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Movie Theater Advertising

Your ad runs alongside the biggest releases of the year.

The Cat in the Hat poster

The Cat in the Hat

Nov 6

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping poster

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Nov 20

Avengers: Doomsday poster

Avengers: Doomsday

Dec 18

Dune Part Three poster

Dune Part Three

Dec 18

Jumanji 3 poster

Jumanji 3

Dec 25

Ice Age: Boiling Point

Ice Age: Boiling Point

Feb 5

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

Feb 12

The Exorcist: Martyrs

The Exorcist: Martyrs

Mar 12

Sonic the Hedgehog 4

Sonic the Hedgehog 4

Mar 19

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

Mar 26

The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda

Apr 30

Star Wars: Starfighter

Star Wars: Starfighter

May 28

How to Train Your Dragon 2

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Jun 11

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse

Jun 18

Shrek 5

Shrek 5

Jun 30

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1,353

Theaters

17,556

Screens

49

States

40M+

Monthly Moviegoers

Why cinema advertising works

A 50-foot screen, a captive audience, and no skip button. Moviegoers are seated, focused, and watching.

Unavoidable attention

Cinema ads deliver 2 to 6x the attention of live sports, 6 to 16x of social and digital, and beat CTV and YouTube on measured engagement.

Reach beyond TV

60% of moviegoers are cord-cutters or cord-nevers, so cinema reaches viewers broadcast and most CTV buys can't. The audience crosses generations and income brackets, with median age 30 and a household-income skew above broadcast TV averages.

Proven lift

Quick service restaurant (QSR) campaigns drove 2-3x spend lift. Auto advertisers saw +34% foot traffic. Retail campaigns generated +53% incremental visits.

Movie theater ad placements tailored to your goals

Mix and match across the pre-show, lobby, and digital extensions.

onscreen

Early Pre-Show

Your brand opens the show

Plays early in the pre-show sequence, before trailers begin. Best for awareness and reach.

onscreen

Pre-Show Prime

Peak attention, before the trailers

Plays in the mid-pre-show pod when theater attention peaks. Our most-requested slot.

onscreen

Final Trailer

The last ad before the feature

The premium position — the final commercial before the feature begins. Highest recall, unskippable.

lobby

Lobby Network

Digital signage throughout the theater

Full-motion placements on lobby plasma displays. Extends brand presence beyond the auditorium.

digital

Streaming Extension

Retarget moviegoers on CTV and OTT

After cinema exposure, retarget the same moviegoer audience across premium streaming services using verified attendance data.

digital

Digital Retargeting

Banner & mobile reach for your moviegoers

Display and mobile ad retargeting to the verified moviegoer audience. Geo, demo, and behavior layers.

Where we run

Coverage across 184 markets in 49 states. Browse cities below or call for markets not yet listed.

