Beyond Street Media vs Colossal Media.
Beyond Street Media paints hand-painted murals in 202 cities, with published pricing, in-house printing and installation, and a photo of every wall. Colossal Media is a prestige mural specialist rooted in New York. Here is the honest side by side, and why nearly every real mural brief runs better with BSM.
Pick by what the mural needs.
Six mural briefs buyers actually bring. Honest routing for each. Most point to BSM, with one that genuinely favors Colossal.
- I want one trophy mural in Manhattan, with the budget built around the prestige name. Colossal
- I want to know the mural price before I brief anyone. BSM
- The campaign pairs a mural with wheatpaste, stencils, or scaffold wraps. BSM
- I need murals in Miami, Austin, Boston, or ninety-plus other markets. BSM
- I need a roster of luxury-name murals for an internal sell. Colossal
- I want a photo of the finished wall, fast, not a wrap deck weeks later. BSM
Built to ship murals anywhere.
Hand-painted murals in 202 cities, paired with any other street format, printed and installed by one team, priced in the open.
One team, from the proof to the finished wall. BSM designs, prints, and installs in house. You are not coordinating a paint crew, a separate scaffold contractor, and a separate permits desk and hoping the dates line up. One brief, one project director, one invoice. The install is where a mural campaign lives or dies, and it is the part we own end to end.
The mural is rarely the whole campaign. BSM also ships wheatpaste, sidewalk stencils, pole stickers, scaffold wraps, construction hoarding, interior installs, and thirty more formats. When the hero wall needs a poster run and a stencil drop around it across a few neighborhoods, the same team carries all of it under one portal. A mural-only shop hands you the wall and stops.
Murals in 202 cities, not 8. From New York and LA to Miami, Austin, Boston, Denver, and ninety-plus other markets, BSM publishes real coverage. A six-city mural tour runs under one roster and lands the same way in every market, including the secondary cities a single-market house does not staff. See murals in Miami for a documented Wynwood example.
You see the mural price before you pitch your boss. Hand-painted murals start at $18,000 and building-side murals from $30,000, public on the rate card. No form stands between you and a number, so you can size the budget and build the internal case the same afternoon. The final quote on your wall comes back in 24 to 48 hours. See the full rate card.
Proof on every wall, while the paint is fresh. Photos of each install, wide, mid, and detail, tagged with location and time, in your portal within hours of the crew finishing. You watch the mural go up in real time instead of waiting on a wrap deck.
Murals for brands at every tier, not just luxury houses. Sézane, Brooklyn Museum, Palantir, Yonex, and more across fashion, culture, tech, and sport. BSM scales from a single $18,000 mural for a growth brand testing the format to a multi-city brand tour, where a luxury-only roster does not bend. See the work.
Real craft.
Credit where it is due. One kind of brief where Colossal is the right call.
A trophy wall in Manhattan. Colossal revived hand-painted advertising in New York, and the Bowery and Houston lineage is genuinely earned. For a single flagship placement where the brand wants that specific pedigree on the record and the budget is built around it, they are a fair pick.
A luxury-name roster. Apple, Nike, Gucci, and Coca-Cola sit in their archive. If your internal sell needs that exact tier of logo on the slide, the portfolio carries weight.
The moment a mural brief needs a second city, a second format, a price up front, or proof that the wall went up, the answer is BSM.
What matters to the mural brief.
The things that actually decide where a mural campaign lands, side by side.
| What matters | Beyond Street Media | Colossal Media |
|---|---|---|
| Cities with published coverage | 202 cities · 50 states + DC | 8 owned-inventory cities |
| Other street formats | 37 more, one team | Murals only |
| Printing + installation | In house, one team | Not published |
| See mural pricing without a form | Yes · from $18K, public | No · scoped privately |
| Photo proof per install | Yes · in your portal in hours | Case-study photos |
| Budgets served | Growth brand through enterprise | Enterprise / luxury focus |
| Multi-state permits + law | All 50 states | Not published |
| NYC mural prestige lineage | Documented mural work | Bowery lineage since 2004 |
Compiled from each agency’s public website, May 2026.
When to pick each.
Two agencies for two different mural briefs. Pick by what the campaign needs.
Pick Colossal Media if…
- Your brief is one hero mural in Manhattan and you want the Bowery lineage specifically on the install record, with the budget built around that placement.
- Your internal sell needs an Apple, Nike, or Gucci-tier roster of luxury-name murals on the slide.
Pick BSM if…
- You want the mural price before you write the brief. Published from $18,000, no form first.
- The campaign needs murals plus wheatpaste, stencils, or scaffold wraps. One team, one portal, one reporting cadence.
- The mural runs outside New York. Miami, Boston, Seattle, Denver, Phoenix, Houston, and ninety-plus more markets.
- You buy on proof. A photo of every wall, including the mural, in your portal within hours of the crew finishing.
- You need printing and installation under one team, not a paint crew and a permits desk stitched together.
- Your budget is growth brand through enterprise, scaling from a single $18,000 mural to a multi-city tour.
A number now. vs a sales call.
The biggest practical difference on a mural brief. One agency prints the floor. The other makes you ask for it.
BSM publishes the mural rate. Hand-painted murals from $18,000, building-side murals from $30,000, with multi-city tours scaling from there. Expedited campaigns run higher for rush turnarounds. Your final quote, scoped to the wall size, surface, and city, comes back in 24 to 48 hours. See the full rate card.
Colossal makes you ask. The site routes you to a contact form, and pricing is scoped privately per brief. That suits a luxury-tier relationship where every wall gets a custom quote inside an ongoing account. It is slower for a growth brand that needs to size a mural budget and get sign-off before committing.
Why a public floor helps you. You can decide whether a hand-painted mural fits the budget, and pitch it internally, the same day you start looking. No waiting on a sales cycle to find out the number. When the budget clears, we are already scheduling the crew.
What moves mural pricing. Wall size, surface prep, whether scaffold is required, permit fees, and crew days. BSM’s floors cover a standard street-level mural, scaling up for building-side walls that need scaffold and longer crew time. The point is you can see where you land before the conversation starts.
Head-to-head work.
Where each agency has shipped mural work. Same craft, different positioning, verifiable evidence.
NYC mural prestige. The Bowery and Houston wall, the SoHo rotating slots, the Apple and Coca-Cola runs sit in Colossal’s portfolio, and that lineage is real on a single flagship Manhattan wall. BSM paints murals in New York too, and then keeps going, into the markets and formats a single-city house does not cover.
Multi-city fashion mural rollout. BSM Sézane multi-city. BSM’s Sézane multi-city campaign installed across NYC + LA over five weeks with 15 placements covering wheatpaste plus mural-tier hand-painted scaffold work. The bicoastal scope is the kind of brief BSM’s nationwide operator bench is designed for. Colossal could ship the NYC leg from owned inventory but doesn’t maintain LA owned inventory at the same operator-grade depth. See /work/sezane-multi-city/.
Cultural-institution mural. BSM Brooklyn Museum multi-exhibit. Multi-exhibit Brooklyn Museum campaign across Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, and Crown Heights adjacent neighborhoods. The cultural-institution register is the closest BSM gets to Colossal’s editorial-art positioning in NYC mural work. Brooklyn Museum is a credentialing client.
Enterprise-tech mural. BSM Palantir multi-city. Palantir multi-city wheatpaste + mural campaign across San Diego (32.7157°N · 117.1611°W) and Honolulu (21.3069°N · 157.8583°W). Both markets sit outside Colossal’s 8-city owned-inventory footprint. Enterprise tech buyer, operator-grade documentation, photo-proof on every install. See /work/palantir-multi-city/.
Miami mural anchor. BSM /services/hand-painted-murals/miami/. The Miami hand-painted mural page is the Wave 3 gold-standard service-city reference. Wynwood density, Diego Navarro byline, documented installs, and the kind of secondary-market mural depth Colossal doesn’t maintain. See it here.
The pattern. Colossal’s mural strength is one prestige wall in New York. BSM’s is everything a campaign needs around that: any city, any format, a published price, and a photo of every wall. For one trophy placement Colossal is a fair call. For a mural that has to travel, perform, and prove itself, brief BSM.
Frequently asked.
Q · 01 Can BSM paint murals outside New York?
Yes, nationwide. BSM paints hand-painted murals in 202 cities across all 50 states and DC, from a single hero wall to a multi-city run. Miami, LA, Austin, Boston, Seattle, Denver, and ninety-plus other markets are live coverage, not "we can probably get there." Colossal works from a short list of owned-inventory cities. BSM follows the brand wherever the brief goes.
Q · 02 Do I have to request a quote, or can I see mural pricing?
You can see it. Hand-painted murals start at $18,000 and building-side murals from $30,000, published on our rate card. You size the budget and pitch it internally before you ever talk to us. Colossal scopes pricing privately per brief, so you wait on a sales conversation to learn the number.
Q · 03 Does BSM only do murals?
No. Murals are one of 38 formats. If the campaign pairs a hero mural with wheatpaste, sidewalk stencils, or scaffold wraps across several neighborhoods, BSM ships all of it under one project director and one portal. A mural-only shop hands you the wall and stops there.
Q · 04 Does BSM print and install in house, or subcontract it?
In house, end to end. Design, printing, and installation run under one roof, and every wall is photographed, wide, mid, and detail, with location and time, into your portal within hours of the crew finishing. You watch the mural land in real time.
Q · 05 Where can I see BSM mural work?
See hand-painted murals for the service, and murals in Miami for a documented Wynwood reference with named neighborhoods and on-site photos. Sézane, Palantir, and Brooklyn Museum are recent multi-city campaigns with mural-tier hand-painted work.
Q · 06 When is Colossal the better call?
For one trophy wall in Manhattan, where the brand specifically wants the Bowery-lineage name on the install record and the budget is built around that single prestige placement, Colossal is a fair pick. For almost any brief that needs more than one city, more than one format, a price up front, or proof of every wall, BSM is the stronger fit.
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Send the mural brief.
One wall, or a nationwide run.
Markets, wall sizes, creative direction, window. We come back in 24 to 48 hours with a per-wall mural quote off the published rate card and a route map. Pair it with any other format and one team carries all of it.