The firm has also offered free video games punctuated with ads to customers in Greece, and free text messages to Czech students who agree to accept ads in the same format.
There is a basic free level with ads where you can share and download limitless songs and playlists.
Though Hiya will launch as a free app without ads, WhitePages plans to monetize it once it has developed a following.
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There are key chains, hotel key cards, bus head rests, free meals, journal ads, promotional talks, and websites.
In the coming weeks, online ad broker Adconion will be delivering video ads to free version of the game in Australia, the Australian reports.
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The aQuantive writedown may presage moves such as giving away display ads for free, according to Gilad de Vries, vice president of brands and agencies at Outbrain, a content recommendation startup.
Attention has swirled around what, at least initially, looks to be a surefire way to pirate Windows Store apps: as a warning to developers, Nokia engineer Justin Angel has detailed how at least some Windows 8 apps can be hacked to avoid paying for full versions or in-app purchases, and even strip out ads in free titles.
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In exchange for the free service, Spiceworks runs ads (mostly from tech companies) alongside the dashboard.
Mikengreg Games now plans to sell banner ads on the free version of "Gasketball, " he added.
The largely ad-supported free service likely will update ads and other graphics elements.
Harding took advantage of the free posters, Facebook ads, badges for social media pages whatever was offered, she took.
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Real-time ads could help free up more of those dollars from TV.
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Keep services free with non-interfering ads.
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Many of the alleged WhatsApp clones are free and generate revenue by showing ads.
Though that seemed counter-intuitive at the time, Google focused on letting people use its search tool without the diversion of ads, and for free.
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Vodafone is also running several pilots, says Richard Saggers, the head of its mobile advertising unit, in which subscribers receive free content in exchange for viewing ads.
Long ago we as consumers agreed to the economics of paying with our time to sift through ads in exchange for free television and radio or for reduced costs for the publications we read.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has said publicly that mobile phones should be free for consumers who agree to watch ads and that mobile ads are worth twice as much as regular Internet ads because they're more highly targeted.
According to senior VP Pat McDonough, that means views over services like Aereo can be counted, since they still contain advertisements, which is what broadcasters rely on the ratings for, unlike ad-free Netflix or Hulu streams with different ads.
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Expecting to make money from ads, Google provides Android for free to gadget makers to install, tinker with and sell on phones.
Okay, so what if it was still free to use, but they showed you ads instead, like Youtube and Facebook do?
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The free version of Angry Birds already supports banner ads.
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He had Donnelley's artists put the findings in a brochure and offered all his directory customers (phone companies and so on) free seminars on how to sell the expensive ads to small businesses.
He had Donnelley artists put the findings in a fancy brochure and offered all his directory customers (phone companies and so on) free seminars on how to sell the expensive ads to small businesses.
And one of the things I find interesting about this is that of course these search engines are free, and they're relying on their ads being attractive to you.
That includes a quick way for consumers to buy a song they hear, potentially boosting download sales from iTunes, as well as a revenue share of new audio ads Apple is planning to add to the free service, according to sources.
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And like all Americans, corporations have the free speech rights and can spend whatever they want on political ads without disclosing who they are or exposing their agendas.
Ninety-nine percent of Google's revenues come from ads, either the ones it puts next to free Internet-based services like search and e-mail, or through syndication on third-party Web pages.
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