Pudding Media named Dow Jones Top-10 Wireless Start-Upgrades Company

April 25th, 2008 Ten companies were given top marks by attendees and expert panelists at Dow Jones' Wireless Innovations conference this week. The conference, held in Redwood City, Calif., featured two days of panel presentations and keynotes by venture capital professionals and company executives, and breakout sessions in which 80 start-up companies selected by VentureWire editors presented their business plans.More

Pudding Media named Red Herring Top 100 Europe 2008 Company

April 15th, 2008 Red Herring today announced that Pudding Media was named a Finalist of Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.More

Jangl Turns On Audio Ads

March 06th, 2008 Jangl is finally turning on a revenue stream across its network of social calling widgets, which reach a potential 80 million social networking profiles (the company hasn't announced actual active users). People generally use Jangl to place calls or SMSs to other web surfers without exchanging your real number.More

Jangl launches large new monetization strategy, hints at VoIP on the iPhone

March 06th, 2008 Jangl's first two partners in this Mobile Media Initiative endeavor are Pudding Media, a company that has built a platform for ad-supported calls, and Ogilvy's Digital Innovation Group, which is an advertising and communications agency .More

The Top 25 VoIP Innovations of 2007

December 17th, 2007 Ads That Complement Your Conversation: Pudding Media Inc.'s real business is using sophisticated software to extract keywords from the conversations it carries, then delivering relevant ads to the callers' Web browsers. Mobile voice services are a future target.More

Company Will Monitor Phone Calls to Tailor Ads

September 24th, 2007 Pudding Media, a start-up based in San Jose, Calif., is introducing an Internet phone service today that will be supported by advertising related to what people are talking about in their calls. The Web-based phone service is similar to Skype's online service - consumers plug a headset and a microphone into their computers, dial any phone number and chat away. But unlike Internet phone services that charge by the length of the calls, Pudding Media offers calling without any toll charges.More

Top 5 from DEMOfall 07

Oct 1st, 2007 Pudding Media could turn the phone business upside down. This company caught a lot of attention because it uses speech recognition software to listen for key words spoken during a conversation, which it can then use to target ads to the people having a conversation.More

Want Free Calls? Let Marketers Listen In.

Oct 1st, 2007 What's more creepily brilliant than ads that follow you around the Web? How about a Skype-like online phone service that listens in on your conversations and serves up ads based on what you say? A San Jose startup called Pudding has developed a technology that can pick up on tens of thousands of keywords uttered during calls (everything from "vacation" to "Playstation" to "doughnut"). Use your laptop to call a buddy and talk about dinner plans, for example, and within a few seconds you'll see a Pizza Hut banner or promotional video on our screen.

Startup Offers Free Calls In Exchange for Eavesdropping

September 24th, 2007 Surveillance-based advertising is coming to voice communications, just as it has for Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s Gmail service and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN)'s Web site. Pudding Media, a San Jose, Calif.-based voice-over-IP advertising startup on Monday has begun beta testing ThePudding.com, a service that offers free, ad-supported phone calls from a computer with a Web browser and microphone to any phone.More

ThePudding: Targeted Advertising Comes to Phone Calls

September 24th, 2007 ThePudding provides free, PC-based phone calls to anywhere in the US or Canada. The big catch: computers in Fremont, CA will eavesdrop on and analyze every word of your conversation so they can serve up advertisements tailored to the topic at hand. Users initiate a phone call simply by visiting ThePudding's website (currently in private beta) and entering a phone number into the browser. After the call begins, advertisements tailored to the conversation will begin to appear on screen.More