Guerrilla street marketing in Charleston, SC.
Wheatpaste, murals, stencils, and pole-stickers across Charleston, from Cannonborough-Elliotborough, King Street (upper), North Charleston. 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
- 7-10dBrief 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 Charleston 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 Charleston 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. Tier-1 dispatch means same-week turnarounds on print-ready creative.
- 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 Charleston 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 Charleston.
Charleston is the Southeast's strictest historic-district market. South of the Crosstown the Board of Architectural Review effectively closes paste, but north of Calhoun, upper King Street and the Cannonborough-Elliotborough blocks open roughly twenty paste-friendly walls. North Charleston carries the densest large-format brick and the most scale, Mount Pleasant the affluent residential read. A brand that runs on these pre-cleared walls owns ground the historic-core media buys can never touch.
Three reasons brands book us here
- 1The historic district is closed; upper King and Cannonborough are open
The Board of Architectural Review effectively blocks paste south of the Crosstown. North of Calhoun, upper King Street and the Cannonborough-Elliotborough blocks run a different set of rules and an active brick inventory. Roughly twenty paste-friendly walls between Spring Street and the Crosstown carry the city's young-professional and restaurant-scene reach.
- 2North Charleston for scale, Mount Pleasant for affluence
North Charleston is industrial-to-commercial with Boeing employment, lower property-coordination friction, and the densest large-format brick in the metro. Mount Pleasant runs Towne Centre retail and a higher-income residential read. Pair the two for a regional saturation run before adding Downtown-fringe placements.
- 3Festival windows reshape the audience map
Spoleto Festival USA in late May and Charleston Wine + Food in early March pull national press, hospitality spend, and weekend tourism into a compressed window. Festival-week paste runs need pre-cleared walls four weeks ahead because property-owner availability tightens fast. Off-festival, the local-and-college read carries year-round.
Where we run it · 6 neighborhoods
- 01Cannonborough-ElliotboroughBlocks between Spring Street and the CrosstownBrick walls · restaurant row · gallery storefrontsT1
- 02King Street (upper)Commercial blocks above CalhounRetail-spine commercial wallsT1
- 03North CharlestonIndustrial-to-commercial corridor · mural corridorsLarge-format industrial-to-commercial wallsT1
- 04Mount PleasantTowne Centre retail baseTowne Centre retail base · restaurant wallsT1
- 05James IslandJames Island Connector · neighborhood retailResidential-commercial mix · neighborhood retailT1
- 06Folly BeachSurf-retail tourism corridorSurf retail · tourism corridorT1
Surfaces, permits & timing
Surfaces
6 neighborhoods scouted weekly: 40+ wheatpaste walls, 12+ BID-permitted scaffold corners, 8+ mural-ready sites, plus interior partners. Brick, concrete, hoarding, and storefront.
Permit path
Charleston's historic district is the strictest commercial-signage environment in the Southeast. The Board of Architectural Review governs anything visible from a public way south of the Crosstown, including paste, posters, and stencils. Inside the BAR boundary the answer is almost always no, so the playbook routes through Cannonborough-Elliotborough, upper King Street outside the historic core, and the privately master-planned blocks of North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, and James Island. Federal property at Joint Base Charleston is outside our footprint. Boeing's North Charleston facility is private but employer-restricted; we work the commercial blocks around it, not the facility itself. The Charleston pre-clearance process runs longer than a typical secondary market, and we file the BAR boundary check in writing before any wall goes up. Public infrastructure and transit are never touched.
When to run
April through October is the optimal install window, and the historic-fringe blocks weather well. Installs run ten to twenty-one days from creative lock to first wall, longer than a standard market because BAR pre-clearance verification adds calendar time. Spoleto Festival USA in late May and Charleston Wine + Food in early March pull national press, hospitality spend, and weekend tourism into a compressed window; festival-week paste needs pre-cleared walls four weeks ahead because property-owner availability tightens fast. Off-festival, the local-and- college read carries year-round.
From the field · Charleston & beyond
Proof · Printed in-house · Installed by our crew
Put your brand on Charleston streets.
Send the brand, the neighborhoods, and the dates. We come back with a wall count, a Charleston 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 · Charleston quote in 24–48h
Start your Charleston campaign.
Cross the city line.
Charleston briefs regularly extend into the rest of South Carolina. 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 Charleston 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 · 5-7d 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 · Charleston 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 Charleston 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 Charleston?
On private property with written owner consent, yes, outside the BAR boundary. Inside the historic district south of the Crosstown, the Board of Architectural Review governs anything visible from a public way and effectively closes the door on paste. We never work inside that boundary. North of Calhoun, in North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, James Island, and Folly Beach, paste with owner consent is legal and we pre-clear every wall.
Q · 02 How much does a Charleston wheatpaste campaign cost?
Wheatpaste in Charleston starts at $3.5K per campaign on upper King or Cannonborough, print and install included. Charleston pre-clearance work runs longer than a typical secondary market because of the BAR boundary, so labor is the cost driver. Multi-neighborhood programs across upper King, Cannonborough, North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, and James Island price up from the published floor. The final number depends on turnaround, size, location count, and combined service mix, and it tracks print volume and crew days, not the brand on the poster. Final quote returns in 24-48 hours.
Q · 03 Which Charleston neighborhoods get the strongest paste-up coverage?
Cannonborough-Elliotborough and upper King Street carry the densest open paste-up infrastructure. North Charleston carries the highest large-format brick inventory and the most scale. Mount Pleasant and James Island round out residential-commercial reach. Folly Beach is a small surf-and-tourism corridor. The French Quarter, lower King, and the rest of the historic district stay outside our footprint.
Q · 04 How long does it take to launch a Charleston campaign?
Ten to twenty-one days from creative lock to first install. Charleston runs longer than a standard market because BAR pre-clearance verification adds calendar time. Festival windows (Spoleto in May, Wine + Food in March) need four-week lead time on property coordination. April through October is the optimal install window; the historic-fringe blocks weather well.
Q · 05 What proof do I get after a Charleston campaign wraps?
GPS-stamped photo proof inside 48 hours of install, with each placement geo-verified against the BAR boundary in writing. Daily logs while the campaign is live. The wrap deck includes the full gallery, zone breakdown, reach estimates, and any earned social pickup. Removal photos when the run finishes.
Got a corner in Charleston?
We've got the paste.
Tell us the neighborhood, the dates, and the brand. Charleston-mapped install plan back in 24-48 hours.