Top Up TV is a Pay TV service in the UK launched in March 2004, operating on the DVB-T Television Broadcasting Platform. The aim of the service is to "Top Up" Freeview customers by providing additional content and services. Today, the service offers a variety of content from various providers through 'TV Favourites', premium movies from NBC Universal through PictureBox Movies, all of which are through a TV On Demand basis and Live Premium Sports available. Sports channels include ESPN, Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2. Top Up TV can be received by DVB-T DVR Set Top Box with a built-in card slot for Top Up TV, or a TV with a built-in card slot.

Launched in December 2006 as Top Up TV Anytime, the service offers TV On demand content from many channels. In 2009, Top Up TV Anytime was rebranded as TV Favourites, as Top Up TV no longer needed the Anytime brand to differentiate its on-demand service from its previous linear service. The service is only accessible through a Top Up TV DVB-T DVR Set Top Box content is available by pressing the Top Up TV button on the remote whilst watching a TV channel or perusing the EPG. Over time, channels like Sky Living and Home were phased out, replaced by programmes direct from their such as BBC, Warner Bros. Television and The Walt Disney Company. The channel icons displayed on the Top Up TV EPG changed from being the logo of their respective channel in favour of a uniformed Genre list. Despite the recent loss of key providers such as the BBC and the Discovery Channel. the service continues to broadcast.

A prepaid mobile phone (also commonly referred to as pay-as-you-go, pay-as-you-talk, "pay and go", or prepaid wireless) is a mobile phone for which credit is purchased in advance of service use. The purchased credit is used to pay for mobile phone services at the point the service is accessed or consumed. If there is no available credit then access to the requested service is denied by the mobile phone network. Users are able to top up their credit at any time using a variety of payment mechanisms.

The alternative billing method (and what is commonly referred to as a mobile phone contract) is the post-paid mobile phone, where a user enters into a long-term billing arrangement with a mobile network operator or carriage service provider (CSP).

A prepaid mobile phone has access to most if not all of the services offered by a mobile phone operator, although the charges for these services may differ from customers with the same operator who have a postpaid contract.

In addition, a prepaid phone has a balance which can be queried at any time, and also topped up periodically. Examples of ways in which the balance can be topped up are the following:

Jorh-el Aburto, better known by his stage name J Smooth, is an Hispanic-American rapper, music video director and hip hop producer from Los Angeles, California. Fresh out of the U.S. Army, the honorably discharged J Smooth hit the ground running. This Los Angeles native first hit the scene as a trash talking jokester on the Wilmer Valderrama Executive Produced reality TV game show Yo Momma which aired on the MTV Networks in 2006. His freestyle rapping skills came in handy and his personality helped him shine and gain recognition In 2005, he founded his own record label 570 Records and his music videos gained popularity through Myspace and YouTube.

In 2007, J Smooth was named "Artist of the Year" by reggaetonnica.com voters, for his musical contributions to the hip-hop and reggaeton genre and also for his many contributions to the Latino community. From there J Smooth began working on a mix tape and doing performances in local clubs and festivals, all the while working on his first album “Done Properly”-a Double Disc with the first CD dedicated to English/Hip Hop and the other to Spanish/Reggaeton. J Smooth's own unique flow of mixing English and R&B to the Latin genre was clearly visible. The album was released in August 2007 and was well received by audiences (both in the English & Spanish speaking communities) selling close to 10,000 copies independently through his own label 570 Records.

Brandon McCartney (born August 17, 1989), known by his stage name Lil B or "BASEDGOD", is a rapper from Berkeley, California. He has recorded both solo and with The Pack. In addition, Lil B is noted for his extensive use of social media websites such as MySpace and Twitter to build an online following.

Lil B began rapping at age 16 with hip hop group The Pack. After two locally successful mixtapes, and at the peak of the Bay Area's hyphy movement, the group's song "Vans" became a surprise hit. The song was ranked as the fifth best of 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine. The strength of "Vans" led the group to release Skateboards 2 Scrapers, featuring a "Vans" remix with Bay Area rappers Too $hort and Mistah F.A.B.. In 2007, Lil B and The Pack released its first album, Based Boys.

Aside from his involvement with The Pack, Lil B garnered popularity through the use of social media Web sites. He created over 155 MySpace pages in order to upload all of his music. He recorded over 1,500 tracks as of July 2010, including hits "Wonton Soup," "Pretty Bitch," and "I'm God."