Colossal Media Group is the largest hand paint outdoor advertising company in the US, specializing in photorealistic murals. They have two divisions - Colossal Media has permanent murals in 21 major markets, while Sky High Murals has highly skilled painters who can replicate any image in large scale. They provide photorealistic murals, licensed rigging installation, and have the ability to custom scout new mural locations.

3. Colossal Media Group is the nation’s largest
hand paint Outdoor advertising company
specializing in photorealistic, high-impact murals
with inventory in over 21 markets nationwide.
We’re made up of two divisions:
COLOSSAL MEDIA has permanent inventory in major markets throughout the US. In addition
to our existing inventory Colossal also has the ability to custom scout and permit untapped
locations for clients at a moment’s notice. Because the hand paint medium is locally respected for
its artistic and organic approach, we have unique access to iconic and otherwise unattainable wall
space in cities where traditional advertising is not permitted.
SKY HIGH MURALS is our team of highly-skilled painters who travel the country dedicated
to the hand-paint craft. Our painters are able to replicate any piece of imagery, any detail, any
abstraction, in any size. We’re licensed rigging installers and can complete any size job in house
and on time.

7. CAPABILITIES :
PHOTOREALISTIC REPLICATION : LICENSED RIGGING AND SCAFFOLDING INSTALLATION:
We have the largest team of highly skilled hand painters in the country. No matter how detailed or We’re fully licensed and insured to hang suspended scaffolding from any sized building. All of our painters
abstract, our painters have specialized training and a unique eye that allows them to reproduce any image, take rigorous safety classes and are certified to work high up in the air.
perfectly. We’ve painted on ceilings, on stadium tarps, during the day, at night, on roof tops, in-studio, 200
feet above the ground, on all kinds of surfaces, in any weather, for elite fine arts clients and major
commercial advertisers. All of our projects are done in-house, from start to finish.

8. SEATTLE
2,610,000
MINNEAPOLIS
PORTLAND 2,640,000
4,200,000 BOSTON
6,420,000
MADISON
1,410,000 MILWAUKEE
2,730,000
BOISE
1,500,000
CHICAGO
SAN FRANCISCO 9,000,000 GRAND RAPIDS NEW YORK
5,910,000 1,470,000 106,980,000
DENVER KANSAS CITY (MO)
1,950,000 2,160,000
INDIANAPOLIS
1,680,000
ST. LOUIS
LOS ANGELES 1,590,000
18,150,000
PHOENIX
1,650,000
ATLANTA
4,980,000 KEY
CITY NAME
MONTHLY IMPRESSIONS
TOTAL MONTHLY IMPRESSIONS:
AUSTIN
3,930,000
TAMPA
2,070,000
184,830,000 AND COUNTING...
PERMANENT INVENTORY :
-
Colossal Media offers high-impact wallscapes and unique street-level units in 21 MIAMI
1,800,000
U.S. markets & our national footprint continues to grow.

9. CUSTOM SCOUTING:
With an in-house acquisitions team, Colossal has the ability to custom scout and permit locations
anywhere in the country to fit a client's needs.
HOW IT WORKS:
1 2 3 4
Tell us everything we need to know about Colossal does preliminary research on local Our acquisitions team sets off, hitting each With preliminary approval from local landlords,
your target demographic, priority markets zoning and advertising codes to ensure a legal market, taking the time to understand the Colossal brings you an array of inventory options
and/or neighborhoods. and smart approach in every market. local landscape and culture so that we can to review (complete with visuals, traffic data,
deliver high-impact inventory that speaks and intimate details on each location).
directly to your target consumer.
APP
ROV
ED!
5 6 7
You select your favorite walls for the Our team of painters grab their tools and fly Local buzz begins to spread about the new colors on the streets... With passersby, in local
campaign. Colossal revisits each location market to market, transforming each selected blogs and newspapers, the murals quickly take on a voice of their own!
pick to secure official permitting. wall facade into a vibrant art mural.

17. SCENARIO :
Stella Artois wanted to bring to life the ritual of
pouring the perfect Stella.
STELLA
SOLUTION :
Colossal painted 19 creative frames in 21 consecutive days to capture the 9 steps of the “perfect
pour.” Colossal also filmed a time-lapse of the production process, showing how the story was
articulated, frame by frame, to create a stop motion journey of the whole project.
RESULT:
With Colossal’s hand painted wall at the forefront, the campaign grew into a multi-platform
initiative, well beyond the Outdoor medium. In conjunction with Mother New York, Stella Artois
commissioned a behind-the-scenes documentary and online journal of the campaign
featuring the history and art of hand painted wallscapes. Promotional activity surrounded the
wall on Broome Street with temporary old-fashioned viewfinders, street teams armed with
collateral. Events were held at the bar across the street, all strategically in place to engage passersby
in The Ritual and drive traffic to the campaign site: www.theritualproject.com and documentary
site: www.uptherefilm.com
And it worked. The response was immense. In addition to the crowds that gathered at the site
of the wall, both videos received incredible traction Online with links appearing on Vimeo,
NYTimes.com, Trendcentral, The Atlantic, Hypebeast, The Wooster Collective, and many others.
Thanks to this viral success and overwhelmingly positive response, Stella’s hand paint story lives on...
The Stella Artois hand paint campaign won a Gold OBIE for the best Individual Execution,
Traditional Billboard, at the 2010 OAAA Conference.

