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Standard Billboard Sizes & Measurements

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Standard dimensions for outdoor billboards and DOOH Billboards — so your creative team always delivers the right file at the right size.

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Outdoor Advertising — Billboards & OOH

Standard Billboard & OOH Format Sizes

Physical outdoor advertising dimensions across Malaysia — from standard roadside freestanding boards to elevated unipoles, iconic gantries, digital LED screens, and street-level buntings.

10×40ft
60×40ft
3:1
72dpi
Standard freestanding billboard — most common
Large unipole — highway dominant format
Ideal aspect ratio for most billboard formats
Minimum resolution for large format print

Standard Freestanding Billboards

H:10 × W:40ft
Horizontal — Standard
H: 10ft × W: 40ft
3m × 12.2m · also H:11 × W:41ft
The baseline horizontal freestanding format. Common on secondary roads and urban areas. The H:11×W:41ft variant offers slightly more viewing area. Standard entry-level placement for most campaigns.

Secondary Roads · Urban · PLUS Highways · Entry Level

W:20 × H:30ft
Vertical — Standard
W: 20ft × H: 30ft
6.1m × 9.1m · portrait orientation
Portrait freestanding format — taller than wide, suited for product-led creatives and lifestyle imagery. Works well for brands that prioritise vertical visual impact over horizontal spread.

Urban · Portrait · Product Brands · PLUS Highways

H:20 × W:40ft
Landscape — Mid Format
H: 20ft × W: 40ft
6.1m × 12.2m · landscape
Rare but highly effective for object and product placements. The extra vertical height gives creative teams more space to position cars, products, and lifestyle compositions without cramping. A strong mid-tier format.

Product Placement · Object Creative · Effective

H:20 × W:60ft
Spectacular Freestanding
H: 20ft × W: 60ft
6.1m × 18.3m · large freestanding
Large-format freestanding sometimes called a spectacular billboard. Dominant brand presence at ground level. Offers significant creative canvas — suitable for full-width brand imagery and campaign launches.

Spectacular · Brand Launch · High Impact

Unipole Billboards

W:20 × H:30ft
Unipole — Portrait
W: 20ft × H: 30ft
6.1m × 9.1m · elevated
Elevated freestanding unipole in portrait format. Mounted on a single tall pole above surrounding structures. The portrait orientation suits brands with strong vertical identity. Common on secondary expressways.

Elevated · Portrait · Expressway

H:20 × W:60ft
Unipole — Spectacular
H: 20ft × W: 60ft
6.1m × 18.3m · elevated
Elevated spectacular unipole — a dominant highway format combining height with an extra-wide canvas. High visibility from long distances. Often used by automotive, telco, and property brands seeking broad expressway reach.

Highway · Spectacular · Automotive

H:30 × W:80ft
Unipole — Super Spectacular
H: 30ft × W: 80ft
9.1m × 24.4m · often double or 3-sided
Larger than the H:20×W:60 spectacular — more canvas area and often sold as double-sided or 3-sided structures, multiplying exposure across multiple traffic directions. Better ROI per site for high-traffic corridors.

Double-Sided · 3-Sided · Multi-Direction

H:60 × W:50ft
Unipole — Mega Format
H: 60ft × W: 50ft
18.3m × 15.2m · near-square
Rare mega-format unipole — mostly found elevated at high-traffic highway locations. The near-square proportion allows for bold, less conventional layouts. Premium placement with strong brand dominance and long viewing distance.

Rare · Elevated · Highway · Premium

Iconic Gantry Billboards

H:20 × W:60ft
Gantry — Standard
H: 20ft × W: 60ft
6.1m × 18.3m · spans road overhead
Iconic gantry spanning across all lanes of traffic overhead. Unavoidable for every vehicle below. Excludes any external aesthetic structure attached to the frame. One of the most expensive OOH formats in Malaysia.

Gantry · Overhead · High Value

H:20 × W:80ft
Gantry — Large
H: 20ft × W: 80ft
6.1m × 24.4m · wider span
Wider gantry format spanning broader road corridors or multi-lane expressways. Maximises coverage across all lanes with an even more dominant horizontal presence. Creative must remain legible at highway speed.

