Billboard Advertising
in Manchester

Manchester stands as a beacon of innovation and progress, driving the UK’s growth with its dynamic culture and bustling cityscape. As the nation’s fastest-growing city, Manchester is not only home to millions of residents but also serves as a magnet for tourists, offering diverse demographics to engage with. From the trendy Northern Quarter to the vibrant city centre and prominent landmarks like MediaCityUK and the Trafford Centre, Manchester provides a fertile ground for reaching varied audiences. Its economic surge is powered by robust sectors in creative and digital technology, media, and professional services.

Billboard Advertising In Manchester

Manchester stands as a beacon of innovation and progress, driving the UK’s growth with its dynamic culture and bustling cityscape. As the nation’s fastest-growing city, Manchester is not only home to millions of residents but also serves as a magnet for tourists, offering diverse demographics to engage with. From the trendy Northern Quarter to the vibrant city centre and prominent landmarks like MediaCityUK and the Trafford Centre, Manchester provides a fertile ground for reaching varied audiences. Its economic surge is powered by robust sectors in creative and digital technology, media, and professional services.

At Priority Outdoor, we specialize in crafting impactful billboard advertising campaigns tailored to specific areas in Manchester, including the prestigious city center digital 6-sheet network. Leveraging our expertise and extensive network with media owners, we ensure optimal exposure in prime locations. Allow our consultants to guide you in selecting the ideal site positions and securing availability for a successful campaign.”

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We are pleased to have many trusted clients.

Billboard Advertising Service

Priority Outdoor manages the full campaign lifecycle:

  • Audience and location analysis
  • Media planning across all Manchester billboard advertising locations
  • Negotiation and buying across multiple media owners
  • Creative specification guidance
  • Campaign scheduling and optimisation
  • Post-campaign performance reporting.

Our approach is always data-led. We match your audience profile with the right environments – roadside, retail, commuter routes or city centre – ensuring spend is focused where it will deliver measurable outcomes.

At Priority Outdoor, we specialize in crafting impactful billboard advertising campaigns tailored to specific areas in Manchester, including the prestigious city center digital 6-sheet network. Leveraging our expertise and extensive network with media owners, we ensure optimal exposure in prime locations. Allow our consultants to guide you in selecting the ideal site positions and securing availability for a successful campaign.”

Why advertise on Billboard in Manchester?

Manchester offers advertisers a powerful combination of scale, connectivity and cultural influence. The city attracts a constant flow of residents, commuters, students, shoppers and visitors, creating opportunities for brands to reach audiences across Manchester city centre and the wider Greater Manchester area. Its busy roads, extensive Metrolink network, major railway stations, retail destinations and entertainment districts provide a wide choice of high visibility advertising locations.

With a strong identity and an economy spanning media, technology, education, retail, sport and professional services, advertising in Manchester can help brands build awareness, target valuable local audiences and maintain a memorable presence in one of the UK’s most commercially important cities.

Manchester billboard formats

96 Sheet

Available in both traditional print and Digital 96 Sheet billboards are as big as it gets for the standard digital billboard formats. The extra width allows for creative professionals to create stunning panoramic content which will inspire. Situated throughout along Manchester arterial routes and key commercial retail and commercial areas 96 sheets provide great exposure and targeting.

48 sheet

48 sheets are the common or garden billboard, 6m wide by 3m tall. Great coverage and prime locations available. Billboards are often used as part of a wider campaign, frequently partnered with bus advertising.

6 sheet

6 sheets are portrait boards. They are focused on key town and city arterial routes, shopping malls, supermarkets and even petrol stations and designed to attract the attention of the drivers, passengers and pedestrians . The portrait format opens up new creative possibilities for OOH campaigns.

Street Hubs

Whilst providing the public with charging points, wifi and emergency services and with over 500 units across the UK these unique digital billboards are located in high pedestrian traffic locations with great sidewalk and road visibility due to their size.

