Over the past few months, we have polled our present user community and overwhelmingly heard from you that you would like RingBranch to remain a free service. Well, we have taken that advice to heart and are now trying a new business model that we hope will enable us to keep RingBranch free indefinitely.
Starting today, we are now inserting audio advertisements from various advertisers into the calls. If you are a RingBranch user, you will hear a short ad right when you call in and a second ad right before your call is connected. Additionally, if someone calls you on your RingBranch number, the caller will hear a short ad before the call is connected to you.
We are hoping that we can make enough money from the advertising to cover our expenses, which are not minimal. We will see--this is an entirely new business model that has been discussed but not really pursued, at least not yet.
Obviously, we are trying this model so that you can use our service for free. Our goal is to expand and offer international calling for free in this ad supported manner as well. We know and understand that not everyone likes advertising. So, in the near future, we will roll out an ad-free option that will enable you to pay a small monthly fee to use RingBranch without advertising.
Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.
The RingBranch Team
