Cleveland · CLE · the Rock and Roll gateway · June 2026
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is a single-terminal gateway handling 10.0 million passengers in 2025. No airline hubs here, so traffic is close to pure origin and destination: passengers are arriving or leaving, not connecting through. Atlanta is its busiest route. Blindspot books its screens by the hour, priced per play.
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport advertising spans from a few cents per play on concourse and gate screens to premium arrivals-hall LED and spectacular digital walls. On Blindspot, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.45, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Cleveland Hopkins International Airport play isn't one screen for a month. It's the right screens at the right hours: the departures bank in the morning, the security and concourse dwell through the day, the arrivals halls when the long-haul flights land.
Billboard ranking points
Directional 1–10 scores based on zone type and passenger flow, not audited measurements. Every zone is bookable by the hour on the platform.
The main ticketing hall funnels every departing passenger past the airline counters, the first and longest dwell of the trip.
Screening is the one point all 10.0 million passengers a year pass through, in a slow, phone-down queue.
The gate holdrooms along the four concourses seat boarding passengers 30 to 60 minutes before their flight.
Reclaim catches a landed audience with phones back out, Atlanta arrivals included.
The RTA Red Line platform and the rental and rideshare curb funnel arriving and departing passengers past screens on the way to the city.
Duty-free and lounge dwell reach a higher-spend traveller, the Atlanta end of 10.0 million passengers a year.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport's media owners, Clear Channel Airports, Vector Media, Cleveland Hopkins media 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 single gate screen to a full arrivals-hall takeover, Blindspot puts Cleveland Hopkins International Airport's digital out-of-home on one map, each screen priced per play and bookable by the hour. The formats that matter airside and landside:
Large-format digital across check-in islands and departures, where every traveler dwells before security.
Captive screens along the security and passport queues, minutes of guaranteed attention per passenger.
Concourse and gate-lounge screens reaching seated, relaxed travelers with long airside dwell.
High-dwell arrivals and baggage-claim placements as passengers wait, the airport's longest captive window.
Boarding-bridge and gate-side panels in the final moment before the flight.
Iconic hall and atrium spectaculars for brand-statement reach across the whole terminal.
Location insights
Cleveland Hopkins runs on dense domestic banks, with United and Southwest leading and steady early-morning and late-afternoon departure waves to the East Coast, Florida and the hubs. The Rust Belt revival, the Cleveland Clinic and a strong sports and convention calendar keep weekday and event travel firm, while summer lifts leisure routes to the coasts and the Sun Belt. The RTA Red Line, the first airport rapid-transit link in the United States, runs straight from the terminal to downtown. Weekends skew leisure, weekdays skew business and medical. Buy the banks, not the dead hours.
Ticketing and check-in fill in the early-morning and late-afternoon banks. Book those hours and your frequency against business travelers climbs for the same budget.
Gates and the gate holdrooms hold seated, relaxed travelers for 60–90 minutes, long windows where dwell, not rush, does the work.
Baggage fills as long-haul flights land in banks, high-value international passengers with time to read. Swap creative to match who just arrived.
Location intelligence summary
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport doesn't have a rush hour; it has flight banks. Departures peak in the morning, long-haul arrivals land in waves, and between them travelers dwell for 60–90 minutes with phones often stowed. The buying model that matches that is hourly: pay for the banks when your audience is captive, skip the dead hours.
| Objective | Book these zones | Best hours |
|---|---|---|
| Brand launch / premium | Ticketing + Rail / Curb | All day · long-haul banks |
| Business travelers | Ticketing, Gates | Weekday 6–10 AM · 4–8 PM |
| Long-dwell layovers | Gates, Baggage | 10 AM–8 PM |
| International arrivals | Baggage, Retail | Aligned to long-haul landing banks |
| Duty-free & retail | Ticketing, Gates | Departures peaks |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s proven peak windows, and typically saves 30%+ versus a flat four-week flight.
