Colorado Springs DOOH · Downtown · Old Colorado City · I-25 · June 2026
Colorado Springs has 101 screens on Blindspot across 4 formats, from the Old Colorado City shops to the Citadel to the I-25 commute. Most are cinema screens, about $0.15 a play; office-building screens run about $0.07, across 19 of them. Priced per play, booked by the hour.
Colorado Springs billboard and DOOH (digital out-of-home) costs span from a few cents per play on urban panels to premium Downtown, Air Force Academy and landmark networks. On Blindspot, Colorado Springs screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.27, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Colorado Springs 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
Directional 1–10 scores based on zone type and footfall, not audited measurements. Every zone is bookable by the hour on the platform.
The Tejon Street core carries dense office traffic by day and the city's main dining and going-out crowd after dark.
The historic district along West Colorado Avenue draws galleries, boutiques and a steady visitor and dining crowd near Garden of the Gods.
The Citadel mall and the North Academy Boulevard corridor anchor the metro's main year-round retail intercept.
The Air Force Academy and the UCCS campus draw a young military and student audience and surge on game and graduation days.
The interstate spine through the city carries the metro's daily commute and the Denver-to-Pueblo through traffic.
The southern I-25 corridor serves Fort Carson and the south-side commute with a heavy military and family audience.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot connects bookable digital out-of-home screens across Colorado Springs onto one map, priced per play and bookable by the hour. Below: real partner screens from the supplied local photo set.
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 Colorado Springs'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.
Mountain Metropolitan Transit bus and free downtown shuttle 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
Colorado Springs spreads east of the Rockies under Pikes Peak, and it runs on the military, defense and the outdoors. Mornings load the I-25 commute toward Downtown and the Tejon Street core; evenings pull crowds to the Old Colorado City shops along West Colorado Avenue and the downtown restaurants; weekends fill the Citadel and the North Academy retail and the trails at Garden of the Gods. The Air Force Academy and Fort Carson drive a young, mobile audience, and the free downtown shuttle runs the Tejon spine. Buy the morning commute and the Old Colorado City evening peak.
Old Colorado City 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.
Air Force Academy and the city's malls hold heavy footfall from noon to evening, long windows where dwell and shopping intent, not rush, do the work.
Downtown shifts from daytime to social and tourism after dark. Different audience, same screens, swap the creative, not the location.
Location intelligence summary
Colorado Springs 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 | Downtown + Old Colorado City | 6–11 PM |
| Commuter frequency | The Citadel, Old Colorado City | 7:30–10 AM · 5–8 PM |
| Retail foot traffic | Air Force Academy, Downtown | 12–8 PM |
| B2B / decision-makers | I-25 corridor, Old Colorado City | Weekdays 9 AM–6 PM |
| Tourism & events | Downtown, Fort Carson | 10 AM–8 PM |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Colorado Springs’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: active-duty military and their families, since Fort Carson alone employs more than 26,000 personnel and the Air Force Academy trains over 4,000 cadets, and aerospace and defense contracting, with more than 250 aerospace companies, including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, operating along the I-25 corridor (see B2B campaigns).
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roadside & freeway digital | from ~$0.27 per play | $100 buys hourly bursts on the I-25 corridor | drive-time commuter reach |
| Downtown digital spectacular | from ~$0.44 per play | the Tejon Street core | office and dining dwell |
| Old Colorado City retail digital | from ~$0.40 per play | the historic West Colorado Avenue strip | visitor and dining audiences |
| North Academy retail digital | from ~$0.36 per play | the Citadel and Academy corridor | year-round shopper audiences |
| Mountain Metro transit screens | from ~$0.29 per play | the downtown shuttle and bus routes | walk-up urban commuters |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Colorado Springs screen: the format (pricing runs higher on mountain Metro transit screens than on roadside & freeway digital), the zone (Downtown & Tejon Street 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.
Commute test
A week of morning and evening bursts on the I-25 corridor into Downtown.
Multi-zone Colorado Springs push
Downtown, Old Colorado City and North Academy running together across peak dayparts.
Colorado Springs flagship
Full Downtown and I-25 saturation timed to Air Force Academy game weekends and peak tourist season.
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, Lamar Advertising, OUTFRONT Media, Clear Channel Outdoor 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. Every Colorado Springs screen on Blindspot is bookable by the hour, with no minimum contract and no retainer. You pick the exact windows, so you can buy the morning commute on Old Colorado City, the afternoon retail stretch around Air Force Academy & UCCS, or the evening social hours in Downtown & Tejon Street, and skip everything between. Because you pay per play instead of for a fixed four-week flight, the same budget concentrated into proven peak windows buys more useful frequency than the same money spread across every hour including the overnight ones nobody sees. Availability and the per-play price are visible before you commit, and you can start with one screen and one daypart.
Blindspot puts the bookable digital out-of-home screens across Colorado Springs on a single map: roadside and boulevard LED, street-level panels and citylights, transit and station screens, mall and place-based displays, and landmark placements, all priced per play and bookable by the hour. That spans zones from Downtown & Tejon Street through to Fort Carson & South I-25. The underlying screens are owned and run by media operators such as Lamar Advertising, OUTFRONT Media and Clear Channel Outdoor, and Blindspot books time on their existing, already-permitted structures rather than reselling a fixed package. You see each screen, its zone, its per-play price and its live availability before committing, so you are choosing specific screens and hours rather than buying an unspecified network bundle.
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.
More than most people expect, because you are buying plays rather than weeks. A $500 budget in Colorado Springs typically funds a multi-day hourly presence on a high-traffic corridor such as Old Colorado City, a concentrated burst across the busiest retail and transit screens at peak hours only, or thousands of plays on central urban panels where the per-play price is lowest. At entry prices around $0.27 per play, the arithmetic is straightforward and visible before you commit. What it will not stretch to is 24/7 coverage of a landmark spectacular, and that is the point of hourly buying: concentrate a small budget where and when it is seen instead of thinning it across hours with no audience.
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 Colorado Springs campaign.
How to book
No sales calls, no contracts, self-serve from the map to live creative.
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Open the map, filter Colorado Springs 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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