Benton Crane

What a novel idea! Reward people for listening to, or viewing an ad. Read Marketing Vox’s quick report: e-Rewards to Offer Airline Miles for Watching Ads. 1-800-411-METRO rewards you with a free directory service call after listening to a short ad. Google rewards us with a host of awesome services for occasionally reading and clicking their text ads. I can’t wait until this paradigm reaches other industries…say cable television and mobile phones.

Is there any chance of seeing free ad-based phone or cable service in the near future?

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I currently pay $0.10/text and absolutely hate receiving a text message ad. I have considered purchasing the text messaging add-on for my plan, but I just don’t text enough to justify $10 per month.

I use ad based email, photo sharing, and many other services. I even use 1-800-411-METRO which is a free ad based telephone directory. Why don’t we have anything like this for text messaging? I wouldn’t mind filtering through a few ads if I didn’t have to pay for them or any of my other texts.

Is there anything like this in the near future?

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