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Articles tagged with: American Idol
AT&T: Overeager employees helped 'Idol' fans text
A few overeager AT&T employees brought demo phones to "American Idol" viewing parties in Arkansas and helped fans text their votes, but their actions did not affect the outcome between native son Kris Allen and Adam Lambert, the company said Wednesday. more
Alicia Keys asks 'Idol fans' to text for charity
Alicia Keys wants $5 from every "American Idol" fan. The Grammy-winning singer appeared on the hit Fox show Wednesday to urge viewers to support the Text ALIVE Challenge, which aims to bring medicine and medical care to children and families with HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. more
Virgin Mobile's Top Ringtones for Valentines Day
While more than 220 million wireless Ringtones and Ringback Tones are sold annually each year, they take on special significance when February 14 rolls around. To find out how Americans use their cell phones to show their feelings about torrid love...or downright disgust, no annual contract wireless provider Virgin Mobile USA conducted a survey of Americans ages 18-49, asking them to rate their top Ringtones and Ringback Tones for the current or "ex" loves of their lives. more
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Nielsen to Measure the Mobile Media Consumer
The Nielsen Company has announced that it will begin measuring mobile phone users through a new service called Nielsen Wireless. This service will measure how many people use content services such as mobile Internet and mobile video and what impact this has on established media behavior. more
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Reality TV Driving Premium SMS Revenues
Telephia has published a report which says that USA premium SMS revenues totaled more than US$273 million, making up 32 percent of mobile content revenue in Q1 2007. Download purchases paid for via premium SMS (at off-portal storefronts) totaled nearly US$215 million, accounting for 79 percent of premium SMS revenue. These off-portal storefront purchases include content such as ringtones and horoscopes. more
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Premium rate SMS for the Americas
The global access and billing services provider, One World Interactive, in a joint initiative with US Cellnet, has announced that it is to launch non-adult SMS Premium Rate Services in the USA. The Premium Rate Short Messaging Service has become a favourite platform for voting, for competitions, and for direct marketing initiatives. more
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SMS finally taking off in the USA
US wireless SMS and Instant Messaging (IM) markets will grow to 75 million and 63 million subscribers respectively in 2007, according to new forecasts from IDC. By the end of 2007, IDC expects annual subscriber revenue from SMS and IM to grow to approximately US$1.9 billion for each service. Driving these markets will be an embrace of wireless IM in the business market as an inexpensive, easy-to-deploy text messaging solution and widespread adoption of SMS among consumers as a form of entertainment. more
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2.5 million text messages sent to TV show
The first major wireless interactive TV tie-in ever seen in the USA has hit its first major milestone and is the biggest success story in U.S. text messaging history. On Tuesday evening, April 8, 2003, the hit series "American Idol," in which one contestant is voted off each week by viewers at home, received more than 2.5 million text messages, including polls, sweepstake entries, trivia and votes. In addition, Mobliss received the one-millionth vote via text messaging. The vote came from the Pittsburgh area. more
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