Alabama (6 cities)
Alabaster Birmingham Huntsville Montgomery Oxford Prattville
Alaska (4 cities)
Anchorage Fairbanks Kenai Wasilla
Arizona (10 cities)
Gilbert Glendale Lakeside Mesa Phoenix Prescott Show Low Sierra Vista Tempe Tucson
Arkansas (6 cities)
Benton Conway Fayetteville Little Rock North Little Rock Russellville
California (144 cities)
Alhambra Aliso Viejo Anaheim Apple Valley Arcadia Arroyo Grande Auburn Bakersfield Brea Brentwood Burbank Calexico Camarillo Canoga Park Canyon Country Carlsbad Carson Cerritos Chico Chula Vista City Of Industry Corona Costa Mesa Covina Crescent City Daly City Davis Downey Dublin El Cajon El Centro El Dorado Hills Elk Grove Emeryville Escondido Eureka Fairfield Folsom Fremont Fresno Fullerton Garden Grove Glendale Glendora Goleta Hanford Hayward Huntington Beach Huntington Park Irvine La Canada Flintridge La Habra La Jolla La Mirada La Quinta La Verne Lake Elsinore Lancaster Long Beach Los Angeles Manteca Marina Marina Del Rey Merced Milpitas Mira Loma Mission Viejo Modesto Montclair Montebello Monterey Monterey Park Mount Shasta Mountain View Napa National City Newark Newport Beach North Hollywood Northridge Norwalk Novato Oakland Oceanside Ontario Orange Oxnard Palmdale Pasadena Playa Vista Pleasant Hill Porter Ranch Rancho Cucamonga Rancho Mirage Redding Redondo Beach Redwood City Rialto Riverside Rocklin Rolling Hills Estates Roseville Sacramento Salinas San Bernardino San Bruno San Clemente San Diego San Francisco San Jacinto San Jose San Leandro San Marcos San Mateo San Pablo Santa Ana Santa Barbara Santa Clara Santa Maria Santa Monica Sherman Oaks Simi Valley South Gate Stockton Sunnyvale Temecula Thousand Oaks Torrance Tracy Turlock Tustin Ukiah Union City Universal City Valencia Vallejo Ventura Victorville Visalia Walnut Creek West Covina West Hills Yorba Linda Yuba City
Colorado (19 cities)
Aurora Boulder Brighton Broomfield Castle Rock Centennial Colorado Springs Denver Englewood Fort Collins Grand Junction Greeley Highlands Ranch Lakewood Littleton Longmont Loveland Pueblo Westminster
Connecticut (11 cities)
Berlin Danbury Manchester Milford North Haven Norwalk Plainville Southington Stamford Trumbull Waterford
Delaware (3 cities)
Christiana Newark Wilmington
District of Columbia (1 city)
Washington
Florida (61 cities)
Altamonte Springs Apopka Aventura Boca Raton Boynton Beach Bradenton Brandon Brooksville Cape Coral Coral Springs Cutler Bay Dania Beach Destin Fleming Island Fort Lauderdale Fort Myers Gainesville Gibsonton Homestead Inverness Jacksonville Jensen Beach Key West Kissimmee Lake Buena Vista Lake City Lake Mary Lake Wales Lakeland Largo Leesburg Mary Esther Merritt Island Miami Miramar Beach Naples North Fort Myers Ocala Ocoee Oldsmar Orange Park Orlando Oviedo Panama City Panama City Beach Pembroke Pines Pinellas Park Plantation Port Charlotte Port Orange Port Richey Riverview Royal Palm Beach Saint Johns Sarasota South Miami Sunrise Tallahassee Tampa Vero Beach Winter Park
Georgia (40 cities)
Alpharetta Athens Atlanta Augusta Brunswick Buford Carrollton Centerville Cumming Dacula Dawsonville Decatur Douglasville Duluth Ellijay Evans Fayetteville Gainesville Griffin Hiawassee Hinesville Lawrenceville Macon Marietta Mcdonough Morrow Moultrie Mount Airy Newnan Pooler Rome Roswell Saint Simons Island Suwanee Thomasville Tucker Valdosta Warner Robins Waycross Woodstock
Hawaii (7 cities)
Hilo Honolulu Kahului Kailua Kona Kaneohe Kapolei Pearl City
Idaho (5 cities)
Ammon Boise Coeur D Alene Meridian Nampa
Illinois (45 cities)