Iconic Sites

Few advertising formats offer the prestige, impact and exposure that can be achieved utilising some of the iconic billboard advertising sites. From the iconic Piccadilly gardens billboard & Manchester's largest billboard in Europe to the Trafford towers to the Salford arches iconic sites can elevate the public awareness of any brand, product or message .

Manchester billboard formats

96 Sheet

Available in both traditional print and Digital 96 Sheet billboards are as big as it gets for the standard digital billboard formats. The extra width allows for creative professionals to create stunning panoramic content which will inspire. Situated throughout along Manchester arterial routes and key commercial retail and commercial areas 96 sheets provide great exposure and targeting.

48 sheet

48 sheets are the common or garden billboard, 6m wide by 3m tall. Great coverage and prime locations available. Billboards are often used as part of a wider campaign, frequently partnered with bus advertising.

6 sheet

6 sheets are portrait boards. They are focused on key town and city arterial routes, shopping malls, supermarkets and even petrol stations and designed to attract the attention of the drivers, passengers and pedestrians . The portrait format opens up new creative possibilities for OOH campaigns.

Street Hubs

Whilst providing the public with charging points, wifi and emergency services and with over 500 units across the UK these unique digital billboards are located in high pedestrian traffic locations with great sidewalk and road visibility due to their size.

Iconic Sites

Few advertising formats offer the prestige, impact and exposure that can be achieved utilising some of the iconic billboard advertising sites. From the iconic Piccadilly gardens billboard & Manchester's largest billboard in Europe to the Trafford towers to the Salford arches iconic sites can elevate the public awareness of any brand, product or message .

Extensive reach

Billboard advertising in Manchester can reach large and varied audiences across some of the city’s busiest locations. Sites around Deansgate, Piccadilly Gardens, Oxford Road and Market Street connect brands with shoppers, workers, students and visitors, while major routes such as the Mancunian Way, Princess Road, Regent Road and Great Ancoats Street provide exposure to drivers and commuters travelling across Manchester every day.

High dwell time

Manchester’s busy roads and junctions create valuable opportunities for longer advertising exposure, particularly during peak travel periods. Billboards positioned along routes such as Chester Road, Trinity Way, Regent Road and the Mancunian Way can remain visible while traffic slows, while city centre locations near Manchester Piccadilly, Victoria Station, Manchester Arndale and Oxford Road benefit from high levels of pedestrian activity and waiting time.

Consistent visibility

Billboards placed along Manchester’s key commuter routes give brands repeated visibility among people making the same journeys each day. Regular exposure around Deansgate, Salford Quays, Trafford Park, Ancoats and the Oxford Road corridor helps reinforce campaign messaging, increase familiarity and keep brands prominent among local residents, workers, students and commuters.

Targeted coverage

Billboard advertising campaigns can be planned around specific Manchester audiences and locations. Brands can target shoppers around Manchester Arndale and the Trafford Centre, students along Oxford Road and Wilmslow Road, professionals in Spinningfields and MediaCity, or motorists travelling through Trafford Park, Salford, Stockport Road and Princess Parkway. This flexibility allows campaigns to focus investment on the parts of Manchester and Greater Manchester most relevant to their audience.

why Manchester billboards

why Manchester billboards

Extensive reach

Billboard advertising in Manchester can reach large and varied audiences across some of the city’s busiest locations. Sites around Deansgate, Piccadilly Gardens, Oxford Road and Market Street connect brands with shoppers, workers, students and visitors, while major routes such as the Mancunian Way, Princess Road, Regent Road and Great Ancoats Street provide exposure to drivers and commuters travelling across Manchester every day.

High dwell time

Manchester’s busy roads and junctions create valuable opportunities for longer advertising exposure, particularly during peak travel periods. Billboards positioned along routes such as Chester Road, Trinity Way, Regent Road and the Mancunian Way can remain visible while traffic slows, while city centre locations near Manchester Piccadilly, Victoria Station, Manchester Arndale and Oxford Road benefit from high levels of pedestrian activity and waiting time.

