A screen on a wall is a toad on a log: it sits there quietly and catches whatever walks past. ScreenToads turns the one you already have into ad space local businesses book from $2 a day, and asks the room how the visit went.
Scroll, and follow the toad to six places it lives.
Pad 01 · The café
Behind the counter, between the menu boards
The TV behind the counter plays a florist's offer, a gym's trial week, a dentist's reminder. Every play pays the café at the floor price it set, and nothing airs until it has been reviewed.
How Ad Screen worksPad 02 · The restaurant table
Next to the salt
A palm-sized e-paper screen carries your logo and one question. Guests tap a face on the screen itself, no phone and no app, and the answer arrives labelled with the table it came from.
How the e-paper screen worksPad 03 · The gym lobby
Where every member walks past twice
A smoothie bar or a physio books the front-desk screen from $2 a day, and the QR on their ad counts every member who scans. A sticker on the studio door can ask how the class was.
How Scan Codes workPad 04 · The waiting room
Ten quiet minutes, give or take
Between ads the screen asks how the visit went, then replies: a coupon for a happy face, a way to reach the manager for an unhappy one. Touchscreens take a tap; other screens show a code to scan.
How Promo Screen worksPad 05 · The checkout
At the till, while the card goes through
A brand funds a free item at your till. The shopper answers a short survey on their phone and gets a one-time voucher; the cashier scans it, keys the store PIN, and the store is reimbursed at its listed price.
How Reward Ads workPad 06 · The whole block
Every screen on the map
Mark an area on the map or pick screens one by one, then set a daily budget from $2. Each loop is an auction, and the winner pays just above the runner-up.
How the marketplace worksThe last pad
Plays, scans, spend and earnings on one side. Ratings, choices and comments on the other. By screen and by hour, as they happen. Start with one screen, one $2 day, or five free feedback stickers.
Plate II
Six parts, one very patient animal. Each of them does a job, and none of them needs feeding.
The eyes
Plays, scans, spend and earnings arrive in the dashboard by screen and by hour, as they happen.
AnalyticsThe tongue
Every ad carries its own QR code for each screen, so a scan is traced to the exact place it happened.
Scan CodesThe parotoid glands
A toad keeps its defences just behind the eyes. Ours: every ad is reviewed before it can play, and screen locations are verified before anyone books them.
Ad MarketplaceThe vocal sac
Between ads the screen can ask how the visit went, and the answers arrive while the customer is still in the building.
Promo ScreenThe skin
A toad takes on the look of wherever it sits. Survey screens, e-paper screens and stickers carry your logo instead of ours.
Satisfaction SurveysThe feet
A TV, a tablet, a kiosk: if it opens a browser, it can run the player. No box to buy, nothing to install.
Ad ScreenPlate III
Four stages from an idle screen to a paying one. Then it starts again, a little better fed each time.
An owner opens the player in a browser, pairs it with a key, verifies the location and sets a floor price per play.
An advertiser builds the ad, marks an area on the map or picks screens one by one, and sets a daily budget from $2.
Once approved, the ad joins the auction for each loop. It is charged per play, and never beyond the daily budget.
Plays, scans, survey answers and earnings land in the dashboard. Keep what works and move budget to the screens that respond.
Most of the work is sitting still. The toad is very good at that.
Get startedPlate IV
Each one survives on its own. Together they take an ad from a screen on the wall to a customer at the counter, and bring back what that customer thought.
Family: Show
The screens and the marketplace that fills them.
Open the player in a browser on a TV, tablet or kiosk, pair it with the key from your dashboard, and it starts looping approved ads. There is no box to buy and nothing to install.
Build your ad, pick screens on the map, and set a daily budget and the most you will pay for a play. Each loop is filled by auction, and the winner pays just enough to beat the next bid, not their full maximum.
Family: Engage
Four ways a screen starts a conversation with the person in front of it.
Each ad carries its own code for each screen it plays on. A viewer points their camera, we record the scan against that ad and that screen, then send them on to your page, menu or offer.
Surveys work without a reward. When you want more answers, attach one: the viewer scans, answers, and gets a one-time voucher on their phone. The cashier scans it, enters the store PIN, and sees exactly what to hand over. The store is reimbursed at the price it listed.
A slim bar appears on the screen at the rhythm you choose, with a code that opens the booking flow for that exact screen. A neighbouring business can go from noticing your screen to submitting an ad on it without ever creating a password.
Put a message on your screen before or after someone rates their visit: a thank-you, a coupon code, a loyalty sign-up, or a way to reach a manager. What appears can depend on the face they tapped, so a happy customer gets an offer and an unhappy one gets a way to be heard.
Family: Listen
One simple survey, three ways to put it in front of a customer.
Species III.1
Bufo interrogans
One simple question by default. More only if you want them
The basic survey is a single customer satisfaction question answered in one tap. That is all most venues need, and it is what gets the most answers. When you want the reason behind the score, add up to four more questions: a choice, a rating, a comment. A reward for answering is there if you want it, and never required.
Species III.2
Bufo chartaceus
A small e-paper display with your logo and one question. Guests answer with a tap
A palm-sized e-paper screen for the table, the shelf edge or the counter. It shows your logo above the question, and guests answer by tapping a face on the screen itself: no phone, no app, nothing to scan. You change what it asks from the dashboard, and it draws power only when the picture changes, so it runs for months on a charge.
