Parking Garages Transformed By Large-Scale Ads
Parking garages are notorious for being grim and grey affairs, unadorned by any significant form of decoration. That’s due largely to fire code regulations, but a new, patented technology now allows large-scale ads to be created on the walls of such garages, essentially transforming them into immersive, branded environments.
Carspaze has created a new advertising platform for parking-garage walls centered on the ability to digitally print photo-quality images onto specially developed fire retardant materials.
Developed three years ago, the process has undergone technical trials and improvements in Germany over the past two years.
Now, focusing on garages near retail centers, Carspaze creates branded zones 10 to 20 parking spaces wide bearing advertising on the walls in front of parked cars. Only sustainable materials are used in the production of such advertising, including recycled panels and frames, wheel stops made from crushed rubber tires and lighting units made from recycled fiberglass and plastic.
In addition to creating a more cheerful, safer-feeling parking place, the ads have been found both to give consumers a way to remember where they parked their cars and—no doubt as a direct result—to dramatically increase top-of-mind awareness for the brands advertised and boost purchase likelihood.
Garage owners, meanwhile, receive revenue for each installation.
Photo by Carspaze.
Jaclyn on June 22nd, 2009 2:17 pm
I absolutely love this idea for parking garages. I mean…have you seen some of these parking garages, they are not lite up well so you rarely can see which leaves many people feeling scared and un safe to the point where they don’t park in them after a certain amount of time, and they usually smell something awful and just all together are very grim and intimidating. It is about time that parking garages get spruced up a bit.
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