Wide Span · Multi-Lane · Expressway

H:20 × W:100ft
Gantry — Mega
H: 20ft × W: 100ft
6.1m × 30.5m · mega overhead span
The largest iconic gantry format. Spans extremely wide corridors — typically major interchange or toll plaza approaches. Excludes external aesthetic structure. Commands the highest OOH rates in Malaysia. Absolute brand dominance.

Mega Gantry · Top-Tier · Most Expensive

Bulletin Boards / Citilight / Miniboard

W:10 × H:15ft
Bulletin / Citilight / Miniboard
H: 15ft × W: 10ft
4.6m × 3m · portrait · backlit
Small-format portrait board ideal for smaller towns — Sepang, Subang Jaya, Ampang, and similar. Also called citilight or miniboard depending on the operator. Best utilised during peak traffic windows: 6–9am, 1–3pm, 5–7pm. High frequency in dense networks compensates for smaller size.

Sepang · Subang Jaya · Ampang · Local Targeting

Digital Screens — DOOH

H:20 × W:20ft
Digital Screen — 1st Gen
H: 20ft × W: 20ft
6.1m × 6.1m · square · legacy format
One of the first-generation LED screen formats in Malaysia. Square proportion — most units are being phased out or upgraded to the more common H:30×W:20 road-level format. Check with media owner before producing creative for this slot.

Legacy · Being Upgraded · Verify First

W:20 × H:30ft
Digital Screen — Road Level
H: 30ft × W: 20ft
9.1m × 6.1m · portrait · most common road-level
Most common digital screen size on trunk roads and secondary highways. Portrait orientation. Note: this size is not particularly effective on high-traffic expressways due to short viewing time — better suited for slower-moving urban traffic and junctions.

Trunk Roads · Urban Junctions · Portrait

H:60 × W:40ft
Digital Unipole — Highway
H: 60ft × W: 40ft
18.3m × 12.2m · elevated · portrait
The most common digital unipole size for highways — highly elevated for maximum visibility at speed. Most effective digital OOH format for expressway campaigns. Rates typically range from RM35,000 to RM48,000 per month depending on location and operator.

Highway · Elevated · RM35k–48k/month

Street Furniture / Street Bunting

W:2 H:6ft
Frameless Bunting
W: 2ft × H: 6ft
0.6m × 1.8m · static · frameless
The most compact static street bunting. Frameless format — printed fabric or vinyl attached directly to pole or post without a rigid border. Lightweight and easy to deploy in bulk. Best for local event promotion, grand openings, and high-frequency street-level coverage.

Static · Frameless · Events · Local

W:3 H:8ft
Framed Bunting — Standard
W: 3ft × H: 8ft
0.9m × 2.4m · static · framed
Standard framed street bunting — a rigid frame holds the printed panel, giving a more polished and durable appearance than frameless formats. Common in commercial districts, shopping strips, and township roads. Slightly more premium street-level presence.

Static · Framed · Township · Commercial

W:2 H:8ft
Framed Bunting — Slim
W: 2ft × H: 8ft
0.6m × 2.4m · static · framed
Slim tall framed bunting — narrower than the W:3×H:8ft but taller in proportion, making it useful where horizontal space on poles is limited. Often deployed in pairs or runs along a single road for repetition effect. Popular in residential and suburban feeder roads.

Static · Slim · Suburban · Feeder Roads

W:2.5 H:6–8ft
Digital Bunting — P6
W: 2.5ft × H: 6 or 8ft
0.76m × 1.8–2.4m · digital · P6 LED
Digital street bunting running on P6 LED panels — minimum P6 pixel pitch resolution. Supports motion content and dayparting. Slim vertical format ideal for street-level engagement at slow traffic speeds. Supply creative at P6 native resolution per operator specifications.

Digital · P6 LED · Motion · Dayparting

Digital File Specs

For DOOH and LED screens: supply static creatives as JPG at 1920×1080px (Full HD). For motion: MP4, H.264, max 15 seconds per slot. Digital unipoles may have different native resolutions — always confirm with the media owner before production.

Word Count by Format

Highway unipoles and gantries: 5–7 words maximum — drivers have 3–5 seconds. Road-level digital screens and citilights: up to 10 words. Street buntings at slow traffic: up to 15 words. Less is always more at speed.

Double-Sided & Multi-Face

Unipoles sized H:30×W:80ft and above are often sold as double-sided or 3-sided structures — your rate covers multiple traffic directions from one site. Always confirm how many faces are included before comparing rates across formats.

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