Let me repeat the question: Would you turn your house into a billboard to live mortgage free?
Yes? You are in luck! Because one advertising company named Adzookie is doing just that: turning homes into billboards and helping homeowners pay their mortgage. Adzookie was first a free, mobile advertising company, but they’ve decided to take a bit of a pivot So far 223 homeowners have contacted them as well as 12 businesses, 7 restaurants and 1 church.
“Adzookie.com is a free mobile advertising company. We help local businesses reach new customers by placing free advertisements where ads get noticed the most, on smart phones,” says Romeo Mendoza, Adzookie’s CEO. “Promoting our business in a way that’s outrageous and fun just make sense.”
Mendoza says he was inspired while driving his daughter home from school.
“I saw signs outside homes saying ‘bank-owned’ and suddenly I felt for the families I imagined lived there,” said Mendoza. “I was trying really hard to think of ways to help …then it hit me. Our company buys advertising all the time. We could buy ad space on their house and pay them for it.”
To qualify, you must own your home; no renters or leasers allowed. Adzookie must be able to paint the entire outside of the house, minus the roof, the windows and any awnings. Having your house painted takes about 3-5 days. In exchange, Adzookie will pay the mortgage every month for as long as the house is painted, up to one year.
Interested homeowners apply here and please, please send us pictures. All hilarity aside, Mendoza is serious about this house painting business. And in the end, isn’t the whole promotion a great way for him to get the Adzookie name out there?
Ah, the crazy world of advertising. Interested in outdoor advertising? Don’t miss our recent interview with NYC’s disruptive darling, AdStruc.
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I want an artificial, accurate-to-acceptable transcription system for the hundreds of interviews I have stored in my Buffalo silo for which I have been far too lazy to provide shownotes for.
I understand I can have this done in a fashion using what is known as ‘human transcription services’ but frankly I’m far too nouveau fool to accept that this is the only solution to my problem.
Great stuff, Brad. I’m glad you interpreted the matter transporter wish because – having not seen a single episode of Doctor Who in years – I was troubled by a shortfall in understanding.
@Dave Thackeray Hahah…I get to blame the fact that I work with Englishmen for the choice of image ;)
Yeah the ability to at least travel from one place to another in seconds would be a dream come true. I would settled for my own personal aircraft that I could pop into as easy as a car and fly to New York.
@Zee New York? Good heavens man. There are far better choices.
@Brad McCarty Ok, New Jersey
@Zee Oh wow. Nevermind…
@Brad McCarty New Mexico?
@Brad McCarty New Orleans?
@Brad McCarty New South Wales?
spamming my own blog, love it.
@Zee …you have WAY too much fun with real time comments.
@Dave Thackeray That problem is possibly AS HARD as any artificial intelligence problem. The issue with current transcription systems is that occasionally a word is pronounced strangely or not heard, but as humans, we fit the correct word in instinctively.
Services like google voice are constantly training their recognition systems over an enormous amount of data, but there is a limit of improvement to be reached without giving computers an actual understanding of language.
@mechko @Dave Thackeray But man…the company that comes up with a solution? Huge.
Paper (or napkin) anywhere that can become a display for my computer
interactive walls, self charging mobiles and maybe even better alarm clocks all become irralevant when you have the augmented lenses. Why have big screens and mobiles when everything you would ever want to see is visable infront of you always. For that matter the slow waking thing could probably actually work when the light is coming from underneath your eyelids!!!
A good 3rd eye is my other request bringing that much needed interaction that you talk about with the augmented lenses
Haha, bacon. I’m good with that.
I want Jane Jetson’s face mask. You know, the one she could put on to make her instantly beautiful in the a.m. when snotty Mrs.Sprocket called on the visual phone monitor? With commuting from bed to er… sitting up in bed, that would come in handy for early morning boss/client Skypes.
I want Jane Jetson’s face mask. You know, the one she could put on to make her instantly beautiful in the a.m. when snotty Mrs.Sprocket called on the visual phone monitor? With commuting from bed to er… sitting up in bed, that would come in handy for early morning boss/client Skypes.
there was a guy on the show The Shark Tank that “invented” an alarm clock that would bake/warm up bacon as the wake up call. It was rejected cause, as you say above, freshly-baked bread (or bacon) beside your face is probably a bad idea. but it was funny and ahead of its time )
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there was a guy on the show The Shark Tank that “invented” an alarm clock that would bake/warm up bacon as the wake up call. It was rejected cause, as you say above, freshly-baked bread (or bacon) beside your face is probably a bad idea. but it was funny and ahead of its time )
D
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