The Back-to-School Package Catalog

    Every package is built on our MAGV framework — Moment × Audience × Geography × Vertical — and ships with a measurement option (foot-traffic lift, brand lift, sales lift, tune-in, or device-ID passback retargeting) at qualifying spend. Three tiers on every card.

    Pilot
    $15K – $25K

    Single market, single moment. Prove the mechanic, get measurement baseline.

    Market
    $50K – $100K

    DMA-level. Two waves, 4–6 venue types, measurement standard.

    National
    $250K+

    Multi-DMA rollout with market weighting. Full MAGV stack + measurement + retargeting.

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    Moment-led

    5 packages
    Package 01 · Moment
    Foot-traffic lift

    Tax-Free Weekend Blitz

    Programmatic takeovers reserved in each of the 17 state windows. Countdown → live-swap → last-day creative, on rails. Book by state or as a rolling 45-day multi-state flight.

    HighwayMallGroceryGas TV
    Flight · Jul 10 – Aug 22 (staggered by state)
    Package 02 · Moment
    Foot-traffic lift

    Deal-Week Sync

    Creative pegged to Prime Day (Jul 8–11), Walmart Deals, and Target Circle Week. 54% of shoppers hit summer promos before school-supply season proper (NRF).

    GroceryC-storeGas TVMall
    Flight · Jul 6–19
    Package 03 · Moment
    Brand lift

    Last-Bell Countdown

    Final 14 days before each district's first day, synced through a 'First Bell Sync' data layer so creative flips per market. Southern markets fire late July; NYC/Chicago fire early September.

    HighwayMallGroceryC-store
    Flight · Rolling · 14 days pre-first-bell
    Package 04 · Moment
    Foot-traffic lift

    The Supply Run

    3–5 mile geofence around a brand's top-100 retail doors. Industry precedent: a CPG proximity flight around top Target stores returned +42% incremental visit lift on exposed devices (industry case: Nestlé / Starbucks Vertuo via AdOmni).

    GroceryC-storeGas TVPharmacy
    Flight · Jul 27 – Aug 16
    Package 05 · Moment
    Foot-traffic lift

    Peak Crunch Aug 1–15

    Heavy-up flight sized to the $173-per-child spend spike Deloitte tracks in the first two weeks of August. Evening + weekend daypart concentration.

    HighwayMallGroceryGas TV
    Flight · Aug 1–15

    Audience-led

    6 packages
    Package 06 · Audience
    Foot-traffic lift

    Carpool Corridor

    Arterial highway boards + gas-station TV on the actual school-commute routes. Dayparted 7–9am and 2–5pm, when parent frequency runs 2–3x baseline.

    HighwayGas TVC-store
    Flight · Aug 3 – Sep 20
    Package 07 · Audience
    Device-ID passback

    Move-In Week Takeover

    Campus-adjacent panels, urban transit, grocery + EV charging near student housing across the top 50 college markets. One-shot brand exposure to 17M returning students.

    CampusTransitGroceryEV chargingMall
    Flight · Aug 15 – Sep 5
    Package 08 · Audience
    Brand lift

    Teacher Prep Weeks

    Early-to-mid August flight targeting screens near school-district offices, office-supply retailers, and coffee/lunch panels. Appreciation-tone creative outperforms discount framing here.

    OfficeC-storeGroceryMall
    Flight · Jul 27 – Aug 15
    Package 09 · Audience
    Brand lift

    The Grandparent Assist

    Pharmacy, grocery, and bank-adjacent inventory with gifting-framed creative. Vistar sizes grandparents as one of the most underrated BTS wallets; average $200+ per grandchild.

    PharmacyGroceryBank
    Flight · Jul 15 – Aug 30
    Package 10 · Audience
    Brand lift

    Gen Z Self-Shopper

    Mall interiors, gyms, cinema lobbies, campus corridors. Creator-style vertical loops designed to be filmed and reposted — DOOH exposure primes social notice by 87% (Ocean Outdoor/Neuro-Insight).

    MallGymCinemaCampus
    Flight · Aug 1 – Sep 15
    Package 11 · Audience
    Brand lift

    Multicultural First Day

    In-language creative on community retail corridors — Hispanic grocery, Asian shopping plazas, HBCU-adjacent panels. Enrollment- and public-program-friendly, appropriate for school-district and health-department buyers.

    GroceryMallTransit
    Flight · Aug 1 – Sep 10

    Vertical-led

    9 packages
    Package 12 · Vertical
    Device-ID passback

    Enrollment Marketing

    Colleges, community colleges, trade schools. High-school-adjacent malls, transit, commuter fuel. Pair DMA-wide awareness with a deposit-deadline flight; measurement via device-ID passback to the applications page.

    MallTransitGas TVHighway
    Flight · Jul 1 – Sep 30
    Package 13 · Vertical
    Foot-traffic lift

    Electronics & Telco

    $13.7B K-12 + $22.8B college electronics spend (NRF 2026). Value / trade-in / student-plan messaging in a 2-mile fence around big-box, campus tech stores, and Apple/Best Buy.

    MallHighwayCampus
    Flight · Jul 20 – Sep 15
    Package 14 · Vertical
    Foot-traffic lift

    Apparel & Footwear

    July apparel/footwear card spend ran +9.5% YoY, the strongest month since December 2024 (J.P. Morgan/Chase). Mall + outlet corridors with 'fit check' creative.

