Digital Music Now Pays Artists More Than Pubs
UK songwriters, composers and music publishers received 3.2 percent higher royalty earnings in 2011, as new online music services boosted pa…
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Music Streams Join Downloads In U.S. Charts, UK Waits
What is the best way to quantify artists’ popularity, as more music consumption moves from downloads to streams?
Charts: What's Happening To UK Music Sales
2011 UK music sales volume figures are in, showing a continuation of the same patterns, according to Official Charts Company data (via BPI).
European Economy, U.S. Rivals Threaten Media Companies, Analyst Says
City analyst Bernstein has cautioned investors to steer clear of public European media companies – citing exposure to the continent’s econom…
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UK Web Ad Spend Defies Slowdown
UK internet advertising spend defied the slowdown affecting other media in the first half of 2011, with the sector enjoying 13.5% year-on-ye…
Digital Gains Can’t Halt UK Music Album Declines
Digital’s share of UK album sales has grown from a fifth to nearly a third in the last year, according to the British Phonographic Industry…
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Worried Economists Rein In Ad Forecasts, But Digital Could Shield Agencies
About-turn. Advertising prospects, which had begun to look up after the 2008/09 economic crunch, are now looking more modest.
Mobile Data Worth £459 Million To UK Telcos
From Ofcom’s Telecommunications Market Data Update Q1 2011: “The total number of UK mobile connections fell by 39,000 to 81.1 million in Q1…
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Is Mobile App Advertising’s ‘Staggering’ Inventory Growth A Good Thing?
The amount of advertising inventory within mobile apps in the US has exploded in the last year, but does that mean developers and publishers…
UK Music Industry Revenue Down 4.8 Percent
Plummeting CD sales, the ongoing toll of digital piracy and a lack of big name acts on tour fuelled a £189m drop in UK music revenues last…
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Most Mobile Games Revenue Is Now In-App
In-app purchases have grown to account for 52 percent of the revenue of 200 top-grossing iOS games – up from just eight percent a year ago.
UK Consumer Publishers’ Market Caps Are Sliding
Market valuations of UK companies held up from Q4 2010 to this year’s Q1 – but those in the consumer publishing sector have seen value wiped…
Research: YouTube Beats iTunes For Consumers’ Music Attention
The format digital music listeners are most likely to pay for… is the one they use least, according to new Nielsen research…
Music Sales Shed Another $1.4 Billion As Digital Growth Flattens Out
The trade value of global music sales shrank by 8.4 percent, down to $17.38 billion, in 2010, as the drop-off in physical sales continued (-…
Musicians’ Digital Royalties Are Slowing Down
Musicians received lower royalty income for the first time ever last year, because consumers are switching from CD to digital and because di…
UK Online Ad Spend Grew 10.9 Percent In 2010
Of course, online ad spend goes on growing perpetually.
The real story, in new annual figures from the Advertising Association and WARC, is…
Groupon Owns A Third Of European Deals Visits
How does the new wave of daily deals coupons sites stack up in Europe?
Digital Music Subscription Revenues Are Actually Declining In The U.S.
This is another reason why US-based labels have been so hesitant on Spotify. Sure, the licensing climate on Spotify is softening somewhat,…
The Decline Of The Dongle: Phones And Tablets Are Winning Out
Consumer intent to buy a mobile broadband dongle has halved from 14 percent to seven percent in the last year, says YouGov’s DongleTrack pol…
Digital Music’s Slowdown Draws Out Familiar Industry Worries
Global digital music revenue has grown 1,000 percent since 2004 – but only six percent through 2010, says the International Federation of th…
Bellwether: UK Internet Ad Budget Growth Is Slowest For 18 Months
Yep, the internet is still the medium capturing most new advertising decisions, in what remains a choppy overall ad economy, according to th…
UK’s Digital Music Boost Slowed In 2010
UK music sales are still growing – but a slowdown in online sales has reduced that industry growth to its slowest since digital’s boost firs…
ZenithOptimedia: All Media Bar Print Will Join Net On Ad Growth Curve
All media bar newspapers and magazines are now on a global advertising growth up-curve toward 2013, when the internet will nearly match the…
News International’s Reputation Is Amongst Those Falling With Ad Buyers
Digital ad salespeople from News International, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), The Guardian and Facebook are amongst those going down in the estima…
Charts: ZenithOptimedia’s Revised 2012 Ad Forecast
ZenithOptimedia is revising up its forecast for 2010 global ad spend, from +3.5 percent to +4.8 percent.
Its 2011 forecast is up, too, from…
Online Ad Spend Back To Double-Digit Growth
Spending on online ads during the first half of 2010 in the UK returned to double-digit growth, increasing 10 percent from the previous year…
Vinyl’s Revival Skips A Beat
So much for that “vinyl revival”. UK sales of music on the ridged discs are now back to falling.
Forecast: Global Online Ad Spend Will Hit $96.8 Billion In 2014
Western Europe will see comparatively slower growth in online advertising spend than North America coming out of the downturn.
Research: Digital Revenue Now A Quarter Of UK Music Business
We’ve already reported how digital pushed UK music sales back to growth for the first time in six years last year, according to the BPI. Now…
UK Games Biz Has Shrunk By 16 Percent
Last year’s games industry slump has continued in to 2010, it seems.
GfK Chart-Track says UK hardware and software sales for first half of…
PIB: Magazine Rate Cards, Ad Pages Rise — First Time In Nine Quarters
It’s been clear since the end of last year that magazines were benefiting for the ad spend recovery, but looked as though the improvement wa…
Bellwether: UK Ad Spend Double-Dipped In Fragile Economy
Despite having grown for over a year since the bottom of the downturn, UK companies’ marketing budgets were revised down this Spring, as the…
Forecast: Internet Ads Will Outstrip Entire Print Sector In UK This Year
The internet is already taking more advertising money than national newspapers, regional newspapers and magazines in the UK.
Now it will ov…
Audience Measurement Firms Race To The Finish Line — But Not There Yet
Last week, audience measurement firm Quantcast cleared a major hurdle when the Media Ratings Council approved the company’s free Quantified…
Online Ad Revs Set Record During Quarter; Premium Display Up 25 Percent
Another report showing that the online ad market is back to setting records in the U.S.: the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Pricewaterho…
’09 Music Sales Shed $1 Billion; U.S. Downloads Stagnant
Global recorded music sales shrank by 7.2 percent, from $18.3 billion to $17 billion, through 2009 – meaning the industry has scored fewer s…
2009 Was The Year Of Mobile Advertising – Again
It’s become a cliche at this point, but new stats show 2009 moved at least closer to becoming the fabled year when mobile advertising takes…
Election Metrics: Clegg’s Winning The Social Vote, But Losing Web Share
If everyone in the UK were on Facebook, Nick Clegg could win the greatest share of votes next week.
Since the first televised election deba…
UK Music Sales Rise On Digital Growth, But Subs Play Small Part
UK recorded music sales bounced back to slight growth for the first time in six years through 2009, all without Digital Economy Act-type mea…
Forecast: TV, Internet Will Lead Advertising Back Up As Print Wanes
Publicis Groupe’s ZenithOptimedia is revising up its forecast of 2010 global advertising growth from 0.9 percent to 2.2 percent – its second…
Research: UK Online Ad Spend Grew 4.2 Percent In 2009
UK online advertising spend grew at its slowest pace since the boom began last year, as the economy tempered a growth phenomenon that had pr…
The Online Ad Market Is Back To Setting Records In The U.S.
Double-digit growth is set to return to the online ad market this year, according to IDC. The market research firm says it expects online ad…
UK Publishers Expect Even Slower Online Revenue Growth
The days of web sales nearly doubling each year are long gone. UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) members – who forecast 31 percent h…
Mobile Content Companies Scale Back Expectations Of Revenue Growth
Mobile entertainment companies have scaled back their content sales expectations – but are getting far more bullish that consumers will pay…
The ‘Maybe’ Of Paying for Content Online: Young Value Platform-Agnostic No-Less Valuable
Nielsen has released a new oh-no-another-survey-about-paid-content this morning, and while global answer after surveying 27,000 consumers ac…
Video Game Sales Down Eight Percent In ‘Transition Year’
Game publishers’ financials had already told us the video games industry is in something of a slump – now complete sales figures from the wo…
Digital Music Sales Are Booming, But Industry Still Cites Piracy Woes
Global digital music revenue has grown 20,900 percent since the music business started keeping count in 2003 – but it still needs government…
Digital Drives UK Music Sales To 10-Year High, But Look Deeper
2009 Official Charts Company figures from the BPI show unit sales 15 percent up from 2008 to a decade high of 281.6 million, spurred by digi…
Forecast: Online Will Take More Ad Dollars Than Newspapers By 2015
Is the upswing in effect? Three industry forecasts are raising their expectations for next year’s ad spend…
Magna Global is predicting a…
Multi-Tasking Teens Still Like TV, And Talking About It Online
Information on teens’ behavior, as we saw from the coverage of Morgan Stanley
Research: Free Content Increasingly Popular As 'Transactional' Sites Wane
Hitwise’s contribution to the pay-for-content debate – metrics showing that free sites (entertainment, social nets and forums, news and medi…
Research: Youngsters Not Fleeing Social Networks, They're Just Moving To Facebook
Are UK 15-to-24-year-olds really growing tired of social networking? Ofcom last week reported (p289) a five percent fall-off, to 50 percent,…
We All Knew Ringtone Sales Were Falling, But Drop Is Getting Bigger
U.S. ringtone sales dropped so much last year it caused the entire mobile music category to record its first ever decline.
Considering tha…
Consumers Spending More in Paid Media Than Ad Supported: VSS Study
The annual VSS media survey/forecast is out, and some usual suspects about declining media and ad spend. But more interestingly, according t…
Ad Bellwether: We’ve Reached The Bottom, But Search Will Keep Falling
It’s been the star performer in an online advertising market that has itself flattened lately – but now spend search advertising is also exp…
Forecast: Ad Spend Will Hit Bottom In ’09 As Paid Search Lights The Way
Global online advertising spend is the only category ZenithOptimedia reckons is growing this year, according to its latest forecast. The age…
Research: Pirates Will Buy If The Price Is Right
By Kevin Anderson: The music, film and video game industries are pricing themselves out the market, according to new research from Ipsos MOR…
Nielsen: In Blogosphere, Jackson’s Death Trumped Obama’s Inauguration, Swine Flu
Just how gaga did people go over news about Michael Jackson’s death? Nielsen tracked the number of mentions in the blogosphere.
