Wanted: 1,100 Silver Surfers, Pub Quizzers and Agony Aunts as AQA 63336 seeks to double workforce in 2008
AQA 63336 answers its ten millionth question
London, UK - 10 January 2008 - The UK's most popular mobile text question and answer service, AQA 63336 (Any Question Answered), has now answered over 10 million questions since launching in 2004 and is on its biggest recruitment drive to ensure it can cope with the millions of questions texted in from customers over the coming months.
Over 1.3 million people in the UK have already used AQA 63336 to settle pub arguments, satisfy their curiosity, get advice, or to simply ask any question which comes to mind. Having answered over half a million questions during December 2007, AQA is looking to double its current workforce to over 2,200 researchers in UK and Ireland during 2008 to cope with the UK's obsession with getting quick answers while mobile.
Colly Myers, CEO, explains: "Our marketing and quality of service are driving strong growth in volume of questions being asked by our customers. In less than 4 years we've answered 10 million questions and are currently answering 17,500 questions per day. I am delighted that we are on track to answering 30,000 questions per day by the end of this year. The growth of AQA 63336 is testament to the fact that the Brits are obsessed with having instant access to knowledge."
AQA researching is perfect for people like students, parents of young families and the retired who are looking for ways to earn extra cash working hours that suit them.
You can apply online by going here to find out more details and have the AQA 63336 test sent to you.
AQA's 10 millionth question, asked on 2nd January, was "Where does the saying pull the wool over your eyes come from". The answer to this is "The wool refers to a powdered wig. To pull the wool down over a man's eyes is to temporarily blind him. It is an Americanism, dating to the 1830s."
Five of the most popular questions during 2007 were:
Q. What's the meaning of life?
Q. What came 1st the chicken or the egg?
Q. How does AQA work?
Q. When will I die?
Q. Why do men have nipples?
Some of the questions posed to AQA 63336 so far in 2008 include:
Q. How many people have already broken their new year's resolution and what is the most popular?
A. In the UK, 200,000 people will break their new year's resolution before 1 Jan is through. 7 million Brits regularly make New Year's resolutions of which 21% try to stop smoking.
Q. What was the first New Years resolution?
A. The tradition of the New Year's Resolutions goes back to 153 BC. The mythical God Janus was said to have been the 1st to make a New Year's Resolution.
Q. What is the worst New Years Resolution?
A. The worst New Year's resolution is to break others'. Eg, if a friend gives up chocolate or smoking, you must start; if they join a gym, you must leave.
Q. If all the people of the world made the resolution to save a penny a day for the whole year how much money would I get?
A. If everyone saved 1 pence per day for 365 days, you would receive £24,246,015,194 pounds. There are currently over 6.6 billion people living on Earth.
Q. How can I call in sick at work and get away with it?
A. You should tell them that you've got an upset stomach. It's very common and people tend not to want to know the gory details.
To use AQA 63336, text any question you have, eg "who is the stig?" from your mobile phone to 63336. Texts to 63336 cost £1. You can also ask one for free here.
Notes to Editors:
Over 90% of the researchers are recruited from UK and Ireland , supported by researchers from English speaking countries such as New Zealand and Australia to help answer questions over the night shift. Researchers work on a self employed basis, with no restrictions over where or when they work, and earn 30p per answer, averaging £6 - £12 per hour. AQA 63336's researchers are often students or housewives (mostly based in London ) looking to earn extra cash, though many work as researchers full time.
AQA 63336 has established itself in the UK as the primary source for fast information, advice and entertainment whilst out and about. The service has grown from 900 questions a day in December 2004 to 17,500 questions a day in December 2007. Texts to 63336 cost £1.
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.
- AQA 63336 has over 1,100 researchers answering questions – the majority are based in the UK with some in New Zealand and Australia to cover the night shift
- AQA 63336 has published two anthologies of questions and answered, the latest, called "Any Question Answered" was published just before Christmas in the UK RRP £5.99.
- AQA has also been available in Ireland since June 2006 on shortcode 57275 for €2
IssueBits Ltd. was formed in 2002 by Colly Myers, former CEO of Symbian and MD of Psion PLC, together with Bill Batchelor and Paul Cockerton. Together the founders have over 60 years experience in technology, software and consumer industries. A private limited company based in London, UK, IssueBits launched AQA 63336 - the world's first text question and answer service on an easy to remember shortcode - in April 2004.
For more information contact:
Donald Parish donald.parish@shinecom.com
Shine Communications Tel: +442071007100
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