Guerrilla street marketing in Cincinnati.
Wheatpaste, murals, stencils, and pole-stickers across Cincinnati, from Over-the-Rhine, Mount Adams, Downtown. 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.
- 6Neighborhoods 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 Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati.
Cincinnati's creative blocks live in Over-the-Rhine. Roughly thirty-five paste-friendly walls between Liberty and Central Parkway, with Mount Adams holding another fifteen on the hill. OTR carries mural culture, gallery walls, brewery corridors, and a restaurant scene that pulls foot traffic seven nights a week, and long-running agreements with OTR property owners produce repeat wall access for art-forward work. Mount Adams reads up, an affluent culturally-engaged crowd riding alongside the Krohn Conservatory and Playhouse audience. The wall reads first, the brand second.
Three reasons brands book us here
- 1Over-the-Rhine carries the brick
Roughly thirty-five paste-friendly walls in OTR between Liberty and Central Parkway. Mural culture, gallery walls, brewery corridors, and a restaurant scene that pulls foot traffic seven nights a week. Long-running agreements with OTR property owners produce repeat wall access for art-forward work.
- 2Mount Adams reads up
Mount Adams sits on the hill overlooking downtown. Historic brick walls, gallery storefronts, and a residential-walkable pattern that pulls an affluent crowd on weekends. Reach skews culturally engaged. Posters here ride alongside the Krohn Conservatory and Playhouse audience.
- 3Downtown for the convention read
Fountain Square, Main Street, and the convention corridor concentrate weekday office foot traffic and event-week visitor flow. Modern commercial walls and active development support multi-neighborhood saturation in a single install day when paired with OTR.
Where we run it · 6 neighborhoods
- 01Over-the-RhineLiberty St · Central ParkwayRaw brick · gallery wall · brewery corridorT2
- 02Mount AdamsHilltop blocksHistoric brick · gallery storefrontT2
- 03DowntownFountain Square · Main StModern commercial wallT2
- 04NorthsideHamilton AveIndependent retail wallT2
- 05Walnut HillsMcMillan StHistoric brick wallT2
- 06PendletonCommunity-rooted blocksTertiary coverage wallT2
Surfaces, permits & timing
Surfaces
6 neighborhoods on the active route: wheatpaste walls, scaffold corners, and mural-ready sites scouted per brief. Brick, concrete, hoarding, and storefront.
Permit path
In Cincinnati, wheatpaste is legal on private property when the owner signs off in writing, and we hold that consent on file before a single wall gets pasted. Over-the-Rhine and Mount Adams owners tend to be active partners in commercial activation, and both neighborhoods layer their own guidelines over the city code, so we pre-clear each wall against both. Code Enforcement here handles complaints as a property-rights question, which means a signed agreement is the whole answer. We never touch public infrastructure: utility poles, transit, and the right-of-way are out of bounds. Because the framework shifts with each neighborhood overlay, our compliance file tracks every active Cincinnati zip code.
When to run
Seven to fourteen days from creative lock to first install, with same-week doable when print files are press-ready and properties are pre-cleared. Spring through fall is the optimal window. Winter campaigns December through February need a weather contingency: cure time stretches and salt becomes an issue on lower walls. OTR's restaurant and brewery corridor pulls foot traffic seven nights a week year-round, while Downtown's Fountain Square and convention corridor spike during weekday office hours and event weeks.
From the field · Cincinnati & beyond
Proof · Printed in-house · Installed by our crew
Put your brand on Cincinnati streets.
Send the brand, the neighborhoods, and the dates. We come back with a wall count, a Cincinnati 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 · Cincinnati quote in 24–48h
Start your Cincinnati campaign.
Cross the city line.
Cincinnati briefs regularly extend into the rest of Ohio. 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.
BSM publishes per-discipline floors, no RFP gatekeeping. Every Cincinnati brief starts from the same published rate card. Permits and scaffold pass through at cost, no agency markup.
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 · Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati?
Yes, on private property when the owner signs off in writing, which we hold on file before a crew ever shows up. Over-the-Rhine and Mount Adams both layer neighborhood-overlay guidelines on top of the city code, so we clear each wall against both and log it by zip code. Utility poles, transit, and the right-of-way stay untouched, and since Code Enforcement here treats complaints as a property-rights question, the signed paperwork settles it.
Q · 02 How much does a Cincinnati wheatpaste campaign cost?
Wheatpaste in Cincinnati opens at $3,500, with both printing and installation folded into that figure. A single Over-the-Rhine corridor sits near the floor; spreading the same run across Mount Adams' hilltop brick, Downtown's Fountain Square walls, Northside, and Walnut Hills pushes it up. The quote follows print volume and crew days, square footage, wall count, turnaround, and service mix, never the name on the poster, and it lands within 24-48 hours.
Q · 03 Which Cincinnati neighborhoods get the strongest paste-up coverage?
Over-the-Rhine anchors it: roughly thirty-five paste-friendly walls between Liberty Street and Central Parkway, raw brick threaded through mural, gallery, and brewery corridors. Mount Adams holds another fifteen of historic brick up on the hill for the culturally-engaged read. Downtown's Fountain Square and Main Street modern walls carry the office-and-convention audience, while Northside on Hamilton Avenue, Walnut Hills' brick on McMillan Street, and Pendleton fill in the secondary and tertiary inventory.
Q · 04 How long does it take to launch a Cincinnati campaign?
Seven to fourteen days from creative lock to the first wall, and same-week is realistic when print files are press-ready and the properties, often our repeat OTR partner walls, are already cleared. Spring through fall is the window to aim for. A December-through-February run needs a weather contingency: cure time lengthens in the cold and road salt threatens the lower walls, so we plan placement around it.
Q · 05 What proof do I get after a Cincinnati campaign wraps?
GPS-stamped install photos within a day or two of each wall going up, plus daily logs for the length of the run. The wrap deck lays out the full gallery, a neighborhood-by-neighborhood breakdown from OTR's brewery corridor through Downtown's Fountain Square, reach estimates per corridor, and any pickup our crew catches from local culture media. Removal shots close the file when the run ends.
Got a corner in Cincinnati?
We've got the paste.
Tell us the neighborhood, the dates, and the brand. Cincinnati-mapped install plan back in 24-48 hours.