Forecast: Ad Freefall Will Slow, Digital Share Grow In 2010
Western Europe annual ad spend will be down 11.1 percent for 2009, but a “mild recovery” in 2010 will turn the decline to just 3.5 percen…
Reports: Cellphones Rank Higher Than Spouses And Are More Addictive Than Alcohol
If you’ve ever texted or answered a phone call while driving (and it’s illegal to do so in your state), then you would probably agree with t…
@ MEM: Mobile Biz Expects Content Sales To Keep Growing
More than 60 percent of mobile users still use their handset for only voice and text, according to a KPMG survey. KPMG director Mark Harding…
Trial Found That Mobile Ads Drove Spike In Twitter Followers
4INFO, a mobile ad network and text alert service, conducted a test last month to see if they could use mobile advertising to get consumers…
Apps Biting Into Time Spent With Other Media
The use of applications on smartphone is reducing time spent with other media according to a survey, which indicates that mobiles are not ju…
Report: Humor Top Mobile Video Category
There has been a 20 percent quarter-on-quarter increase in US mobile video viewship according to Nielsen, with the most popular category bei…
Report: Value Of Mobile Speech Applications To Triple By 2014
The global value of advanced speech recognition technologies in mobile devices will triple over the next five years, rising from $32.7 milli…
Report: People Seeing More Types Of Mobile Ads
A survey of 1,000 US adults by Brightkite and GfK Technology has found that people are noticing more types of ads on their mobile phones. Th…
Report: Half Of US Mobile Users Access Content On A Weekly Basis?
A new survey by research and consultation firm Frank N. Magid Associates has found that 51 percent of mobile phone users in the USA access c…
Report: Freemium To Generate $14 Billion By 2014
The freemium model — which involves giving away applications and charging users for add-ons and special features (like for EA’s Battlefield…
Magna: Mobile Ads Will Grow 36 Percent In ’09
Considering that most observers see online ad spending rising in the low single digits this year, mobile ad spend is still sprinting ahead n…
Press Freedom Report: A Spike In Threats And Violence Against Journalists In India
India was the most dangerous South Asian country for journalists last year, second only to Pakistan, with seven journalists getting killed i…
Global Music Income Down 8.3 Percent In ’08 Despite Digital Uptick
Physical music sales are drying up ever more quickly – but still aren’t being compensated by digital equivalents, according to annual figu…
More Proof Bigger May Not Be Better For Display
As my colleague David Kaplan notes, some of the most recent “innovations” in display have focused on creating bigger, flashier ads in the ho…
Analyst: Recession Could Halve Growth Of Mobile Entertainment Revenue
How badly will the recession hit mobile? One analyst firm has halved its two-year forecast for growth in global mobile entertainment revenue…
Tech Sector Job Losses Up Five-Fold From A Year Ago
After weeks of layoff announcements in the tech sector, the tally is in: Tech firms laid off a staggering 84,217 employees last quarter, acc…
Pew Report: 39 Percent Of Americans Motivated By Mobility
Pew has released the results of a survey showing that “39 percent of Americans have positive and improving attitudes about their mobile comm…
Report: Mobile Music Experience In U.S. Improves; Internationally, It Still Fails
People who bought music and watched video clips on their phone over the last year were increasingly satisfied with the experience, according…
Report Roundup: Mobile Banking; Smartphone OS; Mobile Content/Services Market
— 913 Million Mobile Bankers: Berg Insight is predicting that the global number of users of mobile banking and related services will grow a…
Report: 63.2 Million In US Used Mobile News And Information; Mobile Social Networks Growing Fast
More people in the US are accessing the mobile internet, and accessing it more often according to figures released by comScore. The most com…
Report: Worst-Case Scenario Sees Annual Growth In Mobile Content Of 7 Percent
Juniper Research has issued a report about the growth of the mobile entertainment market contrasting the best case scenario with the worst c…
Report: 4.1 Billion Mobile Subscribers Worldwide Helps Reduce Digital Divide (Slightly)
There are now 4.1 billion mobile subscriptions in the world, a global penetration rate of 61.1 percent: This compares to 1.270 billion fixed…
Report: Mobile Music To Hit $14.6 Billion In 2013
Juniper Research has predicted that the total mobile music services market will hit nearly $14.6 billion by 2013. Although there will be a s…
Report: US Mobile Ad Revenues To Hit $3.1 Billion In 2013
US mobile search and display advertising revenues are predicted to grow to $3.1 billion in 2013, from $160 million in 2008. This represents…
Comscore: Social Networking Traffic In India Up 51%; Orkut Tops Chart, Hi5 Is Fastest Growing
In 2008, social networking websites in India saw a 51% growth in traffic year-on-year, while total Internet audience grew 22%, audience meas…
Mobile Video Consumption Will Drive Data Usage In 2013
Europeans are on pace to use twice as much mobile data as people in the U.S. by 2013, according to Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO), which has gathered in…
Smartphones Seen As Major Disrupting Influence To Media Industry: Survey
Mobile are seen as a strong disrupting influence in the media industry, according to a survey by KPMG of 200 media and advertising executive…
Report: Mobile Music To Grow To $16.8 Billion In 2013
Strategy Analytics has issued a report predicting the mobile music market will grow from $10.6 billion in 2008 to $16.8 billion in 2013. Las…
Report: U.S. Mobile Revenues To Increase 3.9 Percent In 2009
Despite the economic outlook, the number of U.S. cellular subscribers will still grow by 16 million this year, reports Strategy Analytics. L…
Report: Mobile Dating And Chatroom To Generate $1.4 Billion In 2013
The mobile dating and chatroom market is predicted to rise to nearly $1.4 billion by 2013, which would make it almost 20 percent of the pred…
Report: Almost One In Five U.S. Households Are Landline Free
Almost one in five U.S. households now rely entirely on cellphones for communication, according to a survey conducted by the Centers for Dis…
Report: Mobile Content Explosion Makes Memory Cards A Big Money-Maker
With more content being created and consumed on mobile phones, an interesting phenomenon has occurred: memory cards have quickly become the…
Report: Mobile Phones Will Be Primary Online Access Point By 2020
Mobile phones will be the primary access point to the internet worldwide by 2020, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American…
Report: Text Messaging Will Continue To Be The Darling Of Mobile Data Revenues
Forget splashy video, music and games; text messaging will continue to be the
Report: Mobile Gambling Is ‘Recession Proof’; Revenues Will Double To $3.6 Billion In 2009
Can any industry really be recession proof? Juniper Research thinks so. In a new report, the firm projects global mobile gambling revenues w…
The Largest U.S. Market For Text Messaging? You Guessed It, El Paso
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Cellphones Now A Central Part Of Family Life: Report
Do you still remember when your mom sent her first text message? Turns out, she
@ Mobile NW: Mobile Advertising Is More About Action And Marketing; Less About CPMs
With an unstable economy brewing, the wireless industry may be even more reliant upon advertising as consumers cut back on spending and tigh…
Death Of Old Media Exaggerated, They Have At Least Five Years Left
Not the ringingest of endorsements from PriceWaterhouseCoopers: traditional media are not dead yet… because their consumers are not dead y…
U.S. Mobile Game Industry Worth $1 Billion; Will Soar To $6.8 Billion in 2013
The mobile gaming industry in the U.S. has become a billion-dollar business and will top $6.8 billion by 2013, according to research firm In…
Cellphones Will Measure Consumers Exposure To Ad Campaigns Across Platforms
Integrated Media Measurement, a San Mateo, Calif.-based company is working on an emerging technology, which uses a consumer’s cellphone to s…
Most Companies Aren’t Tracking Mobile Traffic: Report
At least 70 percent of businesses are not measuring mobile traffic to their sites and it
Display Ads’ Growth Rate Was Cut in Half In H108; Category Gained 8 Percent In First Six Months
Another sign of display ad spending’s travails this year… This time, TNS Media Intelligence says display grew 8 percent in H108 over the s…
Mobile Social Networking To Generate $7.3 Billion Worldwide In 2013: Report
Worldwide mobile social networking revenues will surge to $7.3 billion in 2013 thanks largely to advertising, according to a new report from…
Pew Report: Few Cellphone Owners Get News On Mobile; TV Still News King
Most people in the U.S. still get their news from TV despite more than a decade-long surge in online news consumption, according to a new re…
Global Ringback Tone Sales To Hit $4.7 Billion By 2012: Report
Within the global mobile content industry, there’s one big standout — ringback tones, which are the songs that play while someone waits for…
Musicians’ Income Growing Thanks To Online ‘Hairbrush Divas’
UK digital royalties to composers, songwriters and music publishers have grown quickly since last year, while those from physical sales are…
UK Mobile Games To Reach $153 Million By 2012
UK mobile games will make £80.5 million ($153 million) by 2012, Screen Digest research says. That’s £22 million ($41.8 million) more than…
Targeting Teens At The Right Age And Gender Is Critical: Survey
The teen market in the U.S. has typically been among the fastest growing in the wireless industry and by the age of 17 at least 91 percent o…
Develop 08: Nokia’s View On Games, And Console; Glu On Marketing; M:Metrics
There’s a fair bit of news to come out of the Develop 08 conference on mobile games, and the talks and panels are discussed below. Some inte…
Mobile Increases Total Internet Users By 14 Percent: Report
VentureBeat has put up some slides Nielsen showed at its MobileBeat conference, and they’re worth a look. Some quick stats:
— In the US 95…
Internet Usage Jumps 27% Reports ComScore
More than 28 million people in India aged 15 and older accessed the internet from home and work in May. This represents a 27% increase over…
Optimistic Forecast For European Mobile Music Revenue
eMarketer has come out with a confident forecast for mobile music fortunes in Europe. It reckons retail revenue in the main five EU countrie…
Most Indian Mobile Users Are Male: Report
As part of their monthly reports on the mobile Web, Opera has released their June 2008 stats breaking down usage of their mobile web browser…
VAS To Touch $2 Billion This Year, Overall Media To Grow 18.5%: Report
Dizzying projections by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in The Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2008-2012 report. The report forecasts VA…
Mobile Ads Drove Triple Digit Growth For Mobile Web: Survey
Traffic from 473 publishers that work with AdMob grew 104 percent year-over-year overall, marking a 6.1 percent month-over-month growth rate…
Social Networking On Mobile Still Not As Strong As Email And Web In U.K.: Survey
Only 24 percent of Internet users access social networking sites with a mobile phone, according to a new survey (pdf) done in the U.K. last…
