Durham DOOH · American Tobacco · DPAC · Duke · June 2026
Durham has 59 screens on Blindspot across 3 formats, from the American Tobacco Campus to DPAC to the I-40 commute. Most are office-building screens, about $0.02 a play; convenience-store screens add 11 more at about $0.07. Priced per play, booked by the hour.
Durham billboard and DOOH (digital out-of-home) costs span from a few cents per play on urban panels to premium American Tobacco Campus, Ninth Street and landmark networks. On Blindspot, Durham screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.27, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Durham 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 American Tobacco Campus and the downtown core draw more than a million visitors a year, dense office traffic by day and dining and going-out crowds after dark.
The Durham Performing Arts Center and the Durham Bulls Athletic Park pack a dense show-night and ball-game crowd on the south edge of downtown.
Duke's campus, hospital and Ninth Street strip pack students, staff and a steady healthcare and game-day audience on the west side.
The Ninth Street and West Village blocks near Duke anchor a walkable shopping and dining intercept full of students and residents.
The I-40 and Durham Freeway split carries the daily commute and the heavy through traffic across the Research Triangle Park.
The Research Triangle Park approach carries the daily flow of the region's largest research and tech workforce between Durham and Raleigh.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Durham's media owners, Lamar Advertising, OUTFRONT Media, Adams Outdoor Advertising 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 Durham'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.
GoDurham bus 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
Durham turned its tobacco warehouses into a startup and research town, the Bull City corner of the Research Triangle alongside Raleigh and Chapel Hill. Mornings load the I-40 and Durham Freeway commute toward Duke, the medical center and downtown; evenings pull crowds to the American Tobacco Campus restaurants, the Durham Performing Arts Center and the Ninth Street strip; weekends fill the Durham Bulls Athletic Park and the West Village blocks. Duke University and North Carolina Central pack students near campus, and GoDurham runs the downtown bus hub. Buy the morning freeway push and the American Tobacco evening peak.
DPAC 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.
Ninth Street and the city's malls hold heavy footfall from noon to evening, long windows where dwell and shopping intent, not rush, do the work.
American Tobacco Campus shifts from daytime to social and tourism after dark. Different audience, same screens, swap the creative, not the location.
Location intelligence summary
Durham 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 | American Tobacco Campus + DPAC | 6–11 PM |
| Commuter frequency | Duke University, DPAC | 7:30–10 AM · 5–8 PM |
| Retail foot traffic | Ninth Street, American Tobacco Campus | 12–8 PM |
| B2B / decision-makers | I-40 / Durham Freeway corridor, DPAC | Weekdays 9 AM–6 PM |
| Tourism & events | American Tobacco Campus, Research Triangle Park gateway | 10 AM–8 PM |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Durham’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: healthcare employers around Duke University, DPAC, where Duke Health alone runs more than 26,000 full-time staff across its Durham clinics and hospitals (see DOOH for Healthcare), and advertising and professional services firms based inside American Tobacco Campus + DPAC, home to agencies like McKinney among the campus's 85-plus tenant companies.
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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 I-40 and the Durham Freeway | drive-time commuter reach |
| American Tobacco digital spectacular | from ~$0.45 per play | the downtown dining core | office and going-out dwell |
| DPAC events digital | from ~$0.41 per play | the performing-arts blocks | show-night and ball-game audiences |
| Duke campus retail digital | from ~$0.38 per play | the Ninth Street and West Village strip | student and healthcare crowd |
| GoDurham transit screens | from ~$0.29 per play | the downtown bus hub and routes | walk-up urban commuters |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Durham screen: the format (pricing runs higher on goDurham transit screens than on roadside & freeway digital), the zone (American Tobacco Campus & Downtown 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-40 corridor into Downtown.
Multi-zone Durham push
American Tobacco, DPAC and Duke running together across peak dayparts.
Bull City flagship
Full Downtown and DPAC saturation timed to a Bulls season and the DPAC Broadway calendar.
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, Lamar Advertising, OUTFRONT Media, Adams Outdoor Advertising 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 Durham 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 DPAC & the Bulls ballpark, the afternoon retail stretch around Ninth Street & West Village, or the evening social hours in American Tobacco Campus & Downtown, 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 Durham 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 American Tobacco Campus & Downtown through to Research Triangle Park gateway. The underlying screens are owned and run by media operators such as Lamar Advertising, OUTFRONT Media and Adams Outdoor Advertising, 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 Durham typically funds a multi-day hourly presence on a high-traffic corridor such as DPAC & the Bulls ballpark, 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 Durham 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 Durham by zone and format, and select the exact screens and the exact hours your audience is out.
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Every screen shows its price per play and real-time availability before you commit. Build the plan; the running total is always visible.
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Upload creative, pass pre-check, and go live, often within hours. Track verified plays and attribution as the campaign runs.
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