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Azoogle Contributes a Million Dollars to Florida

Nov 14, 2007
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Sometimes a cool million does make things go away. A great example is Azoogle’s recent voluntary contribution to the Florida’s Department of Legal Affairs. The contribution came when the CyberFraud Task Force came knocking on Azoogle’s door for lead generation practices that fooled consumers into signing up for paid services without clear consent. Azoogle was quick to give generously, saying:

“This contribution reinforces AzoogleAds’ commitment to improving industry standards in the fight against fraudulent and deceptive internet advertising.”

Consumers will be glad to know that as part of Azoogle’s commitment to improving standards “free” ringtones will now cost them $9.99 per month. Think of it simply as Azoogle’s way of saying to Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum “Hey, what’s a few ringtones among friends?”

One wonders if Azoogle will be equally generous with the FTC who is conducting its own separate investigation. Here’s hoping they continue their charitable ways. After all, with the price of doing business being so cheap why not spread the cheer during the holidays?

About Angel Djambazov

Born in Bulgaria, Angel Djambazov has spent his professional career in the fields of journalism and online marketing. In his journalistic career he worked as an editor on several newspapers and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wyoming Homes and Living Magazine. Later his career path led to online marketing where while working at OnlineShoes he earned the Affiliate Manager of the Year (2006) award at the Affiliate Summit, and In-house Manager of the Year (2006) award by ABestWeb.

For four years Angel served as OPM for Jones Soda for which he won his second Affiliate Manger of the Year (2009) award at Affiliate Summit.

Currently Angel serves as OPM for KEEN Footwear and MedicalRecords.com. His former clients include: Dell, Real Networks, Jones Soda, Intelius, Graphicly, Chrome Bags, Onlineshoes.com, Vitamin Angels, The Safecig, and Bag Borrow or Steal.

Angel is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Publisher for ReveNews.com and ReveNews.org.

Angel lives north of Seattle, spending his free time reading up on obscure scientific references made by his wife MGX, while keeping up with a horde of cats and a library of books.

You can find Angel on Twitter @djambazov.

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  • http://www.rhinofish.com Pat Grady

    Politicians are so used to solving problems with only money that they've lost their sense of right and wrong.

    Pragmatically, settling cases is easier, but it leaves the perpetrators relatively free to continue bad acting – and it means there's no standards of behavior for others doing the same. The problem isn't solved, it's just temporarily white washed. If our leaders make cheating an ROI metric, they're selling us out.

    When people tell me that the Internet is the new Wild West, I add these exceptions… the Wild West had marshalls and sheriffs that weren't a bunch of sissy wimps, they actually punished wrong doing, unlike this Attorney General… and angry land owners (today's website owners and merchants) had rights that the law allowed them to protect on their own… and they weren't passively timid about doing so.

    So this ain't like the Wild West at all, or some lynch mob would have strung up Azoogle by now.

  • http://www.PaulsonManagementgroup.com Heather Paulson

    Hello Angel,

    ROFL – Great post!

  • http://www.medicaltravelsite.com geomark

    Let's not forget some affiliates who made very big money riding the deceptive ringtone promotion bandwagon. There are a lot of fanboys (and girls) who hang on every word from a few of those snakes. I have no respect for people who make money through dishonest means.