Mobile Music Revenues Will Get A Needed Boost From Ads By 2013: Report
Well, the good news for record companies is that they will be able to make some money from mobile music; unfortunately, says eMarketer, they…
U.S. Takes Top Nod For Mobile Internet Usage: Report
Contrary to popular opinion, Americans do love the mobile web and use it in spades. The U.S. takes the top nod on mobile internet penetratio…
Broadband Base Reaches 4.15 Million; Tele-Density at 27.59%
The wireless growth story continued in May with 8.62 million telephone connections (wireless and wireline) being added, bringing the overall…
India Serves 345 Million Ad Impressions, Ranks Second: AdMob
A quick stat update from AdMob. 344.7 million impressions were served in May in India making it the no. 2 country by traffic volume after th…
Young Mobile Users Are Open To Mobile Ads; Revenues May Hit $150 Billion By 2011: Reports
Two reports released today came to two separate conclusions about mobile advertising: young mobile phone users don’t mind ads as long as it…
JuxtConsult Reports 35.06 Million Regular Internet Users; 19% Growth In Urban Regular Net Users
Regular Indian internet urban users grew 19% in 2008 to reach 30 million
Demand For Mobile Social Networks Will Grow; Revenues Will Be More Difficult: Report
Mobile social networks will experience a steady growth curve, but making money on them will remain difficult, according to a report publishe…
US Ad-Funded Mobile Entertainment Worth Nearly $340 Million by 2013: Report
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has published a report forecasting that the US market for ad-funded mobile entertainment will grow to $…
Opera Mini Usage Trends In India: Social Networking And Content Are Key
With no third party data available on mobile website usage in India, we’re relying on company information for trends. Over the past couple o…
Mobile Web 2.0 Revenues To Reach $22.4 Billion By 2013: Report
The global market for Mobile Web 2.0 (social networking, user-generated content, mobile search and mobile instant messaging) will be increas…
India Had 261 Mobile Million Subs End March; Only 3.9 Million Broadband Subs
As per a TRAI release, India became the second largest wireless network in the world, by the end of March. India now has over 261.09 million…
Mobile Extends Web Reach 13 Percent: Report
The mobile internet increases the audience reach of leading websites by an average of 13 percent, according to Nielsen. The metrics company…
Trust In Ads Correlates To Control (Hence Mobile Banner Ads Not Trusted): Report
Forrester Research has sent us some figures from its North American Technographics Technology, Media, and Marketing Benchmark Survey, Q3 200…
Mobile Game Industry Maturing: Report
The number of new businesses entering the mobile games industry peaked in 2003, but the total number of active companies is still increasing…
3 Billion Mobile Coupons By 2011: Report
Almost 3 billion mobile coupons will be sent to mobile phones by 2011, with just under $7 billion worth of discounts being redeemed accordin…
30 Percent Interested In Mobile Coupons: Report
The NYT has gotten a bit metaphysical by asking “Is a coupon still a coupon if you can
Global Mobile Search Advertising To Hit $5 Billion By 2013: Report
Global mobile search advertising will grow from $813 million this year to $5 billion by 2013, according to predictions by ABI Research. The…
1.5 Billion Open-Internet Browsers In Use By 2013: Report
ABI Research has issued a prediction that by 2013 there will be 1.5 billion browsers that support the latest capabilities such as AJAX and R…
India Ranked 50 By World Economic Forum On Network Readiness Index
India scored 4.06 garnering a rank of 50 out of 127 countries on a Networked Readiness Index (NRI) ranking for 2007-200. The report publishe…
FICCI-PwC: Online Advertising At Rs. 2.7 Bn; Gaming, Animation & VFx At Rs. 13 Bn
With FICCI Frames a little over a week away, FICCI has released a summary of its annual report on the Indian Entertainment and Media Industr…
Mobile Ads Getting High Response Rates: Report
With so much confusion about how much the mobile advertising market is worth and how fast it will develop (See post from Sunday), I wanted t…
@ MWC: Content Users Go Off-Portal But Find Barriers To Adoption
Mobile media users are creatures of habit but are willing to find content in far-flung places. A report published in Barcelona by mobile val…
Telecom Roundup: Hughes-Kiosks; BSNL-Broadbad; Mobile Subs; Laptop Sales
[by Cerius Shah]
— Hughes India has inked a deal wtih Comat Technologies to provide 10,000 broadband kiosks. Out of the 10,000 kiosks, 200…
Spurt In Number Of Mobile Web Sites
The mobile web is taking off! Sort of… A study by JupiterResearch (Mobile web sites: Designing for mobility) reports that about 40 percent…
A Quarter Of Marketers Use Mobile, Text And Banner Most Popular: Survey
Market research firm Advertiser Perceptions has released the results of its Wave Eight survey of marketers, showing that 26 percent said the…
83 Percent Of Mobile Music Sideloaded: Report
The most common method of getting music onto a phone is sideloading, which accounted for 83 percent of mobile music usage across France, Ger…
Mobile Marketing Worth $24 Billion By 2013: Report
The global mobile marketing industry was worth $1.8 billion in 2007 and is expected to grow to $24 billion by 2013, according to ABI Researc…
US Mobile Music Worth $1 Billion In 2012: Report
Digital music in the United States will increase from $1.98 billion in 2007 to $5.34 billion in 2012 according to the Yankee Group, but mobi…
220 Million Ringtones Sold In US In 2007, Mostly Mastertones: Report
Nielsen has released some figures for the US music industry in 2007, showing either good news (overall unit purchases are up) or bad news (a…
More Than A Third Of US Consumers Using Their Phones As Entertainment Devices
Thirty-six percent of American consumers use their mobile phones as entertainment devices, says a new survey from Deloitte & Touche, up from…
Mobile Still Seen As A Casual Gaming Platform: Report
Despite ever-advanced handsets and software, a new report says consumers still perceive mobile phones as casual gaming devices, reports Cell…
US Residential Mobile Phone Spending In 2007 Set To Surpass Landlines
US residential spending on mobile phone service in 2007 should surpass the amount spent on landlines for the first time, the AP reports. Gov…
I-Cube Report: Young User Base Spending Time Online Mostly For Information And Entertainment
The IAMAI-IMRB I-Cube report posits that, of an active user base of 32 million users in 30 cities in India, around 33 percent are Young Men,…
Future of Mobile Content And Premium Services in India: Research & Discussion Panel
Last week Stanford University hosted a discussion panel titled “Indian Wireless Market — Why Mobile?, Why India?, Why Now?”, discussing the…
Not So Fast With Mobile Ads
Mobile advertising is the “in thing” right now when it comes to finding a business model for mobile content, and there have been some pretty…
Video Messaging To Hit $10 Billion In 2012: Report
ABI Research has predicted that mobile video messaging will grow at an annual compound growth rate of nearly 60 percent, to hit $10 billion…
One In Eight US Households Has Gone Mobile-Only, Study Says
A new survey from the federal government says that 13.6 percent of American households have abandoned landlines and now only use mobile phon…
I-Cube Report: India’s Active Internet User Base At 32 Million
As per the annual I Cube report from the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International, the number of active Inter…
Mobile Music $11 Billion, 30 Percent Of Total By 2011: Report
Mobile music will make up almost 30 percent of global retail music value by 2011 — around $11 billion, according to UK analysts Understandi…
35 Percent Of US Tweens Have A Mobile; 5 Percent Use The Mobile Internet: Report
Nielsen has released some figures on the mobile habits of US tweens (8-12 years), noting that 35 percent of the age group have a mobile phon…
@ IAB Forum: CBS’ Poltrack: The Search For The Perfect, All-Encompassing Metric Is Over
It’s time to stop the quest for the all-in-one perfect data point. At least, that was the general consensus at an afternoon panel at the IAB…
Half The World Has A Mobile Phone
Informa Telecoms and Media has estimated that today “worldwide mobile penetration will hit 50 per cent – or around 3.3 billion subscriptions…
Analysts Agree — Advertising Is The Way To Monetize Mobile Content
AFP has an article arguing that advertising will be the key to putting content and services on mobile phones, and backed it up with a swarth…
Indian GSM Subscribers Reaching 160 Million
India has about 159.7 million GSM-based mobile subscribers at the end of October, according to figures released by the Cellular Operators As…
Research Roundup: GroupM On Media Investments; AdMob Handsets In India
— As per an estimate from GroupM, media investment in India is expected to exceed $5 Billion next year, and hit $10 Billion by 2011. Overal…
Mobile Video Phone Sales Double By 2010: Report
Revenue from sales of mobile video phones will double from 2006 to 2010 according to a report from Infonetics. The report states that mobile…
Content Aggregation Revenue Share $168 Million In 2011: Report
Frost & Sullivan has predicted that growth in off-deck mobile content will result in increased revenues for content aggregators, and estimat…
10 Percent Response Rate To Mobile Advertising: Report
Exactly how successful mobile advertising is has been a bone of contention for a while now, and it’s often not only the metrics that are in…
CTIA Day Two Roundup: ABC News Radio; Real Extends Games Reach; CBS Mobile; aFLIX
— mSpot has added ABC News Radio to its mobile radio lineup, which is now more than 200 channels. ABC News Radio programming brings anytime…
@ CTIA: US Mobile Subscribers Now Over 243 million, Sending More Than 1 billion SMS Daily
In the opening keynote at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment show, the trade group’s president, Steve Largent, touted some stats from it…
US Leads World On Data APRU: Report
In a report that goes against general wisdom, Informa Telecoms & Media has released a report showing that subscribers in North America have…
Ah, The Numbers: Twist Anyway You Want
A NYT piece focuses on the continued use of audience sampling via panels by NetRatings and ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR), and its variance from serv…
Nielsen Restructures Online and Mobile Divisions; Telephia Renamed
After buying Telephia, BuzzMetrics and NetRatings, Nielsen is doing a re-org its digital media measurement units: Nielsen Online and Nielsen…
SMS Ads Not As Trusted As Other Media
For all the talk on the efficacy of mobile advertising there is a suggestion that it’s not the slam-dunk of targeted personalization some pe…
Quarterly Telecom Performance Report: India’s Internet Subscriber Base Declines Marginally
The TRAI has released a report “The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators April
So Much For Organic Growth, Internet Portal TV Spends Up 190 Percent
One of our readers VAS-Guy asked a pertinent question in the comments to this post – about how many users/downloads STAR India has managed w…
IAB: H107, Q2 Online Ad Spend Numbers Show Rising Revenues, Yet Confirm Slowdown
The latest set of online ad revenue numbers from the Interactive Advertising Bureau offers further confirmation that while growth remains he…
One Source Equals Industry Watchers? Readers Beware!
