City of Natchez featured in large video ad in Times Square

Published 3:27 pm Thursday, July 5, 2018

NEW YORK — The City of Natchez was recently featured in a large digital billboard advertisement in Times Square in New York City.

Natchez Convention and Promotion Commission member Helen Smith sent this video of the billboard above ABC’s Good Morning America studios.

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The 5-second advertisement from Visit Natchez featured the antebellum house Longwood and red poppies along the Mississippi River. The ad repeated more than 120 times between June 29 and July 4 during the national broadcast of the show, Smith said.