Digital billboards that change by the hour.

Digital billboard advertising on the screens that matter. Full-motion creative on premium LED screens in the busiest zones, with messaging that can change by daypart, audience, or the moment.

Good American digital billboard in Times Square, New York

Good American

Digital Billboard · New York

What is a digital billboard?

A digital billboard is a large LED screen that shows scheduled or programmatic creative in high-traffic locations such as Times Square, the Sunset Strip, and major arterials. Digital billboard advertising is part of digital out-of-home (DOOH): because the creative is served digitally, one placement can rotate several messages, update the same day, and respond to weather, sports, or sales triggers without a reprint. Swing Media plans, schedules, and ships digital billboard creative across premium screens in each market.

Guess digital billboard in Times Square, New York

GUESS

Digital Billboard

Kosas out-of-home campaign in New York

Kosas

Los Angeles

How we deliver digital billboards

Premium screens

Vendor-agnostic access to flagship LED inventory, so we plan around the brightest screen and highest dwell, not a single network.

Scheduling and trafficking

Spot weight, share of time, and daypart schedules built and trafficked to the screen, with creative specced for each canvas.

Verification and reporting

Play-out proof of posting, an impressions estimate, and delivery reported against the schedule for the flight.

When to use a digital billboard

Time-sensitive offers

Run dated drops, showtimes, or price changes and update the message the day it shifts.

Dayparting

Serve different creative by morning commute, lunch, and nightlife to match who is watching.

Sequential storytelling

Rotate a set of frames so a brand story unfolds across a single high-traffic screen.

Reactive moments

Trigger creative off a result, a launch, or live conditions while the moment is current.

Digital billboards, city by city.

We plan digital billboards on the screens each market is known for, from Times Square to the Sunset Strip.

  • Los Angeles

    Sunset, Beverly, Melrose, West Hollywood

    Screens along the Sunset Strip and the major arterials.

  • New York

    Times Square, SoHo, 5th Avenue, Brooklyn

    Times Square, where our Good American and Guess campaigns ran.

  • Miami

    Wynwood, Brickell, Bal Harbour, Design District

  • Las Vegas

    The Strip, Wynn, Fashion Show, Downtown

  • London

    Soho, Mayfair, Shoreditch, West End

  • Dubai

    Downtown, Marina, Sheikh Zayed Road

Frequently Asked Questions

Digital billboard advertising, answered.

Digital billboard advertising runs ads on large LED screens instead of printed vinyl. Creative is uploaded and scheduled remotely, so a brand can run several messages, change them by time of day, and update a campaign without reprinting.

DOOH, or digital out-of-home, is any out-of-home advertising shown on a digital screen: digital billboards, transit and street-level screens, and indoor displays in places like malls and airports. Digital billboards are the large-format end of DOOH.

A static billboard shows one printed design for the whole flight. A digital billboard shares its screen with other advertisers in a rotating loop, but your creative can change by daypart and be updated quickly. Static suits a single always-on message; digital suits timely offers, multiple messages, and launches.

Programmatic DOOH buys digital out-of-home screens through automated platforms, using audience and timing data to decide when and where ads play. It suits flexible, data-led buying, while direct buys suit landmark screens a brand wants to own for a moment.

Cost depends on the screen's location and audience, your share of time in the loop, the dayparts you buy, and the length of the flight. Landmark screens such as Times Square sit at the top of the market. Swing Media builds a schedule to your budget through Plan a Campaign.

Simple, high-contrast creative with a short message and a clear brand mark reads best, because each spot is seen for only a few seconds. Swing Media specs creative to each screen's size and format before it goes live.

Further reading

A digital advertising panel in a London bus shelter glows over a wet pavement as two friends talk beneath it.

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Digital Billboards: How They Work and What They Cost

A digital billboard is an LED screen that rotates several advertisers through one structure, usually in eight-to-ten-second slots inside a sixty-to-ninety-second loop. You buy a share of that rotation rather than the face itself, and that single difference drives what the campaign costs, how fast it launches, and how it gets measured.

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A media planner reviews a real-time bidding dashboard and inventory map on dual monitors at dusk, with two digital billboards glowing on distant buildings through the office window.

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Programmatic Ads: How Automated DOOH Buying Actually Works

Programmatic ads are digital out-of-home inventory bought and sold through software — real-time bidding or automated deals — instead of a person negotiating each screen by hand. For a media planner, that means audience and location criteria set the buy, not a named board, and a campaign can launch or adjust in days rather than weeks.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Answers for fast campaign planning.

Quick answers to the questions brands ask most. For the full library, visit the FAQ page.

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Our reach includes billboards, wallscapes, bus and transit advertising, subway ads, street kiosks, wild postings, taxi tops, digital billboards, digital shelters, airport displays, mall displays, double decker buses, wheat-paste, and window displays.

Yes. Alongside static formats we offer digital billboards and digital shelters for dynamic creative, and our team also supports social and influencer campaigns.

We work with you to make sure your message and visuals are suited to each format so they read clearly in the real world. Share what you have and our team will help guide the rest.

Because of our significant annual buying volume, we have strong relationships and purchasing power with vendors of every size, which earns preferential rates and more cost effective solutions for clients.