20. SCENARIO :
For the opening of Dennis Hopper’s exhibit Sign of
the Times at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York,
Dennis wanted to bring his iconic photographs to life
as hand painted murals/billboards. The billboards
had to be photorealistic and maintain complete
artistic integrity of his images.
DENNIS
HOPPER
SOLUTION :
Shafrazi reached out to Colossal and commissioned our team of painters to handle the unique
task. The Sky High crew came together, working around the clock to perfectly replicate Dennis’s
iconic images into museum quality oil paintings.
RESULT:
Hopper, critics, and visitors all agreed, the photorealism was astounding and the exhibit was a
huge success. After the initial New York gallery exhibit, the Colossal team was asked to paint
more images from his archives for exhibitions in Abu Dhabi, Miami’s Art Basel, and a large show
in Rome.

36. SCENARIO :
Sailor Jerry was looking for an authentic way to
engage with their unique target demographic.
SAILOR
JERRY
SOLUTION :
Colossal offered the perfect mix of mainstream, high-impact media and organic, original style to
hit home with the alternative mindset of the brand’s rebellious rum drinker. The Colossal team
grabbed their gear to hit New York, Denver, San Francisco, LA, and Austin, seamlessly integrating
Sailor Jerry’s original tattoo artwork into each city’s natural landscape.
RESULT:
The strategy worked. The murals sparked viral conversation in all of the markets covered. Sailor
Jerry fans came out to speak about the artwork, the brand, and most importantly, provoked a
consumer-generated dialogue surrounding the campaign. The client couldn’t have been happier
with the success in reaching their target - a group that would have typically resisted a mainstream
media push. Sailor Jerry decided to extend the campaign for a second consecutive year, and is
even considering a northern mission, confident that Colossal can stir the same level of buzz in
Canada that we did here in the U.S.

39. SCENARIO :
Hugo Boss needed the perfect partner to help develop
an exciting and buzzworthy campaign around their
global design competition, “Hugo Create.” The
competition challenged participants to create
artwork based on the brand’s weekly design themes.
HUGO BOSS
SOLUTION :
Hugo Boss teamed up with Colossal to find twelve powerful venues that could collectively act as
an outdoor gallery for the twelve winning designs and allow the public to discover the paintings
creatively scattered throughout New York City’s natural landscape. Tapping into our permanent
inventory and scouting team, Colossal delivered twelve unique locations that each served as a
canvas to recreate the winning designs.
RESULT:
Our combined capabilities of permanent inventory and hand paint production helped Hugo Boss
to deliver a holistic, turn-key campaign that could be leveraged both virally and editorially. Very
pleased with the campaign, the brand created hugocreate.com, a contest homepage with informa-
tion about the winners, their artwork, and a Manhattan Gallery exclusively dedicated to our hand
painted murals.

43. “Contrary to popular belief, New York’s most spectacular art isn’t hanging at the “The best compliment I can pay the Colossal team is in the way we came to work with
Museum of Modern Art or at the Met. It adorns the sides of buildings in some of the them. We saw some amazing wall paintings in New York and I said, ‘We have to work
city’s more interesting neighborhoods, much of it painted by one company—the aptly with those guys.’ Now that Colossal’s Vans work is up in NYC and LA, I’m sure there
named Colossal Media.” are other marketing types saying the exact same thing…”
- DOUG PALLADINI VP OF MARKETING, VANS
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“In my mind, the benefit of using art in advertising is art’s attention-grabbing quality, “Colossal Media’s work is nothing short of gorgeous. “
art’s connection with the soul. And I think that’s why it’s done and how it succeeds.
Art catches your eye or ear, makes you think and can increase your memory of - CREATIVE DIRECTOR, PHILADELPHIA PA
the product name.”
- KATHERINE COLEMAN, THE AMERICAN ADVERTISING MUSEUM
“True, we supplied them with an image to work from, but that image was not made of
brushstrokes. It was by no means a paint by numbers scheme. So they’re bringing
something to it, something artistic. They, their hands and their eyes, are bringing this
“I think there is a natural fascination with the skill required to produce something of work to life.”
the scale of these signs. The photo-real nature of some of Sky High/Colossal Media’s
work is staggering and invites the question, “how do they do that?” I think with the - MALCOLM MURRAY, DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER
older signs there is a similar thing happening but they also offer a very public insight
into our not so distant past. They are often local landmarks and have a place in the
collective and individual consciousness of people who have often walked past them
daily for years.” “You can’t print what we paint. You print in pixels, mixing colors optically with little
dots, blue and yellow, and together they make green... But we paint in green.”
- A.J. LOWERY
- AUSTIN, HEAD PAINTER
“The art of large scale sign writing lives on in New York, USA through the work of “We as a media team were challenged to come up with unique and innovative ways to
Colossal Media. […] These ads stand out dramatically from all the usual outdoor work reach our core target. Colossal helped us break into the street art scene in an organic/
that resident New Yorkers are exposed to. Great work!” non-intrusive manner. We were able to get our message out there in a way that reso-
nated with our target audience and overall helped the brand positioning. They were and
- GHOSTSIGNS
continue to be a great partner.”
- PLANNING SUPERVISOR, UNIVERSAL MCCANN

44. RECENT CLIENTS:

45. Colossal Media Group
176 North 9th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
P.718-858-0979 F.718-486-6311
www.colossalmedia.com
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