QR codes for videos and music
Point a printed code at a video.
One scan plays your video, song or podcast on a phone, from a poster, a package, a card or a page. When there’s a new one, point the code at it and every printed copy follows.
What to put in it
- Your video’s link. YouTube, Vimeo, or a Google Drive video shared with anyone who has the link. An unlisted YouTube video works too.
- Or something to listen to. A song, an album, a playlist or a podcast episode.
- Upload the video first. We don’t host video or audio files. Put the file on YouTube, Vimeo or Drive, then paste its link.
Why a dynamic code
Videos get re-cut, re-uploaded and replaced by next year’s. Point the code at the new one in Your codes and every poster, package and card already printed plays it.
- Changes
- Change what it opens in Your codes. We check a new address or file first, usually within seconds, then every printed copy follows. You can undo a change.
- Scans
- Counted by day, device and city.
- If you stop
- Printed codes work to the end of what you paid for, and we email you 7 days before they would stop.
- Short link
- Never given to anyone else, so a printed code never leads to someone else’s page.
Sizing and printing
- Smallest size
- At least 1 inch wide in the style above. A logo or finer dots can make it bigger, so the designer and the download page work it out for your design.
- Distance
- People can scan a code from up to about 10 times its width away, so a poster read from 5 feet away needs a code at least 6 inches wide.
- Contrast
- Keep it dark on a light background. The designer blocks colors too light to scan in print, even when they look fine on screen, and light codes on dark backgrounds.
- White margin
- Every file comes with a white margin as wide as 4 of the code’s dots. Keep at least 2 of them clear: don’t crop into it or print over it.
- Say what plays
- Put words on the frame, such as “Scan to watch the trailer”, so people know what opens before they scan.
- Sound off
- People often scan where they can’t turn the sound up, so captions help a video make sense.
- Test print
- Before you print a lot, print one copy at the real size and scan it with more than one phone, from as far away as people will be.
More in printing and sizing.
Every scan counted. No one tracked.
Each dynamic code gets its own report: when it was scanned, on what, and roughly where. See which flyer, table card or window is working. We count scans, not people.
01 · Scan
Someone points their phone at your printed code.
02 · kifu.to
Sends them on at once, then notes the hour, the kind of device and a rough location.
03 · Your page
Opens straight away. Counting never slows a scan down.
04 · In your report within about two minutes
1,284 scans
Devices
- Phone 1,207 94%
- Tablet 51 4%
- Computer 26 2%
Top cities
- Austin, TX, United States 784 61%
- Round Rock, TX, United States 154 12%
- San Marcos, TX, United States 90 7%
Counted
- The hour
- Phone, tablet or computer, and its operating system
- Country, state and city, estimated
Never kept
- The IP address
- Cookies or device IDs
- Anything that says who scanned
Counts are kept for 2 years, then deleted. Wi-Fi and text codes aren’t counted: phones read them without asking us.