Bloomingdale Bolingbrook Bourbonnais Carbondale Chicago Chicago Ridge Cicero Crestwood Crystal Lake Deer Park Edwardsville Evanston Galesburg Harwood Heights Hodgkins Joliet Lake In The Hills Lincoln Machesney Park Macomb Mattoon Melrose Park Moline Morton Mount Prospect Mount Vernon Naperville New Lenox Niles Normal North Aurora Northbrook Oak Brook Ottawa Peoria Quincy Rockford Schaumburg Skokie South Barrington Springfield Vernon Hills West Dundee Wheeling Woodridge
Indiana (30 cities)
Avon Bedford Bloomington Brownsburg Carmel Columbus Evansville Fort Wayne Goshen Greenfield Greenwood Huntington Indianapolis Jeffersonville Kokomo Lafayette Lebanon Merrillville Michigan City Mishawaka Muncie Noblesville Rensselaer Richmond Schererville South Bend Terre Haute Valparaiso Vincennes West Lafayette
Iowa (9 cities)
Altoona Ames Council Bluffs Davenport Dubuque Le Mars Okoboji Shenandoah West Des Moines
Kansas (10 cities)
Concordia Kansas City Lawrence Leawood Mission Olathe Overland Park Pittsburg Salina Wichita
Kentucky (10 cities)
Ashland Bowling Green Florence Glasgow Lexington Louisville Newport Nicholasville Paducah Richmond
Louisiana (17 cities)
Alexandria Baton Rouge Bossier City Covington Denham Springs Hammond Harvey Houma Kenner Lafayette Lake Charles Leesville Metairie New Orleans Shreveport Slidell West Monroe
Maine (1 city)
Augusta
Maryland (26 cities)
Annapolis Beltsville Bethesda Brandywine Cockeysville Columbia Cumberland Frederick Gaithersburg Gambrills Greenbelt Hagerstown Hanover Hyattsville Largo Laurel Nottingham Ocean City Owings Mills Oxon Hill Rockville Salisbury Silver Spring Towson Waldorf Windsor Mill
Massachusetts (19 cities)
Bellingham Boston Braintree Burlington Danvers Dorchester Fall River Framingham Hadley Kingston Littleton Marlborough Mashpee Methuen North Dartmouth Somerville Springfield Tyngsboro West Springfield
Michigan (37 cities)
Adrian Auburn Hills Battle Creek Bay City Benton Harbor Brighton Cadillac Chesterfield Clinton Township Flint Grand Haven Grand Rapids Grandville Hastings Hillsdale Holland Jackson Kalamazoo Lansing Livonia Lowell Madison Heights Mount Pleasant Muskegon Okemos Oxford Port Huron Portage Southgate Sterling Heights Taylor Three Rivers Troy Warren Waterford Westland Ypsilanti
Minnesota (9 cities)
Detroit Lakes Eden Prairie Hutchinson Inver Grove Heights Mankato Minneapolis Mounds View Saint Paul Worthington
Mississippi (9 cities)
Brookhaven Diberville Flowood Greenville Gulfport Hattiesburg Pearl Starkville Tupelo
Missouri (14 cities)
Columbia Creve Coeur Gravois Mills Independence Jefferson City Joplin Kansas City Lexington Poplar Bluff Rolla Saint Charles Saint Joseph Saint Louis Springfield
Montana (3 cities)
Bozeman Helena Kalispell
Nebraska (4 cities)
Elkhorn Fremont Nebraska City Omaha
Nevada (5 cities)
Elko Henderson Las Vegas North Las Vegas Reno
New Hampshire (3 cities)
Londonderry Newington Salem
New Jersey (39 cities)
Brick Bridgewater Burlington Cherry Hill Clifton Deptford East Brunswick East Hanover East Windsor Eatontown Edison Elizabeth Freehold Hackensack Hamilton Hazlet Jersey City Linden Manahawkin Marlton Mays Landing Moorestown Morristown Mountainside New Brunswick North Brunswick Paramus Princeton Ridgefield Park Rockaway Secaucus Sewell Somerdale South Plainfield Toms River Vineland Watchung Wayne West Orange
New Mexico (2 cities)
Albuquerque Santa Fe
New York (49 cities)
Albany Astoria Bayside Binghamton Bronx Brooklyn Buffalo Camillus Clifton Park Deer Park East Hampton East Northport Farmingdale Flushing Forest Hills Fresh Meadows Garden City Glen Cove Glendale Horseheads Huntington Ithaca Levittown Lynbrook Middletown Mohegan Lake Nanuet New Hartford New Rochelle New York Orchard Park Plattsburgh Port Chester Poughkeepsie Queensbury Rensselaer Rochester Rockville Centre Ronkonkoma Saratoga Springs Staten Island Stony Brook Syracuse Vestal Victor Watertown Webster West Nyack Westbury
North Carolina (24 cities)
