Telly, the new hardware startup that is providing U.S. consumers with free smart TVs that are completely supported by advertising, claimed that 250,000 people registered within the first two weeks of launch. In the first 36 hours of launching, Telly said that over 100,000 people registered.
We sat down with Telly founder and CEO Ilya Pozin and chief strategy officer Dallas Lawrence, who revealed to us the new total number of sign-ups. The figure is a clear sign that consumers are willing to cough up their data if it means getting a free TV, which the company claims to each be worth $1,000. Telly’s TV also comes with an Android TV streaming device at no additional cost.
“These are savvy consumers that understand that we’re giving them the smartest TV to get in the market and that we’re just disrupting the traditional way it’s sold,” Pozin told ...
