So You Say You Want a Billboard

By Paul Kedrosky · May 23, 2006 · ·

An article in the WSJ today, nominally about the rising price of popular online keywords, also contains some eye-opening factoids about the cost of advertising offline:

  • The cost of producing a TV spot: $500,000 to $1.5 million
  • The cost of a New York billboard: $40,000 a month
  • The cost of 200 posters in the New York subway system (covering a quarter of the system): $30,000 a month
  • The cost of similar San Francisco coverage in the commuter rail system: $7,500 a month

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Comments

  1. Startups.in says:
    May 23, 2006 at 1:45 am

    Jaw dropping numbers. Wonder why TV stations couldn’t become as successful & profitable as Google. TV’s have been around for many more years before the web but still none have had so much of success & profits as Google. Why??
    Regards,
    NagB /at/
    Startups.in

  2. Mathew says:
    May 23, 2006 at 11:48 am

    Ummmm, TV ads have built an industry that is much larger than Google and it has been around for a lot longer, too.