So here’s why readers must not believe statistics in some news stories. This Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) article is based on data estimated by one…
SMS Advertising “Nearly Ubiquitous” In Europe; US Users Most Responsive: Report
Some people dismiss SMS advertising as annoying spam that clutters up their mobile inboxes, but others think it may be the most effective wa…
A Quarter Of European Youth use More Than Two Mobile Services: Report
JupiterResearch has conducted some research in Europe which as found that while “digital natives”, that is 15-24 year-olds, are very tech-sa…
Mobile Search Ads To Grow 112 Percent Each Year: Report
The Kelsey Group’s US Mobile Advertising Forecast has predicted that the US mobile search ad market will grow from $33.2 million in 2007 to…
It's All About Numbers
Some very imaginative wordplay from the Department of Telecommunication (DoT). ET reports that they claim India has surpassed its target of…
Community Aspects Increase Game Revenue 25 Percent; Multiplayer Doubles It: Report
A report (PDF) from Electronic Entertainment Design And Research has reached an obvious conclusion — video games of higher quality generate…
India Sees 26% More New Cellphone Subscribers Additions Than China In Q1
India added 110 million new subscribers, 26 percent more than China’s 87 million addition, in the first quarter of 2007, according to an Int…
Top 10 Asian Online Game Publishers To Clock 25% More Revenues In 2008
Revenues of top 10 online game publishers in Asia are expected to rise 25 percent to $2.5 billion in 2008 from more than $2 billion in 2006…
Russian Mobile Content Market To Grow 20 Percent In 2007
The Russian mobile content market is set to expand by 20 percent in 2007 to $420 million, up from $350 million in 2006 according to Dmitry S…
US Mobile Penetration To Hit 100 Percent By 2013: Report
Mobile phone penetration in the US will hit 84 percent by the end of this year 100 percent in 2013 predicts SNL Kagan (note that penetration…
Mobile Video Services Worth $17 Billion By 2012: Report
ABI Research has predicted that the global market value for mobile video services including video mail, video calling, and video sharing ser…
Mobile Users Turned Off By Ads: Universal McCann Survey
Not great news for the legions of mobile ad firms and the many content companies hoping to graft their ad models onto the mobile platform: a…
MySpace Leads Mobile Social Network Use in U.S., U.K.; MSN's Live Spaces Preferred On The Continent
Another set of figures released today underscores how social networks have grown in the mobile space, this time from M:Metrics. In total 12…
Social Networking To Dominate UGC On Mobiles: Report
You’ve read the announcements about all the new service launches, and now here’s some numbers to back up the business model: user-generated…
US Mobile Data Usage Grows
Mobile data in the US had a strong second quarter this, according to analyst Chetan Sharma. The US Wireless Data Market Update showed that t…
Facebook's India Visitors More Than Triple Over 6 Months, Orkut still leads
The number of visitors from India to social-networking site Facebook more than tripled to 785,000 in June 2007 from 238,000 in January, acco…
Dating Site Users Continue To Lead Matrimonial Site Registrants
In 2006, a mere 24 percent of Indian youth surfing the Net used dating and friendship sites, while 15 percent registered on matrimonial site…
Mobile Email: Are We Getting The Message Yet
Two new pieces of research into mobile email reveal some interesting stats about the service, even if widespread use is still yet to come. A…
India Mobile And Broadband Figures For June 2007
India added 7.34 million subscribers during June, taking the total number of wireless (GSM, CDMA and WLL) subscribers to 185.13 million, as…
Convergence of Landline & Mobile Phone: Nothing Stopping Us Now?
A new white paper published by the industry group 3G Americas gives a big plug to fixed-mobile convergence (meaning merging of landlines and…
Mobile Advertising to reach $2.1 billion by 2011 in US: Frost
New research released by Frost & Sullivan says that the mobile advertising market in the U.S. is going to generate $2,127.29 million in reve…
Global Web Users 2011 Population To Hit 1.5 bn Mark Boosted By India, China
Internet research firm JupiterResearch reports that the worldwide online population will see a 36 percent jump to 1.5 billion in 2011 from 1…
Greater Broadband Penetration Impossible Without Cheaper PCs, Better Infrastructure
India will not be able to meet its target for broadband penetration unless PCs are available for as low as Rs. 10,000 a piece and more peopl…
Non-SMS Data Revenues US$11.3 Billion In First Quarter
In the first quarter of this year global mobile data revenues from services other than SMS were US$11.3 billion according to Informa’s World…
Benchmarking The Presidential Candidates Mobile Campaigns
Jupiter Research analyst Julie Ask has compared the mobile component of the campaigns of the presidential candidates — at least, those whic…
Mobile Content on the Rise, Driven by Video: Report
New research from iSuppli has encouraging stats on mobile data usage worldwide. The analysts forecast that revenues from mobile content will…
Internet Ad Spends In India To Double In 2007
Media agency ZenithOptimedia expects Internet ad spend in India to more than double in 2007 and to be 10 times its current size in 2009. [vi…
Majority Find Mobile Ads Unacceptable, But More Palatable With Content
Mobile advertising is still viewed as unacceptable by the majority of people. A survey by Harris Interactive in the US shows that the most a…
India’s Internet Penetration Lowest In Asia-Pacific Region
India has the lowest Internet penetration rate at 3 percent in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a May survey by U.S.-based digital rese…
GSM Operators’ Avg Revs Per User falls, CDMA Operators’ rises
The quarterly average revenue per user (ARPU) of GSM operators slipped, while that of CDMA operators rose, the Business Standard reports. Th…
Five Percent Of Americans Sideload Music, Two Percent Download OTA: Report
A new report by JupiterResearch is being quoted around the place as indicating that people don’t want music capabilities in their mobile pho…
3G Critical For Broadband Adoption In India
The CII-BDA report on Wireless in India argues that 3G deployment in India is the solution to poor network capacity and broadband. Broadband…
Mobile Games To Generate $20 Billion By 2010: Report
A new report by Global Industry Analysts has predicted that the global mobile gaming market will cross $20 billion by 2010, which would repr…
@ OMMA: Online Video Viewers Are More Engaged, But Precise Measurements Still Difficult To Reach
More talk of metrics and the value of ads for online video at the OMMA Video conference. Recounting OPA stats on video watching, about 44 pe…
Mobile Content Market To Top US$44 Billion By 2011: Report
ISuppli Corp has predicted the market for premium mobile content will exceed $44 billion in 2011, which is a significant increase on the $35…
Half US Mobile Users Only Make Phone Calls
Almost a half (49 percent) of mobile phone owners in the US use the handset for more than making and receiving calls, according to an online…
Mobile Video Use Increases, Acceptance of Video Ads Also On The Rise: Report
Mobile video revenues in the U.S. totaled $146 million in Q1 2007, growing 198 percent year-over-year, according to new data from Telephia.…
Online Advertisers Thirsty For Reliable Data – Interactive’s Nair
While Internet businesses such as social networking and online gaming are booming in India, advertisers interested in putting their money in…
India’s Gaming Market To Hit 10 Times 2006 Levels in 2010
India’s gaming market could hit the $125 million mark in 2010, up from $13 million in 2006, according to a report by market research group i…
Are Recording Artists & Labels In South Africa Getting A Raw Deal When It Comes To Ringtones?
That’s the message of this article in The Times (of South Africa). It compares the market and methods to the “Wild West.” While the article…
Online Transactions To More Than Double In 2007-08
Railway, air and movie tickets, as well as electronic item sales are boosting e-commerce in Indian metros, according to a study by the Assoc…
Mobile Games To Grow 50 Percent In 2007, Hit $9.6 Billion By 2011: Report
The global mobile games market is on track to grow 49.9 percent in 2007 to $4.3 billion, and will hit $9.6 billion by 2011, predicts Gartner…
Teens & Young Adults Want Targeted Ads: Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent has released results of research into the preferences of teens and young adults in buying mobile content — interesting resul…
Total Users Downloading Video To their Phones Could Climb To 80 Million By 2012 — Report Says
Near-term prospects for mobile video might not give us reason to break out the champagne, but the growth trajectory is nonetheless significa…
Some Numbers From India Online 2007 Survey
Update: More data in the release here.
Updated with details from agencyfaqs
The Economic Times has some data from a Juxtconsult “India Onl…
Global Mobile Messaging Revenues Nearing $80 Billion, SMS Surprises Naysayers
Despite predictions to the contrary, SMS revenues have continued to grow year-on-year and are providing mobile network operators with their…
Mobile Advertising Rockets To $14.4 Billion By 2011 — Strategy Analytics
Another stat to add to the stack. Strategy Analytics estimates advertisers will spend $1.4 billion on mobile media this year, reaching $14.4…
Users Don’t Seek Music Phones, But Will Use Them
Although the number of music-playing mobile phones is increasing, that’s not a function of demand so much as supply. NPD has a good analysis…
US Carriers To Miss Out On $100 Million Due To Poor Usability — Strategy Analytics
Strategy Analytics has put a dollar figure on the amount of revenues carriers lose by having poorly designed portals, which they spoke about…
Mobile Advertising To Hit $9.5 Billion By 2011 — EJL
EJL Wireless Research has predicted that the global mobile advertising market will reach $9.5 billion in gross revenues by 2011, of which th…
Carriers Need To Embrace Sideloading, Or Be Threatened By It — ISuppli
The increased practice of sideloading content onto mobile phones is going to cause problems for carriers keen to sell their own content, cla…
Mobile Music Worth $12 Billion By 2011, $7.3 Billion To Labels: Report
eMarketer has predicted that the mobile music market will increase seven-fold between 2006 and 2011. “EMarketer estimates that music labels…
Does Mobile Advertising Deliver High Click-Rates & Conversion?