Consistent visibility

Billboards placed along Manchester’s key commuter routes give brands repeated visibility among people making the same journeys each day. Regular exposure around Deansgate, Salford Quays, Trafford Park, Ancoats and the Oxford Road corridor helps reinforce campaign messaging, increase familiarity and keep brands prominent among local residents, workers, students and commuters.

Targeted coverage

Billboard advertising campaigns can be planned around specific Manchester audiences and locations. Brands can target shoppers around Manchester Arndale and the Trafford Centre, students along Oxford Road and Wilmslow Road, professionals in Spinningfields and MediaCity, or motorists travelling through Trafford Park, Salford, Stockport Road and Princess Parkway. This flexibility allows campaigns to focus investment on the parts of Manchester and Greater Manchester most relevant to their audience.

Population

2.7 million people live in Greater Manchester

Students

Over 99k students attend Manchester Universities

Employment

Manchester boasts 1.3 million people in employment

Tourism

Greater Manchester is the third most visited place in the UK

Economy

The Greater Manchester Local economy generates over 62.8bn

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Retail

Due to the enormous pull of the Trafford Centre and the  Arndale Centre, Manchester now outranks all other UK cities for its leisure and retail offerings, making it one of the most desirable places for billboard advertising campaigns for both those looking to advertise in a retail environment and for those in the retail sector.

Tourism

Billboards are very often used as part of a tourism campaign. Town visiting authorities, tourism boards and attraction sites all utilise the power of billboards. Targeted to heavily populated / visited locations to give you the maximum exposure for your marketing budget.

Education

With over 20 universities, 10 FE colleges, and more than 274 schools Greater Manchester presents advertisers with the chance to connect not only with local students but also with the diverse array of faculty, staff, and employees working within these institutions, given that the University of Manchester alone boasts an international student population of 33.6%.

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Locations & Environments

The
Arndale
Centre

The Arndale Centre is a great location to influence consumers at the point of purchase and offers a variety of creative advertising formats both in the shopping centre and its surrounding streets and areas such as the highly sought-after Market ST, the Northern Quater and Spinningfields.

The
Trafford
Centre

The Trafford Centre is one of Europe’s largest shopping centres and has a variety of billboard advertising formats to help advertisers influence consumers at the point of purchase as well as offering unrivalled public messaging and branding.

The
Arndale
Centre

The Arndale Centre is a great location to influence consumers at the point of purchase and offers a variety of creative advertising formats both in the shopping centre and its surrounding streets and areas such as the highly sought-after Market ST, the Northern Quater and Spinningfields.

The
Manchester
Metrolink

The Metrolink is a great environment in which to reach, commuters, leisure travellers and tourists with a variety of  internal and external formats it offers unrivalled exposure and dwell times

The
Trafford
Centre

The Trafford Centre is one of Europe’s largest shopping centres and has a variety of billboard advertising formats to help advertisers influence consumers at the point of purchase as well as offering unrivalled public messaging and branding.

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How Much Does Billboard Advertising in Manchester Cost?

Billboard advertising costs in Manchester vary depending on several factors:

  • Format, such as 6 sheets, 48 sheets, 96 sheets or digital billboards
  • Location, from Manchester city centre to surrounding areas of Greater Manchester
  • Prominence, traffic levels and audience footfall
  • Campaign duration and number of billboard sites
  • Static or digital display requirements
  • Your other marketing channels and efforts

Billboards in high demand locations such as Deansgate, Piccadilly Gardens, Oxford Road and the Mancunian Way will typically require a higher investment than sites in outer areas. Smaller 6 sheet displays can provide a cost effective way to reach local audiences, while large format and digital billboards on major routes such as Regent Road, Princess Road and Great Ancoats Street deliver greater visibility and impact.

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