Species III.3
Bufo adhaerens
A QR code you can stick anywhere. Your first five are free
Peel-and-stick QR stickers, each with its own code. Put one on a table, a till, a door, a parcel locker or a vending machine, and every answer arrives labelled with the spot it came from. Sign up and we send you five at no charge.
Species III.4
Bufo domesticus
A screen already on the platform can ask the question itself
Any screen you have registered can take a turn as a survey. Between ads it shows your question with a code to scan, and a touchscreen can take the answer with a tap. There is nothing new to buy: the display that earns from ads also collects feedback.
Put the rating where the online part of the visit happens: a pop-up after checkout, a block embedded in a page or a receipt email, a link in an SMS. The answers sit next to the ones from your venues.
The basic survey
Every survey starts as a single customer satisfaction question. You choose the answer style that suits your venue, and you can stop there.
Four faces from very happy to very unhappy. The classic, and the most detail from a single tap.
The plainest version: a direct question with two buttons. Best when you are checking one thing.
Two words instead of four faces, for venues that want a verdict and nothing in between.
The same two-way answer without any words, so it reads in every language.
Optional follow-ups
Follow-ups appear after the first tap, so nobody has to finish a form to be counted. A reward for answering is optional too: attach a free item when you want more responses, or leave it off.
The satisfaction question. Comes back as an average out of five and the full spread, so one bad night is visible instead of averaged away.
“How was your visit today?”
A single choice from up to six options, counted per option. Best for the follow-up: what let the visit down, which counter they used.
“What brought you in today?”
The same list, but they can tick more than one. Useful when the answer is rarely a single thing.
“Which of these did you use?”
A free comment of up to 280 characters, listed as written. This is where the reason behind a low score usually turns up.
“Anything we should fix?”
Family: Measure
Numbers for the campaign, answers from the audience.
Follow a campaign across any date range, then break it down by ad and by screen to see where attention turns into action. Screen owners get the same clarity on earnings: paid plays, redeemed rewards, this month and all time.
Every survey collects its answers in your dashboard as they arrive. Ratings are summarised as an average and a distribution, choices as counts per option, and comments are listed as written. Download the lot as CSV, Excel or SPSS whenever you need it elsewhere, with the city and local time of every answer.
Screen owners
You already have the screen and the footfall. Let them pay for themselves.
Every quiet screen is a prince in disguise. Start with one screen, one $2 day, or the five free feedback stickers we send when you sign up. The first plays, scans and answers show up in your dashboard as they happen.
Answers
Say ScreenToAds quickly. Also, a screen on a wall behaves a lot like a toad on a log: it sits very still, most people barely notice it, and it catches everything that walks past. We just made it pay rent.
It is a marketplace for advertising on physical screens. Venue owners connect the displays they already have, advertisers book them with a daily budget, and the platform handles review, scheduling, per-play billing and reporting for both sides.
A device that can open a modern web browser and stay online: a smart TV, a tablet, a mini PC behind a monitor, or a kiosk. You register the screen in your dashboard, open the player on the device, and pair the two with a key. There is no dedicated hardware.
You choose a daily budget, starting at $2, and the most you are willing to pay for a single play. Each screen has a floor price set by its owner. Every loop is auctioned, and the winner pays just enough to beat the next-highest bid. You are charged per play and never more than your daily budget.
Plays are added to a running balance and charged to your saved card once a month, or sooner when the unbilled amount passes a small threshold. You need a card on file before your ads can enter auctions.
The store sets a cashier PIN on its screen and lists the free items it is willing to offer, each with a price. An advertiser funds a quantity of one item. When a customer shows a voucher, the cashier scans it, enters the PIN, and the screen says what to hand over. The store is reimbursed at its listed price for every redemption.
Each voucher is a one-time link that expires 30 minutes after the survey is completed. Once the cashier confirms it with the store PIN, the link stops working for good.
No. A survey can live on an e-paper screen, on a QR sticker, or in the loop of a screen you have registered, with no ad involved. If you do advertise, the code in your ad can carry the same survey.
No. Rewards are optional. A survey works on its own: the customer scans or taps, answers, and is thanked. Attaching a free item usually raises the response rate, so it is there when you want it, per survey, and you can switch it off again.
One question and one tap. The basic customer satisfaction survey asks a single question, and you choose how it is answered: four smiley faces, yes or no, good or bad, or thumbs up or down. If you want the reason behind the answer, add up to four follow-up questions: a rating from 1 to 5, a single or multiple choice, or a free comment of up to 280 characters.
Yes. The survey slot on your registered screens, the e-paper screens and the stickers can all be white labelled. On the e-paper screen your logo sits at the top, above the question. Stickers are printed with your logo and colours, including the five free ones you get when you sign up.
Sign up and we send you five QR feedback stickers. Each has its own code. Stick them where customers pause, name each one in the dashboard, choose your question, and answers start arriving with the location attached.
Only the answers to the questions the advertiser wrote. Surveys do not ask for or store names, emails or phone numbers. Answers are visible to the ad's owner and can be downloaded as CSV, Excel or SPSS.
Every ad, standard or reward, is reviewed before it can play anywhere. Ads that are not approved never enter an auction, so they never reach a screen.