Mike Baker, CEO of Enpocket, is a convert and has the stats to prove it. In a guest column (via iMedia Connection), Baker reveals that mobil…
US Data APRU, Mobile User Numbers Growing
The US mobile market added about 18 million connection in 2006, and is expected grow by 9 percent this year to pass the 250 million mark by…
Teen Texting Explodes In U.S. Market, Impact Could be Bigger
The Washington Post dissects the teen text phenomenon in the U.S. and offers some reasons for the rapid growth (CTIA stats report 158 billio…
US Data Market Surpasses $5 Billion For The Quarter
The US wireless data market saw more than $5 billion in service revenues in a quarter for the first time this year, according to analyst Che…
Online Video Sales To Peak In 2007 — Forrester
Online video sites that sell shows and movies will see their revenue almost triple in 2007 to $279 million according to Forrester Research,…
46 Million Mobile Video Users By 2010 — Infonetics
Global service provider revenue from mobile video services jumped 317 percent to almost $200 million from 2005 to 2006, claims Infonetics, w…
Report Reveals U.S. Digital Divide & Shatters Assumptions About Technology Use, Attitudes
A whopping 85 percent of American access the Internet via PCs or mobile devices
Naukri Owner Info Edge Records Revenues Of Rs 147 Crore In 2006-07
Info Edge Ltd, the company which owns jobs portal Naukri.com, has announced its Q4 results. The company has posted revenues of Rs 47.29 cror…
Naukri Q4 Results Today
Info Edge India Ltd, the company which owns jobs portal Naukri.com, matrimonial portal Jeevansathi.com and property portal 99acres.com is an…
TV18’s Internet Biz Clocks Net Loss Of Rs 3.63 Cr In Q4 06-07; Web18 In Investment Mode
Television Eighteen (TV18) has announced its fourth quarter results. The company’s internet operations have registered a loss of Rs 3.63 cro…
IAB Schedules Metrics Summit With comScore And NetRatings
Nielsen NetRatings and comScore have agreed to attend a summit organized by the Interactive Advertising Bureau to sort out differences over…
Nielsen Buying Remainder Of BuzzMetrics; Plans To Merge Online Operations Into One Unit
The Nielsen Company, which already owns 58 percent of user-gen media measurement firm BuzzMetrics, is buying the remaining 42 percent of the…
Microsoft Says Indian Audience Under 19 Primarily Consume Digital Media
Microsoft is upbeat about digital advertising in India. In an interview to Agencyfaqs, Tom Bowman, the regional advertising sales director o…
7 Million Download Games Each Month In US
The NPD Group has issued a report stating that more than 29 million US users play mobile games and more than 7 million download games to the…
Mobile Game Predictions From Year To Year
Pocketgamer has gone over analyst predictions for the mobile game market for the past several years and found that the analysts had a bit of…
US Off-Deck Market At 30 Percent — Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan has released new analysis showing that off-deck mobile content accounted for about 30 percent of the total US revenues, and…
U.K. Company Plugs Metrics Gap, Aims To Be “The Nielson Of Mobile”
The power of mobile advertising is the personal pitch it can deliver to each user- a message that mobile search can amplify by adding releva…
Mobile Content v Web Content
Patrick Parodi, Chairman of the MEF, has claimed some interesting figures reports MobHappy.
–Worldwide size of the mobile content market: $…
NetRatings And Comscore Respond To IAB Critique Of Research Methods
Answering the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s call for an independent audit of the respective audience methodologies of comScore and Nielse…
Sify Turns In Maiden Net Profits Of $2.3 Million In 2006-07
Sify Ltd has turned the corner for the first time in a full financial year. The company has posted maiden net profit of $2.3 million for the…
What To Expect Next Week: David Filo In Bangalore, Sify To Announce Q4 Results
Yahoo co-founder David Filo will be in India next week. He is also addressing media in Bangalore next Wednesday. The agenda of Filo’s visit…
IAB Calls For Audits Of comScore And Nielsen/NetRatings Measurement Methods
Citing a lack of transparency and archaic methodologies, the Interactive Advertising Bureau has initiated a campaign to press comScore and N…
TRAI Report On Status Of Broadband And Mobile/Wireless For Qtr Ending Dec 2006
As per a TRAI release, for the quarter ending Dec 2006.
Broadband
— Internet Subscribers base reached 8.582 million, up 6 percent from 8.09…
Cameraphones Destroying Wallpaper Business –M:Metrics
M:Metrics has released figures showing that the proportion of mobile phones in the US with camera functions has now passed 50 percent (106 m…
Americans Want Video & Movie Content, Survey Concludes
Attitudes about Internet connected devices are changing, and it’s easy to imagine a world where all TV and movie content is portable, accord…
Nielsen To Use Handsets To Measure Out Of Home TV Watching
Nielsen has teamed up with Integrated Media Management to measure TV viewing that takes place outside the home. The process involves 3000 pa…
World Of Warcraft Grabs 75 Percent Of MMO Time
Xfire, which connects gamers and lets them know when their friends are playing, has released some statistics about the usage of online games…
Mobile Subscriber Numbers For March 2007; Stats From iSuppli Report
GSM
Metros: Total – 21,958,514; an increase of 637,007 or 2.98 percent
A’ Circle: Total – 42,680,298; an increase of 1,963,031 or 4.82 perce…
Mobile Marketing And Advertising To Be $3 Billion By 2008 — ABI Research
The global market for mobile advertising and marketing will be about $3 billion by the end of 2007, according to ABI Research. There’s no me…
Mobile Music Users Prefer Ad-Supported — Telephia
A survey released by Arbitron and Telephia (of over 2,000 US mobile users) about mobile audio usage has found that users prefer an ad-suppor…
U.S. Adults Closing Gap In SMS/MMS Use & Adopting Mobile Data Services, Study Says
A recent survey of American cell phone users conducted by Ipsos MORI on behalf of LogicaCMG Telecoms reveals that users aged 18 to 24 are dr…
Mobile Services Market $11.2 Billion At 2006 End; Operators Two Years Capex Estimated At $20 Billion
A Research and Markets report pegs the Indian Mobile Services market at $11.2 billion at the end of 2006.The research expects significant gr…
Global Mobile Content Revenue Was $16.4 Billion In 2006 — iSuppli
Although voice ARPU fell by an average of 5 percent for the 13 key global wireless carriers profiled by iSuppli’s Mobile Multimedia service…
US Data Revenue Increased 77 Percent In 2006 — CTIA
Total data service revenues in the US for 2006 was $15.2 billion, a 77 percent increase over the figure in 2005 ($8.6 billion) according to…
US Ringtone Market To Fall 8 Percent In 2007 — BMI
US performing rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI) has predicted that the US ringtone market will fall by $50 million in 2007, dow…
M:Metrics Launches Direct Continuous Measurment Of Mobile Content And Services Usage
I spoke to M:Metrics about a new metrics service they will launch on Monday, dubbed MeterDirect, which will follow a panel of users who down…
Mobile Gaming, Licensing Vs Original IP — NPD Group
NPD Group has released some figures for mobile game usage in the US, showing incremental growth. One thing that stood out is a chart of the…
Using Mobile Community Site Itsmy.com
User generated mobile community site GoFresh has released some statistics from its US userbase of itsmy.com. The statistics (which are on th…
Comparing Surveys On Mobile Content And Marketing
The New York Times has an article on mobile web use based on the findings of a survey by the Online Publishers Association (which we wrote a…
5 Percent Of Broadband Users Use Mobile Internet — Survey
Research firm Media Screen has released a report (Netpop | Pocket) measuring the rate at which general broadband users use the mobile intern…
Report: Media And Entertainment Industry At Rs 43,700 Crore
According to a FICCI-PWC report, the Media and Entertainment industry is currentyl at Rs. 43,700 crore, and is expected to grow at a CAGR of…
comScore Hopes New Metric Will Add Clarity — And Please Publishers, Hold Off Auditor
Despite the promise that measuring an online audience would be much easier than doing so in other media, it’s still pretty hard to figure ou…
Wireless Users Bright Spot For US Media
A recent report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) has issued its annual report State of the News Media, with mostly bad ne…
Mobile Content Worth $35 Billion By 2011, $19.3 To Content Providers
iSuppli Corp has predicted the mobile content market will grow to $35.3 billion by 2011 — $7.5 billion of that will go to platform provider…
Russian Mobile Users Shy Away From Talking & Texting, But Buy Content
Despite a high level of mobile penetration, Russian users tend not to use their devices for more than voice, Telecomweb reports. While the a…
India Targets Nine Million Broadband Subscriber Base By 2007
The Indian government hopes to achieve a broadband base of nine million subscribers this year. India’s Communications and Information Techno…
India’s GSM Base Stands At 115 Million Subscribers As Of February ’07
India has added 4.9 million GSM subscribers in February 2007 to take the total GSM base to 115 million. The CDMA operators are yet to releas…
India’s Internet Population Grew 33 Per Cent, Fastest In The World: comScore Networks
Indian online businesses can take heart from this news item. India has emerged as the fastest growing country of Internet users, surpassing…
US Q4 Mobile Game Sales $151 Million — Telephia
According to Telephia mobile game sales in the US for the fourth quarter last year reached $151 million, and increase of 61 percent over the…
Asians Keen On Ad-Supported Content, Mobile Music: Survey
[By James Quintana Pearce of our sister site MocoNews.net] A survey by MindShare Asia Pacific Insights across the Asia Pacific region shows…
