Live advertising and guest WiFi in vacant units. Owners cut holding costs. Local businesses take the window - free to apply.
400+ UK sites · live in under a week · sessions recorded in the evidence pack
We put a live advertising and guest WiFi operation into the vacant unit. That is what makes the rates case real - and what puts a brand back on the high street.
Compliant occupation with a real commercial service in the building - typically around half off holding costs, live in under a week, evidence pack ready if a council asks.
Printed shopfront display plus your business on the free guest WiFi portal every visitor sees. Designed and installed by us. Free tier for independents; paid and featured placements available.
One live advertising and WiFi service does the work in the unit. Pick the door that matches how you meet the empty property.
We run live advertising and guest WiFi in the void - real commercial use, continuous evidence, no charity workaround, no guardian liability, no box-shifting.
If you are on a lease with empty floors, a stalled fit-out, or dilaps hanging over a void, the calculator gives you hard numbers to take to your landlord - and a substance story they can actually act on.
Live advertising occupation, not boxes. Refer once, earn on every cycle. We handle qualification, install, evidence and reporting - you stay the trusted advisor.
Empty shopfronts become local advertising space: a printed display in the window, plus your business on the captive portal every visitor sees when they join our free public WiFi. Designed and installed by us. Free for independents; featured placements available.
Not sure which one you are? Tell us about the property and we'll route you to the right team.
The same stack runs the advertising, serves the WiFi, and builds the evidence pack that owners and advisors need.
Routers, guest WiFi and a live captive portal that promote local businesses from day one.
Clear pricing, live status updates, no hidden conditions, ever.
Optimised relief cycles to minimise vacant holding costs.
Window displays and portal promotions that put a real brand back on an empty frontage.
Uptime telemetry and WiFi session records assembled while the occupation runs - ready before anyone asks.
Go live in under a week, minimal disruption, maximum impact.
After the Court of Appeal’s 48th Street ruling, occupation with no use beyond rate saving is not occupation at all. VacatAd runs advertising and guest WiFi in the unit - commercial use with independent utility, evidenced while it runs.
Pure rate-mitigation occupation is not occupation at all. Boxes failed. A live advertising and WiFi service with independent utility is the line the court left standing. Plain English, what changed, and what to ask your provider.
Read the explainerAdvertising goes live in the unit. Evidence accumulates while it runs. Rates relief follows a real service.
We check rates fit and whether the unit works for advertising and WiFi.
Connectivity, portal, and window creative go in - typically within a week.
Advertising and guest WiFi operate for the full occupation period.
Session records and telemetry assembled while the occupation runs.
Relief resets on the back of a real service - holding costs come down.
We deploy connectivity and a live guest WiFi portal that promote local businesses - with telemetry and session records feeding the evidence pack.
Assess → install advertising and WiFi → run the portal → bank the evidence → reset relief. Owners cut holding costs. Local businesses take the window. Advisors get a story that stands up.
Plain English on empty rates, 48th Street, and what a real service in the building looks like.
Thanet has served final letting notices on nine vacant shops. Ipswich is lining up a designation. The vacancy test that unlocks those powers is not the same as rateable occupation, and a shopfront used only for advertising will not reset it.
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The High Court upheld Bradford's liability order against a faith-lease rates scheme that left a former bank with no electric lighting and no evidence of worship. How A&P68 applies Rossendale, and why paper ownership no longer shifts empty rates.
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On 29 July 2026 the Court of Appeal ruled that occupation whose only point is a rates saving is not occupation at all. Box shifting is finished. Genuine, evidenced occupation is not. The judgment in plain English, what it changes, and what every owner should ask their mitigation provider.
Read the piece →Fifteen minutes is enough. We'll work out whether you need rates relief, free local advertising, or both - share real numbers, and only push it forward if it stacks up.
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Same advertising and WiFi install. Different way in - depending on how you meet the empty unit.