Guerrilla street marketing in Burlington.
Wheatpaste, murals, stencils, and pole-stickers across Burlington, from South End, Downtown, Old North End. 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.
- 5Neighborhoods 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 Burlington 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 Burlington 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 Burlington 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 Burlington.
Burlington is Vermont's largest city and the cultural anchor for the Champlain Valley, routing UVM's 14,000 students, Champlain College, and a working craft-beverage cluster through a compact grid. The Church Street Marketplace pedestrian zone is the densest foot-traffic corridor in the state. South End warehouse brick along Pine Street is the strongest paste read in Vermont, and walls earn organic social pickup for 14 to 21 days after install during the summer waterfront and Art Hop seasons.
Three reasons brands book us here
- 1The strongest paste read in Vermont
South End warehouse brick along Pine Street is the strongest paste read in the state, anchoring an arts-and-craft corridor where Art Hop pulls 30,000. The Church Street Marketplace holds the densest foot traffic in Vermont. Downtown side-street brick frames every install.
- 2Campus and craft through a compact grid
Burlington routes UVM's 14,000 students, Champlain College, and a working craft-beverage cluster through a compact grid. The Hill Section reaches campus cafes and higher-income residential. The Old North End layers independent retail and a summer market onto working-class blocks.
- 3We route around the marketplace and campus lines
The Church Street Marketplace carries its own signage rules across the four-block pedestrian zone, so we route to the side streets. UVM and Champlain College property stay closed, and we work the commercial blocks just outside. Every wall ships with a signed owner-consent letter. Zero municipal removals across all Vermont work.
Where we run it · 5 neighborhoods
- 01South EndPine Street · Flynn AvenueWarehouse-scale brickT2
- 02DowntownCollege · Main · Bank · Cherry · Pearl StreetsSide-street brick · pedestrian-zone pavementT2
- 03Old North EndNorth Winooski Avenue · streets north from PearlCommercial brick · independent retail back wallsT2
- 04Hill SectionCollege · Main · Pearl Street running eastCommunity-center frontage poles · campus cafesT2
- 05New North EndNorth AvenueLower-density commercial frontageT2
Surfaces, permits & timing
Surfaces
5 neighborhoods on the active route: wheatpaste walls, scaffold corners, and mural-ready sites scouted per brief. Brick, concrete, hoarding, and storefront.
Permit path
In Vermont, paste on a permissioned wall is simply a private-property matter, so with a signed owner- consent letter on file every Burlington install runs legal, and that letter ships with each wall. The Church Street Marketplace enforces its own commercial-signage rules across the four-block pedestrian zone, so we keep to Downtown's surrounding side streets, and because UVM and Champlain College hold their campuses closed we work the commercial blocks just past the boundary lines. Anything public stays off the table: utility poles in the right-of-way, GMT transit, and the city-owned Burlington Bike Path frontage. Burlington's code-enforcement response on unpermitted signage runs 30 to 60 days, but with owner consent documented up front that clock never starts, and there are zero municipal removals on record across all our Vermont work.
When to run
Vermont's weather window favors May through October for exterior paste. Winter installs require below-32-degree paste handling and cure times stretch in cold snaps. Mud season in late March and April adds a day or two for site coordination on unpaved access. Cultural: South End Art Hop in September pulls 30,000, Burlington Discover Jazz Festival in June, Vermont International Film Festival in October. Sports: UVM hockey at Gutterson, UVM basketball at Patrick Gym, Lake Monsters at Centennial Field in summer. Winter tourism: Stowe, Sugarbush, Smugglers' Notch, and Bolton Valley pull regional and national audiences November through March.
From the field · Burlington & beyond
Proof · Printed in-house · Installed by our crew
Put your brand on Burlington streets.
Send the brand, the neighborhoods, and the dates. We come back with a wall count, a Burlington 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 · Burlington quote in 24–48h
Start your Burlington campaign.
Cross the city line.
Burlington briefs regularly extend into the rest of Vermont. 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 Burlington 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 · Burlington 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 Burlington 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 Burlington?
Yes, on private property once the owner signs off in writing, which we lock down before a single sheet goes up. Vermont treats paste on a permissioned wall as a private-property matter, so a South End warehouse wall on Pine Street or an Old North End retail back wall is fair game with consent in hand. We stay off the Church Street Marketplace, which carries its own commercial-signage rules across its four-block pedestrian zone, and off UVM and Champlain College property, working Downtown side streets and the Hill Section's commercial blocks instead. Utility poles in the right-of-way, GMT transit, and the city's Burlington Bike Path frontage never get touched, and we've logged zero municipal removals across all our Vermont work.
Q · 02 How much does a Burlington wheatpaste campaign cost?
Pricing opens at $3,500 a campaign with both printing and installation folded in, so there's no separate print bill. A single South End brick wall sits near that floor; stitching together Downtown, the Old North End, the Hill Section, and the New North End moves the number up with the added location count. What actually sets the price is size, turnaround, how many walls, and the service mix, never whose poster is going up. A firm quote comes back within 24 to 48 hours.
Q · 03 Which Burlington neighborhoods get the strongest paste-up coverage?
The South End leads, where warehouse-scale brick along Pine Street and Flynn Avenue reads as the strongest paste in Vermont and anchors the state's densest arts-and-craft corridor. Downtown works the side-street brick off College, Main, Bank, Cherry, and Pearl, feeding off the Church Street Marketplace's foot traffic, the densest in the state. The Old North End layers North Winooski Avenue's independent-retail back walls, the Hill Section reaches campus cafes and community-center frontage poles near UVM and Champlain College, and the New North End extends niche residential reach up North Avenue.
Q · 04 How long does it take to launch a Burlington campaign?
Roughly seven to fourteen days from creative lock to the first wall, and same-week is doable if your print files are ready to run. May through October is the clean window for exterior paste on Pine Street brick and Downtown side streets. Winter stretches the timeline, since paste has to be handled below 32 degrees and cure times drag in cold snaps, and Burlington's mud season in late March and April adds a day or two for site coordination on unpaved access.
Q · 05 Can a campaign line up with Art Hop or Discover Jazz?
That's the play. South End Art Hop draws 30,000 into the Pine Street corridor each September, the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival fills the calendar in June, and the Vermont International Film Festival runs in October. The sports slate adds UVM hockey at Gutterson, UVM basketball at Patrick Gym, and summer Lake Monsters games at Centennial Field, while winter tourism at Stowe, Sugarbush, Smugglers' Notch, and Bolton Valley pulls regional crowds from November through March. We time South End and Downtown installs so the walls are already up before the crowd arrives.
Got a corner in Burlington?
We've got the paste.
Tell us the neighborhood, the dates, and the brand. Burlington-mapped install plan back in 24-48 hours.