Security-line passengers read in seconds; gate-side travelers 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: Cleveland Clinic patients and their families, arriving via Baggage and Retail from all 50 states and more than 125 countries for specialized cardiac and specialty care (see DOOH for Healthcare), and industrial and manufacturing buyers, moving through Ticketing and Gates to reach the Greater Cleveland headquarters of Sherwin-Williams, Parker Hannifin, and Eaton.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ticketing hall pillars & LED | from ~$0.45 per play | $100 buys hourly ticketing-hall slots | every departing traveler through the terminal |
| Gate concourse & holdroom screens | from ~$0.45 per play | $100 buys hourly holdroom slots | seated traveler attention before boarding |
| RTA rail & transit | from ~$0.42 per play | $100 buys repeat exposure on the city link | arrivals and visitors riding into downtown Cleveland |
| Baggage claim & arrivals | from ~$0.42 per play | $100 buys belt-side reclaim time | a captive, recently landed audience |
| Ticketing-hall spectacular | custom | flagship ticketing-hall takeover | dominant share of voice over the departures core |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) screen: the format (pricing runs higher on ticketing-hall spectacular than on ticketing hall pillars & LED), the zone (Ticketing hall 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.
Concourse test
The gate holdrooms across a morning departure bank
Multi-zone airport push
Ticketing, security, all four concourses and the arrivals corridor together
CLE flagship takeover
Dominant share of voice across the departures core
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, Clear Channel Airports, Vector Media among them, so you're leasing airtime on an existing structure, not erecting a new one.
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport handled 10.0 million passengers in 2025. The audience is the reason to buy it: air passengers are captive, comparatively affluent, and hard to reach through most channels, and they spend meaningful time in the terminal with attention to spare between check-in and boarding. Dwell is the asset. Unlike a roadside screen read in two seconds, a gate or arrivals placement gets minutes rather than moments, which is why airport placements hold up for brand and considered-purchase messages rather than short reminders. Since United closed its hub in 2014, Cleveland Hopkins has shifted toward low-cost carrier traffic, with airlines such as Spirit Airlines and Allegiant Air expanding service. On the rail link: Cleveland RTA Red Line, Airport station beneath the terminal.
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport zones are scored separately for visibility, dwell time and footfall, because the best placement depends on which of those you actually need. Ticketing hall guarantees exposure to essentially every departing passenger. TSA checkpoint approach holds attention through a queue, where dwell is involuntary and long. Concourse A to D holdrooms gives the longest relaxed attention, with passengers seated and waiting. Each zone shows its own per-play price and live availability, so you can pair a high-reach zone with a high-dwell one rather than guessing at a single best spot. Baggage claim & arrivals catches a recently landed audience with phones back out. Post-security retail & concessions reaches a higher-spend traveler before the flight.
Yes. On Blindspot every Cleveland Hopkins International Airport screen is bookable by the hour with no minimum, so you can buy only the morning departures bank or the long-haul arrivals windows that match your audience.
The airport's media is run by operators such as Clear Channel Airports, Vector Media; Blindspot aggregates the bookable digital screens onto one map, priced per play.
Often within hours: upload, pass creative pre-check, and digital screens need no printing or installation. Approval typically averages around two business days across networks.
More than the usual airport rate card suggests, because you are buying plays rather than a fixed package. In Cleveland Hopkins International Airport a $500 budget typically funds a multi-day hourly presence across a high-dwell zone such as Concourse A to D holdrooms, or a concentrated burst on Ticketing hall and TSA checkpoint approach through the busiest departure banks only. At entry plays around $0.45, the arithmetic is visible before you commit. It will not buy a month of an arrivals-hall spectacular, and that is the trade: hourly, per-play buying lets a small budget own the specific windows when the passengers you want are actually in the terminal, instead of thinning the same money across empty overnight hours.
How to book
No sales calls, no contracts, self-serve from the map to live creative.
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Open the map, filter Cleveland Hopkins International Airport 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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