Sam Gentle.com

Posterclean

I had a fun idea for a business today: what if you offered free graffiti removal paid for by advertising?

I'm sure it's pretty annoying having to pay to get your wall cleaned whenever it gets tagged. For a large company, that might not be a huge expense, but what about for a person, or even a small business without a lot of spare cash? If your wall has graffiti on it anyway why not let us cover it up with a poster?

You'd leave the poster up for some fixed campaign length, and at the end of the run take down the poster and clean the wall it was on. The wall owner gets their nice clean wall back, and the cleaning business makes money from the advertising. Everyone wins!

The only problem would be that an unscrupulous company could deliberately graffiti attractive advertising spaces, but I think it'd be pretty easy to get caught if you were doing that, especially because most of the ideal places are pretty high-traffic. That possiblility aside, it seems like a surprisingly ethical advertising business.