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Grassroot Media screen showing an AMC campaign above a real club bar.
Grassroot Media

Advertise with Grassroot Media

Reach sports people in the places they choose to spend time.

Build posters, digital screen and club amplification campaigns around real sports environments, not just sport audiences.

Choose the sport, format, geography and campaign window that fit the brief.

What advertisers can use

Three routes into club life.

Build broad visibility across the network, focus on a sport or audience, or combine formats to create repeated exposure in the places where club members actually spend time.

A Grassroot Media campaign poster displayed inside a football club.

Posters

A3 placements in changing rooms, corridors, club bars and shared spaces. A visible campaign presence members see repeatedly across the season.

  • Football, rugby, cricket and bowls
  • National, regional or sport-specific coverage
  • Strong for brand building and recall
See Posters in Action
Club information and campaign materials displayed at a clubhouse reception point.

Club Amplification

Where it suits the club and the audience, a campaign can extend through club newsletters, social channels, announcements and practical activation ideas.

  • Useful extra reach through club communications
  • Support around sponsorship activity
  • Creative ideas beyond standard media
Discuss an Activation

Why club media works differently

Not just sport audiences.
Sports people.

Grassroot Media reaches people who play, coach, volunteer, watch, socialise and belong to their clubs. The setting gives a campaign something broader media environments often cannot: context, dwell time and a reason to be noticed.

Active social lives

Reach people whose week includes training, matches, teams, volunteering and clubhouse social time.

These are people doing sport and taking part in club communities, not simply consuming sports content.

High dwell

Clubhouses, bars and changing spaces give messages time to land rather than simply pass by.

Repeated exposure

Campaigns can be seen across the routines that bring people back to their club week after week.

Relevant context

Your message appears where sport is already part of the conversation, not competing with it.

The value is not simply that people are present. It is that they are present for a reason, return regularly and are part of the community around them.

UK club network

Explore the network behind the campaign.

Zoom into the map to explore Grassroot Media coverage across grassroots football, rugby, cricket and bowls clubs. Use it to understand the geographic spread behind national, regional and sport-specific campaign planning.

Digital Screen Proof

Screens in action, inside the social spaces where people stay and talk.

Real Grassroot Media screens across football, rugby, cricket and bowls club environments, showing the campaign placement and the surrounding social context together.

British Army campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen above the bar at Brightlingsea Regent Football Club.
Adidas women’s football campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen in a busy football clubhouse.
TNT Sports FA Cup campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen in a football club social area.
Close view of an Adidas women’s football campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen inside a football club.
Adidas women’s football campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen beside a football clubhouse bar.
TNT Sports campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen beside live sport in a rugby clubhouse bar.
UK Government careers campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen inside a rugby clubhouse bar.
TNT Sports campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen in a rugby clubhouse social space with members at the bar.
TNT Sports rugby campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen beside the clubhouse bar and fixtures board.
ITVX sports documentary campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen among trophies in a cricket clubhouse.
LEGEND television campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen integrated into a cricket clubhouse bar.
UK Government summer careers campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen inside a cricket clubhouse.
TRUE CRIME campaign on a wall-mounted portrait Grassroot Media screen beside the bar in a bowls clubhouse.
TRUE CRIME Judge Judy campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen beside the bar at Wivenhoe Bowls Club.
Octopus Energy campaign on a portrait Grassroot Media screen beside bowls club members at the bar.

See it before you book it

Want to see your creative in the network?

Upload an advert and put it onto real Grassroot Media clubhouse screens in football, rugby, cricket and bowls clubs.

Contextual Creative

Bring the environment into the brief.

Audience planning helps decide who should see a campaign. Contextual Creative asks whether the clubhouse, room, sporting routine or occasion can help the idea work harder.

Why Screens Work Here

Make the message timely, visible and easy to update.

Clubhouse screens are a useful option when the message needs to move with the calendar. They can support a launch, a broadcast window, a sponsorship message, a new product or a campaign that benefits from refreshed creative over time.

High DwellMembers have time to notice the campaign while they wait, watch, socialise and return to the club.
Fast ChangesCreative can be updated without reprinting when the message, offer, event or timing changes.
Clubhouse ContextThe advert appears in a real sports setting where the surrounding conversation is already relevant.

Poster Proof

Posters in the places teams return to, before and after sport.

Real A3 placements across changing rooms, clubhouse bars and shared spaces, with every photograph shown uncropped so the physical setting remains visible.

Grassroot Media A3 poster displayed in a football club changing-room and shared team area.
Octopus Energy grassroots football campaign poster mounted outside the clubhouse at Brightlingsea Regent Football Club.
UK Government behaviour-change campaign poster displayed in a rugby club changing room.
Octopus Energy grassroots cricket campaign poster displayed inside a cricket club changing room.
LEGEND television campaign poster displayed in a cricket club changing and washroom area.
British Army recruitment campaign poster displayed in a cricket club changing room alongside players’ kit.
LEGEND television campaign poster displayed inside a bowls clubhouse social area.
UK Government telecare campaign poster displayed inside a bowls clubhouse beside windows overlooking the green.
NHS flu vaccination campaign poster displayed beside the bar in a bowls clubhouse with members nearby.

A Simple Route from Brief to Live Campaign

Plan it clearly. Build it for the setting. Keep it accountable.

There is no need to overcomplicate it. We start with the brief, recommend the most useful audience and format mix, prepare or adapt the creative, then coordinate campaign delivery with the clubs.

Brief

What does the campaign need to achieve, and who needs to see it?

Plan

Choose the sport, geography, format and campaign window.

Create

Use existing creative or develop content that works in the club setting.

Deliver

Coordinate the campaign, support the clubs and capture the evidence that matters.

Built with Clubs, Not Just Placed in Them

A campaign network clubs have a reason to welcome.

Grassroot Media works directly with clubs, rather than simply buying access to venue walls and screens. Paid campaigns help return value to host clubs, while free screen support gives venues useful communication space of their own.

That shared interest matters. Relevant campaigns appear in environments where clubs are partners in the model, not passive landlords. It creates a more credible, more engaged media environment for advertisers and audiences alike.

Why It Matters

Shared ValueRevenue sharing and free screen support help campaigns contribute to the clubs that host them.
Real Club RelationshipsCampaigns sit inside venues connected to Grassroot Media through direct, ongoing relationships.
Useful Extra ReachWhere appropriate, clubs can support relevant partners through their own channels and activity.

Campaign Planning

Tell us what you need your campaign to achieve.

We will help identify the audiences, sports, formats and timings that make the most sense for the brief.