Protected Presentation
529
May 29
Prepared for Dave · State of California, 529 Day · 13 May 2026

Reach the parents
of California's future students.

Where they live, where they work, and where the awareness moment peaks — in elevators, across California, during 529 Day.

Flight
May 20 31
Network
162 buildings
Screens
278 sellable
Creative
EN + ES
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01The Brief

A complex savings product. A specific demographic. Twelve days to make it stick.

The Audience

You're not just reaching parents. You're reaching self-directed-investor parents in multi-generational households with kids under 18, HHI $75K+ and a college degree. Decisions get instigated by mom, finalized by both — and the moment a 529 plan opens, it sticks for 18 years.

That's a high-consideration product asking for an attention-rich medium. Programmatic doesn't cut it. Linear TV is over-broad. Out-of-home in transit corridors hits commuters but not the household decision context.

Why Elevator Media Fits
1

Inside the household, captive context

Residential elevator screens deliver the message exactly where the household financial conversation happens — at home, twice a day, with both parents in the same six-square-foot space.

2

Bilingual rotation by zip

You have English and Spanish creative. Our network supports zip-level creative rotation — Spanish lands where Spanish-speaking households over-index (LA, San Diego, the Inland Empire), English where they don't. No wasted impressions.

3

Twelve days is enough — with frequency

Short flights need higher loop share. Our three plans escalate frequency, not just screen count. A rider sees the spot 2–4x per ride. Awareness compounds before 5/29.

02Your Creative — Plug-and-Play

Your :15 commercial works on our screens. Here's how it lands.

Dave's note flagged transit length/type as a concern. For our format, your :15 commercial is in the sweet spot.

Direct Fit

Your creative, our spec

Length:15 commercial → within our 5–30s spec ✓
FormatMP4 video, 1920×1080 ✓
LanguagesEN + ES rotation by zip ✓
Lead timeFiles due May 19 — we hit May 20 launch ✓
!One Note

Audio strip required

NetworkSound-off — no audio on elevator screens
ActionStrip audio track, deliver silent MP4
OptionalAdd captions/text overlay if the voiceover carries key info
QAWe review the silent cut before flight — make sure it carries the message visually
03The Attention Advantage

Captive attention. Repeated daily.

5.1s
Active Attention / Ride
vs the 2.5s threshold required to drive recall and consideration (Lumen Research).
4×
Trips Per Resident, Per Day
Predictable repeat exposure — morning out, evening home. Parents see your ad every day, four times.
2.5×
Attention vs Digital
Captive context outperforms scroll-through digital ads — no thumb skip, no scroll away.
1.5×
Attention vs Static OOH
Motion + frequency in a closed environment beats roadside billboards on every recall metric.
Sources: Lumen Research · Amplified Intelligence · COMMB OOH! Amplifies Other Media
04Your California Network

278 sellable screens across 162 buildings — concentrated where the audience actually lives.

All healthy, ad-ready, active. Filtered to venue types that match the 529 Day audience: residential, office, government, education, medical.

Screens by City
By Venue Type
Residential
67 / 114
Office
57 / 101
Government
16 / 30
Education + Medical
22 / 33
Reach Potential
4.7M
Maximum impressions over the 12-day flight at 4/16 loop share. Plan B delivers 2.9M. Plan A delivers 2.3M.
05Three Tiers of Audience Precision

The right screens, grouped by where they hit hardest.

All 278 screens are valuable — but some zones index harder for the exact 529 Day audience. We separate them into three tiers so frequency can concentrate where it earns the most.

Tier A
Top-100 ZIP Overlay
18
Buildings
32
Screens
Buildings that fall inside California's top-100 wealthiest zips by median HHI — the named target list Dave attached. Median HHI $144K–$287K, 65–82% college-educated, 18–28% with kids under 12.
Tier B
Sacramento Capital Region
16
Buildings
33
Screens
Downtown Sacramento + capital region — directly addresses Dave's geo ask. 14 residential buildings + 1 government property + medical. State-employee + civic-engaged households with built-in trust signal for state programs.
Tier C
Broader CA Major Metros
128
Buildings
213
Screens
San Diego, LA, Bay Area, Fresno, San Jose, Davis, Oakland, Berkeley. Residential + office buildings in major-metro family neighborhoods where HHI consistently clears the $75K target.
06Three Plans — Same Reach, Different Frequency

Scaled by loop share — not screen count.

