News Tom on 17 Nov 2008 05:25 pm
fringing ad trials
Hey guys
fring now has millions of fringsters covering the globe and as we grow up we want to make sure that fring remains free to download, free to use for all of our fringsters forever!
So, in line with our biz strategy, we’re about to trial the new fring ads program.
We wanted to give you the heads-up, as you may soon see small clickable advertising banners in the fring chat window, beneath the chat itself. Clicking the ad will open your browser and take you to the advertiser’s site; you may even find extra special offers, cool promos & other nice surprises behind the click from time to time 
And, more clicks mean happy advertisers; and happy advertisers mean more resources for us to develop cool new stuff for you to play with in fring!
We’re starting the ad trials with just a small number of randomly selected fringsters each day and we’ve worked hard to make sure that your fringing experience isn’t affected in any way, but as always, we’re really keen to hear your feedback.
The fring team
on 17 Nov 2008 at 6:51 pm 1.Fring starts serving ads slowly » Unwired View said …
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on 17 Nov 2008 at 7:29 pm 2.serrebi said …
love fring, whatever you have to do to keep it free and functional is fine with me.
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on 17 Nov 2008 at 10:16 pm 3.Jelle said …
Why not only text like Meebo? That’s way less annoying in my perception and also I will read them ;p
For banners I have trained myself to not view them. You cannot change that just because you made the best chat download app for the iPhone. If you really want a high click rate and so a ‘biz’ model, just make them relevant and not that annoying.
Good luck with the ads!
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on 17 Nov 2008 at 11:59 pm 4.Fring Trials Ads On Free Mobile Chat/VoIP Application said …
[...] the Fring blog: We wanted to give you the heads-up, as you may soon see small clickable advertising banners in the [...]
on 18 Nov 2008 at 1:27 am 5.Sonny said …
Sooner or later Fring will loose user once this biz strategy comes online …
Just guessing ’cause I know how people hate the ad
Don’t be sad to my comments!
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on 18 Nov 2008 at 3:15 am 6.Fring to display Ads; will remain free | OnlyGizmos said …
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on 18 Nov 2008 at 3:30 am 7.fring to Go Ad Supported | Mobile VoIP Service Reviews said …
[...] to Go Ad Supported Earlier today, fring, the mobile VoIP service and community provider, announced that they would soon be introducing advertisements into the fring [...]
on 18 Nov 2008 at 10:59 am 8.Fring Introduces Advertising | LucaFiligheddu.com said …
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on 18 Nov 2008 at 12:36 pm 9.Fring mit Werbung « S60inside said …
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on 18 Nov 2008 at 1:31 pm 10.Mike said …
How much bandwidth will the advertising use? Which pages will the advertising be displayed on?
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on 18 Nov 2008 at 3:27 pm 11.buzzer said …
fring has ads, Nimbuzz does not, and has better sound quality.
Tough choice…
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on 18 Nov 2008 at 9:51 pm 12.Ajay said …
Can we also have banner free version where we can donate via paypal ?
i have no problem paying a bit for the app its great.
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Jonathan Reply:
February 10th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
I agree, would pay up to max 20 euro to have an ad free version.
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on 19 Nov 2008 at 1:50 am 13.Fring testing out Ads on it’s app | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News said …
[...] The banner-ads though will be rolled out with a small selected number of users; as the Fring blog reads: We wanted to give you the heads-up, as you may soon see small clickable advertising banners [...]
on 19 Nov 2008 at 5:27 am 14.Fring ha aggiunto i banner pubblicitari : Spaziocellulare News Magazine said …
[...] Cliccando su questi si aprirà il web browser alla pagina del prodotto pubblicizzato. Comunque, nella fase iniziale di testing, i banner compariranno solo nelle schermate di alcuni utenti scelti a caso ogni giorno. Probabilmente diventeranno parte del programma solo a partire dal 2009. La scelta di inserire i banner pubblicitari è comprensibile se pensiamo che l’obiettivo primario dell’azienda è far rimanere il software e i servizi offerti per sempre gratuiti. E l’unico modo per far sì che ciò accada è aggiungere la pubblicità sperando che non sia troppo invadente. (fonte: FringBlog) [...]
on 19 Nov 2008 at 8:39 am 15.Grant said …
Hi there.
I appreciate the need for an ad-supported model for many users, but I’d prefer to pay a small premium on calls or a monthly fee to have an ad free version that I can use to make Skype calls for my business.
Please consider alternative models (i.e. ad-free models) as well (if you’re not already)…
Regards, Grant
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on 24 Nov 2008 at 11:27 pm 16.erhan said …
I LOVE YOU FRING YOU ARE THE BEST
))
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on 28 Nov 2008 at 6:26 am 17.Fring añade publicidad en su cliente VoIP | Voz sobre IP Voip said …
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on 04 Dec 2008 at 11:19 pm 18.Yo Fring said …
Hey Fring,
i think it would be a good idea to offer a free and a paid version. With the paid version you get some extra stuff compared to the free as well as no ads.
Think about it.
