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Custom Banners Guide for Events, Business, and Every Display in Between
At a trade show, 81% of attendees have purchasing authority — and 67% have never encountered your brand through any of your existing marketing channels (per CEIR (Center for Exhibition Industry Research). A well-designed custom banner is often the only thing keeping those attendees from walking right past your booth. The same is true at [...]
Custom Car Magnets: The Spec-to-Street Guide for Businesses and Events
According to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA), a single vehicle generates between 30,000 and 70,000 advertising impressions per day simply by driving normal routes. For a service business whose truck is already on the road, that’s free brand exposure. A set of custom car magnets turns those miles into a running [...]
Custom Yard Signs and Lawn Signs: The Complete Buyer’s Guide
The plastic yard sign does a lot of heavy lifting. It announces a graduation in the front yard. It points wedding guests from a highway exit to a barn venue. It tells a neighborhood that a house is for sale, a campaign is running, a contractor is working nearby, or a grand opening is this weekend. No other format covers that range of use [...]
America 250 vs. a Regular July 4th: What Americans Actually Want
We asked 1,690 Americans one question: what would make your community’s America 250 celebration feel truly memorable and different from a regular July 4th? Of the 1,450 people who gave us a substantive answer, the results were not what you might expect. The most common response had nothing to do with fireworks. The ideas that [...]
How American Companies Are Marking America 250 — And What the Data Says About What Works
Nine in ten companies whose event planners are organizing an America 250 celebration say branded gear will be part of it. That number — 94.1%, with 55.9% saying it is already in their plan — comes from our 2026 Community Pride Survey of 1,690 Americans, which included a dedicated corporate track for employed respondents who plan events. [...]
USA 250: The Surprising Thing the Most Civically Engaged Americans Have in Common
When we surveyed 1,690 Americans about their America 250 plans this spring, we expected to find correlations between planning and the obvious things — awareness levels, excitement, how long someone had lived in their community. Those correlations exist. But the strongest single predictor of whether someone is actively planning a specific [...]
The Americans Who Crave Community the Most — And What America 250 Means to Them
There is a particular kind of loneliness that arrives not from isolation but from proximity. You live near people. You share a neighborhood, a zip code, a street. But you don’t quite belong yet — and you’re not sure how long “yet” lasts. That feeling turns out to be one of the defining social experiences of [...]
What Your State Is Most Proud Of — And How It’s Celebrating America 250
When we asked 1,690 Americans to choose between their local community and the nation as a whole as their primary source of pride, local won — 41.7% to 30.6%. That’s a meaningful finding on its own. But the state-level data is where the story gets genuinely interesting. The gap between the most locally rooted state (Vermont, at +47 [...]