The idea is very simple. One million t-shirts are being given away for free. Every single one will be covered with advertising spaces available to companies at a price. Enter your name and address on this site and we will post you a free t-shirt as soon as all the spaces have been sold!

We are 22 year old (very un-identical) twin brothers by the names of Joe and Simon Haines, and live in Hampshire in the not so sunny south of England.

Very colorful. Very loud. Very unique. Of course, we will only know what the t-shirt looks like when all the advertising spaces have been reserved. Imagine all the colors under the sun. Logos covering the front, the back, the sleeves… well, all of it really.

We like to think so! It would seem fair to say that a million t-shirts being given away for free would turn a few eyes and raise a few eyebrows. A free giveaway of this sort has never before been seen by consumers anywhere in the world.

Once people have heard about it, it seems a given that if you don’t already have a t-shirt, you’ll at the very least want to have a look at one out of pure curiosity.

Yes - the chance to win $100,000 and change your life. By signing up to get a free t-shirt, at no cost whatsoever of course, you are automatically entered into the prize draw. One lucky person will not only get a free t-shirt delivered to their house, at absolutely no cost, but will receive $100,000.

The name of the winner will be published on the website.

If all of the spaces are sold, $1,000,000 will indeed be donated to charity. The charity to benefit will be decided by a vote available to anyone who signs up to get a free t-shirt. We have chosen five well known charities that serve worthwhile causes – the position of the vote can be viewed on the home page.

And why? Not that we feel we need an excuse, but this is the perfect opportunity to help those less fortunate than ourselves.

Mostly for fun, but we do believe this promotion would benefit all parties involved! Anyone lucky enough to reserve a free t-shirt would receive just that. A large amount of money would be donated to a worthwhile charitable organisation. Companies advertising on the t-shirt would benefit from a unique advertising medium that would inevitably become a piece of advertising history, and of course, we would make a profit. As this website might suggest, we are ambitious at the worst of times, and would use any profit to pay university fees and start a business. The sky is the limit!

Absolutely nothing! There are no hidden costs here at onemillionfreetshirts.com!

As fast as we can do it once all of the spaces have been bought! We don’t want you to wait any longer than is necessary.

There isn’t one. To view the full terms and conditions please follow the link at the bottom of the page.

In a ‘one size fits all’ design. This will be about the same size as a standard US Medium fit t-shirt. We are very sorry if this doesn’t fit you comfortably.

It is white.

To find out more on this subject, please click on the question mark located in the top right corner of the t-shirts window on the home page.

No. The production of the t-shirts would be commissioned to an ethical company who provide a guarantee of acceptable working conditions for their staff.

No. The t-shirt is an advertising platform as supplied by us to anybody that wishes to participate.

No. Any application for advertising spaces deemed inappropriate will be rejected, for example, images of an offensive or derogatory nature. This is to keep the t-shirt "clean" and suitable for all to wear and admire. There will be no tobacco advertising on the t-shirt.

This means that the space has been reserved, but the buyer is yet to upload an image or we are still in the process of adding the image to the website.

Yes! But don't forget this will only happen if all of the advertising spaces on the t-shirt have been sold.

T-shirt reservation is being staggered so that as many people as possible can hear about the offer and have a chance to get their own free t-shirt. This will give more people an equal chance of getting a t-shirt. So if you haven’t been lucky yet, keep visiting the website and hopefully you will be soon!

T-shirts are only available to residents of mainland USA. This does not include Alaska or Hawaii. Sorry!

No worries. Drop us an email using the contact us page.

The advertising benefits of having your logo or brand on a million t-shirts and this website is impossible to measure, but the amount of consumers that would be exposed to your logo on this website alone would have climbed to more than a million even before all the free t-shirts have been reserved. While the advertising benefits of buying a space speak for themselves, it is also a risk free venture – if it doesn’t work it will have cost you nothing, and you will have benefitted from free click traffic.

A t-shirt in this context will make a very good advertising platform. It is a t-shirt unlike any other in that it is defined by the history of how it came to existence, and the many different advertisements that make up the design. It is different and it is unique. It would be talked about in the press, in fashion, in advertising circles, in schools, in the local bar, on the internet, in... You get the idea. It wouldn’t be a case of who is wearing one, but who isn’t!

