Why put your card behind you
On a video call, there's no card to hand over and no moment at the door. The call ends, and whoever wanted your details has to ask, search, or forget. A background with your name, role and a QR code answers the question before it's asked: anyone who wants to keep you points their phone at the screen, and your card opens.
It also does the quiet work a nameplate does in a meeting room. New people on the call see who you are and what you do without a round of introductions, and the name under your video tile stops being the only clue.
What you get
- A 1920 × 1080 image, the size video apps expect, with your name, role and website in one top corner and your QR code in the other.
- Three styles: Card color, Dark or Light. The card color version uses the color you chose for your card.
- The middle left clear, so the text and the code stay readable beside you, not behind your head.
- A QR code that opens your card, where people can save your contact in one tap and send you their details back.
It's built from your card, so there's nothing to design. Details in the Share kit.
How to make it
- Create your free card with your name, job title and website, and publish it.
- Open the Share kit and go to Video call background.
- Pick a style and select Download image.
Add it to your video app
Zoom
Settings → Backgrounds & effects → Virtual backgrounds → + → Add image, and pick the file you downloaded.
Google Meet
In a call, More options → Apply visual effects → Backgrounds → +, and pick the file.
Microsoft Teams
Background effects → Add new, and pick the file.
Your own preview may look mirrored. That's your app flipping your camera for you; the people in the call see the text and the code the right way round.
What happens when someone scans it
Your digital business card opens in their phone's browser: photo, name, role, and buttons to call, email or message you. Save contact puts you in their contacts, and right after, Linq asks whether they'd like to share their details with you. If they do, they land in your Contacts with a note on where you met, which on a call is the call itself.
Scans of the background are counted as Video call background in Insights, apart from your QR code, your shared link and your email signature, so you can see whether it's worth keeping. The breakdown by source comes with Pro, at $5.99 a month.
Make it work on a real call
- Sit to one side of the frame, or lean back a little, so the corner with the code stays visible.
- Check the lighting. A virtual background cuts cleanly when your face is lit and the wall behind you is plain.
- Mention it once. “My card's on the screen behind me if you want it” is all it takes.
- Drop the link in the chat too, for people on a phone, where the code is too small to scan from the tile.
- Use the dark style if your card color is light; the code and the text need contrast to read on a compressed video stream.