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talkingmobile.com - 11/17/2008

Fring: Ads Are Coming!

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Fring has announced that an ad trial is now running on some of the users around the world. Fring, a free IM and VOIP client, did not seem to clock-in much revenues, although the application is very popular. The ads are banners at the end of the chat window as show in the picture: The ...

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Fring Trials Ads On Free Mobile Chat/VoIP Application
TechCrunch — ... was made publicly available in January 2007, and is now being used by millions of users across the globe. With (at least) $10 million in venture funding, the company was bound to come up with a monetization effort for all those users soon. Unlike competitors such as Jajah and Truphone, Fring is committed to keeping the costs of calling over VoIP as low as possible and will try to make up for that revenue by slapping ads on chat screens. (Thanks to Harel Schattenstein for the tip) Crunch Network: ...

Fring launches new mobile marketing campaign
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... Clicking the ad will open your browser and take you to the advertiser’s site; you may even find extra special offers, cool promos & other nice surprises behind the click from time to time And, more clicks mean happy advertisers; and happy advertisers mean more resources for us to develop cool new stuff for you to play with in fring! So, if you happen to see a new mobile advertisement in your Fring client, you might want to go ahead and give it a click. [Via: TalkingMobile] Related News from IntoMobile: Fring for UIQ ...