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Web-integrated VoIP vendors, still looking for their killer app, are nonetheless ready to start trying to squeeze out some revenues via advertising.

Jaxtr recently launched the Jaxtr Café site, a social network that includes voice and text ads. Jangl has started running ads with audio ad provider Pudding Media.

VoodooVox last week released MyVox, which lets Web sites integrate phone-delivered voice annotations into their Web applications. Rather than running audio ads inside the Web app, MyVox places ads on the “call-in” side of the equation, something it does today for more than 500 radio stations and calling card companies at a rate of more than 250 million calls — what it calls “voice impressions” — per month.

VoodooVox believes that while the appeal of ad-supported Web calling is likely to be mixed, existing information services such as MovieFone, 1-900 joke lines and 411-style directories may be a better model for driving “phone” traffic and audio ads on the Web. Add the Web's viral nature, and you could begin to generate enough voice impressions to build a real business.

“When we look back in the rearview mirror, we'll see that a lot of new, novel [Web-based] phone applications are being created,” said J. Scott Hamilton, CEO of VoodooVox. “It's just that I don't think a lot of these first-generation applications are the right ones. That said, there's something definitely interesting about adding voice to the mix at the Web application layer.”

VoodooVox's goal with MyVox is to serve 1 billion Web-enabled voice impressions per month by the end of 2008, charging advertisers a $20 CPM split fifty-fifty with developers — numbers that begin to make Web VoIP a real business.

CABLE TELEPHONY SUBS TOP 13 MILLION
Q4 06 Q4 07
BRIGHTHOUSE NETWORKS 412,050 503,852
CABLEONE 2925 58,640
COMCAST 2,519,000 4,553,000
COX 2,023,000 2,380,000
CABLEVISION 1,214,000 1,592,000
CHARTER 445,800 959,300
INSIGHT 118,200 186,200
MEDIACOM 105,000 185,000
TIME WARNER 1,860,000 2,895,000
TOTAL 8,699,975 13,312,992
Source: IP Democracy

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