Tainan DOOH · Chihkan Tower · Ximen Road · July 2026
Taiwan's oldest city and its food capital, 1.86 million people from the temples to the strait, from Ximen Road and the Chihkan loop to Anping, the station district and the Garden Night Market, bookable by the hour, priced per play, matched to how Tainan actually moves.
Tainan billboard and DOOH (digital out-of-home) costs span from a few cents per play on urban panels to premium Ximen Road retail core, Tainan Station / NCKU and landmark networks. On Blindspot, Tainan screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.24, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Tainan 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.
Ximen Road runs Tainan's modern retail spine past Shin Kong Mitsukoshi's twin stores, the densest shopping and drive-time flow in the city.
The lanes around Chihkan Tower, the Confucius Temple and Shennong Street carry the heritage walking loop that fills with visitors every day and lantern light every night.
Anping's Old Fort, Old Street and Tree House pull the weekend crowds to the harbor where the Dutch first landed, snack stalls running the whole strip.
The station forecourt and National Cheng Kung University's campuses next door mix TRA commuters with one of Taiwan's biggest student populations.
The Garden Night Market packs hundreds of stalls onto its field on Thursday and weekend nights, one of Taiwan's most famous evening crowds.
Zhonghua Road's ring and the Yongkang district, Tainan's most populous, move the daily commute between the science-park jobs and the old core.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Tainan's media owners, KanBan Culture, HohoAD, Sovereign Comm 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 Tainan'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.
TRA trains through Tainan Station and the city buses out to Anping and the HSR at Shalun plus stations and place-based screens with captive dwell.
Landmark and spectacular placements for brand statements in the city's signature locations.
Location insights
Tainan is where Taiwan began: the Dutch raised Fort Zeelandia at Anping in 1624, Koxinga took it in 1662, and the city spent two centuries as the island's capital, a run it celebrated with the Tainan 400 festivities. The old core still runs on temples and food, beef soup queues before dawn, danzai noodles at Du Hsiao Yueh since 1895, Shennong Street's lanterns at night. Ximen Road carries the modern money past Shin Kong Mitsukoshi's twin stores, students pour out of National Cheng Kung University by the station, and on Thursday and weekend nights the Garden Night Market packs hundreds of stalls onto its field. Buy the Ximen retail hours and the night-market weekends.
Chihkan Tower / old-city loop 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.
Tainan Station / NCKU and the city's malls hold heavy footfall from noon to evening, long windows where dwell and shopping intent, not rush, do the work.
Ximen Road retail core shifts from daytime to social and tourism after dark. Different audience, same screens, swap the creative, not the location.
Location intelligence summary
Tainan 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 | Ximen Road retail core + Chihkan Tower / old-city loop | 6–11 PM |
| Commuter frequency | Anping / Old Fort waterfront, Chihkan Tower / old-city loop | 7:30–10 AM · 5–8 PM |
| Retail foot traffic | Tainan Station / NCKU, Ximen Road retail core | 12–8 PM |
| B2B / decision-makers | Garden Night Market, Chihkan Tower / old-city loop | Weekdays 9 AM–6 PM |
| Tourism & events | Ximen Road retail core, Yongkang / Zhonghua Road ring | 10 AM–8 PM |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Tainan’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: semiconductor and tech workers commuting toward TSMC's Fab 14 and Fab 18 at the Southern Taiwan Science Park, funneling through Tainan Station / NCKU on weekday shifts (see DOOH for B2B), and heritage tourists tracing Tainan's 400 years of history between Chihkan Tower and Anping Fort, the city's oldest colonial-era landmarks, along the old-city loop and the Anping / Old Fort waterfront.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arterial & ring-road digital | from ~$0.24 per play | $100 buys hourly bursts on Zhonghua Road and the station approaches | citywide drive-time reach |
| Ximen retail LED | from ~$0.37 per play | the department-store block | the city's densest shopping flow |
| Heritage-loop screens | from ~$0.34 per play | the Chihkan and temple lanes | tourist footfall all day |
| Anping gateway digital | from ~$0.30 per play | the waterfront approaches | weekend leisure crowds |
| Night-market screens | from ~$0.27 per play | the Garden and Da Dong gates | Taiwan's famous evening appetite |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Tainan screen: the format (pricing runs higher on night-market screens than on arterial & ring-road digital), the zone (Ximen Road retail core 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.
Commute test
A week of rush-hour bursts on Zhonghua Road and Ximen Road.
Multi-zone Tainan push
Ximen, the heritage loop and Anping running together across the day and evening.
Festival flagship
Full-city saturation across the Yanshui Beehive Fireworks weeks or a Tainan 400-scale event.
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, KanBan Culture, HohoAD, Sovereign Comm 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 Tainan 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 Tainan 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 KanBan Culture, HohoAD, Sovereign Comm.
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 Chihkan Tower / old-city loop 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 Tainan 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 Tainan 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.
Keep exploring
The old capital. Your hour.
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