Mobile Content Usage is Higher in Developing Countries
Mobile users in developing countries are more interested in mobile content and services than other countries, reports ClickZ. That shouldn’t…
New Research Details U.S. Wireless Use: 34 Percent Have Surfed The Wireless Net
A new, fact-packed survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows more users are logging on to the wireless Internet using mobile…
Handango Releases Revealing Smartphone, Content Download Data
Handango, a provider of smartphone content, has released its special 2006 year end edition of the Handango Yardstick, a global report on the…
Mobile Phone Buyers Look At More Than Price — NPD Group
NPD Group has issued a survey on what people look for when buying mobile phone handsets — price came in as the 12th most important criteria…
Music Roundup: Charts To Reflect Reality, Nora Jones Perseveres, and The Police Looked Really Old
The bloated Grammy Awards show Sunday night did not reflect the many changes happening in the music business now. In the UK, the BBC reports…
Simplifying The Mobile Interface For Rural Users…
An interesting article from IANS on a ‘Story Bank’ project in rural India by an NGO called Voices, in collaboration with the University if S…
Mobile Content And Services To Hit $150 Billion By 2011 — Informa
Informa Telecoms & Media has predicted that the global market for all mobile content and (non-voice) services will grow to $150 billion by 2…
Promotional Placement Doubles Game Sales
Telephia has reported that getting good placement on carrier decks increases mobile game sales — a result which should surprise no-one. Tel…
Gfk Forms Mobile Tracking Company
Research company Gfk has launched a joint venture with European company Media-Control called Gfk M2, which will use data provided weekly by…
Off-Portal Advertising Flourishes, One Billion Ads Served in Six Months
AdMob Inc., the mobile advertising marketplace for content owners and advertisers, has served a whopping one billion mobile web advertisemen…
Q3 Earnings: Naukri.com Revenues Grow 71% At Rs 36.29 Crore, Net Profits At Rs 8.1 Crore
Info Edge, the owners of Naukri.com, has announced the Q3 FY07 results. The company has recorded net revenues of Rs 36.29 crore ($8 million…
Q3 Earnings: TV18 Net Up 20%; Internet Revenues Gaining Traction
Television Eighteen has announced its Q3 FY07 numbers. The consolidated revenues stood at Rs 64.8 crore in Q3 for the period ending December…
Operators Widen Target For Mobile Gaming
Modojo has a piece from M:Metrics about mobile gaming, with a nice graph charting all the different segments for the last 6 months. Of more…
European Online Content Market Set to Grow 400 Percent, Roadblocks For Mobile
A new report from the European Commission is bullish on the potential for creative online content. It estimates revenue from online content…
Post-Q3 Earnings: Rediff Gets A Thumbs Up, Sify Downgrade
Post Q3 earnings, the investor community has greeted India’s two Nasdaq-listed internet companies differently. While Rediff.com has got a th…
Q3 Earnings: CyberMedia Sales Grew 30.8%, Net Up 44.5%
Leading Indian specialty media house CyberMedia has registered a total income of Rs 28.7 crore in the third quarter ended December 2006, up…
M:Metrics On Measuring Mobile Games Market Share
RCRWireless has a piece by Seamus McAteer of M:Metrics about measuring the market share of mobile games companies. There are some interestin…
Russian Mobile Downloads Show Slow Growth
The Russian mobile entertainment market grew 25 percent in 2006 to hit $408 million, according to iKS-Consulting in Kommersant, but the pred…
Gartner Says Global Mobile Music Market Will Soar, Over US$32 Billion By 2010
Despite competition from digital music players, schemes that relegate the mobile to the position of a mere storage device, and rampant disap…
Rediff Conference Call: Pay-per-click Model Driving Growth; Denies Selling Out
Here are the highlights of the Rediff conference call (transcripts here) with analysts on the Q3 financial results:
Performance-based advert…
25 Percent Of Finns Use Mobile Web — Survey
A survey by Satama has shown that Finns are pretty high users of mobile content and services. Some stats for the general population in 2006:…
Q3 Earnings: Rediff Registers 54% Growth In Revenues At $7.75 Million; India Contributes Most
Riding on a boom in Indian online busness, Rediff.com India Ltd (Nasdaq, REDF.O) has announced a 54 per cent growth in revenues in the third…
Q3 Earnings: Sify's Revenues Grow 15.8% To $31.5 Million, Profits $0.94 Million
Sify Ltd, a leading Indian portal and internet access company, has announced the results for the third quarter ended 31st December 2006. The…
@Digital Summit: Community Sites = Nightclubs? Credible? Education Napster
The IAMAI Digital Summit was held at the Maurya Sheraton in Delhi on the 18th and 19th of January. Day one started off with Professor Jeffer…
The Q3 Earnings Calendar
Sify Ltd – January 22
Rediff.com India – January 23
Info Edge (Naukri.com) – January 29
The Downside Of Stellar Growth: Mobile Ad Industry Hit By Skills Shortage
Hype or not, the growing interest in mobile advertising has resulted in a growing skills shortage and a lack of qualified staff among mobile…
Mobile And Broadband Subscriber Figures For December 2006
According to the TRAI, 6.48 million wireless subscribers were added in December 2006, taking the total number of wireless subscribers (GSM,…
Rediff To Announce Q3 Results on January 23
Rediff.com India Ltd will announce its third quarter (for the period ending December 31, 2006) results on January 23. It will release the re…
@ Napte Mobile++: M:Metrics On Mobile Social Networks
Will Hodgman, President & CEO of M:Metrics Inc, spent five minutes at Napte Mobile++ giving some stats and opinions on social networking. He…
The Focus Is On Delivering Digital Media & Content As Market Nears Critical Mass
This article outlines recent iSuppli research which tracks the impact of convergence across multiple industries. In a word:
U.S. Mobile Marketing & Advertising Set To Double, Conversions Fuel Growth
The jury is still out on whether U.S. consumers will actually accept mobile advertising to subsidize their mobile content or service experie…
Top Selling Ringtones In US For 2006
Nielsen Ringscan has announced the top-selling mastertone and polyphonic ringtones in the United States for 2006, in a release that includes…
Mobile Video Set To Drive Mobile Sports, Leisure and Information Content Market
New research from Juniper Research claims mobile video, enabled on 3G networks, will drive the uptake of mobile sports, leisure and informat…
New Research Identifies Three
Mobile content distributor Buongiorno has published new research into how people view non-voice mobile services. The results (part of the co…
Subscription Services To Drive Mobile Game Growth — IDC
IDC is predicting that subscription services will drive the growth of mobile games over the next few years, with the number of mobile game p…
Is The Outlook For Mobile Entertainment Really So Rosy?
This critical article from eMarketer takes a hard look at the recent reports circulating in the press, and their underlying methodology. For…
Swisscom Social Network Usage Figures
It’s pretty rare for a company to release usage figures for the start of their offering, so social networking company Phling’s figures of it…
Mobile Content Doubles To US$38.1 Billion By 2011 — Informa
Informa Telecoms and Media has made a prediction that the mobile entertainment market will grow from US$18.8 billion in revenues in 2006 to…
174 Million In Mobile Social Networks By 2011 — ABI
ABI Research has predicted that the number of people in mobile social communities worldwide will grow from 50 million currently to 174 milli…
C-DAC, Enable M Develop Mobile Literacy Tool Using AI
Centre For Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Enable M, a Mumbai-based mobile technology company, announced that thay have develo…
More Digital Sales Numbers; Nielsen Paints Brighter Picture
Don’t think I remember a week when people cared this much about digital music numbers. After all the fuss about iTunes sparked by people jum…
Teens Big Users Of Social Media — M:Metrics
M:Metrics has released a study showing that young people use social media and other user-gen services disproportionately more than other age…
U.S. Consumers Lack Enthusiasm For Mobile Entertainment Services, Price Is Main Issue
A new survey of over 2,500 mobile users, conducted by IDC, reveals a dangerously ho-hum attitude toward mobile data services. Nearly 75% of…
Mobile Security Market To Near $5 Billion By 2011
Juniper Research has predicted that the mobile security market will be worth almost US$5 billion by 2011. As well as the inevitable predicti…
Mobile Music And Declining CD Sales
Digital music is offsetting the decline in CD sales (a back-of-an-envelope calculation saw a 4.6% decline in album sales reduced to a 0.7% i…
Content Niche On Mobile — But Still Big
The International Herald Tribune has an article on mobile games, and how the big money is in casual games rather than more advanced 3D title…
Kids Embrace Mobile Web But Are Unwilling To Pay For Content
NMA writes that “a generation of young consumers is growing up believing that mobile content should be free”. The survey of 1,477 children b…
Mobile Phones Don’t Cause Cancer — Danes
A broad study covering the entire population of Denmark has concluded there is no increased cancer risk associated with using mobile phones.…
Cingular, Sprint Are “Poor Performers” — Consumer Reports
Independent review and rating magazine Consumer Reports has done a piece on the mobile industry, and ranked the industry with other “perenni…
Bullish Outlook For Targeted Mobile Advertising
A new study from ABI Research estimates that global mobile advertising revenues will amount to $1.9 billion this year. That sounds like a lo…
