Claim it!- NYC Based App Hooks Users Up With Free Stuff

This year's New York TechDay brought in over 30,000 attendees and 550 startups. TechDay was a bustling event with cutting edge innovation everywhere you turned. However, there was one business I couldn’t help but gravitate towards. A sea of TechDay goers enclosed this startup’s booth surrounded with an inviting team wearing bright pink shirts and huge smiles.As I approached the booth, a pink shirted gentlemen named Ali asked me,“Do you like free stuff?” Of course! Who doesn’t like free stuff? It may seem too good to be true, but Claim it! is a mobile app that allows you to claim free items such as sneakers, snacks, gift cards and many other goodies just for watching advertisements. Starbucks, GoPro, and Redbull are just a few of the companies with giveaways through Claim It!Ali Abdullah, CEO & Founder of Claim it!, was inspired during a hard time in his life when he was homeless. During this time, he offered himself as a walking billboard for brands in exchange for their product. As he realized many brands were open to this idea of having direct to consumer word of mouth, he wondered if he could capitalize off this conceptAfter leaving the New York Department of Education, Abdullah was homeless for months. During that period he did contract work for the Clinton Foundation and a few startups. Abdullah then got a job offer to work as a coder at Google where he had his lightbulb moment. What if users were able to obtain goods at retail locations for watching an ad via a mobile app? Fast forward a few years and Claim It! was born.Claim it! is essentially a product giveaway platform. Users win prizes for just watching video ads. They can win free products in a specific city by putting in a claim on that week’s offers then waiting for a drawing that takes place every Sunday. Winners have one week to pick up their prizes. You can win everything from shoes to household items to beauty goods to gift cards.“Claim it! provides a direct solution to a constant business dilemma - how to generate new consumer interest and easily get the product directly in their hands", says Abdullah.Claim it! has achieved over 170,000 consistent users in just 15 months along with monthly revenues of $10,000-$15,000. It is rare to find a young startup succeeding so rapidly, but the secret to Claim it! is the team. Abdullah surrounded himself with wonderful co-founders, strategic partners and investors such as Blackstone senior managing director David Blitzer, former Saks CEO Steve Sadove, former Goldman Sachs managing director Dan Petrozzo and lastly Brooklyn Nets player, Thaddeus Young."Tech-Day was amazing in every way possible. It was an incredible experience for my wife and I. It has opened our eyes to another world and market. I am extremely pleased to be partnered with the Claim it! brand. Big things to come in the future." - Thaddeus Young.In my opinion, Claim it! was one of the best startups exhibiting at TechDay.However, It wasn’t just because of the free Crumbs cupcakes and photo ops with Thaddeus Young. Ali Abdullah, and the Claim it! team have taken such a unique approach in the advertising world that not only produces revenue, but benefits the consumer and the advertiser.Ready to watch, win and Claim it!?Download Claim it! today for iOS & Android and start claiming your free stuff!Download here: http://claimit.nyc/