahead

Sandton · Benmore. Alive's photo; sample adverts on its screen.

What happens at a red light

  1. 1

    The light turns red.

    Drivers stop at the intersection, facing the screen.

  2. 2

    They wait 45 to 70 seconds.

    Alive calls it a captured audience.

  3. 3

    Your advert plays in rotation.

    8–15 second spots in rotation.

Change messaging in just seconds.

A restaurant can flight a breakfast, lunch and supper special by time of day.

Find your audience

82 sites on the 2021 and 2026 lists

  • Rural & Township

    9 of 9 provinces

    45 sites grouped from the 2021 and 2026 site lists

    45.2M+ traffic a month

    From rural to urban we reach them all.

  • Premium

    14 sites18.9M+ traffic a month

  • Retail

    4 sites7.3M+ traffic a month

  • Mass Market

    19 sites58.0M traffic a month

  • Highways

    11 sites29.1M+ traffic a month

Alberton / MeyersdalBalfourSandton · BenmoreBraamfonteinBramley / Corlett DriveBrumaCarnival CityCrestaEast RandEpsom DownsGraystonRidgeway · Joburg SouthKemptonKyalamiM1 North · Houghton flyoverM1 South · Houghton flyoverRandburgRosebank / Parktown NorthSowetoStrubensTembisaThe Glen / OakdeneWynbergHatfieldPrinshofGezinaMontanaQueenswoodEast London - FleetEast London - MooreEast London - OxfordEast London - LukinEast London - TerminusKing William's TownMount AyliffMount FrereMthatha - NelsonMthatha - PlazaMdantsaneQueenstown - KomaniQueenstown - CathcartButterworthVredeDundeeEmpangeniKokstadNewcastleGiyaniMakhadoPolokwane N1Thohoyandou - Mphephu DrThohoyandou - Taxi RankTzaneen - Danie JoubertTzaneen - SapekoeBethalMiddelburgNelspruit Bus TerminalWitbankRustenburgKimberleyClaremontBloemfontein · FleurdalBallito · M4Pietermaritzburg · ScottsvillePietermaritzburg · Chatterton Rd (3 × 12 m)Durban · HillcrestDurban · KwaMashuDurban · ChatsworthPietermaritzburg · Chatterton Rd (3 × 6 m)Durban · OverportMbombela · SonparkMbombela · SteiltesMbombela · The CrossingMbombela · VintoniaPolokwane CBDPolokwane CentralMokopane CBDGeorge · PacaltsdorpMbombela · Andrew StCenturionRustenburg CBDRustenburg · R24 Gateway

Nine provinces. One network.

82 sites on Alive's national site list (August 2021) and OMC inventory (July 2026).

Alive's own count: more than 80 sites in all nine provinces

  • Gauteng29 sites on the map,25 in Alive's 2026 count
  • Eastern Cape14 sites on the map,17 in Alive's 2026 count
  • Free State2 sites on the map,2 in Alive's 2026 count
  • KwaZulu-Natal12 sites on the map,10 in Alive's 2026 count
  • Limpopo10 sites on the map,11 in Alive's 2026 count
  • Mpumalanga9 sites on the map,8 in Alive's 2026 count
  • North West3 sites on the map,4 in Alive's 2026 count
  • Northern Cape1 site on the map,1 in Alive's 2026 count
  • Western Cape2 sites on the map,2 in Alive's 2026 count

From brief to report.

  1. Creative Support

    Adverts can be supplied or designed by our in-house team of designers.

    Simple. Bold. Legible. Brief.

  2. Campaign Planning

    Rotate locations, and choose the time, day or month your adverts flight.

    Spots from one day to one year.

  3. Campaign Reporting

    Proof of flighting reports, campaign achievement reports and Broadsign programmatic reporting.

    Platforms: Broadsign and Hivestack

  4. Post-Campaign Reporting

    Results you can take to your next planning meeting.

    Audience data from OMC and Seedooh.

A sample campaign on an Alive screen, from design to report.

Work that ran on the network.

  • Betway

    Used the network across a national footprint, with creative flexibility.

  • Dial-a-Bed

    Showed the branch closest to each sign, driving people to the store.

  • Ster-Kinekor and KFC

    Ran high-quality video creative.

8 out of 10 of South Africa's most valuable brands advertise with Alive Advertising

32 Advertisers

  • Mercedes-Benz
  • FNB
  • Betway
  • Coca-Cola
  • Kia
  • Fedisa Fashion School
  • Rosebank College
  • PepsiCo
  • RocoMamas
  • Unilever
  • Showmax
  • MTN
  • Leroy Merlin
  • Samsung
  • Dial-a-Bed
  • Makro
  • National Lottery
  • KFC
  • Boston City Campus
  • McDonald's
  • AB InBev
  • Mall of Africa
  • Ster-Kinekor
  • Tiger Brands
  • Nedbank
  • GSK
  • Nando's
  • Vodacom
  • Chery
  • SABC
  • Goldwagen
  • Standard Bank

07 Agency partners

  • M&C Saatchi
  • OMG Omnicom Media Group
  • GroupM
  • The MediaShop
  • dentsu
  • Vizeum
  • PHD

the leader and pioneer in this space

Mervyn Naidu, Mediamark The Media Online, November 2018

You can’t skip a billboard.

  • Since its inception in 1996, Alive Advertising has been at the forefront of transforming traditional outdoor advertising

    Ari Arenstein, CEO, Alive Advertising OOH Central, May 2024
  • network outdoor advertising is the last remaining mass medium

    Rishad Tobaccowala, Publicis Groupe via Adobe Blog, March 2016

Your advert, either way.

Supplied

Got artwork? Send it.

Our LED design guidelines help it read from the road.

Choose fonts that are easy to read from different viewing distances, such as large, bold fonts.

Put it to the red-light test

Designed in-house

Need an advert? We'll design it.

Our graphic design team works closely with clients to understand their goals, target audience and brand personality, and designs to suit them.

Kettle & Co.

Sample

Breakfast is on.

R45

Coffee and a toastie · next left

Sample adverts
Meet the studio

Ready when you are.

Pick your sites, tell us the dates, and we'll come back with a plan.

Plan my campaign
Alive Advertising

Site details

Alberton / Meyersdal

ALV-013 × 4 m

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The site

Size (H × L)
Traffic / month
Alive site list, Aug 2021
LSM
Audiences
Province
Address

Within 1 km

      Distances are in a straight line from the pin. Places and map data © OpenStreetMap contributors; map style © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles.