Guerrilla street marketing in Helena.
Wheatpaste, murals, stencils, and pole-stickers across Helena, from Last Chance Gulch, Downtown Walking Mall, Capitol District. Permitted walls, hand-installed, GPS-stamped photo proof.
We delivered.
Brand partners include: FIFA World Cup 2026, Palantir, Sézane, G-Shock, Mitchell & Ness, True Religion, Huda Beauty, Yonex, Relevance AI, Momentous, RYZE Coffee, Bloom Effects, Incrediwear, Brooklyn Museum, Sweat FC, HydroJug, Frameline, Alchemy, OneRepublic, Lone Fox, Vaura Pilates.
- 3Neighborhoods on route
- 10-14dBrief to first install
- 100%GPS photo-proofed
- 0Municipal removals on record
Street-level marketing, printed and installed by us.
Guerrilla marketing puts your brand on Helena streets where people actually walk — wheatpaste posters, hand-painted murals, sidewalk stencils, pole snipes, and interior takeovers, printed and installed by one crew. No media-owner middleman, no billboard rates: every placement is permitted, hand-applied, and photographed the day it goes up.
- 01Brief & route
You send the brand, dates, and audience. We map the Helena corridors where that buyer actually walks and price off the published floor.
- 02Scout & secure
Crews scout walls on foot, then lock every surface in writing: owner agreement, BID-cleared scaffold, or permitted hoarding. The paper trail ships with the photos.
- 03Print & install
We print in-house and hand-install from dawn, moving neighborhood to neighborhood. Scout-and-install routes the brief on a per-market schedule.
- 04Document
Every placement shot wide, mid, and detail, GPS-stamped on install day. The wrap deck lands within five business days with the full proof set.
Pick a format. We print and install it.
Every format below is printed and installed in-house, scouted, hand-applied, and GPS-photographed on Helena streets. Pick the one that fits the brief; the full catalog is one click away.
Wheatpaste & Posters
Hand-pasted poster walls on brick, scaffold, and hoarding.
Sidewalk Stencils
Biodegradable street stencils on permitted corners.
Pole Stickers & Snipes
Corridor saturation on poles, boxes, and news racks.
Hand-Painted Murals
Brush-painted brand walls at building scale.
Custom Poster Installs
Posters and wraps inside venues, gyms, and pop-ups.
All 38 services
The full guerrilla-marketing catalog: wraps, decals, takeovers, and more.
Why street media works in Helena.
Helena runs on the Capitol and the historic downtown below it. Last Chance Gulch keeps the pedestrian blocks busy with shops and restaurants, the Capitol District fills with legislators and staff when the session is in, and the Walking Mall draws steady foot traffic through the warm months. The wall inventory concentrates along Last Chance Gulch and the Walking Mall, where the pedestrian frontage faces a walking crowd, not a highway. Campaigns timed to the session reach a policy crowd on its walk between the Capitol and the downtown lunch district.
Three reasons brands book us here
- 1Last Chance Gulch anchors the wall inventory
Last Chance Gulch runs the heart of historic downtown Helena, the pedestrian blocks lined with shops and restaurants that carry the city's steadiest foot traffic. The corridor takes paste at foot level on permissioned commercial frontage, on walls that face a walking crowd, not a highway.
- 2A capital city with a session-driven audience
Helena fills with legislators, staff, and lobbyists when the Montana legislature is in session, an audience that pays attention. Campaigns timed to the session reach a policy crowd on its walk between the Capitol and the downtown lunch district.
- 3The Walking Mall holds the foot traffic
The Downtown Walking Mall draws steady pedestrian traffic through the warm months and the holiday season. The corridor takes paste on permissioned commercial frontage along the pedestrian blocks. Strong ground for retail, dining, and culture briefs.
Where we run it · 3 neighborhoods
- 01Last Chance GulchHistoric downtown pedestrian blocksStorefront walls · raw brick · restaurant frontageT2
- 02Downtown Walking MallPedestrian blocksPedestrian-block commercial wallsT2
- 03Capitol DistrictCapitol-to-downtown corridorCommercial walls · office-corridor frontageT2
Surfaces, permits & timing
Surfaces
3 neighborhoods on the active route: wheatpaste walls, scaffold corners, and mural-ready sites scouted per brief. Brick, concrete, hoarding, and storefront.
Permit path
In Montana a paste-up on a permissioned wall is a property-rights question, so a wall with the owner's written sign-off is a legal install, and that consent is the paperwork we collect before a single Helena wall goes up. The public grid, utility poles, transit, and anything in the right-of-way, is left alone, and Capitol grounds and state property stay off-limits given the city's role as the state seat. Because the historic downtown around Last Chance Gulch and the Walking Mall carries its own facade rules, our compliance file pre-clears those block by block before the crew ever dispatches.
When to run
Summer and early fall are the cleanest install windows. The Montana legislature fills the Capitol District in odd-numbered years when the session is in, the strongest Capitol-adjacent reach window. Warm-weather foot traffic keeps Last Chance Gulch busy through summer, and the holiday season draws crowds to the Walking Mall. Montana winters run cold, so crews work weather-rated stock when temperatures allow. Event windows like the session or the holiday Walking Mall crowd need more lead time as coordination tightens.
From the field · Helena & beyond
Proof · Printed in-house · Installed by our crew
Put your brand on Helena streets.
Send the brand, the neighborhoods, and the dates. We come back with a wall count, a Helena route map, and a scoped quote in 24–48 hours.
- Quote in under 24 hours
- No discovery call. The brief is the call.
- Printing & Installation under one roof
Brief us · Helena quote in 24–48h
Start your Helena campaign.
Cross the city line.
Helena briefs regularly extend into the rest of Montana. Same operator contract, same field log, different ZIP code. Pick a sibling market and we route the brief in 48 hours.
What the brief actually costs.
Your Helena quote comes off a published rate card, not a sales call. Per-discipline floors, permits and scaffold at cost, and no markup buried in an RFP.
Wheatpaste posters
Walls, scaffolds, hoardings · 7-10d leadFrom $3,500Sidewalk stencils
Permitted corners · biodegradable medium · 14-21d weather windowFrom $2,500Snipes + stickers
Poles, utility boxes, news boxes · corridor saturationFrom $3,000Expedited
24-72h brief-to-install on any format above · Helena crews on standby+80-150%+Ranges vary by turnaround, size, location count, and service mix. Murals $18k-$65k+. Final quote in 24-48h.
Buyer questions.
What Helena brand managers ask on intake calls. Permit reality, lead time, minimums, photo proof. If your question isn't here, brief us directly.
Q · 01 Is wheatpasting legal in Helena?
Yes, when the wall is private and the owner signs off in writing, which is the paperwork we pull before any Last Chance Gulch storefront or Walking Mall frontage goes up. Montana treats a permissioned paste as a property-rights matter, so utility poles, transit, and anything in the right-of-way stay untouched, and Capitol grounds and state property are off the list entirely. The raw-brick and storefront walls along the historic pedestrian blocks carry the friendliest inventory, and our compliance file clears downtown facade rules block by block before a crew dispatches.
Q · 02 How much does a Helena wheatpaste campaign cost?
A Helena wheatpaste run opens at $3,500 with both the printing and the install rolled in. Stretching a program across Last Chance Gulch, the Downtown Walking Mall, and the Capitol District lifts the number from there, since it tracks poster volume and crew days rather than whose name is on the paper. Size, location count, turnaround, and whether you fold in pole stickers or stencils all move it, and the firm quote comes back within 24 to 48 hours.
Q · 03 Which Helena neighborhoods get the strongest paste-up coverage?
Last Chance Gulch and the Downtown Walking Mall hold the densest inventory: raw brick, storefront walls, and restaurant frontage lining the historic pedestrian blocks where the foot traffic runs steadiest. The Capitol District's office-corridor frontage puts work in front of the legislative and business crowd, and that reach peaks when the Montana legislature is in session. For most briefs the two downtown corridors anchor the buy and the Capitol District extends it.
Q · 04 How long does it take to launch a Helena campaign?
Figure seven to fourteen days from creative lock to the first wall in a normal stretch. The legislative session and the holiday crush on the Walking Mall tighten property coordination and crew scheduling, so those windows want more runway. Outside them, a press-ready file can go up inside the same week.
Q · 05 Do you run pole stickers and stencils in Helena too?
We do. Pole stickers go up on commercially permissioned poles and construction hoarding through the Capitol District and the downtown corridors, never on public right-of-way. Sidewalk stencils hit the busy pavement along Last Chance Gulch and the Walking Mall in chalk paint or biodegradable spray. Whatever the format, each placement ships back with GPS-stamped photos in wide, mid, and detail.
Got a corner in Helena?
We've got the paste.
Tell us the neighborhood, the dates, and the brand. Helena-mapped install plan back in 24-48 hours.