Knoxville DOOH · Market Square · Old City · The Strip · June 2026
Knoxville has 42 screens on Blindspot, all cinema screens, at about $0.16 a play, from Market Square to the Old City to the I-40 commute. Priced per play, booked by the hour.
Knoxville billboard and DOOH (digital out-of-home) costs span from a few cents per play on urban panels to premium Market Square, Bearden and landmark networks. On Blindspot, Knoxville screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.26, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Knoxville 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 Market Square and Gay Street core packs the city's densest pedestrian, dining and office traffic, day and night.
The brick-warehouse Old City district runs hot after dark for bars, live music and the city's main going-out crowd.
The Cumberland Avenue Strip at the University of Tennessee gates packs students, restaurants and Vols game-day crowds.
The Bearden district along Kingston Pike anchors the metro's affluent shopping and neighborhood dining traffic.
The interstate spine through the city carries the metro's daily commute and the heavy through traffic toward the Smokies.
West Town Mall and the Turkey Creek shopping corridor anchor the metro's main suburban retail intercept.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Knoxville's media owners, Lamar Advertising, OUTFRONT Media, Clear Channel Outdoor 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 Knoxville'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.
Knoxville Area Transit (KAT) bus and downtown trolley 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
Knoxville sits on the Tennessee River where the Great Smoky Mountains begin, and it runs on the university, energy research and the river. Mornings load the I-40 and I-75 commute toward Downtown and the Gay Street core; evenings pull crowds to Market Square, the Old City bars and the Cumberland Avenue Strip near campus; weekends fill the waterfront and the gateway traffic toward the Smokies and Gatlinburg. Vols football fills Neyland Stadium with more than 100,000 fans on game days, and KAT runs the downtown trolley loop. Buy the morning commute and the Market Square and game-day peaks.
The Old 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.
Bearden and the city's malls hold heavy footfall from noon to evening, long windows where dwell and shopping intent, not rush, do the work.
Market Square shifts from daytime to social and tourism after dark. Different audience, same screens, swap the creative, not the location.
Location intelligence summary
Knoxville 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 | Market Square + The Old City | 6–11 PM |
| Commuter frequency | Cumberland Avenue, The Old City | 7:30–10 AM · 5–8 PM |
| Retail foot traffic | Bearden, Market Square | 12–8 PM |
| B2B / decision-makers | I-40 / I-75 corridor, The Old City | Weekdays 9 AM–6 PM |
| Tourism & events | Market Square, West Town | 10 AM–8 PM |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Knoxville’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: the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public utility, is headquartered downtown near The Old City and the I-40 / I-75 corridor with more than 10,000 employees (see DOOH for B2B), and restaurants and bars line Cumberland Avenue, the commercial strip serving the University of Tennessee's tens of thousands of students (see DOOH for restaurants).
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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 ~$0.26 per play | $100 buys hourly bursts on I-40 and I-75 | drive-time commuter reach |
| Market Square digital spectacular | from ~$0.44 per play | the Gay Street and Square core | office and dining dwell |
| Old City nightlife digital | from ~$0.40 per play | the warehouse bar district | younger going-out crowd |
| Cumberland Avenue campus digital | from ~$0.36 per play | the University of Tennessee Strip | student and game-day audiences |
| KAT trolley screens | from ~$0.28 per play | the free downtown trolley loop | walk-up urban commuters |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Knoxville screen: the format (pricing runs higher on KAT trolley screens than on roadside & freeway digital), the zone (Market Square & Gay 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-40 corridor into Downtown.
Multi-zone Knoxville push
Market Square, the Old City and Cumberland Avenue running together across peak dayparts.
Vols game-day flagship
Full Downtown and Cumberland Avenue saturation timed to Tennessee home games and peak Smokies 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 Knoxville 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 The Old City, the afternoon retail stretch around Bearden & Kingston Pike, or the evening social hours in Market Square & Gay 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 Knoxville 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 Market Square & Gay Street through to West Town & Turkey Creek. 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 Knoxville typically funds a multi-day hourly presence on a high-traffic corridor such as The Old 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 $0.26 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 Knoxville 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 Knoxville 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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