Coffee shops · Meetings · Expos · Flights
Laptop advertising, on the lid people already look at.
Laptop advertising means an ad for your business on the back of your own laptop, the side that faces the room whenever it’s open. A LapAds skin puts your name, one line and a QR code there for $59.94.
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Where it gets seen
You open it in front of people all week.
Right now the back of your laptop carries its maker’s logo. These are the places it could be carrying yours.
- 01
Coffee shops
A long session at a corner table with the lid facing the room.
Roughly 1 m away - 02
Client meetings
Across the table for an hour, in the client’s line of sight the whole time.
Roughly 1 m away - 03
Conferences and expos
On a booth table or a panel, facing everyone who walks past or sits in the front rows.
Roughly 2 to 6 m away - 04
Coworking
Long shared tables, with the same people around you every day.
Roughly 1 to 3 m away - 05
Airports and flights
Gate seats and tray tables, where people have time on their hands.
Roughly 1 to 3 m away - 06
Campus and libraries
Library tables and lecture halls, with a new crowd every class.
Roughly 1 to 6 m away
The two-second test
How far does your name carry?
People catch a lid in passing, so a laptop ad gets one name, one line and one QR code. Type yours, then drag the distance and see what still reads.
Rules of thumb, not lab results: about 1 inch of letter height for every 10 feet of distance (Signs.com) and a QR code scanned from no more than about 10 times its width (Scanova). The studio lets you make the code bigger when it needs to reach further.
What it costs
One payment. No ad auction.
$64.93
A LapAds skin with shipping, paid once. No monthly fee and nothing to bid on.
$59.94 for the skin plus $4.99 flat US shipping. Sales tax is added at checkout where it applies.
$0.006
Average cost per impression for promotional products, from ASI’s 2026 Global Advertising Impressions Study.
Research on giveaway items, not a LapAds result. We haven’t found anyone who has measured impressions for laptop lids. Source: ASI, April 21, 2026.
FAQ
Laptop advertising questions.
What is laptop advertising?
An ad for your business on the back of your own laptop. The lid faces the room every time you work in public, so a skin with your name, one line and a QR code turns it into a small sign you carry everywhere.
Where do people actually see your laptop?
Coffee shops, client meetings, conferences and expos, coworking spaces, airports and flights, and campus libraries. In most of them the nearest person is one to three meters away.
What should a laptop ad say?
Your business name, big enough to read across a café; one line that says what you do; and a QR code with its white border intact. Small print rarely reads past the next table.
Is a laptop skin cheaper than other ads?
It’s one payment of $64.93 with shipping, with no monthly fee and no ad auction. We haven’t found anyone who has measured impressions for laptop lids, so we can’t quote a cost per impression. The nearest benchmark, ASI’s 2026 study of promotional products, puts giveaway items at $0.006 per impression.
Can I sell ad space on my laptop?
Some people do: there are marketplaces where brands pay for a sticker spot on someone’s lid. If a sponsor wants the whole lid, their logo can go on your skin as long as you hold the rights to use it. Our content policy has the rules.
What should your laptop advertise?
Free to start. You pay when you order a skin or want more than 15 AI designs.