Every fall, thousands of new students near campus pick their pizza spot, their gym, their bar — for the next four years.
Right now they're deciding. Get your brand in front of them every day — on the one screen they can't scroll past — before your competitor does.
Every fall, a new class of students arrives near campus with money to spend and no loyalty yet.
In the first few weeks, they decide where they're getting pizza, where they're working out, where they're signing a lease. And they make those calls fast.
If you run a business near campus — a bar, a restaurant, off-campus housing, a gym — those students are your best customers. They live a few blocks from your front door.
But if they don't know your name, they walk into your competitor instead. Not because you're worse — because you were invisible to them when it mattered.
And reaching them is hard. They don't read local papers. They toss flyers. They skip ads — Gen Z has trained themselves to scroll past anything that smells like marketing before it even registers.
There's only one place in their building where they have nowhere to look but forward: the elevator they ride 20+ times a week.
This isn't theory. It's already working for businesses near campus.
When Toppers Pizza wanted to win first-year students, we placed them in the four UW-Milwaukee dorms with the most freshmen. Over their first year, that brand was in front of those students every single day — on the one screen they couldn't scroll past.
Culver's. Cheba Hut. Whitewater Aquatics (102K+ impressions).
They all run on our doors too. These are local and regional businesses that figured out the same thing: the students they need are riding an elevator 20+ times a week — and there's a full-size, eye-level screen on it that nobody can skip.
The dorm elevator. The last unskippable screen on campus.
Here's what makes it different from everything else you could spend on:
- Every ride, it's just your brand. Full-size, eye-level, the inside of the elevator doors they ride 20+ times a week. No competing posts. No algorithm. Nowhere else to look.
- Same student, same door, day after day. Repetition you can't get from a flyer or a one-time ad — until your brand is the name they already know when they're hungry, looking for a place to live, or picking a gym.
- The right student, by building. We place you in specific dorms across UW-Milwaukee — in front of the students who can actually walk into your business, not a random audience three states away.
- Access your competitor can't get. We're the only company offering dorm elevator advertising in Wisconsin. Once your brand is on that door, theirs can't be.
Built for the reality of a college building.
Premium four-color vinyl, professionally installed, with no damage to the elevator. This isn't a paper flyer that's gone by Tuesday — it's a clean, full-door graphic that runs all semester. And if it's ever vandalized, we replace it free.
What it costs — and what it's worth.
Campaigns start at $250/month.
Less than most businesses spend on a single weekend promotion — except this one runs every day, all semester, in front of the exact students you want. One-time print and install fee per ad, waived when you commit to 6 months.
When you do the math on cost-per-actual-impression — a student seeing your brand 20+ times a week for a month — owning a dorm door costs less than you'd think. Exact pricing depends on the dorm and how long you run, so the fastest way to know your number is to see what's open.
Spots are limited — and they lock for the term.
UW-Milwaukee has nearly 3,900 students living on campus across 7 dorm buildings — and each dorm only has so many doors.
Once a competitor takes one, it's gone for the full lease term. If your competitor is already looking — and in a town this size, someone is — that's a dorm full of your customers seeing their name instead of yours, every day, for the rest of the semester.
If you want yours in front of those students this term, now's the time to see what's still open.
Here's what happens next.
You fill out the form — just tell us what you're promoting. About 30 seconds.
We send the open dorm doors for your category and your exact pricing — usually within one business day.
We design, print, and install. Your brand is on the door, fast.
See which dorm doors are still open.
Tell us what you're promoting — about 30 seconds. We'll send the open doors for your category and the exact price for those dorms, usually within one business day. No commitment. No sales call. You see what's available and decide from there.