Local Screens ships in stages, on purpose. Stage one puts the player, the drag-and-drop editor and POS-synced menu boards into hosts' hands and proves the screens run reliably, unattended, in a real restaurant and a real church. Only once a real base of hosted screens exists does it make sense to open a marketplace for outside advertisers to buy into them — a map with nothing on it helps nobody. So this page describes the plan honestly, as coming, rather than a screen count and a "book now" button we can't back up yet.
Coming
Screen advertising inside the businesses your customers already visit — coming soon
Pick venues on a map — the gym three blocks over, the diner by the office park — upload your ad, set a budget, and go live once the host approves. That local screen marketplace is coming once our first hosts are live; here's exactly what it'll look like and how to hear the moment it opens.
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Why this isn't live yet
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Pick the venue, not a vague audience
Most screen advertising still gets sold the way billboards always have: a network, a radius, and a rate card, with no real say in which specific businesses your ad ends up next to. Ours is designed to work differently. Instead of guessing at a targeting radius, you'll choose the actual businesses where your ad runs — the coffee shop your customers walk past, the gym where your ideal customer already works out, the church whose members are exactly who you want to reach. Every screen on the map will show its venue type, general foot-traffic pattern, and the categories that venue's host allows, so you'll know before you buy whether your ad even qualifies to run there.
This is venue-first by design, built around specific places instead of a broad zone, which will matter most for businesses whose customers cluster around a handful of predictable spots — the gym, the school pickup line, the church parking lot, the strip of restaurants near the office park.
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Upload once, run everywhere you pick
Once this opens, you'll bring your own creative or generate one from your brand kit — the same asset library the rest of the platform already uses today, so a screen ad won't mean starting from scratch. You'll set a budget and a date range, and your ad will enter a review queue for every venue you selected.
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Indoor placements, built for close-up viewing
Every screen you'll eventually see on the map is an indoor advertising display screen — inside a restaurant, gym, church lobby or shop, not on a highway. That distance matters: an indoor advertising screen a few feet from a table or a treadmill gets a longer, closer look than a passing car ever gives a billboard, and it changes what actually works creatively — more text is readable, a QR code is scannable, and a clear offer lands better than a broad brand message. Once the marketplace is live, any indoor digital advertising screens you pick will show their typical dwell time on the venue card, so you can judge fit before you buy.
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The host will have the final say
Every venue's owner will review and approve ads before they air on their screen — that's not a formality, it's how hosts keep control of what plays where their customers are. If a host has blocked a category your ad falls into (alcohol, political, direct competitors, and adult is always blocked platform-wide), your ad simply won't be offered that venue when you're picking locations.
Once approved, we'll log proof of play — timestamp, screen, duration — so you'll know your ad actually ran, not just that it was scheduled to.
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Part of the same platform, not a side tool
When it ships, screen ads will live inside the same account as your Meta, Google and other channel campaigns — same billing, same reporting. Once the AI media planner supports it, it'll be able to recommend Local Screens as a channel for foot-traffic and local-awareness goals alongside everything else, with the same range-based results and explainability the planner already uses today. You won't need a separate login, a separate invoice or a separate learning curve to add screen advertising to a campaign that's already running elsewhere.
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Who will actually buy screen advertising near them
The businesses set to get the most out of this are the ones with a real geographic story to tell: a new restaurant opening two doors down from a gym, a dentist wanting visibility near the elementary school parents already drive past twice a day, a boutique advertising inside the coffee shop where its exact customer already sits for twenty minutes. Agencies will use it the same way they use any other channel — pick venues for a client's radius, upload creative sized for the format, and report results next to the rest of that client's spend.
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Pricing, in plain terms
There won't be a separate screen advertising plan to buy — it'll run on the same free-to-start account as the rest of the platform. You'll set your own budget per venue, see the price before you commit, and pay only for what actually airs. Agencies managing screen advertising for several clients will do it inside the same multi-client account they already use for every other channel today. Full plan details, including what's live on Screens right now, are on Pricing.
A little more clarity
Frequently asked questions
Real answers before you make a decision.
Can I buy screen advertising today?
Not yet. This page describes what's coming once enough hosts are live; until then, there's no map to buy from and nothing to charge you for.
How will I know which businesses I can advertise on?
Every venue on the map will be opted in and show its category rules up front. You'll only see venues where your ad's category is allowed.
What happens if a host rejects my ad?
You won't be charged for that venue, and you'll be able to adjust the creative or budget and resubmit, or pick a different venue.
How will I know my ad actually played?
Every play will be logged with a timestamp, screen ID and duration, visible in your campaign reporting alongside your other channels.
Will agencies be able to buy screen time for multiple clients?
Yes — once it ships, screen advertising will work inside the same multi-client account structure as the rest of the platform.
How is this different from buying a billboard or a radio spot?
You'll pick the specific venues instead of a broad zone or a demographic, see proof that your ad actually played, and start or stop anytime — screen advertising here is designed to work more like a digital ad channel than a traditional out-of-home buy.
What can I run near a venue today instead?
Meta and Google both support radius targeting around a specific address, which is the closest live equivalent until the screen marketplace opens — see Local businesses for how that's usually set up.
How do I find out when this opens?
Start free and you'll see it appear in your dashboard the day it ships — no separate signup or waitlist to manage.
Will screen advertising near me specifically be available first?
We're not promising a rollout order by city — the marketplace opens for screen advertising everywhere at once, based on host density, not a region-by-region launch.
Your next move
Be first in line when screen advertising opens.
Start free today on the networks that are already live, and Local Screens advertising unlocks in the same account the moment it ships.