Johnson City programmatic DOOH market — at a glance
Trillboards operates a frontier-tier market digital out-of-home network in Johnson City, Tennessee, with 3 active screens delivering programmatic ads across 2 venue categories as of May 11, 2026. The inventory mix here leans 67% retail stores — a fingerprint that shapes the audience archetype, dwell-time distribution, and CPM clearing band for every buyer running creative against this market.
Johnson City represents a frontier-tier market within Tennessee's DOOH inventory mix. Buyers running geo-targeted creative against this market enjoy substantially less competitive bidding pressure than the state's tier-1 metros — useful for hyperlocal campaigns, regional retailers, and service-area-bound businesses targeting specific commuter or shopping corridors. The audience archetype skew here mirrors Tennessee's broader demographic mix, with the additional advantage that frontier-tier markets routinely outperform statewide CPM averages on a creative-completion basis. The dwell-time-per-impression distribution in markets at this scale typically runs longer than the state median, reflecting the captive-audience nature of small-market venue formats.
Retail placements deliver the highest fleet representation in this market. Foot-traffic patterns inside grocery, big-box, and specialty retail produce an unusually steady impression cadence — buyers running CPG, retail-pharmacy, and back-to-school creative explicitly target these formats. Secondary venue exposure in Johnson City comes from entertainment venues (1 screens), which adds an audience layer that buyers running cross-format creative routinely exploit — the secondary footprint absorbs incremental impression delivery without overlapping the primary venue's audience archetype.
Tennessee state-wide DOOH activity (113 active screens across 47 cities) places it as a stable regional CPM market with predictable buyer-side demand across QSR, retail, and entertainment verticals. Programmatic clearing in this state typically ranges $4–$11 CPM, with the high end reflecting prime-window prime-venue inventory — bars, entertainment venues, and downtown office-tower placements during the 11 AM-2 PM and 5-9 PM windows. Johnson City-specific clearing prices vary by venue format and time-of-day, but the state-level distribution gives buyers a credible baseline for first-time campaign-planning estimates against Johnson City.
Buyers reach Johnson City DOOH inventory through Trillboards' partner-side programmatic integrations (OpenRTB 2.6 with native VAST 4.x rendering) or directly via the Trillboards Connect SDK for direct-sold flights. Geo-targeting accepts state, DMA, city, and ZIP-radius filters; venue-category filtering uses the IAB Audience Taxonomy 1.1 codes with 2 distinct Johnson City categories available for inclusion or exclusion. Impression verification rides on proof-of-play telemetry from each screen — every billable impression is independently confirmed by the screen's playback log, not just the SDK's quartile callbacks. For a frontier-tier market market like Johnson City, expected daily reach scales with the venue-category mix and the active screen count of 3; buyers should plan minimum flights of three to five days to absorb day-of-week audience-archetype variance.
Operators of bars, restaurants, retail stores, gyms, salons, and other public-facing venues in Johnson City can join the Trillboards network at no cost and earn passive revenue from programmatic ads delivered to the screens they already operate. The activation flow is a single sign-up and a 30-minute one-time install of the Trillboards player app on any existing screen, TV stick, or kiosk — no new hardware required, no minimum traffic threshold, and revenue accrues on a 50/50 split of every cleared impression. The estimator below models monthly earnings for typical Johnson City-tier venue formats.