Every day – usually several times a day – someone asks us “Is Phonezoo really free?” And every day we cheerfully answer – “Yes! Phonezoo does not charge you to create, store or share a ringtone. There are no subscriptions, no monthly fees. We make our money from advertising…” I guess a lot of people have been burned by signing up for one of those services that ends up adding $9.99 or whatever to your phone bill. But we aren’t like that. We don’t charge you anything.
But we do need to pay the bills. Running a ringtone service isn’t exactly cheap – we need to pay for servers, for bandwidth, rent, pay our engineers, buy free drinks for our cooler, etc. So in order to move ever closer to break-even on our little enterprise, we are introducing additional types of advertising. You already see one rectangular ad on most pages of the site. Today we are placing a second ad at the bottom of several pages on our site. We hope that at least once in a while, you are interested in the products and services offered by our sponsors.
The next thing that you will notice is that there is an ad on the page on your phone where you download the ringtone (unless you are a Verizon user – you never see this web page). This is a fairly new type of ad called a WAP ad. These ads usually take you from one web page on your mobile phone (in this case, ours) to another. And believe it or not, many companies are willing to pay for the privilege of reaching you, the Phonezoo user. So we thought we’d try this out.
We hope you understand the reason we are doing this. And as always, we welcome your feedback. So please drop us a line and let us know what you think.
