San Jose · SJC · the Silicon Valley gateway · July 2026
San Jose Mineta International Airport handled 10.7 million passengers in 2025 across two terminals. No airline hubs here, so traffic is close to pure origin and destination: passengers are arriving or leaving, not connecting through. San Diego is its busiest route. Blindspot books its screens by the hour, priced per play.
San Jose Mineta 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, San Jose Mineta International Airport screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.46, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart San Jose Mineta 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 two ticketing halls catch every departing passenger at the counters along the straight-line terminal front, the first and longest dwell of the trip.
Screening for Terminal A and Terminal B holds a phone-down queue, busiest on the San Diego departure bank.
The holdrooms seat boarding passengers 30 to 60 minutes before departure, Southwest's banks alongside Alaska, Delta, American and United.
Arriving travelers cluster at the carousels with nothing to do but wait, a captive audience minutes from the downtown and campus drives.
The free Route 60 Airport Flyer stops and the taxi and rideshare curb move arriving passengers past screens toward BART, Caltrain and downtown.
The shops and restaurants past each checkpoint catch relaxed, expense-account travelers with time before boarding.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from San Jose Mineta International Airport's media owners, Clear Channel Airports, San José Mineta Airport media, VTA 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 San Jose Mineta 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
San Jose Mineta International carried 11.85 million passengers in 2024, closed December with more than a million in a single month, and Cirium rated it California's top-performing airport for on-time departures. Southwest leads the traffic through Terminals A and B, set in one straight line 3 miles from downtown, and the catchment is Silicon Valley itself: the convention-center conference weeks, the chip and software campuses, Sharks nights at SAP Center. Clear Channel Airports runs the 82-screen network here, the first all-digital airport advertising network in the nation. Buy the Monday tech banks and the conference weeks.
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
San Jose Mineta 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 San Jose Mineta 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: road-warrior business travelers on Southwest Airlines, which carries close to half of all departing and arriving passengers at SJC and moves them through Ticketing and Gates on weekday mornings, and Tokyo and Mexico-bound international travelers passing through Baggage and Retail on ZIPAIR's nonstop San Jose to Tokyo flights and Volaris' routes to Guadalajara, Leon and other Mexican cities.
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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 screens & LED | from ~$0.46 per play | $100 buys hourly ticketing-hall slots | every departing traveler across both terminals |
| Gate concourse & holdroom screens | from ~$0.46 per play | $100 buys hourly holdroom slots | seated traveler attention before boarding |
| Airport Flyer & ground transport | from ~$0.44 per play | $100 buys repeat exposure on the city link | arrivals and visitors bound for downtown and the campuses |
| Baggage claim & arrivals | from ~$0.44 per play | $100 buys belt-side reclaim time | a captive, recently landed audience |
| All-digital network spectacular | custom | flagship departures takeover | dominant share of voice over the Silicon Valley gateway |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any San Jose Mineta International Airport (SJC) screen: the format (pricing runs higher on all-digital network spectacular than on ticketing hall screens & LED), the zone (Terminal A & B ticketing halls 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.
Concourse test
The gate holdrooms across a Monday morning tech bank
Multi-zone airport push
Both ticketing halls, both checkpoints, the holdrooms and the arrivals corridor together
SJC flagship takeover
Dominant share of voice across the departures core, timed to the convention-center conference weeks
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, Clear Channel Airports, VTA transit media among them, so you're leasing airtime on an existing structure, not erecting a new one.
San Jose Mineta International Airport handled 10.7 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. Southwest Airlines accounted for about 54% of departing or arriving passengers as of 2021, with Alaska Airlines around 19%; traffic peaked at 15.7 million passengers in 2019, fell to 4.7 million in 2020, and recovered to roughly 10.7 million by 2025.
San Jose Mineta International Airport zones are scored separately for visibility, dwell time and footfall, because the best placement depends on which of those you actually need. Terminal A & B ticketing halls guarantees exposure to essentially every departing passenger. Security checkpoints holds attention through a queue, where dwell is involuntary and long. Terminal A & B gate 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.
Yes. On Blindspot every San Jose Mineta 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, VTA 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 San Jose Mineta International Airport a $500 budget typically funds a multi-day hourly presence across a high-dwell zone such as Terminal A & B gate holdrooms, or a concentrated burst on Terminal A & B ticketing halls and Security checkpoints through the busiest departure banks only. At entry plays around $0.46, 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 San Jose Mineta 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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