
Novelty Media is a digital media company that creates a new content delivery experience on mobile phones by utilizing idle moments during routine smartphone usage to display multimedia messages. Their flagship product, SmartAdd, delivers snack-sized, engaging content including advertising, educational, wellness, fun, news, and user uploads, leveraging AI distraction limitation techniques to ensure high user attention. The company partners globally with mobile operators to transform network users into an engaged audience comparable to leading social media platforms, offering operators new revenue streams through third-party advertising, improved cross-selling, and user data monetization. Novelty Media also collaborates with advertising agencies to optimize message delivery for maximum impact. Their business model includes revenue sharing with telcos and providing a fresh, attention-driven advertising medium. The company emphasizes social responsibility by enabling small returns to subscribers and supporting charitable initiatives. Their technology platform integrates seamlessly with operator apps or customized apps, aiming to increase customer satisfaction and net promoter scores while generating communication savings and profiling user behavior.

Novelty Media is a digital media company that creates a new content delivery experience on mobile phones by utilizing idle moments during routine smartphone usage to display multimedia messages. Their flagship product, SmartAdd, delivers snack-sized, engaging content including advertising, educational, wellness, fun, news, and user uploads, leveraging AI distraction limitation techniques to ensure high user attention. The company partners globally with mobile operators to transform network users into an engaged audience comparable to leading social media platforms, offering operators new revenue streams through third-party advertising, improved cross-selling, and user data monetization. Novelty Media also collaborates with advertising agencies to optimize message delivery for maximum impact. Their business model includes revenue sharing with telcos and providing a fresh, attention-driven advertising medium. The company emphasizes social responsibility by enabling small returns to subscribers and supporting charitable initiatives. Their technology platform integrates seamlessly with operator apps or customized apps, aiming to increase customer satisfaction and net promoter scores while generating communication savings and profiling user behavior.
Flagship product: SmartAdd — a telco-partnered mobile media channel delivering snack-sized multimedia to users during routine smartphone moments.
Business model: Revenue-sharing with mobile operators by monetizing high-attention idle moments via third‑party advertising and related services.
Live deployment: Launched with Jazz in Pakistan (went live May 24, 2022).
Funding: Seed-stage; last round dated May 24, 2021; total funding reported as 2750000.00 USD.
Team size (reported): Single reported snapshot: 9 employees; other public profile ranges include 11–50.
Mobile advertising; operator monetization of idle smartphone attention and creation of operator-owned media channels.
2019
Mobile advertising / Digital media