There are 500 spaces.

3 cents a t-shirt. That’s $30,000 for your image on a million t-shirts, and cheaper than the cost of a postcard per t-shirt. When you consider that a two page spread in a popular American daily newspaper could cost as much as $450,000 plus advertising agency fees, this offer really is a bargain.

No less than 288 by 480 pixels. Higher resolutions are fine as long as they are to the same proportions (5:3). If you purchase more than one space then you may fill in the white border between your spaces. This border is 8 pixels in size (be it in height or width). The approximate size of each space on the t-shirt is 50mm by 30mm. There will be an approximate 1mm border surrounding every space to ensure a clear distinction between images next to each other. Preferred image formats are png’s and gif’s, but please don’t send animated gifs - they would never work on the t-shirt, and would make the t-shirt on the homepage very hard to focus on! The t-shirt itself is displayed on the homepage using a number of tiles (images in png format). Please get in touch if you need any help producing your logo - we will be happy to help.

Unfortunately due to the shape of a t-shirt some of the spaces on the sleeves and around the collar are inevitably not the same shape and size as the spaces on the main body of the t-shirt. By way of compensation for this these are virtually all bigger than a normal sized space, while the price is the same. Some of these would be exceptionally good spaces for an advertisement; for example the spaces immediately underneath the collar front and back. If you would like any of these spaces you can purchase them and we can either send you a template, or you can send us an image and we can adapt it to the space and send back a suggestion for your assessment. One way to utilize a space of an irregular shape would be to have a logo in the middle of it and fill the rest of the space with a background color symbolic of your brand. Don’t forget, it is always possible to submit an image that doesn’t fill the whole of a space and leave what remains unprinted and the same color as the t-shirt underneath, which is white.

Yes. Extensive quality checking will be performed before the t-shirts are mass produced. This is to ensure that none of the advertising images are distorted or illegible when printed. It is our intention to create this eye catching t-shirt using the best printing and manufacturing techniques available.

Definitely. We advise that you should supply an image that is not too detailed with small bodies of text or thin lines. All images will be assessed and if we feel that the image would not print well we will advise you accordingly and work to find a solution. As for the image on the website, this is not a problem; users can zoom in on the homepage to view your image in full detail. Don't forget, the t-shirt you see on the home page is tiny compared to the real deal.

Yes, but no more than nine, or parts of the t-shirt may start looking a bit too similar.

Yes, of course. Depending on the spaces you choose, you could have whatever shape you fancied. For example, a 2 x 2 square, or even an L-shape. The border in between your spaces can be filled in at your request – to find out how this would affect the resolution and dimensions of your image please use the “Contact Us” link at the bottom of the page, stating you’re desired shape of image and the amount of advertising spaces it would use.

As soon as it has been approved. The image must be checked for compatibility reasons. Please bear with us – we will do this as fast as possible.

No. This is free of charge.

If you are interested in advertising on the t-shirt please fill in your details by choosing your desired space(s) on the home page and we will contact you accordingly to arrange payment.

To ensure a genuine interest a 10% deposit is required ($3000 per space). If you choose to cancel the agreement this deposit is non-refundable, and would act as payment for any click traffic you may have benefitted from through this website. If we cancel the agreement you will receive a full refund, whether or not you have received any click traffic. You will be billed for the remaining $27,000 per space when all of the spaces on the t-shirt have been bought.

Yes, although it should be noted that you would lose your deposit. More detail on this can be found in the Terms & Conditions.

Yes. To create a t-shirt that can be worn and appreciated by all people, images of an offensive or derogatory nature will not be approved. If your image were rejected on these grounds, we are happy to accept revisions and discuss what is deemed appropriate. Tobacco advertising will not be accepted for the free t-shirt.

A minimum of 10 years, but hopefully forever. This provides the benefit of prolonged click traffic for free, even once the t-shirts have been given away.

As a thank you for supporting our website we will send up to 250 courtesy t-shirts per advertising space bought to a delivery destination of your choice on success of the promotion.