Content And Applications Add Complexity To Mobile Service Segmentation
Seamus McAteer, senior analyst for M:Metrics, has detailed a cluster analysis of the groups of people that use different mobile services –…
Russian Mobile Content Revenue Up 30% In 2006 — Analyst
Russian mobile content revenues are expected to increase by 30% this year to US$390 million, according to J’son&Partners consultancy. The gr…
Internet Connections Growing At 25%; Broadband 20% Of The Total Connections;
A Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) paper (PDF file) on the internet access and tariffs suggests that broadband is taking off in…
Americans Would Surf Mobile Web If It Was Better — Molecular
Analyst Molecular has released a spot survey (Kelton Research conducted the survey between November 2nd and November 8th, 2006, targeting 1,…
More U.S. Users Tune In To Mobile Music Download Services, Video Still Nascent
A new report released by independent market research firm Ipsos is upbeat on the outlook for mobile music services. Based on data collected…
Nokia Profiles Mobile Gaming Habits
Nokia conducted 1800 face to face interviews in six countries – 300 each in China, Germany, India, Spain, Thailand and the United States – b…
Digital Music Market To Approach $14.9 Billion By 2010 — iSuppli
EMS Now: Analyst iSuppli has predicted that the worldwide digital music market (mobile and broadband) will reach $14.9 billion in revenue by…
ICICI Direct Says It Has Crossed 1 Million In Online Trading Customer Base
ICICI Direct, the online trading arm of ICICI Bank, claims it has crossed 1 million online trading subscribers, and this makes, according to…
Indians Form 28% Of Immigrant Entrepreneurs In US
Indians are a key factor in the success of US entrepreneurship especially in the tech areas. According to a latest study, Indians account fo…
IAMAI-IMRB I-Cube Report: Citywise Segmentation Of Internet Usage
Another installment from the IAMAI-IMRB I-Cube report: according to an IAMAI release, Mumbai has the highest number of active Internet users…
Russian Mobile Marketing Market At $15 M For 2006
Analysts J’son&Partners has predicted the Russian mobile marketing market will amount to US$15 million in 2006, and grow about 30% in 2007.…
Record Labels To Take Over Ringtone Market — Analyst
Research And Markets has issued a report claiming that record labels will take over from mobile companies as producers of ringtones because…
Ringtone Market Will Grow — Juniper Research
RCR News: Juniper Research has taken issue with analysts who predict declining sales of ringtones as consumers realise they can just use MP3…
Diverging Views Between US And Europe On Mobile Content
Finfacts: Valista has surveyed attendees at London’s Mobile Content World and the Digital Hollywood Fall in Santa Monica, California, to fin…
Q2 Earnings: Rediff Sales Up 53%, Net Profits Zoom By 383%; Indian Ad Revenues Double
India’s leading portal Rediff.com has announced its Q2 results for the period ended September 30, 2006. The company has put up a good show m…
Moblogs To Stay Niche — ABI Research
Mobile blogging (moblogging) will remain a niche activity unless there is a drastic change in market conditions, according to ABI Research.…
Cybercafe’s Preferred For Internet Access, But Home Access Catching Up
According to the IAMAI-IMRB I-Cube 2006 report, which is being released in piecemealed manner, the share of Cyber Cafe’s for Internet access…
Different Age Groups Have Different Game-Buying Habits
NPD Group has released a US study pointing out the different things that influence different age groups when buying mobile games. “Those age…
Rediff To Announce Q2 Results On November 7
Rediff.com India Ltd, a leading Indian portal, will release its results for the Second Quarter (ended September 30, 2006) on Tuesday, Novemb…
TV18 Records Rs 5.3 Crore In Internet Revenues In Q2 2006
Television Eighteen Group (TV18), the leading TV and internet media company, has announced its second quarter results. The company’s interne…
The Value Of Customers With Demand For On-Demand Mobile Content
Compete interviewed 2,005 customers shopping for a mobile phone in the US about what was important to them. The PDF of the report is here, w…
Mobile Marketing Spending Will Double By 2011 — Jupiter
Jupiter Research has predicted that spending on mobile marketing will reach $2.90 billion by 2011, up from $1.40 billion this year. It goes…
Mobile Music To Hit US$13 Billion By 2011 — Informa
Informa Telecoms & Media predicts that over US$13 billion will be generated by all forms of mobile music by 2011, with most of this still co…
Mobile Social Networking Exploding
UPDATE: Informa has issued a press release on these figures, pinpointing it at $13.1 billion from mobile communities and user generated cont…
Cybermedia Dice Job Board Makes Operating Losses Of Rs 14 Million In H1 06-07
Indian specialty media house Cybermedia is yet to turn profitable in its job board business. Cybermedia Dice, the joint venture between the…
The Mobilization Of Home Video
Here’s an interesting article about the video-sharing services on various operators…there’s an insight into 3UK’s See Me TV service — “Ho…
More Europeans Surf The Mobile Web Than Americans
In a relatively unsurprising result, the comScore Mobile Tracking Study found that more Europeans used the mobile web than Americans…29% o…
Microsoft Survey: Kiosk Usage In Rural India
According to a 120 day tracking of 13 kiosks in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, using their Vibelog software, the following is the break-up o…
Diwali Shopping: Online Sales To Touch Rs 250 Cr, Up From Rs 115 Cr Last Year
The Hindu: It’s Diwali time again, and here are some numbers on online shopping. According to IAMAI, online sales are expected to grow more…
Presentations On Mobile Marketing And Advertising
Chetan Sharma has a piece on mobile marketing, starting by looking at Japan as an indication of where Europe and the US will head. “Accordin…
Mobile Multiplayer Not “Killer App” — EA
Mike McCabe, Director of mobile content at EA Mobile Asia, has given an interview about mobile gaming in general, and in India specifically.…
IAMAI-IMRB Intl I-Cube Report On Internet Usage
Questions have been raised about the actual number Internet users in India, and the figure of 37mn seemed improbable. Now, the IAMAI-IMRB In…
Mobile Internet Usage To Pick Up In 2007
Jupiter Research analyst Sharon Armbrust has outlined her thinking for an increase in consumer use of mobile internet next year. She argues…
Digital Music Drives First Half Music Sales
Sales of digital music increased 106% year-on-year in the first half of 2006 to US$945 million, up from US$134 million in the first half of…
8 Million US Mobile Video Takers — Telephia
Telephia released some figures in response to Google buying YouTube, I’m not sure whether they’ve been seen before but I figure there’re wor…
Indians Use The Internet For Research, More Than Email And Chat: Study
Here is a latest study by Internet And Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) which says that E-mail and chat are no longer primary internet tr…
US Gaming Spans All Segments
There’s a widespread belief that mobile games differ from other games because the majority (generally put at around 55%) are female. However…
Women Are The Growth Engine For Mobile Content Consumption
Seamus McAteer, senior analyst for M:Metrics, has outlined why he thinks women are the driving force behind growth in the mobile content ind…
Mobile Games Worth $10 Billion Globally By 2010
Some of this release was reported earlier, but there’s a few things that weren’t mentioned…
“Juniper Research estimates that global revenu…
Shortcodes In Ads Work — M:Metrics
M:Metrics has released a study which found that a relatively high number of mobile users have responded to shortcodes in ads: “With Spain to…
Targeted Ads More Acceptable To Mobile Users
Enpocket got Harris Interactive to survey more than 1,200 mobile internet users across the US, Europe and India, which revealed that consume…
Why Carriers Don’t Get It (Because They Do)
This article tries to answer the question of why a typical carrier position on mobile content is: “Yes, compelling mobile content and servic…
Telephia: Mobile TV Metrics, Viewing In Afternoon
Prime time for mobile TV viewing (including video clips) has its prime time in the afternoon and early evening, between noon and 8pm. “Accor…
Nielsen Adds Verizon To Mobile Content Stats
“Nielsen Mobile has announced that Verizon Wireless will provide weekly ring tones, Ringback Tones, and full-length over-the-air music downl…
The Future Of Mobile Games, A Split
Mobile games are likely to split into two industries — low cost casual games and high cost hardcore games, but carriers are losing interest…
The IRCTC Deal: Kaufman Bros Puts A ‘Buy’ On Sify With Price Traget Of $13
New York-based equity research firm Kaufman Bros has put a “buy” on Sify stock. The main reason, of course, is the Indian portal-cum-interne…
UK Leads In Mobile Music Consumption, US In Ringtones
M:Metrics is reporting that mobile users in the UK are the most likely to use mobile phones as music players — although that number is stil…
4M US Subscribers To Mobile TV By The End Of 2007 — ABI Research
ABI Research has predicted that there’ll be 4 million people in the US receiving entertainment and information on their wireless handsets vi…
IAMAI & Pinstorm To Release Report On Search Engine Marketing In India
According to a IAMAI-Pinstorm research titled “The State of Search Engine Marketing in India”, over 40,000 marketers are using search engine…
IAMAI-IMRB Survey Puts India’s Internet User Base At 37 Million; To Touch 54 Million By March 2008
The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has released the latest numbers on India’s internet population. In a joint research car…
What Teens Want On Mobile — Survey
Here’s a survey I missed but Emily picked up: Online Lets Talk has published the results of a survey of 1200 US teenagers aged 10-18.
