Every 6 seconds someone gets on a plane in Liverpool, buys an Apple laptop, holidays in Hawaii… or texts AQA 63336 a question
AQA 63336 records its 8 millionth question
London, UK - 31 August 2007 - Celebrating its fifth anniversary, IssueBits Ltd., the provider of the AQA 63336 mobile service, today announces that it has passed a milestone of 8 million paid questions texted to 63336.
The world's first mobile question answering service to launch on an easy to remember 5-digit number, AQA 63336 has grown from 500 questions a day in August 2004, to over 15,000 paid questions a day in August 2007. Since launch AQA 63336 has dominated the UK market for mobile text question answering and 63336 is now one of the most texted numbers in the UK.
"I'm thrilled at the progress that we've achieved since founding IssueBits five years ago in August 2002. The ever increasing volume of questions that we are achieving has meant that we have seen increasing profitability over our last two financial years, leading to a position of positive net equity in the company, and generating positive cash flow over the last year," said Colly Myers, CEO. "We are well positioned to grow the AQA 63336 service organically to over 100,000 questions a day by 2010."
The eight millionth question that was asked was "Who sang I like you?". AQA replied with "The Dandy Warhols sang Bohemian Like You. It's from their album Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia and contains the lyrics I like you, I like you." With 8 million answers in its database, AQA 63336's team of over 800 highly skilled researchers take less than 5 minutes to reply to the majority of questions texted to 63336 - whether its advice that's required or information that's needed in a hurry.
AQA 63336 is a patent pending mobile service that uses computer systems to help home based human researchers answer questions quickly and accurately. To use AQA 63336, just text a question to 63336 (costs one pound) and you'll get an answer in minutes. New customers can also ask a question free from www.63336.com.
Currently, the top ten topics of interest are:
- Going out, drink, food, pub and club information
- Relationship and personal advice
- Travel, train and tube times, and holiday suggestions
- Sports related questions
- Origins, etymology and sayings
- Film, TV, music, literature questions
- Science and maths problems
- Business related information
- Other general trivia
- Style, shopping and fashion advice
A few other things that happen, on average, every 6 seconds:
- someone buys a garden gnome on eBay in Germany
- someone prays at Lourdes in France
- someone peers down at the Grand Canyon
Notes to Editors:
For more information contact:
Donald Parish donald.parish@shinecom.com
Shine Communications Tel: +442071007100
Key AQA 63336 facts:
- IssueBits Ltd. was formed in August 2002 to provide compelling and entertaining content for mobile phones. It launched AQA 63336 (Any Question Answered), the world's first mobile question and answer service on a premium short code, in April 2004.
- AQA 63336 is a patent pending text question answering service. Mobile phone users from the UK can text 63336 from a mobile phone to get an answer in minutes. It only costs £1 to ask a question.
- AQA 63336 has over 800 researchers answering questions – the majority are based in the UK with some in New Zealand and Australia to cover the night shift
- Last year AQA 63336 published a book of its top questions and answers called 'The End of the Question Mark'. It's publishing another book for Christmas 2007 called 'Any Question Answered'.
- AQA launched in Ireland in June 2006 on shortcode 57275 for €2.
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