Be the answer when someone nearby is deciding what to eat.
The pub at closing time, the cab office at midnight, the office reception at half eleven — every one of those rooms is full of people about to be hungry. Put your food in front of them, and pay only for plays that genuinely happened.
Free account, no minimum spend, no contract. You pay for verified plays and nothing else.
The gap
Delivery apps own the moment of decision, and charge you for it.
By the time someone opens an app they choose from a list the platform ranks, and every order through it costs you commission. A screen in the room where they are getting hungry puts your name in their head before the app is opened — and a code on the poster can send them to order from you direct.
On the screens
What you would actually run.
Upload artwork you already have, or make it here — a poster costs 5 credits and a five-second clip 30.
The dish, photographed properly
One plate and one price. Use your own photograph, or have the studio make one from the name of the dish.
Order direct
A poster with a QR code for your own ordering page or phone number, so the order does not go through a platform.
An offer that suits the room
The lunch deal for office and campus screens, the late menu for pubs and cab offices — two campaigns, each on the rooms it fits.
The new opening
For a new restaurant, simply being known by the streets around it is the whole job for the first month.
How buying works at your scale
Bought the way you already work.
Choose the rooms that get hungry
Pubs, bars and taxi offices for late food; offices and colleges for lunch. Filter the map by venue type and distance from the kitchen.
A few pounds a week
No minimum spend and nothing recurring. A small campaign on the four nearest pubs costs less than a print run of menus.
Promote a dish straight from your menu
If your QR menu is on DisplayCircle, one button turns any photographed dish into a campaign — the name, the price and the photograph are already there.
Earn it back while people wait
The TV in your waiting area can join the network and earn from other businesses while customers wait for their order.
What it costs
A campaign this size, priced out in full.
Five pubs and a cab office near the kitchen, for a month.
There is no platform fee on top and no monthly charge. 70% of what you pay reaches the venue already set, so the figure below is the whole cost.
Budget
600 credits
£60
Maximum price per play
£0.20 a play
2 cr
Screens selected
you choose each one
6
Verified plays it buys
if every play is proven
300
An unverified play is never charged, so this is a ceiling rather than a forecast. Whatever is left when you stop stays in your balance.
Where it plays
The kind of room your advert lands in.
The screen in each of these is the real DisplayCircle player, laid over the television in the photograph.
Proof-of-Display
You are never charged for a play the screen cannot prove.
Every advert carries a signed, single-use token. The credit moves only if that token comes back with a believable duration and a live heartbeat showing the screen was awake and in view for the whole play. A television switched off at the wall earns its owner nothing and costs you nothing.
How verification worksSigned play tokens
Single use, time limited, tied to that screen and that campaign.
A live heartbeat
The screen reports in while your advert is on it, or the play does not count.
A believable duration
Plays outside the expected length of your creative are rejected.
An auditable ledger
Every credit that moved, with the screen and the date behind it.
Questions
What restaurants and takeaways ask.
Will a pub accept a takeaway advert?
Many do — a pub without a kitchen has every reason to point people towards food nearby. Pubs that serve food may decline, which is their call; every advert needs the owner's approval.
Can the advert change with the time of day?
Not within one campaign: a campaign plays whenever its screens are on. Run the lunch offer on office and campus screens and the late one on pubs and cab offices, as two campaigns.
Do I need a designer?
No. Upload a photograph you already have, or type the dish and the price into the AI studio and it makes a poster for a handful of credits.
Another kind of advertiser?
Ready?
Your first campaign could be running tonight.
Make the poster, pick the screens off the map, set a budget. You are charged only for plays the screens can prove.