International Brotherhood of Billstickers
14 June, 2010
This just in from our friends at International Brotherhood of Billstickers, Non-Stop Advertising of Glasgow, Scotland.
Nonstop have been sticking up posters in Glasgow for over 30 years, Myles Cooney started out doing posters for Billy Connolly and Runrig . Thanks to the forward thinking of Glasgow City Council, we have been operating an authorised poster scheme for 10 years now. We use vacant shop-fronts and hoardings as poster display sites. All of our sites are maintained daily so you will not see any graffiti or“carnage” on any of our sites.
95% of our work is from local theatre groups, bands and local promoters. Local work is at the heart of what we do, we believe that by sticking up posters we are helping the local economy by helping put bums on seats in the many theatres and venues around Glasgow.
We charge £20.00 per site per fortnight, which is pennies compared to other conventional forms of media. We also like to try and help local bands at the start of their career and there have been many occasions where we do the posters for nothing in order to help a struggling band get a leg up in their career.
There are others now operating in the same local market as us, but they don’t really have the local customers interest at heart, these companies are more about commerce than culture, using it as a way of trying to get large National brands in the back door under the guise of a local poster scheme. That is not what we are about at all.
We also do the poster sites at Scotland’s biggest music festival, T in the Park. Over 3 days we usually post over 2000 posters at this annual event. After working in the field all day we usually look forward to having a few beers and catching a few of the bands at the festival. Beats working a 9-5 any day!
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