Coventry DOOH · Broadgate · Cathedral Quarter · July 2026
Urban panels are Coventry's largest format, from Broadgate and the two cathedrals to the station, the universities and the ring road: 52 screens at about $0.03 a play. A billboard play runs about $0.14, across 65 screens and 2 formats in total. Priced per play, booked by the hour.
Coventry billboard and DOOH (digital out-of-home) costs span from a few cents per play on urban panels to premium Broadgate / Precinct, Coventry University / City Campus and landmark networks. On Blindspot, Coventry screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.30, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Coventry 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.
Broadgate under the Godiva statue and the pedestrian precinct beyond it carry the densest shopping foot traffic in the city.
The open ruins of the old cathedral and Basil Spence's new one beside them hold the visitor flow, the university walkways and the quarter's cafes.
The station on the Birmingham-London main line and the Friargate office quarter behind it stack the daily commute onto one gateway.
Coventry University's city campus wraps the cathedral quarter, tens of thousands of students crossing the centre between lectures all day.
The CBS Arena surges on Coventry City match days and concert nights, and the Transport Museum anchors the Millennium Place end of the centre.
The ring road and the A45 toward Birmingham carry the heaviest drive-time flow in the city, past the retail parks and the Jaguar Land Rover sites.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Coventry's media owners, JCDecaux UK, Global, Clear Channel UK 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 Coventry'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.
National Express Coventry buses and rail from Coventry station on the Birmingham-London main line plus stations and place-based screens with captive dwell.
Landmark and spectacular placements for brand statements in the city's signature locations.
Location insights
Coventry carries a thousand years of stories in a compact centre: Lady Godiva rode here in legend, her statue stands in Broadgate, and the three spires marked the medieval skyline before the raid of 14 November 1940 razed the cathedral. Its ruins stand open to the sky beside Basil Spence's new cathedral, consecrated in 1962 and a worldwide symbol of reconciliation. The Daimler works built Britain's first motor cars here in 1897, the Transport Museum keeps the largest publicly owned collection of British vehicles in the world, and London's black cabs are still made on the city's edge. Two universities, Coventry and Warwick, pack the city with students, 2-Tone and The Specials gave it a sound, and 2021 made it UK City of Culture. Screens on Broadgate, the precinct and the ring-road approaches catch the most repeat eyes.
Cathedral Quarter 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.
Coventry University / City Campus and the city's malls hold heavy footfall from noon to evening, long windows where dwell and shopping intent, not rush, do the work.
Broadgate / Precinct shifts from daytime to social and tourism after dark. Different audience, same screens, swap the creative, not the location.
Location intelligence summary
Coventry 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 | Broadgate / Precinct + Cathedral Quarter | 6–11 PM |
| Commuter frequency | Coventry Station / Friargate, Cathedral Quarter | 7:30–10 AM · 5–8 PM |
| Retail foot traffic | Coventry University / City Campus, Broadgate / Precinct | 12–8 PM |
| B2B / decision-makers | CBS Arena / Transport Museum, Cathedral Quarter | Weekdays 9 AM–6 PM |
| Tourism & events | Broadgate / Precinct, Ring Road / A45 Corridor | 10 AM–8 PM |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Coventry’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: Jaguar Land Rover's engineering and design staff, headquartered at Whitley as Britain's largest automotive manufacturer and commuting along Ring Road / A45 Corridor (see DOOH for B2B), and Coventry University's student body, more than 35,000 strong and concentrated around Coventry University / City Campus.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broadgate & precinct digital | from ~$0.48 per play | the Godiva core | the busiest foot-traffic heart |
| Cathedral-quarter digital | from ~$0.43 per play | the two cathedrals | heritage and campus crowds |
| Station digital | from ~$0.39 per play | the main-line gateway | Birmingham and London commuters |
| Arena & events digital | from ~$0.34 per play | the CBS Arena approaches | match-day and concert crowds |
| Ring-road & transit screens | from ~$0.30 per play | the ring road and bus network | drive-time and bus commuters |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Coventry screen: the format (pricing runs higher on ring-road & transit screens than on broadgate & precinct digital), the zone (Broadgate / Precinct 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 pricing is per play and hourly, there's no minimum, but here's what budgets realistically buy. Live numbers per screen are in the platform.
Centre test
A week of hourly bursts around Broadgate and the cathedral quarter.
Multi-zone Coventry push
Broadgate, the station and the university quarter running together across peak dayparts.
Godiva Festival flagship
Full centre and park saturation timed to the Godiva Festival and the football season.
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, JCDecaux UK, Global, Clear Channel UK 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 Coventry 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 Cathedral Quarter, the afternoon retail stretch around Coventry University / City Campus, or the evening social hours in Broadgate / Precinct, 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 Coventry 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 Broadgate / Precinct through to Ring Road / A45 Corridor. The underlying screens are owned and run by media operators such as JCDecaux UK, Global and Clear Channel UK, 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 Coventry typically funds a multi-day hourly presence on a high-traffic corridor such as Cathedral Quarter, 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 $0.30 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 Coventry campaign.
How to book
No sales calls, no contracts, self-serve from the map to live creative.
01
Open the map, filter Coventry 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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