Bristol DOOH · Broadmead · Harbourside · Stokes Croft · June 2026
A West Country metro near 710,000 above the Avon Gorge, from Broadmead to the Harbourside to Stokes Croft, bookable by the hour, priced per play, matched to how Bristol actually moves.
Bristol billboard and DOOH (digital out-of-home) costs span from a few cents per play on urban panels to premium Broadmead, Stokes Croft and landmark networks. On Blindspot, Bristol screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.34, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Bristol play isn't one screen for a month. It's the right screens at the right hours: the arteries at commute peak, the malls through the afternoon, the nightlife and tourist cores after dark.
Billboard ranking points
Scored by Blindspot's location intelligence on visibility, dwell time, and footfall (directional, 1–10). Every one is bookable by the hour on the platform.
Broadmead and Cabot Circus form the open-air shopping core and the busiest pedestrian flow in the centre.
The floating harbour, the M Shed and the Wapping Wharf food sheds carry dense leisure, dining and visitor traffic.
The Park Street hill, the Triangle and the Clifton approach pack independents, bars and a young university crowd.
The Stokes Croft murals and the Gloucester Road independents draw a creative going-out crowd after dark.
Temple Meads station and the enterprise zone carry rail commuters and a growing daytime office crowd.
The M32 spur and the city ring carry the daily commute from the suburbs into the centre.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Bristol's media owners, Ocean Outdoor, Clear Channel UK, Global among them, onto one map, bookable by the hour. Below: real partner screens across the city's prime zones.
Imagery from media-owner/operator partners. Locations indicative; live availability and per-screen pricing show in the platform.
Formats
From a highway bulletin to a single mall screen, Blindspot puts Bristol's digital out-of-home and classic OOH formats on one map, each priced per play and bookable by the hour. The formats that matter here:
Large-format LED on highways, bridges and boulevards, motion, dayparting and dynamic triggers.
Pedestrian-scale panels and citylights in high-footfall retail and downtown corridors.
Highway and arterial bulletins built for commuter frequency on the busiest routes.
High-intent shoppers from midday to evening across the city's retail destinations.
First Bus and m3 MetroBus shelter screens plus stations and place-based screens with captive dwell.
Landmark and spectacular placements for brand statements in the city's signature locations.
Location insights
Bristol runs on its harbour, its creative industries and its independent streak. Mornings load the M32 and the MetroBus toward the Broadmead and Cabot Circus retail core; lunch fills Park Street, the floating Harbourside and the Wapping Wharf sheds; evenings pull crowds to the Stokes Croft and Gloucester Road bars and the Stokes Croft street art; weekends fill the Harbourside Festival and the Balloon Fiesta. The two universities keep term-time footfall high. Buy the MetroBus morning peak and the Harbourside and Stokes Croft evening.
Harbourside and the main arteries surge 7:30–10 AM and 5–8 PM. Book exactly those hours and your frequency climbs for the same budget.
Stokes Croft and the city's malls hold heavy footfall from noon to evening, long windows where dwell and shopping intent, not rush, do the work.
Broadmead shifts from daytime to social and tourism after dark. Different audience, same screens, swap the creative, not the location.
Location intelligence summary
Bristol doesn't have one rush hour; it has rotating audiences sharing the same streets. The only buying model that matches that is hourly: pay for the windows when your audience owns the city, skip the ones when it doesn't.
| Objective | Book these zones | Best hours |
|---|---|---|
| Brand launch | Broadmead + Harbourside | 6–11 PM |
| Commuter frequency | Park Street, Harbourside | 7:30–10 AM · 5–8 PM |
| Retail foot traffic | Stokes Croft, Broadmead | 12–8 PM |
| B2B / decision-makers | Temple Quarter, Harbourside | Weekdays 9 AM–6 PM |
| Tourism & events | Broadmead, M32 | 10 AM–8 PM |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Bristol’s proven peak windows, and typically saves 30%+ versus a flat four-week flight.
Morning commuters read in 2 seconds; evening crowds dwell for minutes. Run different creative by hour on the same screens, even trigger swaps on weather or live data.
Every play is logged. Blindspot campaigns report verified plays and attribution, measured against control groups, not estimated reach.
The zones above already draw a specific buyer: aerospace and advanced engineering commuting the M32 corridor toward Filton, where Airbus, Rolls-Royce and GKN Aerospace anchor one of Europe's largest clusters of aerospace engineers (see DOOH for B2B), and animation and creative production around Harbourside, home to Aardman Animations' Gas Ferry Road studio, maker of Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.
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Pricing · updated June 2026
Per-play prices, not CPM mysteries. Live per-screen pricing and real-time availability are on every card in the platform; the ranges below reflect typical Blindspot pricing as of June 2026.
| Format | Price per play | Typical presence | Why it works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broadmead retail digital | from ~$0.54 per play | $100 buys hourly bursts in the shopping core | pedestrian shopper dwell |
| Harbourside leisure digital | from ~$0.50 per play | the floating harbour and food sheds | leisure and visitor audiences |
| Park Street independent digital | from ~$0.46 per play | the Park Street and Triangle hill | younger student crowds |
| Stokes Croft nightlife digital | from ~$0.42 per play | the street-art and bar district | creative going-out crowds |
| First Bus shelter screens | from ~$0.35 per play | shelters across the bus network | walk-up urban commuters |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Bristol screen: the format (pricing runs higher on first Bus shelter screens than on broadmead retail digital), the zone (Broadmead & Cabot Circus carries the highest footfall premium), the daypart (peak commute and evening hours price above the overnight lull), and how far in advance you book, since the busiest zones and formats sell out first.
What a campaign costs
Because you pay per play and schedule by the hour, your budget buys the exposure you actually need, not filler plays, so it works as hard on a big campaign as on a small one, with no minimum. Here's what budgets realistically buy. Live numbers per screen are in the platform.
City-centre test
A week of daytime and evening bursts in Broadmead and on the Harbourside.
Multi-zone Bristol push
Broadmead, the Harbourside and Park Street running together across peak dayparts.
Bristol flagship
Full centre and Harbourside saturation timed to the Harbourside Festival and the Balloon Fiesta.
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, Ocean Outdoor, Clear Channel UK, Global among them, so you're leasing airtime on an existing structure, not erecting a new one.
Specs vary by screen: orientation, resolution and file format differ from one panel to the next. Every screen shows its exact requirements in the platform before you upload, so there's no separate spec sheet to track down before you book.
Yes, on Blindspot every Bristol screen is bookable by the hour with no minimum contract, so you can buy only the commute peaks, shopping afternoons, or evening windows that match your audience.
Blindspot aggregates digital out-of-home inventory across Bristol onto one map, roadside and boulevard screens, transit, mall and place-based panels, bookable per play. The wider OOH supply is run by operators such as Ocean Outdoor, Clear Channel UK, Global.
Often within hours: upload, pass creative pre-check, and digital screens need no printing or installation. Content approval typically averages around two business days across networks.
A multi-day hourly presence on a high-traffic Harbourside corridor, a concentrated burst across the busiest transit and retail screens at peak hours, or thousands of plays on central urban panels.
No. Blindspot has no minimums, retainers or platform fees; you can run a focused hourly burst on a single screen or a full multi-zone Bristol campaign.
How to book
No sales calls, no contracts, self-serve from the map to live creative.
01
Open the map, filter Bristol by zone and format, and select the exact screens and the exact hours your audience is out.
02
Every screen shows its price per play and real-time availability before you commit. Build the plan; the running total is always visible.
03
Upload creative, pass pre-check, and go live, often within hours. Track verified plays and attribution as the campaign runs.
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