Flirtomatic Social Mobile Service Launches in U.S.
First Major U.S. Partnership Brings Successful Freemium Business
Model and Fun to Carrier?s Customers
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flirtomatic, Inc. (www.flirtomatic.com),
one of the most popular social mobile services used by young adults,
today announced an agreement with MetroPCS Wireless, Inc., a subsidiary
of MetroPCS Communications, Inc., the nation's leading provider of
unlimited, flat-rate, no signed contract wireless communications
service, under which Flirtomatic has been selected as a preferred mobile
social networking service. The service is accessible via the MetroPCS
Mobile Web Portal.
With over 1.5 million registered users, Flirtomatic is a market leader
with its service available in the U.K., Germany and Australia.
Flirtomatic?s free service will now also be available to all MetroPCS
customers to meet, flirt, and have fun online. Flirtomatic is free to
use and customers use it by purchasing FlirtPoints and spending them by
promoting themselves, finding out who has rated them, and by sending
virtual gifts (over 4 million were sent last year). Currently,
Flirtomatic?s mobile users log in around seven times and send over 30
messages each day, resulting in over 30 million messages each month and
over 160m WAP page views.
?We?re delighted to be working with MetroPCS as our first major partner
in the United States,? said Gary Cohen, Flirtomatic?s vice president &
general manager of North America. ?Flirtomatic has demonstrated in other
countries that our model is very popular and we are excited to launch
with the nation?s leading provider of unlimited, flat-rate, no-contract
service. We have seen that as U.S. consumers get to know our service
they adopt, use and spend Flirt Points even more than in other parts of
the world.?
Metro PCS users who primarily enjoy 3G service will be able to utilize
the Flirtomatic WAP delivery platform across all their handsets. Web
access is also offered as an alternative way to flirt at any time and
from anywhere.
About Flirtomatic, Inc.
Flirtomatic (www.flirtomatic.com)
is one of the most popular social mobile services used by 18?30 year
olds. Flirtomatic operates a free service across the US, UK, Germany and
Australia, where over 1.5m registered users meet, flirt, and have fun
online.
Flirtomatic has distribution partnerships with Vodafone , T-Mobile,
Orange, ninemsn, ProSiebenSat1, and Samsung. Flirtomatic?s advertising
partners include: O2, Nokia, and L?Oreal. Founded in 2005, Flirtomatic
is a venture-backed company that has raised over $10m, and is founded by
Mark Curtis, previously the founder of Razorfish London and Fjord, and
Avi Azulai, previously founder and Group Managing Director of ITouch.
Flirtomatic can be found online at: www.flirtomatic.com;
on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/flirtomatic.
Consort Partners for Flirtomatic
David Oro, 1-415-885-9898
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