All three plans use the same 278 screens. The lever we pull is frequency: how many times your spot runs per loop. For a 12-day flight, frequency is the differentiator.

Plan A · Standard Frequency

Even coverage, disciplined frequency.

All 278 screens at 2/16 loop share · $4,432 under budget

Buildings
162
Screens
278
Loop
2/16
Cities
85
Cost
$15,568
Impressions
2.34M
Why this plan

The disciplined option. Same precise reach as Plan B and C — same 278 screens, same 162 buildings, same 37 cities — at 2x standard frequency. Every rider sees your spot twice per loop instead of once. For a 12-day flight, this delivers the recall floor you need without stretching budget.

Best for: a conservative pilot where you want the full footprint but want to leave $4K+ in reserve for production fees, Spanish trafficking, or a creative refresh mid-flight.

What you get
  • Full 278-screen CA footprint
  • 2x frequency across all venues
  • EN + ES creative rotation by zip
  • Performance report on day 13
  • ~$4,432 budget headroom
★ Recommended · Plan B

Concentrated where it counts. Efficient everywhere else.

Top-100 zips + Sacramento at 4/16 · Broader CA at 2/16 · Hits budget at $19,208

Buildings
162
Screens
278
Avg Loop
2.5/16
Cities
85
Cost
$19,208
Impressions
2.89M
Why this plan

The smart-money play. Same 278-screen reach, but we overlay 4x frequency on the 65 screens that index hardest for your exact audience: the top-100 zips Dave named, and the Sacramento capital region Dave specifically called out. The broader CA footprint runs at standard 2x.

Result: the precise zones where 529 adoption is highest get saturation-level frequency. Everywhere else gets efficient broad reach. You spend $19,208 — almost exactly your $20K budget — and get 24% more impressions than Plan A for 23% more spend.

What you get
  • Full 278-screen CA footprint
  • 4x frequency in Tier A (top-100 zips)
  • 4x frequency in Tier B (Sacramento)
  • 2x frequency in Tier C (broader CA)
  • EN + ES creative rotation by zip
  • Daypart + tier-level performance report
Plan C · Maximum Saturation

Own the elevator during 5/29 Day.

4/16 loop share across all 278 screens · The full saturation play

Buildings
162
Screens
278
Loop
4/16
Cities
85
Cost
$31,136
Impressions
4.68M
Why this plan

Full 4x saturation across every CA screen for the entire 12-day flight. Every California parent in our network sees your :15 spot four times per loop, four times per day, for twelve days. Effective frequency in the 12+ range across the flight — well above what's needed to drive a complex consideration like opening a 529.

Best for: when 5/29 Day matters more than budget discipline. The cultural awareness peak falls mid-flight (see next section) — saturation captures the moment.

What you get
  • 4x frequency on every screen, every day
  • 4.68M total impressions over 12 days
  • ~16,800 impressions per screen
  • EN + ES rotation + daypart targeting
  • Live performance dashboard during flight
  • Post-campaign 529 search-lift report
The Cultural Peak

May 29 falls directly in the middle of your flight.

Awareness peaks on 5/29 Day — exactly when your saturation is fully built up. Twelve days, with the cultural moment landing on day ten.

May 20 · Launch May 31 · Wrap
Dave — we can hit launch.
5 business days, creative in, we're live.
Get in touch
Brynn Kassian · Vertical Impression
bkassian@verticalimpression.com
Tight timeline. Flight launches May 20 — creative is due May 19 for QA + trafficking. We can run a same-day silent-cut review the moment you send the file. Lock plan + send files by EOD Monday May 18 to keep the May 20 start.