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on 11 Dec 2008 at 4:57 pm 19.fring » Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2008 said …
[...] most of you know fring recently started trialing adverts on our platform and it’s great to know that out of the 108 companies that participated, fring [...]
on 21 Jan 2010 at 6:48 pm 20.fring to Go Ad Supported said …
[...] today, fring, the mobile VoIP service and community provider, announced that they would soon be introducing advertisements into the fring [...]
on 28 Jan 2010 at 5:33 pm 21.Bryan Johnson said …
I’ve always loved the low data usage of FRING for messenging.
How much more data usage will these adds require?
Why not text versus images?
Maybe it would be better to have a one time fee that we pay for the FRING app to be on a phone like other apps. If we change our phone then we would have to pay again.
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on 04 Feb 2010 at 10:38 am 22.ir0nic said …
Love Fring, hate adverts, Annoying. Free version with. Paid version without. Thanks! I really think it’s a magnificant app, but currently looking at an as for Marriage and God. mmm. Really, take my money and drop the preaching!
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on 14 Feb 2010 at 10:09 am 23.Sophiesticada said …
I don’t like the little advertisement. I love fring. how can i revert back to the fring version that does not have the adverts?
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on 16 Feb 2010 at 7:56 am 24.Piso said …
I don’t like the advertisement. Please remove it
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on 17 Feb 2010 at 1:43 am 25.dzson said …
I’m willing to pay 5$/year tops to remove ads from my fring app. very annoying
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on 26 Feb 2010 at 10:44 pm 26.Ofir said …
The ad interrupts with reading the chat.
Not fun
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on 17 Mar 2010 at 1:06 am 27.unhappy said …
Great! One of the reasons im no longer using fring. it covers the most recent message… Or at least it does on my n97…..
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on 28 Apr 2010 at 10:49 pm 28.Wozza said …
I really like fring, I have been spreading the word and now have lots of my friends and family using fring. the ads banner really pisses me off and distracts frings clean look. I would prefer to pay for an ad free version.
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on 05 May 2010 at 4:55 pm 29.Peter from Denmark said …
It realy pissea me off, to have to be disturbed by connercials. Just offer a version that cost like 20$ and i will get it for life. But like this i will realr reconsider to get rid if it again. I HATE COMMERCIALS. AND I WONT TELL ANY OF MY FRIENDS ABOUT IT ANYMORE. ITS REALY TOO MUCH, SORRY. We have discossed it, and we agree that there should be a piaed version with more feturea and NO commercials.
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on 05 May 2010 at 5:05 pm 30.Peter from Denmark said …
By the way, super thanks for a nice product
Just get tottally rid of the commercial NOT good
Make a software payed full updates lifetime version.
Kind regards,
A couple using it between Denmark and Philippines with amasing video on Nokia N97
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on 08 May 2010 at 11:56 am 31.mens fashion said …
Have greatly appreciate your products. I might be only willing to pay $15/year for ads free app.
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on 23 May 2010 at 1:48 pm 32.vit said …
the ad covers the chat message and makws it unreadable. Also the bandwidth is used. I think a paid version of fring should be an alternative.
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on 26 May 2010 at 11:36 am 33.Pasi said …
Any alternatives to fring, this ads thing really kills the thing…?
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on 27 May 2010 at 10:48 am 34.Dzl said …
On the (by current smartphone standard) small screen of my Nokia N95 the add takes up a quite significant portion of the screen. The ad doesn’t go away as the chat fills up either.
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on 28 May 2010 at 5:10 pm 35.jremy said …
I really think that fring should seriously consider a paid version. The ads is really blocking my text box view! I don’t mind paying for it!
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on 06 Jun 2010 at 2:22 pm 36.loveFringHateAds said …
Used to love fring, but unfortuneatly the ads now make it impossible to use for chat. I’d love to use it again if you remove the ads (or perhaps if you made them a once-per-chat thing or less annoying in some other way. With the current setup they are just TOO annoying!)
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on 18 Jun 2010 at 9:08 am 37.fringster ringster said …
Sometimes when the ad cannot load (for whatever reason – maybe unable to connect to the ad server), fring hangs and then restarts. Sometimes it restarts my phone (Nokia E71)!!
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on 18 Jun 2010 at 12:59 pm 38.Chetan said …
i am on a limited 3g connection…the fring ads eat up a lot of bandwidth…pls stop the ads.
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on 20 Jun 2010 at 9:32 am 39.Patrick said …
Please consider an ad-less / paid version for those of us that can’t stand / never click on ads anyway so we can enjoy our IM client / still contribute.
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on 30 Jun 2010 at 10:26 pm 40.Joe said …
Dear Fring, consider that most of the users using your great product are not on unlimited 3G contracts – therefor paying for each ad displayed – which is annoying.
Even more annoying is the fact the ads take so much space, that i.e. on HTC Hero landscape chat is almost unusable …
Seems it’s time to google for alternatives
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on 14 Jul 2010 at 5:33 pm 41.Harry said …
The ad is really annoying. Anyone knows alternative to Fring? Please let us know…
sorry Fring, for the adware… no one likes it…
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