Comments on: Jangl Turns On Audio Ads

By: TechPavan

TechPavan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:29:11 +0000

Will this Jangl work for India?

By: Adolf bin Streisand

Adolf bin Streisand — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:13:33 +0000

Same question i ask everytime a post like this is made:

1) How many calls are you processing a day?

And none of the Js have ever answered the question.

Why is this relevant? Because they’re consuming telephony/bandwidth, and are paying someone for transport. There’s NO getting around that.

The ad supported model is valid, but one must have millions of calls DAILY before its possible to be interesting to advertisers.

By: Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:19:05 +0000

I find audio ads too annoying to have my time wasted on

By: tom

tom — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:43:07 +0000

this is the first tyoe of ‘ad’ based calling that i would consider using. but i would actually prefer if it worked more like a calling card. i would call, listen to an ad, and than get a dial tone. if companies like brring that have people calling me listen to ads think i would use there service they are absolutely crazy; and i would likely break off any friend ship with someone who gave me a brring number to call them. i also would never use a service like globe7 that does not present ads but rather collect information through surveys, etc. in exchange for call credit.

i am pretty sure advertisers are not interested in me. but the absolute only chance they have of getting me as a ‘customer’ is if the ads target me(not those calling me) and are ads in the traditional sense not ‘data mining’ operations.

By: Are You Listening?

Are You Listening? — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:57:07 +0000

All the “watch/listen to ads in return for X” stuff is dumb. As an advertiser, do you really want to advertise to someone who won’t pay for:

a) Software – there’s some lame VC funded startup that you featured before that lets you download things from Download.com for free if you do a credit check from Experian or something

b) International calling – well what will you buy then? Food? You probably don’t pay attention to ads anyway if you use Jangl.

Moreover, once the ads become intrusive, someone else with a ton of VC money comes along and does it for free and you’re f-ed.

Good work Jangl. Please blow some more VC money.

By: LocalHand

LocalHand — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:37:12 +0000

Blyk in the UK makes a much better job by giving away free voice minutes and SMS in return of customers opting-in to receive SMS/MMS ads.

They started in Sept 07 and they already have about 30,000 customers.

By: LocalHand

LocalHand — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:33:04 +0000

The market for audio ads prior or during calls is limited since it is too intrusive.

There are better mobile advertising-supported models out there.