    MallHighway
    Flight · Jul 15 – Aug 31
    Package 15 · Vertical
    Foot-traffic lift

    QSR & Snacking

    'Dinner solved' commute-daypart creative. Contextual to time-of-day and weather where inventory supports it. Highway + gas TV + grocery + drive-thru-adjacent.

    HighwayGas TVGroceryC-store
    Flight · Aug 3 – Oct 15
    Package 16 · Vertical
    Device-ID passback

    Banking & Fintech

    Student checking, 529 plans, cash-back cards, buy-now-pay-later. Campus + bank-branch proximity + parent commute corridors. Layer FICO/income CBG indices for conquest markets.

    BankCampusHighwayTransit
    Flight · Jul 15 – Sep 30
    Package 17 · Vertical
    Foot-traffic lift

    Health & Wellness

    August physicals and immunization deadlines. Pharmacy + grocery + pediatric-adjacent inventory. Health-system, urgent-care, and vision buyers all fit here.

    PharmacyGrocery
    Flight · Jul 20 – Aug 25
    Package 18 · Vertical
    Tune-in

    Entertainment & Streaming

    Family titles land in August windows; campus streaming and college-plan promos land in September. Tune-in measurement available via device-ID passback for smart-TV attribution.

    CinemaMallCampus
    Flight · Aug 1 – Sep 20
    Package 19 · Vertical
    Brand lift

    Auto & Insurance

    Teen-driver season. 'School's back — slow down' safety framing works as a co-brand with dealers, insurers, or state DOTs. Highway + school-zone-adjacent panels.

    HighwayGas TV
    Flight · Aug 10 – Sep 20
    Package 20 · Vertical
    Sales lift

    CPG Lunchbox Economy

    Grocery point-of-sale screens, c-store cooler doors, and pump-top gas TV. Sales-lift measurement available against retailer POS data for qualifying flights.

    GroceryC-storeGas TV
    Flight · Aug 1 – Sep 15

    Big Ideas

    7 packages
    Package 21 · Big Idea
    Brand lift

    The Live Countdown Board

    Auto-updating 'days until first bell' spectacular per market, on iconic screens. Sponsorable — the sponsor lives inside the countdown, not next to it. Runs for 4 weeks per market.

    HighwayTransit
    Flight · Rolling · 4 weeks pre-first-bell
    Package 22 · Big Idea
    Foot-traffic lift

    The Supply List Board

    Creative displays the actual local school-supply list (top 5 items) with sponsor pricing beside each. Different creative per district. Runs late July through mid-August.

    GroceryMallHighway
    Flight · Jul 25 – Aug 20
    Package 23 · Big Idea
    Brand lift

    Report Card for Parents

    Playful A+/A/B+ grading creative rotating headlines by daypart ('A+ for surviving car line'). Community-tone brand fame play, no discount, no CTA fatigue.

    HighwayGroceryGas TV
    Flight · Aug 10 – Sep 20
    Package 24 · Big Idea
    Brand lift

    First Day Photo Frame

    Mall and plaza screens rendered as a giant 'First Day of School 2026' photo backdrop with the sponsor baked into the frame. Built for organic sharing — the photo is the CTA, no scan code needed.

    MallTransit
    Flight · Aug 5 – Sep 12
    Package 25 · Big Idea
    Foot-traffic lift

    Friday Night Lights

    High-school-stadium-adjacent panels + sporting-goods retail on Friday game days, September through October. Regional QSR, telco, insurance, and dealer verticals convert here.

    HighwayStadiumMall
    Flight · Sep 4 – Oct 31
    Package 26 · Big Idea
    Brand lift

    Teacher of the Week Takeover

    Sponsored community teacher shout-outs on local digital billboards. Local-news pickup rate on these is high; PR-ready and reusable for the sponsor's own social channels.

    Highway
    Flight · Aug 25 – Nov 30
    Package 27 · Big Idea
    Device-ID passback

    DOOH + Everything Bundle

    Device-ID passback retargets exposed audiences into mobile, display, and CTV. DOOH + CTV pairing has returned 3.4x higher web-visit rates than DOOH alone (AdOmni + LiveRamp cross-channel study). AMAP BTS segments (K-12 households, college-bound, value-seekers) are available in The Trade Desk via LiveRamp/Eyeota.

    HighwayMallGroceryTransit
    Flight · Custom · Jul – Oct

    MAGV, briefly

    M · Moment

    The trigger. Tax-free window, Prime Day, first-bell countdown, move-in weekend.

    A · Audience

    Parent, student, teacher, grandparent — each with its own dayparts and venues.

    G · Geography

    DMA, corridor, 3-mile store fence, campus polygon, or per-district first-bell overlay.

    V · Vertical

    Retail, telco, apparel, QSR, banking, health, auto — each with its own creative rules.

    What these packages actually look like on-screen

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    A live sample from the creative gallery — filtered to the retail, education, telco, apparel, restaurant, and sporting-goods categories the packages above target. Every asset was uploaded and served through our platform.

    Source: live creative gallery on doohmarketing.com/creatives. Not staged, not AI-generated.

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