Billboard Advertising in

Manchester

Augmenting Brand Reach and Exposure With Manchester Billboard Advertising

Manchester is an excellent advertising location for nationwide businesses and organisations keen to make their mark in the northwest.

The city is a commercial hub, tourist attraction and central focal point for businesses, providing a key space to showcase high-profile, large-scale billboards, immersive advertising placements and core brand messaging to diverse consumer audiences, ideal for both B2B and B2C brands.

Based in the heart of Manchester, One Day is a fully integrated agency specialising in impactful billboard advertising campaigns in Manchester. We connect brands with our specialist media planning and buying team that secures strategic billboards in fantastic locations, from placing a huge 96-sheet billboard directly outside The Trafford Centre to featuring targeted promotions along the Metrolink.

The Advantages of Billboard Advertising in Manchester

Manchester is the 5th biggest in the UK, with a population of over 500,000 people. The diversity of the audience living, working and visiting Manchester creates an incredible backdrop for advertising, growing brand recognition and securing market share in even the most competitive of sectors.

Manchester’s demographics are uniquely broad, with a number of well visited locations to choose from, whether you'd like to promote your brand in the on-trend Northern Quarter or are keen on displaying your messaging alongside the waterfront by MediaCityUK or one of the famous sports stadiums in and around the city.

Our billboard advertising consultants can recommend niche opportunities to engage directly with consumers, whether your business is a leader in corporate services, lifestyle products, digital tech and software, hospitality or entertainment.

Media Planning for Manchester Billboard Ads

The success of our billboard placements is all down to strategic planning, media buying and campaign monitoring, using cutting-edge analytics and tracking solutions to ensure we know where your billboards will work best, the graphics and imagery that will prove most engaging, and the formats or moving billboards that will feel consistent with your branding.

One Day can offer broad-scope billboards in Manchester that are seen by the maximum number of viewers or refine your target customer base to make placement decisions on a more granular and tactical level.

We collaborate with a huge variety of businesses, brands and consumer companies, including innovative start-ups launching in Manchester or the northwest, through to household names and public sector organisations that want their messaging to be front and centre.

Choosing the Right Billboard Advertising

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Billboard Advertising in Manchester

Classic and Digital 96-Sheets

If your objectives are optimal awareness and mass exposure, a 96-sheet or dynamic D-96-sheet moving billboard is the way to go. The size and vivid colours of a huge billboard are memorable and work particularly well in areas with longer dwell times or around tourist areas and attractions where visitors soak in all the sights and sounds around them – think major roadways, retail centres and events arenas.

Billboard Advertising in Manchester

48-Sheet and D-48 Sheet Promotions

Our next format is the slightly smaller cousin of the 96-sheet, yet still with a generous six-metre length to make a marked impact and ensure all viewers engage with the messaging displayed. These billboards are commonly used to reiterate the branding shown to consumers on their daily commutes or routines and in locations that provide the greatest possible coverage.

Billboard Advertising in Manchester

6-Sheet and D-6 Sheet Placements

Familiar 6-sheets are a part of the cityscape and provide advertising placements in a portrait style that slot into the architecture of the city, whether displayed in shopping centres, pedestrian routes in the heart of Manchester, along bus networks and the Metrolink or in other carefully selected placements.

Billboard Advertising in Manchester

Manchester Transport Network Billboard Advertising

Billboards around both the Greater Manchester bus service and the tram system provide enormous exposure, with over 145 million passengers using the bus service every year and a further 36 million commuting and travelling via the light rail system. From station and platform billboards to digital and static Adshel 6-sheets and D6 sheets, there are numerous options.

Billboard Advertising in Manchester

Iconic Billboards (Locations in Manchester)

One of the characteristics of the city that attracts so many visitors is the contrast between history and tradition and modern advancement. Billboard placements in and around some of the most well-loved landmarks, such as the Etihad Stadium, Manchester Cathedral, Manchester Arena, Manchester Central Library and Market Street, present tremendous marketing opportunities.

Billboard Advertising in Manchester

StreetHub Billboards in Manchester

StreetHubs enable brands to display their promotions directly to pedestrians using the busiest areas and routes in the city, positioned as part of the street furniture and often alongside resources like maps, directions and visitor information notices.

Frequently Asked Questions.

  • The most suitable locations for your Manchester billboard ads will depend on numerous variables, such as the nature of your promotion, any time sensitivities such as when advertising events, the ideal customer you want to engage with, and your budget and preferences. As we have extensive knowledge of the area, One Day can offer tailored guidance, including the chance to secure billboard spaces in some of the quirkiest and most renowned landmarks, from Salford Quays to the Trafford Towers.

  • Brands and businesses keen to advertise to the largest volume of people possible often look for locations with exceptional exposure. Manchester itself is the third most-visited city in the UK, after London and Edinburgh, with The Lowry, Manchester Art Gallery, the National Football Museum, and the Manchester United Museum and Tour Centre all recording hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. The busiest area for foot traffic is Market Street, with a range of premium-brand stores and fashion boutiques.

  • We focus on quantifiable returns to ensure you know precisely how your billboards have performed, where they have generated the best responses, and how varied ad formats and placements have contributed to brand recognition growth.

    While the right options will depend on the types of billboard you are interested in, we can utilise QR codes and scannable tags, geolocation tracking to monitor footfall, and integrated digital marketing to record specific views, engagements and responses to each promotional display.

  • Yes, there a number of ways to advertise in Manchester. See our services below:

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