Ad supported free cell phone service
This post was published 3 years 6 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Google’s Chief Exec. Eric Schmidt thinks mobile users are the next untapped market for targeted ads. The incentive for viewing ads served by the Internet giant? Free mobile phone service. So says a recent article by CNN Money.
Web search leader Google Inc.’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, sees a future where mobile phones are free to consumers who accept watching targeted forms of advertising. Schmidt said Saturday that as mobile phones become more like handheld computers and consumers spend as much as eight to 10 hours a day talking, texting and using the Web on these devices, advertising becomes a viable form of subsidy.
It was only a matter of time right? Only a matter of time before Google reached its hands into your pockets serving up targeted contextual ads based on your mobile habits. How many readers would actually consider trading their eyes for free service supported by Google?
I would, I’m a corporate whore
And how!
I am interested. I don’t mind the ads. I want free cellphone service.
Come on google gods I want some free stuff!
What’s next, ads in video games or dvds (besides previews)?
it all depends on execution, if it becomes an overwhelming annoyance then f it, but if its simple and unobtrusive, ill take it! free cell phones for all…oh god then everyone will have them glued to their ears 24/7….
Oh, it will be an annoyance in the end. Ads always are.
Interesting what they mean by mobil habits, if the same logic was applied to this as gmail, then would they be filtering your conversations for keywords for advertising?
PVL, ads are already in video games, http://www.gamespot.com/news/6153256.html http://www.gamespot.com/news/6147654.html http://www.gamespot.com/news/6145613.html
Bogus. So now we pay $50-60 for a game supported by ads? Cool.
When do they start giving away homes with free ads on HD TVs splattered in every room so I can sit on the can and watch some commercials??
How about free food with stickers of commercials all over it?? Now I’m hungry…