Promoting Yourself on Google's Street View

Submitted by Meg Wilson on December 5, 2009 - 10:46.

Here's an interesting story about how to promote yourself on Google's Street View. From TechCrunch;

Can Google Street View be used as a marketing vehicle?

Nate Heagy thinks so. He went to great lengths to follow a Google Street View vehicle and anticipate its movements so that he could set up a sign in its path and start playing a guitar so that he could promote his band, Fear Salesman. Well, he is now on Google Street View. Heagy explains how he executed his bold plan:

"Last spring, . . . I hatched a plan to promote my indie band. After making a sign and keeping it in the trunk of my car for about a month I finally chanced across the google street view car. Then I had to follow it until I figured out its pattern, then get ahead of it with time to set up."

There is only one problem. His picture was taken in the middle of nowhere. Not only is it in Saskatoon (which is in Canada, for all you geography majors out there). It is on a random residential street in Saskatoon that maybe five people will ever look up. Until now, I guess.

One of the readers at TechCrunch had this funny comment...

It would be much more interesting to look at google maps if Google would just tell us their route so we all could go out and get almost famous. Then we wouldn’t have to send our kids up in balloons, sneak into the whitehouse, or sleep with Tiger.


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