BAY AREA · 2026

Every time you look up, it's another AI ad.

We started keeping track.

BILLBOARDS ARCHIVED
10,000+ AI STARTUPS IN SILICON VALLEY
1,000+ WAYMOS ACTIVE
BAY AREA • LIVE MAP

The Map

Live community archive
~1,200 AI Companies in Bay Area Bay Area Council, 2025
~80 Active Billboard Advertisers Est. from OOH industry data
$1M+ Est. Weekly Billboard Spend Based on OAAA rates, 2025
Community Sightings From archive submissions
PICK OF THE WEEK

Billboard of the Week

One AI ad from around the Bay, broken down.

Artisan billboard at SF Bus Stop
ARTISAN · SF Bus Stop
Most Insider-Focused

Heavy on jargon, light on clarity. "B2B lead generation" and "AI BDR" mean something, but not to most people passing by. Feels more like it's written for insiders than the public.

EST. 2024 · ONGOING

Why does this exist?

The Bay Area is in the middle of an unprecedented AI advertising boom. Billboard rental revenue in SF grew 30% between 2023 and 2025. There are 170 billboards along Highway 101 alone. The SF Chronicle catalogued every billboard in the city and found 50% advertise AI products.

Nobody has built the searchable, crowdsourced archive. That's the gap. This is the archive.

Think: museum gallery meets Reddit-bait meets Bay Area cultural commentary. Every billboard that comes down — and they cycle every 2–4 weeks — only exists here. In two years, this becomes a historical document of what 2025–2026 SF looked like.

170 BILLBOARDS ON HWY 101
50% OF SF BILLBOARDS ARE AI ADS
30% BILLBOARD REVENUE GROWTH
THE MOMENT THAT STARTED IT ALL

"Stop Hirring Humans"

Artisan AI's typo-laden billboard in 2024 generated tens of millions of impressions, thousands of death threats, and over $2M in new ARR for the company. The locals noticed.

EXISTING COVERAGE — ALL FRAGMENTED
  • Aaron PareckiPhoto dumps · Blog
  • Bill Dybas — Ads of SFInstagram · X
  • Wendy Liu — Bay Area CurrentEditorial column
  • SF ChronicleOne-time investigation
  • NPR / KQEDAudio + reporting

The gap: Nobody has built a structured, searchable, crowdsourced, mapped, rated, ongoing archive.

CONTRIBUTE TO THE ARCHIVE

Spot One?

Saw an AI billboard that's not in the archive? Submit it. The curation team reviews all submissions within 48 hours.

NOTE

Buzzword Density, Boomer Confusion, and other scores are set by the curation team — not user-submitted. You provide the raw intelligence. We rate it.

Submissions reviewed before publishing · Allow 1-3 days