Virgin Mobile USA offers free minutes in exchange for ads

By at 10:23 am Thursday, Jun 1

Virgin Mobile US will give you up to 75 free minutes a month if you're willing to watch video commercials on your phones be quizzed on the ads to confirm that you paid attention to them:
The program, called SugarMama, lets people earn one minute of talking time by watching 30-second commercials on a computer or receiving text messages on their phones, then answering questions to prove they were, in fact, paying attention.

Virgin Mobile, a relatively small cellphone carrier with four million mostly young customers, is aiming the program at teenagers, who can earn up to 75 minutes of free talk time a month.

Link (via SciFi Tech)

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