The business fills the last four stages with fan cutouts

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VANCOUVER, Wash. (KPTV) – The Final Four is this weekend for both the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments.

And a Vancouver-based company fills the stands with fans, that is, cardboard fans!

“We’re filling the entire bottom bowl here,” said Joe DiPietro for the women’s tournament in San Antonio.

“We’re installing from 6.30pm to 1.30am tonight,” said Taylor Gaussoin for the Indianapolis men’s tournament.

The two are co-founders of the Vancouver-based fan engagement company Perk Social. After seeing a German soccer team do something similar last year, they decided to launch fancutouts.com and make personalized carboard fans at a time when the real ones couldn’t. t go to the games.

“When we’re in technology and marketing, we have to explain what we’re doing and people don’t know what it is. Now let’s say you know those fake fans, those cardboard cutouts in the stands and everyone knows what this is are.” Said Gaussoin.

The project started. You have worked with pro teams and more than 130 colleges and universities.

“It was a great way for fans and teams to feel a little more normal in a year where we couldn’t get as much out of it as we all hoped,” said Gaussoin.

Now they are installing thousands of cutouts for the Final Four. There will be real fans there too; The cardboard boxes help maintain social distance and fill the spaces.

DiPietro and Gaussoin recognize the COVID-19 restrictions are easing. This aspect of their business may be coming to an end soon, but it has been a fun run with a very exciting weekend ahead of us.

“It just feels like a really nice bow tie in the end, so it’s all worth it,” said DiPietro.

Now of course it’s too late to try and get a clipping into the Final Four, but they said some people just wanted a clipping of themselves for fun, at home or at the office for Zoom calls, so you still want to Can get one just for yourself on this website: shop.fancutouts.com or see more about their business here: perksocial.com

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