Guerrilla street marketing in Memphis.
Wheatpaste, murals, stencils, and pole-stickers across Memphis, from South Main Arts District, Cooper-Young, Crosstown. 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 Memphis 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 Memphis 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 Memphis 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 Memphis.
Memphis's working blocks sit in South Main and Cooper-Young. Roughly twenty active brick surfaces between G.E. Patterson and Vance, another fifteen across Cooper Street and Young Avenue. Most surfaces are owner-permissioned and used to rotating gallery and commercial work, so new posters land inside the district rather than on top of a clean billboard. Beale Street delivers music-heritage reach against roughly 4 million annual visitors, even though the Historic District caps paste volume on Beale itself. The wall reads first, the brand second.
Three reasons brands book us here
- 1South Main is the working arts district
South Main between G.E. Patterson and Vance carries the densest paste-friendly brick in the city. Roughly twenty active surfaces, most owner-permissioned and used to rotating gallery and commercial work. Trolley line foot traffic stacks against weekend Crosstown Concourse spillover. Best fit: music, lifestyle, spirits, independent labels, social-impact campaigns.
- 2Beale Street is music reach, not paste-up reach
The Historic District designation caps paste-up volume on Beale itself, but pole stickers, sidewalk stencils, and interior installs run cleanly through bar partners on the 200 and 300 blocks. Roughly 4 million annual visitors. Best fit: music releases, spirits, festival promotion, and any campaign chasing the Memphis music-heritage read with respect for the corridor.
- 3Cooper-Young and Overton Square covers the midtown audience
Cooper Street and Young Avenue carry the independent retail and bar density. Overton Square sits ten blocks north with theater, restaurant, and pedestrian-zone foot traffic. The pair runs as one buy: paste-up walls on Cooper-Young, stencils and pole stickers across the Madison Avenue connector. Memphis in May and BBQ Fest are the two windows where this corridor outperforms downtown.
Where we run it · 6 neighborhoods
- 01South Main Arts DistrictSouth Main · G.E. Patterson · VanceRaw brick · gallery storefrontT1
- 02Cooper-YoungCooper St · Young AveRaw brick · bar-and-gallery wallT1
- 03CrosstownCrosstown ConcourseConcourse-adjacent wallT1
- 04Overton SquareMadison AveTheater-corridor wallT1
- 05DowntownFedEx Forum adjacency · convention corridorCommercial wallT1
- 06Beale Street200 and 300 blocksPole inventory · interior installT1
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
Memphis allows wheatpaste on private property with written owner consent. Code Enforcement reads paste on permissioned brick as a property matter and routes complaints to the building owner, not the installer. South Main Arts District and Cooper-Young owners run rotating commercial work and coordinate directly, and both carry neighborhood-association guidance we honor on top of the city code. The Beale Street Historic District adds a Tennessee state-level overlay we clear before any wall goes up. Public infrastructure (city poles, MATA transit, federal right-of-way) is off-limits across the city.
When to run
Seven to fourteen days from creative lock to first install for standard South Main or Cooper-Young runs. Beale Street District adjacency adds two to three weeks for state-level overlay clearance. Mississippi River humidity stretches cure time June through August, so summer installs shift to dawn windows or interior placements. Memphis in May is the tentpole: the festival month brings roughly 1.6 million attendees through Tom Lee Park and pushes downtown and South Main foot traffic three to four times normal, so lock creative six weeks out. BBQ Fest is the second window where the Cooper-Young and Overton Square corridor outperforms downtown.
From the field · Memphis & beyond
Proof · Printed in-house · Installed by our crew
Put your brand on Memphis streets.
Send the brand, the neighborhoods, and the dates. We come back with a wall count, a Memphis 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 · Memphis quote in 24–48h
Start your Memphis campaign.
Cross the city line.
Memphis briefs regularly extend into the rest of Tennessee. 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 Memphis 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 · Memphis 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 Memphis 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 Memphis?
Yes, with written owner consent on private property. We pull that paperwork before every install. Public infrastructure (city poles, MATA transit, federal right-of-way) is never touched. The Beale Street Historic District adds a Tennessee state overlay; we clear both city and state layers before scheduling a crew. Cooper-Young and South Main carry neighborhood association guidance we honor on top of the city code.
Q · 02 How much does a Memphis campaign cost?
Wheatpaste in Memphis starts at $3,500 per campaign, print and install included. Multi-neighborhood programs across South Main, Cooper-Young, Crosstown, and Overton Square price up from the published floor. Memphis in May window (early May through Memorial Day) adds a crew-and-clearance surcharge of about 12% for the festival surge. 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 Should we time a campaign around Memphis in May?
If the audience is 25 to 45 with music, food, or travel interest, yes. The festival month brings roughly 1.6 million attendees through Tom Lee Park and pushes downtown and South Main foot traffic three to four times normal. Lock creative six weeks out so the Beale Street and Tom Lee Park overlay reviews clear before crew dates.
Q · 04 Which neighborhoods give the strongest paste-up read?
South Main leads for arts, music, and independent commercial work. Cooper-Young is the midtown lifestyle read. Crosstown carries the medical-and-arts-campus audience around Crosstown Concourse. Overton Square handles theater and restaurant adjacency. Downtown serves convention and office. Beale Street runs as heritage reach, not paste-up volume.
Q · 05 How long does a Memphis campaign take to launch?
Seven to fourteen days from creative lock to first install for standard South Main or Cooper-Young runs. Beale Street District adjacency adds two to three weeks for state-level overlay clearance. Mississippi River humidity stretches cure time June through August, so summer installs shift to dawn windows or move to interior placements.
Got a corner in Memphis?
We've got the paste.
Tell us the neighborhood, the dates, and the brand. Memphis-mapped install plan back in 24-48 hours.