Jangl Enables Control and Privacy Over Phone, Text and Talking for
Daters
PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Jangl, Inc., the company connecting
millions of online profiles and mobile phones, safely and privately,
today announced it has teamed with the world's largest free online
dating site, Plentyoffish.com, to let online daters get to know each
other via text messages, phone calls and voicemail -- all without
sharing their real numbers.
In less than 15 months, Jangl® has teamed with
popular social web communities like Facebook, Bebo, Match.com,
Friendster, AdultFriendFinder, Tagged and Fubar to market and provision
applications enabling text messaging, voice and voicemail for the tens
of millions of members of those communities. Through this partnership,
Jangl is delivering all three applications -- text messaging, voice and
voicemails -- to Plentyoffish members, a first in the online dating
sector.
Ranked as the U.S.’ number one dating site by
comScore1, Plentyoffish generates over 600,000
relationships a year in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland
and the United Kingdom. The free site receives an average of 1.3 billion
page views per month, according to founder and CEO Markus Frind, who
still personally runs the website from his apartment.
Plentyoffish is free because -- unlike most other online dating sites --
it is supported entirely by advertising. Likewise, Jangl for
Plentyoffish.com will be free, supported by brief ads that will be
inserted seamlessly alongside calls and messages, and which will still
ensure the privacy of consumers' personal phone numbers, another first
in both online dating and in Jangl’s social
communications market.
“Building popular and engaging services for
the social web is all about harnessing the various ways people
communicate contextually in their communities," said Michael Cerda, CEO
and co-founder of Jangl, Inc. "Jangl has succeeded because we simply
enable people to take their social web relationships with them when they
leave the PC. Regardless of where our customers add Jangl apps online,
they can quickly and easily communicate with their friends, and keep
their online conversations going. Markus absorbed our market findings
and applied it to his community within a matter of minutes.
Plentyoffish.com membership is thriving, no doubt, because he is so in
tune with his customers’ needs.”
"Plentyoffish has grown because it's built for real people," said Markus
Frind, founder and CEO of Plentyoffish. "We're 100 percent free, we
listen to feedback, and we have loyal customers involved daily in making
the site better. We're built for people who simply want to meet someone,
and today that has to include a connection to the mobile device. When
you think about social apps that connect the web and the phone
seamlessly for real people, Jangl is the first name that comes to mind."
Jangl's new advertising plan, validated by consumer testing over the
past several months, opens another lucrative new revenue stream for the
company, as major global brands seek to reach savvy, mobile audiences
via both the mobile device and the PC.
The Jangl and Plentyoffish partnership also represents a major step
forward for the Jangl/JAJAH alliance announced last fall, when Jangl
teamed with the top VoIP platform company to co-develop new services and
team on engineering efforts. With Jangl's Plentyoffish deployment, it
will begin to terminate calls on JAJAH's platform.
About Jangl in Plentyoffish.com
The new Jangl for Plentyoffish members allows people to get private
phone numbers to talk, text, and exchange voicemails with other users,
while protecting both individuals' "real" phone numbers. Like the rest
of the Plentyoffish service, members will receive the full Jangl service
at no cost. Jangl for Plentyoffish.com will be an ad-supported service.
Details of Jangl’s advertising programs for
mobile marketers will be announced soon.
About Plentyoffish.com
Ranked as the U.S.’ number one dating site by
comScore1, Plentyoffish generates over 600,000
relationships a year in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland
and the United Kingdom. The site is free and gets on average 1.3 billion
page views per month. At any given hour, there are 70,000 active
sessions and three million page views. Members of the site pursue
friendships, dating and intimate encounters. Founder and CEO Markus
Frind still runs the website personally from his apartment.
About Jangl
Jangl® is the leader in connecting mobile
devices and online identities for the hundreds of millions who socialize
online and via their mobile device. Through direct and partner
distribution, Jangl is available to over 80 million people with online
profiles, bringing easy and private text messaging, voicemail, and phone
conversations to members of Facebook, Bebo, Plentyoffish.com, Match.com,
Friendster, Tagged, TRUE.com, FriendFinder, Fubar, and many more via
Jangl's free, ad-supported service at Jangl.com. In 2007, Jangl and
telephony platform leader JAJAH entered into a strategic partnership to
collaborate on new services and business projects in the future. Jangl's
investors include Cardinal Venture Capital, Labrador Ventures and Storm
Ventures, which together have invested $9 million. Jangl is
headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif., and is available on the web at http://www.jangl.com.
Jangl is a registered trademark of Jangl, Inc. JanglMe is a trademark
of Jangl, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their
respective owners.
1 December 2007, comScore Media Metrix
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