AdQuick began with a problem our founder could not shake. Years before the company existed, he tried to buy a single bus shelter for a bootstrapped startup and could not even find out who owned it. The contact forms went unanswered for weeks, the few replies that came back were PDFs, and the process was so slow he gave up and hung a banner himself.
The idea took root at Instacart, where he led market expansion. When the team wanted billboards in Indianapolis, nothing had changed: finding the right inventory took weeks, every format was different, and the boards went live too late to hit the launch. They saw a clear lift in user growth but no way to prove it, so out of home kept sliding to the bottom of the budget. The media owners had the mirror-image problem. They were not turning buyers away; they ran 30 to 40% under-utilized and simply had no software to offer a modern buying experience.
AdQuick was built to fix both sides at once. Founded in Los Angeles in 2016, it gives advertisers and agencies a single place to plan, buy, and measure every kind of out of home, from static billboards to hand-painted murals to programmatic DOOH, with the attribution and lift that legacy OOH never had. A dedicated AdQuick team plans, negotiates, books, and measures alongside you, connecting you to more than 1,700 media owners while bringing their inventory online. The result is out of home you can run like the rest of your performance marketing.