Wheatpasting Vancouver

What neighbourhoods do you cover in Vancouver?

We work across Mount Pleasant, Gastown, Commercial Drive, Chinatown, East Vancouver, Kitsilano, Main Street and Downtown along Granville Street. These are the corridors with the strongest foot traffic and the most active street culture in the city. We hand pick every location based on your target audience. Music and creative campaigns land hardest in Mount Pleasant and along Main Street where the arts and independent music community has been concentrated for years and the neighbourhood identity is most receptive to street level visual campaigns. Fashion and lifestyle brands do well in Kitsilano and Gastown where the young professional and creative audience shops and socialises. Commercial Drive gives you access to a dense, culturally diverse and highly engaged community that responds strongly to bold visual campaigns. Chinatown and East Vancouver deliver strong reach across a younger demographic with deep roots in Vancouver street culture. We know these streets well and we will put your posters where people actually stop and look.

What kinds of brands and campaigns work best with wheatpasting in Vancouver?

Music releases, film and TV productions, fashion drops, tech product launches, nightlife and event promotions, outdoor and lifestyle brand campaigns and consumer brand activations all perform strongly on Vancouver streets. The city is the third largest film and television production centre in North America and the proximity of that industry creates strong year round demand for entertainment campaign wheatpasting. Vancouver also has a rapidly growing tech sector centred around the downtown core and Mount Pleasant that is highly receptive to consumer tech and gaming campaigns at street level. The city's outdoor and lifestyle culture makes it one of the strongest markets in Canada for activewear, outdoor gear and wellness brand campaigns. Music campaigns benefit from a deeply engaged local scene and an audience with strong connections to both North American and international music culture.

How long does a wheatpasting campaign run in Vancouver?

Most campaigns stay up and looking good for 2 to 4 weeks. Wheatpaste bonds strongly to brick and concrete and Vancouver has good brick and concrete surfaces throughout Gastown, Mount Pleasant and East Vancouver that hold installations well. Vancouver receives significant rainfall year round and we factor weather exposure into placement decisions, strongly favouring covered and sheltered surfaces to extend campaign life across wetter months. Winter campaigns in particular are planned around covered locations to ensure maximum duration. If a poster gets covered or damaged during the campaign we will replace it. We photograph every installation so you can see exactly where your posters went up across the city.

Vancouver campaigns typically run between $2,700 and $11,000 CAD. Where you land in that range depends on how many posters you want, what size, how many neighbourhoods you want to hit, and whether you need us to design the artwork. A small run of 25 posters across one area sits at the lower end. A bigger push across multiple corridors using large format 48x72 inch posters sits toward the top. Everything is all-in with printing and street installation included in one price so there are no surprise costs on top. Fill out the form and we will come back to you with a quote within the hour.

Yes, everything is done in house. We print and we paste. Most wheatpasting companies in Vancouver outsource the printing and charge you separately for it. We have our own print operation so you deal with one team from start to finish, the turnaround is faster, and we can catch any quality issues before a single poster goes up on the street. You bring us the brief or the artwork and we handle the rest.

Our most popular size is 24x36 inches which works well across most Vancouver street locations and gives your artwork real impact at eye level. For high visibility walls in Gastown and Mount Pleasant where you want something that commands attention from a distance we go up to 48x72 inches. Vancouver has strong concrete and brick surfaces throughout Gastown and East Vancouver that lend themselves well to large scale multi-sheet takeovers. We print everything in house so we are not limited to set sizes and if your campaign calls for something specific we can work with you on it.

Yes. Our graphic designers work with you on the artwork if you need it. Vancouver street culture has its own distinct visual language shaped by the city's film industry, its music scene and its outdoor lifestyle identity and what works on a screen or in a studio does not always translate to a Mount Pleasant or Gastown wall at street level. We know what reads well from a distance, what holds up in overcast Pacific coast light conditions, and what actually gets photographed and shared. If you already have print ready artwork great. If not we can build it from your brand assets.

Set your file up with a 1/8 inch bleed on all sides and keep any important text or logos at least 0.25 inches inside the trim line so nothing gets cut during finishing. Resolution should be between 150 and 300 DPI at full print size. 300 DPI gives you the sharpest result and 150 DPI is usually fine at large format viewing distances. Colour mode needs to be CMYK not RGB and PDF is the safest file format to send us. If you are not sure whether your file is set up correctly send it over and we will check it before anything goes to print.

For most campaigns we can go from artwork approval to posters on Vancouver streets within a few days. If you have a tight deadline around a production wrap, a release, a product launch or a live event tell us upfront and we will work around it. Same day printing is available for urgent jobs. The fact that we print in house means we are not waiting on a third party to deliver stock before we can start installation.

We photograph every poster at the time of installation and send you a full set of campaign photos showing each placement in context on the street. You can see exactly where your campaign landed across Vancouver. Photos are delivered within 24 hours of installation completing.