#1 way for advertisers to reach teens and young adults sets record with over a million mobile user questions on Sunday
INDIANAPOLIS (February 8, 2010) ChaCha, the service that allows users to go online, call or text questions on mobile phones and receive free answers within minutes, says that a poll of its users, primarily teens [...]
Becomes #1 way for advertisers to reach teens and young adults on their mobile phones
INDIANAPOLIS (January 4, 2010) On December 22, ChaCha closed a $7 million E round of funding. ChaCha, the answers service, allows users to go online, call or text questions on mobile phones and receive answers within minutes for free by texting [...]
ChaCha’s “answers” website zooms past NFL.com, Time.com,
Ticketmaster.com and FoxSports.com
INDIANAPOLIS (November 16, 2009) According to Quantcast data, ChaCha.com has been the fastest-growing website in the past six months, climbing over 900 spots into the Top 100 US websites. ChaCha now has more than 12 million monthly unique visitors getting answers via texting 242-242, calling 800-224-2242, or [...]
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Unique Text-based Mobile Campaign to Build Audience Among Teen Viewers
INDIANAPOLIS (October 27, 2009) On October 24th ChaCha, the mobile service that allows users to call or text questions on mobile phones to ChaCha and receive answers within minutes for free, will launch a six day campaign to promote the upcoming special Halloween episode of The [...]
ChaChaCoupons.com rolls out to over 225,000 monthly ChaCha users
in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (October 5, 2009) ChaCha, the mobile answers service that allows users to call or text questions on mobile phones and receive answers within minutes for free, today launched a new retail coupon service for Indiana. ChaChaCoupons.com allows consumers to instantly access special offers both online [...]
NEW YORK (July 28, 2009) A mobile campaign from ChaCha, an ad-supported, conversational Q&A service for mobile phone users, dramatically increased awareness of Paramount Pictures’ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in the week before its premiere. Measurement of the effectiveness of the campaign showed that the ChaCha ad was able to increase the [...]
ChaCha’s Service Delivers Better Answers More Often, According to a New Report from MSearchGroove
LONDON – July 16, 2009 – Pump Up The Volume: An Assessment of Voice-Enabled Web Search on the iPhone, a performance analysis of voice-enabled mobile search services published today by MSearchGroove, found that ChaCha, the fastest growing SMS mobile search [...]
Video contest encourages fans to show how they use ChaCha for the chance to win $5,000 in cash, a video-editing suite and HD camcorder
New York – July1, 2009 – Turning to its users to capture their “Life with ChaCha,” the leading mobile service today announced a create-your-own-commercial contest. The contest calls on fans of ChaCha [...]
Like Facebook and Twitter, ChaCha Draws Millions of Monthly Unique Users to Its Conversational SMS Platform and Q&A Site
ChaCha ranked among the top 10 short message services with the most traffic — including Facebook, Twitter and American Idol — according to the newly released Q1 Mobile Messaging Report from The Nielsen Company. Providing answers for [...]
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Additional operational efficiencies and cost-saving measures position company for long-term success
INDIANAPOLIS - March 17, 2009 - The fastest growing SMS mobile search service, with 70% of Google’s SMS search volume, today announced that it has closed an equity financing round of $12 million. These investments will provide ChaCha with the additional capital it needs to [...]
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Sports fans get in the game with simpler and easier sports scores
INDIANAPOLIS, Mar 12, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Expanding its free mobile answers service, ChaCha is rolling out major enhancements to access live sports scores just in time for March Madness. ChaCha is introducing ThmbSavrs(TM) abbreviations that enable fans to send shortcut texts to [...]
INDIANAPOLIS – February 25, 2009 – In a head-to-head comparison between ChaCha and Google SMS, ChaCha achieved 70 percent of Google’s SMS search volume in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to data from the Q4 Mobile Messaging Report from The Nielsen Company. Of all SMS traffic measured in Nielsen’s report, which is comprised of [...]
Free Online Tax Prep Is Gaining Attention with New Audiences through ChaCha’s Innovative Ad Solutions
INDIANAPOLIS - February 17, 2009 - ChaCha, the fastest growing SMS mobile search service in the industry, today announced the launch of a new SMS mobile advertising campaign for H&R Block. As the world’s preeminent tax services provider, H&R Block understands [...]
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INDIANAPOLIS - January 9, 2009 - ChaCha, the fastest growing SMS mobile search service in the industry, was recently honored as the runner up in the Best Mobile Startup category at the second annual Crunchies Awards Ceremony held this evening in San Francisco. The Crunchies, co-sponsored by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider and TechCrunch, recognize [...]
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INDIANAPOLIS – December 10, 2008 – For the second consecutive quarter, ChaCha announced that among pure-play SMS search providers ChaCha, Google SMS and Yahoo! SMS, ChaCha is the fastest growing service, capturing more than 28 percent of standard rate SMS search transactions between these providers in the third quarter (according to the Q3 Mobile Messaging [...]
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DALLAS, Dec. 3, 2008 - AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced a strategic relationship between AT&T and ChaCha, one of the fastest growing text messaging mobile search services in the industry. As part of the agreement, ChaCha will use a co-branded greeting and promote AT&T when consumers call 1-800 2ChaCha (1-800-2-242242).
The two companies also will work [...]
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Radically simple and effective SMS-based solution
targets 18-34 year olds via text messaging on mobile devices
INDIANAPOLIS - November 4, 2008 - Elevating the ability for marketers to establish intimate relationships between brands and consumers, ChaCha today announced its game-changing Rich SMS AdvertisingTM solution. Through initial campaigns with Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and others, ChaCha delivers response rates of [...]
Rock the Vote turns to ChaCha’s human-powered mobile answers service to engage young voters in the month leading to the historical 2008 presidential election
INDIANAPOLIS - October 15, 2008 - With less than a month until one of the most closely-watched presidential elections in history, today ChaCha announced Rock the Vote will leverage its market-leading mobile [...]
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- Leader in SMS Mobile Search Growth Hailed by Leading Wireless Industry Authority -
Indianapolis, IN – October 1, 2008. Adding to its impressive list of recognitions this year, ChaCha was honored yesterday by Penton Media’s Telephony® Magazine as the Most Innovative Mobile Service for 2008. The Telephony® Innovation Awards recognize service providers who have developed [...]
The human-powered mobile answers service quickly captured
seven percent of the mobile text search market with a quarterly growth rate of more than 800 percent
INDIANAPOLIS - September 17, 2008 - Accepting the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation, ChaCha announced that it now has more than a million users and has answered [...]
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