Albemarle Asheboro Asheville Boone Burlington Cary Charlotte Concord Garner Gastonia Goldsboro Greensboro High Point Huntersville Kinston Mooresville Morganton Raleigh Rocky Mount Salisbury Smithfield Southport Wilmington Winston Salem
Ohio (38 cities)
Beavercreek Cambridge Celina Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Cuyahoga Falls Dayton Grove City Hamilton Heath Hudson Kent Lancaster Lima Mason Massillon Maumee Medina Milford Mount Vernon Niles North Canton Norwalk Ontario Perrysburg Piqua Rocky River Sandusky Sheffield Village Springfield Strongsville Toledo West Chester Westlake Willoughby Youngstown Zanesville
Oklahoma (11 cities)
Ada Bartlesville Broken Arrow Edmond Midwest City Moore Norman Oklahoma City Owasso Tulsa Yukon
Oregon (21 cities)
Albany Ashland Astoria Beaverton Bend Eugene Grants Pass Gresham Happy Valley Hillsboro Klamath Falls Mcminnville Medford Newport North Bend Oregon City Portland Salem Seaside Springfield White City
Pennsylvania (37 cities)
Allentown Bensalem Butler Collegeville Conshohocken Cranberry Township Downingtown Easton Erie Exton Flourtown Harrisburg Hazle Township Hermitage Indiana King Of Prussia Lancaster Langhorne Monaca Monroeville Moosic New Castle Newtown Square North Wales Philadelphia Pittsburgh Plymouth Meeting Scranton Springfield State College Stroudsburg Tarentum Warrington West Chester West Mifflin Wyomissing York
South Carolina (17 cities)
Aiken Anderson Bluffton Charleston Columbia Florence Greenville Hilton Head Island Lexington Mount Pleasant Myrtle Beach North Charleston Rock Hill Simpsonville Spartanburg Summerville Sumter
South Dakota (2 cities)
Sioux Falls Watertown
Tennessee (12 cities)
Bristol Chattanooga Clarksville Hendersonville Knoxville Lebanon Mc Donald Mount Juliet Nashville Oak Ridge Sevierville Tullahoma
Texas (95 cities)
Abilene Allen Amarillo Arlington Athens Austin Baytown Beaumont Big Spring Boerne Brownsville Burleson Cedar Hill Cedar Park Cibolo Cleburne College Station Conroe Copperas Cove Corpus Christi Cypress Dallas Del Rio Denton Eagle Pass Early Edinburg El Paso El Paso Forney Fort Bliss Fort Worth Friendswood Frisco Garland Granbury Grand Prairie Grapevine Harker Heights Harlingen Houston Humble Hurst Hutto Irving Katy Killeen Kingwood Lake Jackson Lancaster Laredo Lewisville Live Oak Lubbock Lufkin Mansfield Marble Falls Mcallen Mckinney Midland Mission Missouri City New Braunfels New Caney Odessa Paris Pasadena Pearland Pflugerville Pharr Plano Richmond Roanoke Rockwall Rosenberg Round Rock San Angelo San Antonio Shenandoah Sherman Southlake Spring Stafford Stephenville Sugar Land Temple Texarkana The Woodlands Tomball Victoria Waco Waxahachie Webster Weslaco Wichita Falls
Utah (16 cities)
American Fork Draper Farmington Layton Midvale Ogden Orem Provo Riverton Salt Lake City Spanish Fork Syracuse Taylorsville Tooele West Jordan West Valley City
Virginia (32 cities)
Alexandria Arlington Ashburn Centreville Charlottesville Chesapeake Christiansburg Colonial Heights Culpeper Danville Fairfax Fredericksburg Gainesville Galax Glen Allen Hampton Harrisonburg Henrico Herndon Lynchburg Mc Lean Midlothian Newport News Roanoke Springfield Sterling Suffolk Virginia Beach Washington Williamsburg Woodbridge Wytheville
Washington (34 cities)
Anacortes Auburn Bainbridge Island Bellevue Bellingham Bonney Lake Burlington Chehalis Ephrata Everett Federal Way Issaquah Kelso Kent Kirkland Lacey Lakewood Lynnwood Marysville Mountlake Terrace Olympia Poulsbo Puyallup Redmond Renton Seattle Silverdale Spokane Stanwood Tacoma Tukwila Vancouver Walla Walla Woodinville
West Virginia (9 cities)
Barboursville Beckley Bridgeport Huntington Nitro South Charleston Summersville Triadelphia Vienna
Wisconsin (6 cities)
Baraboo Fitchburg Fond Du Lac Johnson Creek Kenosha Milwaukee
Wyoming (1 city)
Laramie

