Columbus · CMH · the Ohio capital gateway · July 2026
John Glenn Columbus International Airport is a single-terminal gateway handling 9.0 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. Opened July 8, 1929. Blindspot books its screens by the hour, priced per play.
John Glenn Columbus 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, John Glenn Columbus International Airport screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.44, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart John Glenn Columbus 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 central ticketing atrium puts every departing passenger for all three concourses under one roof at the counters, the first and longest dwell of the trip.
Each concourse runs its own security checkpoint, three slow, phone-down queues with clear overhead sightlines before the gates.
The gate holdrooms seat boarding passengers 30 to 60 minutes before departure, Southwest on A and the network carriers across B and C.
Arriving travelers cluster at the carousels with nothing to do but wait, a captive audience minutes from the drive downtown.
The COTA AirConnect stop and the taxi and rideshare curb move arriving passengers past screens on the short run toward High Street.
Duty-free and lounge dwell reach a higher-spend traveller, the Atlanta end of 9.0 million passengers a year.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from John Glenn Columbus International Airport's media owners, Clear Channel Airports, Columbus Regional Airport Authority media, COTA transit 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 John Glenn Columbus 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
John Glenn International handled nearly 9 million passengers in 2024, and 2025 set another record with 9.36 million across CMH and Rickenbacker combined; CMH ranked fifth among the nation's 50 busiest airports for flight growth, up 7.1 percent. Southwest fills Concourse A while American, Delta and United drive B and C, Ohio State football weekends and the Arnold Sports Festival stack the banks, and the $2 billion CMH Next terminal rises next door for 2029. Buy the Monday business banks and the scarlet-and-gray weekends.
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
John Glenn Columbus 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 + Bus / 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 John Glenn Columbus 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: business travelers tied to Nationwide and Columbus's downtown insurance and finance sector moving through Ticketing and Gates on weekday commuter banks (see DOOH for B2B), and contractors, engineers and supply-chain staff flying in for Intel's multibillion-dollar chip campus in nearby New Albany filling Gates and Baggage outside the standard 9-to-5.
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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 atrium pillars & LED | from ~$0.44 per play | $100 buys hourly atrium slots | every departing traveler for all three concourses |
| Gate concourse & holdroom screens | from ~$0.44 per play | $100 buys hourly holdroom slots | seated traveler attention before boarding |
| AirConnect & ground transport | from ~$0.42 per play | $100 buys repeat exposure on the city link | arrivals and visitors heading for High Street |
| Baggage claim & arrivals | from ~$0.42 per play | $100 buys belt-side reclaim time | a captive, recently landed audience |
| Ticketing-atrium spectacular | custom | flagship departures takeover | dominant share of voice over the Ohio capital gateway |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) screen: the format (pricing runs higher on ticketing-atrium spectacular than on ticketing atrium pillars & LED), the zone (Ticketing atrium 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 Monday morning business bank
Multi-zone airport push
The ticketing atrium, all three checkpoints, the holdrooms and the arrivals corridor together
CMH flagship takeover
Dominant share of voice across the departures core, timed to Ohio State weekends or the Arnold
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, Clear Channel Airports, COTA transit media among them, so you're leasing airtime on an existing structure, not erecting a new one.
John Glenn Columbus International Airport handled 9.0 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. Because the screens are bookable by the hour, you can match spend to the flight banks that carry your audience instead of paying for a flat month.
John Glenn Columbus 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 atrium guarantees exposure to essentially every departing passenger. Concourse checkpoints holds attention through a queue, where dwell is involuntary and long. Concourse A, B & C 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. Concessions & retail row reaches a higher-spend traveler before the flight. The terminal layout shapes all of this: John Glenn Columbus International has one terminal with three concourses (A, B, C) and 29 usable gates.
Yes. On Blindspot every John Glenn Columbus 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, COTA transit 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 John Glenn Columbus International Airport a $500 budget typically funds a multi-day hourly presence across a high-dwell zone such as Concourse A, B & C holdrooms, or a concentrated burst on Ticketing atrium and Concourse checkpoints through the busiest departure banks only. At entry plays around $0.44, 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 John Glenn Columbus 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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