When You Want a Big Reveal

Skywriting is hard to ignore because people get to watch the message appear overhead. That makes it especially effective when the reveal is part of the experience. Product launches, major announcements, proposals, celebrations, and special events can all benefit from the added sense of anticipation.
Instead of simply seeing an advertisement pass by, the audience watches the message take shape.

When You Want to Reach a Large Area at Once

An airplane banner moves through an area, giving people multiple opportunities to see and read the message as the plane passes.
Skywriting or skytyping works differently. A large message can be created high overhead where people across a much broader area may be able to see it at the same time. That can make it a powerful option when you’re trying to create widespread awareness around a city, beach, festival, or other large gathering.

When Simplicity Makes the Message Stronger

The best sky messages are usually short. A company name, hashtag, website, question, or memorable phrase can make a bigger impact than trying to communicate a long promotional message. If your campaign can be summed up in just a few words, skywriting can turn that simple message into something much harder to overlook.

When Social Sharing Is Part of the Goal

A message appearing across the sky has another advantage: people often want to photograph it. For brands, that can extend the life of the campaign beyond the people who happen to see it in person. Photos and videos can make their way onto social media, giving the message an opportunity to reach an even larger audience. If you’re planning a campaign designed around buzz, surprise, or shareable moments, skywriting or skytyping may be worth considering.

When Is an Airplane Banner the Better Choice?

There are plenty of situations where a banner makes more sense. Airplane banners are especially useful when you want to:

• Repeat a message over a specific area
• Include your logo or other visual branding
• Reach people along beaches or other long stretches
• Promote sales, events, openings, or limited-time offers
• Run the same campaign across multiple flights or days

Banner messages can also offer more flexibility for campaigns where repeated exposure is more important than a one-time spectacle.

Not Sure Which Aerial Advertising Option to Choose?

The right format depends on your message, audience, location, timing, and budget. At Aerial Messages, we can help you compare your options and determine whether an airplane banner, aerial billboard, skytyping campaign, or another form of aerial advertising makes the most sense for what you’re trying to accomplish.

Have an idea you want to put in the sky? Contact us and we’ll help you figure out the best way to make it happen.

Beaches Offer A Captive Audience

Unlike people driving down a highway or walking through a busy city, beachgoers tend to stay in one place for extended periods of time. Whether they’re sunbathing, swimming, or playing beach games, they have plenty of opportunities to notice an airplane banner flying overhead.

Because the banner remains visible as it circles the shoreline, your message receives repeated exposure — an important factor in improving brand recognition and recall.

Reach Thousands with a Single Flight

Beaches offer wide-open views with very few visual obstructions. There are no buildings blocking sightlines, making airplane banners easy to see from long distances. A single flight can reach thousands of people spread across miles of coastline, giving advertisers exceptional exposure during peak beach days, holidays, and special events.

Ideal for Local Businesses and National Brands

Aerial banner advertising works for businesses of all sizes. Local restaurants, real estate agencies, tourism companies, and retail stores can use banners to reach nearby customers, while national brands often use beach campaigns to build awareness during the busy summer season. It’s also an effective way to promote concerts, festivals, sporting events, grand openings, and limited-time offers to audiences already gathered in high-traffic areas.

The Kind of Advertising People Remember

Consumers are exposed to countless digital ads every day, many of which are ignored or blocked entirely. An airplane banner offers a different experience — one that’s unexpected and difficult to overlook. A banner flying overhead naturally draws attention, sparks conversation, and often encourages people to point it out to friends or take photos, creating even more visibility through social sharing.

Maximize Exposure During Peak Beach Season

Beach advertising is especially effective during weekends, holidays, and peak vacation months when attendance is highest. Events such as Fourth of July celebrations, air shows, spring break, and major beach festivals provide opportunities to reach exceptionally large crowds with a single campaign. By scheduling flights during these high-traffic periods, advertisers can maximize both impressions and value.

