The student union screen everyone walks past twice a day.
Canteens, union bars, library foyers and reception desks see the same students every day of term. Put the events, the society nights and the café menu on the screens — and let the businesses that want students pay for the space in between.
Free to join, free to run your campus screens. You only pay if you want to advertise on someone else’s.
On a campus screen
What you would actually put on it.
Students pass the same screens several times a day, and sit in canteens and union bars for long stretches between lectures.
Events and society nights
Freshers' week, the gig, the society fair, the careers day. A card each, changed as the term goes on.
The canteen menu
Your QR menu as a board by the queue, and the full menu on a phone.
Opening hours and notices
Library hours at exam time, closures, where to find support. Typed from a phone by whoever runs the building.
Weather and the trains
Free live cards. The last train home matters to everyone living off campus.
And it earns
Students are one of the audiences local businesses find hardest to reach, and a campus screen reaches them every day of term.
Letting agents, takeaways, gyms with student prices and part-time employers will pay for it, and you approve every advert.
Who wants your room: Student letting agents, takeaways and cafés near campus, gyms with student rates, part-time employers, bike shops, and local venues.
70% is yours
You set the price per play and 70% of it reaches you. There is nothing else to pay — no subscription, no listing fee, no hardware.
Only real plays count
A play pays out only if the screen was on, visible and verified. Nobody is billed for a dark screen.
10p in, 10p out
A credit is worth the same whether you buy it or cash it out. Withdraw from 500 credits.
Do the sum
What would a campus screen earn?
Opens on the hours and the price a campus actually trades at, and on a quiet week rather than a good one.
Your screen
Trading hours, not opening hours. A screen nobody is looking at earns nothing, and the player knows the difference.
This is the honest unknown, and it is about demand rather than your loop — which could carry about 91 an hour at 30%. It starts on quiet on purpose.
You set this, and you can change it whenever you like.
The rest of the loop stays yours. This sets the ceiling, not the demand.
You would earn, roughly
£57.50 a month
575 credits · £690 a year
The same screen, three ways
An estimate, not an offer. You are paid only for plays the screen proves — an advert of about 10s with a signed token and a heartbeat showing the screen was awake and in view. The same advertiser cannot play twice within 40 seconds or more than 40 times an hour on your screen, so busy hours need several advertisers, not one repeated. Several TVs showing one loop count as one play — you price the set.
On the wall
How it looks in universities and colleges.
The screen in each of these is the real DisplayCircle player, laid over the television in the photograph.
Questions
What universities and colleges ask.
Some of our students are under eighteen.
Then keep the loop to what suits them. Nothing plays without your approval, and you can decline any advert, or open none of the loop to the network at all.
We have screens across several buildings.
Each one is its own screen with its own loop and price, all run from one account — the library can show opening hours while the union bar sells tickets.
Who can change what is on them?
It is managed from a browser or the phone app, so whoever runs communications for a building can update its screens without waiting for IT.
Another trade?
Ready?
Your campus screen could be working tonight.
Free account, no card, no hardware. Open the player on the TV and scan the code with your phone.