Billboard Advertising Cost --- Most important factors to consider


by Vincent platania - Date: 2007-05-11 - Word Count: 421 Share This!

Billboard advertising is certainly one of the most popular forms of advertising in any form of the business irrespective of the size of the business. Even though this form of advertising came into existence in the early twentieth century, it has gain good popularity in the last three decades only. But, in the last decade it has revolutionized the advertising world.

Billboard Advertising:

A billboard is a huge outdoor signboard that is usually made of wood, which is mainly found in places where there will be high traffic such as bigger cities, busy roads, motorways or highways. Billboard is also called a hoarding in normal terms. The main intention of the billboards is to create a long lasting impression on the minds of the pedestrians and the drivers that pass through these highways or roads.

Factors to consider:

However, with the increased popularity of the billboard advertising the number of billboards that appear on the roads has increased quite dramatically in the last few years. So, if you are going for the billboard advertising you should take so many precautions if you really want to make maximum out of your billboard advertising. There are so many factors that you have to consider while deciding the cost that are going to allocate for the billboard advertising:

* You should first find a proper location for your billboard advertisement to be placed. This plays a very crucial part in deciding the success of your campaign. If the location is under great demand, it is certain that you will be charged some huge amount of money.

* The size of the hoarding is the next important factor. If you are placing your hoarding in a place, which is already crowded with other hoardings, then you have to go for a very big sized hoarding. This again involves a few extra bucks.

* If you are spending good amount of money in the hoarding for its size and place then it is advisable to invest as much as possible to get the best quality design and print for that hoarding. You should assign this task to good professionals who have got good experience in doing these types of tasks previously.

So, all the above listed factors will normally contribute to the cost of the billboard advertisement. Apart from this there are other factors like local taxes, price increase due to increased competition and so on. So, the advertising department should a good amount of research and many brainstorming exercises before they decide to stick to a particular style of hoarding.
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