Ready to Reach Beachgoers?

If your goal is to reach large outdoor audiences with a memorable advertising campaign, beaches remain one of the best locations for aerial banner advertising. The combination of long viewing times, open sightlines, and dense crowds makes coastal environments uniquely suited for this form of marketing.

At Aerial Messages, we provide professional aerial banner advertising campaigns over beaches and coastal destinations across the country. Whether you’re promoting a local business, a national brand, or an upcoming event, we’ll help your message stand out where people are already looking — up. Contact us to get started.

That’s why more businesses are adding aerial advertising to their event marketing mix. An airplane banner complements traditional sponsorships by delivering a message that’s impossible to miss.

Stand Out From Other Sponsors

Most event sponsors have similar visibility opportunities, making it difficult for any one brand to stand out. An aerial banner instantly separates your business from the rest by putting your message where no other sponsor can — high above the event. When a plane flies overhead, people naturally stop, look up, and take notice.

Reach More Than Just Event Attendees

One of the biggest advantages of aerial advertising is its reach. Your message isn’t limited to people walking past your booth or sitting near your signage. It can also be seen by attendees entering the venue, people in nearby parking areas, and even those enjoying surrounding beaches, parks, or attractions. For large outdoor events, that means thousands of additional impressions.

Create a Memorable Brand Experience

People remember experiences that are different. An airplane banner often becomes a conversation starter, encouraging attendees to point it out, take photos, and share videos on social media. That organic attention helps your sponsorship extend well beyond the event itself.

Make Your Sponsorship Investment Work Harder

Aerial advertising isn’t a replacement for traditional event sponsorships. It’s a powerful complement to them. While your booth generates conversations and your signage reinforces your brand, an aerial banner helps ensure more people notice your company in the first place.

For sponsors looking to maximize visibility at outdoor events, it’s an investment that can amplify every other part of their marketing strategy.

Ready to Rise Above the Competition?

Whether you’re sponsoring a music festival, sporting event, beach festival, air show, or community celebration, aerial advertising helps your brand stand out where everyone can see it.

At Aerial Messages, we help businesses nationwide create unforgettable aerial advertising campaigns that capture attention and leave a lasting impression. Contact us today to learn how an airplane banner can elevate your next event sponsorship.

Shared flights are perfect for aerial messages within these categories:

• Activism
• Environmental
• Family and personal events (wedding, anniversary, graduation, birthday, etc.)
• Global issues
• Missing person
• Political
• Sporting events

The process is simple: reach out for a quote by calling 855-474-4865 and then launch your campaign for that amount, create your campaign, and start sharing. Promote your campaign online via social media to encourage donations and viral support. Campaigns can also be updated with photo and video updates every step of the way.

The very first skywriting ad was done in 1922 with credit for its development going to John C. Savage, an Englishman who later patented his creation. Pepsi-Cola Corporation, one of the first major companies to use skywriting for ongoing advertising purposes, knew how compelling skywriting could be and made aerial advertising a popular part of their marketing strategy from the 1930s until the mid-1950s.

Skywriting, which is done by one plane and can generally write up to 6 characters or with up to five planes for even longer messages, has faded in popularity over the years and been replaced by skytyping.

Skytyping is a technique where smoke is emitted in a series of bursts, like dots. The message design is generated by a computer and electronic signals control the smoke output allowing for precise and controlled designs that don’t rely on a pilot’s manual timing and maneuverability. We typically deploy five planes in tandem to create large complex messages in the sky. The messages are completed quickly for maximum exposure and stay in the sky longer than traditional skywriting ads.

While other forms of aerial advertising like sky letter banners and aerial billboards have been more popular than skywriting in the last few decades, the advent of social media – especially Instagram – is changing the game. Social media has brought about a skytyping resurgence. Companies are always looking for opportunities to create shareable, ready-to-go-viral campaigns and skytyping is a medium where creativity reigns. As written in The Atlantic, “[skytyping] offers the ephemerality of Snapchat with the promise of permanence and wider distribution across platforms like Instagram and Twitter.”