Frequently asked questions

What is cinema advertising and how does it work?
Cinema advertising is paid placement at movie theaters. Most of the spend goes to the pre-show: the 15-to-20-minute window between a film's posted start time and the trailers. There are also lobby placements (standees, posters, digital signage at concessions) and digital extensions that retarget confirmed ticket-buyers on mobile and CTV after they leave. You buy by market, theater list, and flight window. Once your campaign is on the booking schedule, your spot rotates ahead of the films you bought weeks against.
How much does cinema advertising cost?
Pricing is set by DMA tier. A 4-week :30 flight at a single theater starts in the low hundreds for smaller markets and reaches several thousand at top-DMA flagships. Weeks adjacent to a tentpole release (Avengers, Dune, Star Wars) cost more than standard weeks.
Is cinema advertising effective for my business?
It depends on category, but the benchmarks are real. QSR campaigns have driven 2 to 3x spend lift, auto advertisers saw +34% foot traffic, retail saw +53% incremental visits. Attention drives those numbers. Cinema delivers 2 to 6x the attention of live sports and 6 to 16x the attention of social or digital, and it beats CTV and YouTube on measured engagement. Cinema works hardest for brands targeting a younger audience and for brands that benefit from sustained, unskippable exposure: auto, QSR, financial services, healthcare, regional retail.
Who sees cinema ads (what audience will I reach)?
About 40 million people go to U.S. movie theaters each month at network scale. Median moviegoer age is 30, younger than the audience for Netflix, Hulu, or any major TV sport. About 60% are cord-cutters or cord-nevers, so cinema reaches viewers broadcast and most CTV buys can't. The audience skews higher-income and more educated than the broadcast TV average. And they're paying full attention, because they paid to be there.
Can I target specific locations or movie theaters?
Yes. You can buy individual theaters, by DMA, by state, or national. Our network covers 1,353 theaters and 17,556 screens across 184 markets and 49 states. Common buys include trade-area clusters around store locations, regional sweeps, top-market lists, or theater lists matched to specific film genres. When category fit matters, we can also segment by demographic skew at the theater level. You can also focus on a single chain, with dedicated options for advertising at AMC, Regal, and Cinemark.
What types of ads can I run in movie theaters?
On-screen pre-show spots run :15, :30, and :60 in the rotation ahead of trailers. Lobby placements include branded standees, posters, screen wraps, and digital signage at concessions. Digital extensions retarget confirmed ticket-buyers on mobile and CTV after they leave the theater. Most campaigns combine on-screen with at least one extension to add reach and frequency without raising your cost.
How long do cinema advertising campaigns run?
A standard flight is 4 weeks, which lines up with one screening period. Shorter 2-week launches work for product introductions tied to a single film release. Sustained categories like auto and financial services often run 8, 12, or 16 weeks. Flight dates frequently align to a film, not a calendar. "Buying the Avengers: Doomsday weeks" means buying the dates that film is in theaters, which can stretch across two calendar months.
How do I get started with cinema advertising?
Send us your markets, target audience, budget range, and ideal flight window. We'll pull a custom theater list with pricing and pacing, walk through creative specs (file format, runtime, sound mix), and confirm placement with the theater operators. First-time campaigns typically go from intro call to in-theater in 4 to 6 weeks. Call us or request a quote and we'll send a first-pass plan within 48 hours.

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