Categories: Locations & Markets

Best Places to Put Billboards

Advertising is all about location, and that applies to billboards, too.

Whether you’re choosing which social platform to leverage or which high-traffic businesses to target for flyering, strategic placement is the key to any successful ad.

Don’t spray and splatter your messages across cities and towns hoping for good outcomes; use researched and proven methods, most of which rely on knowing where the right placement is. Here are the keys to the billboard advertising kingdom.

1

High-Traffic Urban Centers

From college towns to vast city squares in metropolitan areas, high-traffic spots in densely populated locations are the most profitable for billboards and show the highest return on investment (ROI).

Times Square, NYC
Seoul
London

These are synonymous with lucrative advertising because hundreds of thousands of people pass through every single day. Foot traffic affects pricing, but it also makes these the best places to reach countless viewers and catapult your message toward maximum exposure.

2

Major Highways & Interstates

Don’t you hate traffic? So does everyone, but traffic and highly populated roadways like highways and interstates are some of the best places for billboard advertising. During traffic hours especially, drivers are in a captive environment and can’t help but look at the messaging around them.

30–70KHighway billboards can reach anywhere from 30,000 to 70,000 drivers daily simply by existing on the roadside.
3

Airports & Transit Hubs

Millions of travelers pass through airports every year. The busiest airport in the world has over 100 million travelers annually. Airports and transit hubs are also home to a very specific and valuable audience: tourists.

Tourists have higher disposable income and look to enhance their travel experience any way they can, making them more likely to respond to vacation-oriented messaging and imagery.
Billboards reach a lot of viewers at baseline. Strategic placement is what makes your message truly soar.

Takeaway Notes

Billboards are high-impact, attention-commanding forms of advertising. Place them strategically, and your brand, business, and message will reach a whole new level.

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Michael Vargulin

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