Fun Facts About Skytyping:

• Messages are typically printed between 10,000 and 15,000 feet in the air.
• Each letter is over a half mile long and messages can be up to 15 miles wide.
• The best conditions of course are few clouds, little or no wind, and cooler temperatures. Then the letters may be seen for 30 miles in any direction and can last 20 minutes.

If you’re interested in planning a skytyping campaign for your business, complete the form to the right to request a quote.

In short, graduations and the hard work they represent deserve to be celebrated! A sky letter banner or aerial billboard is the perfect addition to any graduation party. Whether you’re celebrating at home with a backyard barbecue, hosting family and friends at a nearby park, or renting a commercial venue, we can make the event even more memorable and unique by flying overhead with a banner honoring the graduate.

While aerial banners for middle school, high school, and college graduations are most common, we also recommend them for those completing medical school, dental school, law school, nursing school, trade school, master’s programs, PhD programs, and more. We firmly believe that every achievement deserves recognition and every graduate should see their name flying through the sky on an aerial billboard!

We’d love to hear from you! Click here to request a quote or give us a call at 866-608-6285 to get started.

Gender reveals are an increasingly popular way to celebrate a pregnancy without having to wait for the baby shower or birth. Gathering family and friends, placing wagers on pink vs. blue, and playing fun games with the parents-to-be are all part of a typical gender reveal. Why not make your party even more memorable with a sky letter banner or skytyping message above your home or venue?

Whether you’re announcing It’s A Boy or It’s A Girl, we can help you craft an unforgettable message that will delight your party guests and ensure that your gender reveal party is remembered for years to come by all in attendance.

We’d love to hear from you! Click here to request a quote or give us a call at 866-608-6285 to get started.

While stationary billboards on a busy highway become part of the scenery, airplane banner ads are guaranteed to turn heads. It’s quite common to have 100,000 sets of eyes per hour on your banner (and your logo and web address!) at a cost per view that simply can’t be matched by any other medium.

Most importantly, you only pay for what you actually use. Unlike old school roadside billboards that you pay for even when no one is around to see them, you pay for airplane banners only when and where you want them.

We’d love to hear from you! Click here to request a quote or give us a call at 866-608-6285 to get started.

With print or broadcast/TV advertising, your audience is often distracted or downright disinterested. With aerial banner ads, your audience is captive, in one place, and likely exposed to your ad repeatedly over the course of an hour or two flight. This means that your cost per exposure is much lower than with more traditional forms of advertising. Even more importantly, a simple airplane banner ad focuses on your message and your call-to-action instead of attacking your opponent. This is an important consideration since studies claim that 82% of Americans dislike political attack ads.

Election season is upon us and the time to get your campaign advertising planned and executed is now. Whether you work with a nonprofit and simply want to encourage people to get out and vote or if you’re spearheading a presidential campaign and need creative ways to reach a new demographic, we’ve got you covered. We have the expertise and experience to recommend aerial advertising ideas for you that we know work well and will help you accomplish your objectives.

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If you’re thinking of asking your significant other to commit to you for life, you may be overwhelmed trying to come up with something impactful and symbolic of your love without breaking the bank. We’ve got you covered! Sky letter banners and aerial billboards are one of the most affordable and unique ways to propose to your partner.

After we work with you to design a banner with the perfect heartfelt message, we can help you choose an appropriate venue. Do you want to propose on the beach? In your backyard? Or at your favorite rooftop bar? We have decades of experience in helping individuals plan amazing and unforgettable proposals and we can help you do the same. Or, if you know exactly what you want and just need our help to pull it off, we’re happy to help with that too.

We’d love to hear from you! Click here to request a quote or give us a call at 866-608-6285 to get started.