The ag…
Mobile TV Audience Grew 45% In Q2 — Telephia
Telephia has released some new figures for CTIA. “The mobile TV audience grew 45 percent to 3.7 million subscribers in Q2 2006…Total quart…
European Mobile Games Slowdown: “Just Growing Pains”
European ad spending is shifting away from mobile gaming to mobile music and TV, according to research by Informa. It forecasts a slowdown f…
It’s Semi-Official: Advertising Is The Mobile Business Model
This is has been gradually building from “users will change carriers if they get mobile advertising” a year or so ago to “users won’t pay f…
CII To Release Whitepaper On Digital Rights Management Next Week
India’s premier industry body Confederation of Indian Industry – which usually lobbies for big industries like cement, steel and telecom – i…
Web Portals Double Their Adspend On TV This Year; MonsterIndia Spends The Most
Internet portals have started splurging money again on advertising in TV. The portals have doubled their adspend in TV in the first half of…
Statistics Behind Mobile Game Purchases
Neil Strother, The NPD Group’s Research Director, Mobile Devices, Content and Services, has provided some statistics into mobile purchasing…
Internet Medium’s Reach At 1.2% Of Population, Mobile 2.7%: NRS 2006
India’s National Readership Survey 2006 has something for the digital media space too since it has started tracking online and mobile media…
Long Form Mobile Video A Long Term Winner
In-Stat has released an announcement claiming that long form video (ie, more than 30 minutes) will “begin to gain traction and demonstrate i…
2.2 Million Internet Users In Urban India Actively Buy Online: Survey
According to a Juxtconsult survey, only a quarter of 21 million urban internet population buy online, while just 10 per cent of it are activ…
Efficient Billing As Important As Next-Gen Networks
eMarketer has combined some numbers from Telephia and Forrester here and run them through some analysis to work out why the number of people…
Ukrainian Mobile Content Market Worth $30 Million Over 6 Months
Ukraine’s mobile content services market garnered $30 million in the first six months of this year, according to ComNews Research, and that…
US Mobile Game Average Revenues $46.9 Million — Telephia
Telephia has released its Mobile Game rankings for Q2 2006, showing that nearly 13.5 million US mobile subscribers downloaded a game in the…
Mobile Users Want Streaming Music
In-Stat claims mobile users are beginning to accept video, although not as fast as they accept music…based on a survey of over 1,000 US mo…
Web Searches Provide Insight On Consumer Interest In Content, MVNOs
Compete has released some findings into people’s online search habits, and how it relates to the mobile industry. It shows that the growth i…
mobileYouth 2006 — It’s Social, Stupid
The Wireless World Forum has released its 196-page mobileYouth report for 2006, with the press release trumpeting the statistic that childre…
InfoSpace Sees Mobile As A Second Chance
“We have a leadership position here (in mobile) and we don’t online, and that’s just a fact of the matter,” said InfoSpace’s Chief Executiv…
Ukrainian Mobile Content Market Numbers, First Half 2006
ComNews Research has put together some interesting numbers on the mobile content market in Ukraine….market growth has slightly slowed down…
India Has The Ninth Largest Online Population; Growing Fast Too
The Hindu: Here are some numbers on India’s internet population (it’s different from Indian Internet And Mobile Association’s figures since…
Mobile Video To Reach $5.6 billion By 2009
Infonetics has released a report (Mobile Video Devices, Services, and Subscribers) predicting that “mobile video services around the world i…
Current Mobile Gamers Won’t Drive Growth
Informa Telecoms & Media has released a report predicting that mobile games will grow to a US$7.2 billion business worldwide by 2011. Most o…
Mobile Internet Population Grows
Telephia has reported that the number of people in the US using the mobile internet is growing. The US Device Census Report for Q2 2006 show…
US Wireless Data Usage Jumps; At $7 Billion in H1
Some good figures about the US wireless data market, released by telco analyst Chetan Sharma: worth over $7 billion in the first half of 200…
US MVNOs Doing It Wrong — Strategy Analytics
Strategy Analytics has condemned the content-focused strategy of recent MVNOs…”The new wave of MVNOs has failed to learn lessons from its…
European Mobile Gaming Set For Steady Growth
According to Frost & Sullivan the European mobile gaming market will be worth â
Aussie Wireless Music Half Of Digital Music By 2010 — IDC
IDC Australia has released a report that Australia’s Paid Music Service Provider market (which seems to cover online and mobile distribution…
446 Million Watching TV on Their Cell Phones By 2011 — IMS
“IMS Research forecasts that by the end of 2011, nearly half a billion people will be watching TV on their cellular handsets. Driven primari…
More Cameraphones Means More Photo Messaging — M:Metrics
M:Metrics has reported that camera phone ownership is climbing, and with it photo messaging (MMS, I assume) is also climbing. “At 50.7 perce…
Ringtone Sales Growing And Changing — Telephia
The number of US mobile users who bought a ringtone in the second quarter of this year increased to 24.6 million, according to Telephia. Mon…
Fall Of Covertones Causes Russian Royalties To Soar
Russian content providers are reporting that the amount of royalties they’re paying out for mobile music has soared, “as many mobile users n…
Mobile Music Revenue Set to Soar — Juniper
Juniper Research has predicted that mobile music will top $14 billion worldwide by 2011, with much of the growth coming from over the air fu…
VimpelCom’s Top 10 Russian Content Distributors
The page linked to is in Russian — I got the following translation from the Russian Mobile Content Newsletter.
The list is from mobile oper…
How To Market Online In India?
MarketingSherpa has a report on how to market online in India. The study is freely accessible till 4th August. Check it out.
IAMAI Members Differ On Online Matrimonial Market Estimates
If the chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India is Anupam Mittal, the CEO of Shaadi.com, what can you expect? What else, a study…
Pune University To Study Readership Behaviour Of Online Editions Of Indian Newspapers
The Department of Communication and Journalism at Pune University is undertaking a study on the “Changing Profile of Readership of Indian Ne…
US Mobile TV/Video Market To Expand — IDC
IDC has predicted that around 24 million US mobile users will be paying for some form of TV/Video content and services on their mobile devic…
Fudging The Mobile Numbers
Analyst Dean Bubley has written what he sees as the top ten fudges used in mobile statistics…worth a read.
Indian e-Commerce Market Close To $1 Billion
eStatsIndia.com, an internet research agency, has released some numbers on Indian e-commerce scene – both b2c as well as b2b. According to t…
Click Fraud On A Rise In India
Financial Times (via MSNBC): Barring the US and Canada, India contributed the highest number of bogus clicks, a bane of online advertising.…
PC Penetration Zooms To 18 Per 1000 People, Up From 6.3/1,000 In 2000-01
Business Standard: This should be good news for internet businesses. PC penetration in- India has almost trebled to 18 per 1,000 people in…
M:Metrics: Top Ten US Mobile Games, Publishers
M:Metrics has released the top ten US mobile games titles and publishers for the month of May. If you add up some numbers it can be seen tha…
Positive Response To Mobile TV During World Cup
The results of the DMB mobile TV trial during the FIFA World Cup were more or less positive, according to the Bavarian Regulatory Authority…
Slow Adoption for Mobile Video
A new study by Knowledge Networks, How People Use Mobile Video, has found that half the people who subscribe to mobile video services don’t…
Half Of Mobile Data Virgins Say Never Again
A survey by NOP has found that 29% of people using data services during the FIFA World Cup were doing so for the first time, a thumbs up for…
Kids Keen On Mobile TV
More research on the demand for mobile TV — this one specifies 10-12 year olds and is pretty positive. UK market research company Quaestor…
French Mobile Ad Spend Hits EUR 2.4 Million in Jan-April
(sub. req.) So says this story, quoting data from TNS Media: its says mobile advertising reached EUR 2.4 million in the first four months of…
Gotuit Awarded Latest Patent On Video Search Across Multiple Platforms
Gotuit MediaCorp., a digital media company focused on on-demand video products to cable, broadband and mobile, has been awarded its latest p…
39% Of Mobile Games Played Come With Phone — Telephia
Telephia has released some more mobile games statistics, these showing that 39% of the mobile games played are pre-loaded on the phone, whil…
86% Of Indian Net Users Read Blogs; 41% Prefer Local Language Sites: Survey
The Economic Times: Here are a few survey findings about the behaviour of internet users in India. About 86% of the 25 million odd internet…
Maps, Weather & Directory Info Dominate Mobile Content Revenue
Telephia has released a report on the top ten mobile application downloads by revenue share. Of the content purchased, 61% was from repeat p…
Europeans Only Want Messaging — JupiterResearch
JupiterResearch has released survey findings showing that “the majority of European consumers – some 68 per cent – are not interested in pay…
Women Dominate Mobile Gaming, Says Another Study
Women is an important constituency for mobile gaming. Period. A recent study by Telephia had shown that a 65 percent of mobile game revenue…
Mobile TV Trial Success in Australia
The DVB-H mobile TV trial in Sydney is being considered a success, with 80% of trialists reporting they like the ability to watch TV on thei…
2 Million Mobile TV US Subscribers
Some more info from Telephia’s user panel…of the two million mobile TV subscribers in the United States “47% are white Americans, 23% Hisp…
Mobile Advertising (Could Be) Worth $9.6 Billion By 2010
The Shosteck Group has released a study predicting that the global mobile advertising market could grow to US$9.6 billion by 2010, although…
Mobile TV & MS Office Most Sought After Services
A survey has found that 45% of respondents want the MS Mobile office suite on their mobile phones in the future, and 44% want mobile TV. Jus…
100 Million Mobile TV Subscribers By 2010 — In-Stat
In-Stat has predicted that the mobile broadcast TV market will grow from 3.4 million to 102 million by 2010. The biggest problem is listed a…
Operator’s Mobile Content Business Models “Hopelessly Inadequate” — Research and Markets
Research and Markets has issued a report (2006 Global Mobile Data) pointing out that SMS was a huge success despite total apathy from the ca…
Puzzle Games Drive 1/3 Of Mobile Games Revenues; Women Contribute 65%
Puzzle/Strategy games drive one-third of the total mobile game revenues, says the latest Telephia Mobile Game Report for Q1 2006. The resear…
Mobile Market To Reach 198B Euro By 2011 — Analysys
Analysys has estimated that total mobile services revenue in Europe will grow at a compound average growth rate of 6.2%, from 138.4 billion…
The Rise Of Mobile TV To Half A Billion Users
ABI Research has come out with an interesting prediction — that 514 million people will subscribe to a mobile TV service by 2011, up from 6…
Mobile Games Poised for Growth — Juniper
Juniper Research is predicting the mobile games market will generate $17.6 billion in global revenue by 2011, in its Fun and Games whitepape…
IDC On The “Mobile Music Bigger Than Online” Prediction
This post is pointing to an interview with Susan Kevorkian, program manager of consumer markets: audio at IDC, who answers some questions ab…
Interest In Mobile Phone TV Is On The Rise: Study
Some good news for the mobile TV/video industry: A 1000-person study by TNS Infratest has found that interest in watching mobile video produ…
Russian Mobile Content Market Grows 53% — RNCOS Research
RNCOS Research has released a report claiming the mobile content market in Russia increased byt 53% in 2005 to $300 million, however “there…
US Mobile Music Downloads Set to Explode — IDC
IDC is predicting that mobile music in the US will generate more than a billion dollars from 50 million users by 2010. A survey by the resea…
It’s Only Business: Men Use Cell Phones More Than Women
A story in MarketWatch is looking at the difference in mobile phone use between genders, although the biggest difference is in how much they…
GSM Industry To Reach Two Billion Customer-Base This Weekend
GSM Association announced that this weekend the GSM industry would add the 2nd billionth GSM mobile phone user in the world. It’s adding use…
Big Barriers Inhibit Mobile Multimedia Growth in Europe — Yankee Group
This time it’s bad news about mobile content… the 2006 European Mobile Multimedia Survey by Yankee Group has returned some less-than-pleas…
IDC Lists 10 Promising Mobile Content Companies
IDC has come up with a report listing 10 mobile entertainment companies that have potential to make it big. The study names Action Engine, A…
8% of Irish Willing To Pay For Mobile TV
A survey from iReach has found that 8% of mobile customers are willing to pay for mobile TV… this rises to 17% of current 3G users. The im…
Europeans Ready For Mobile Video
A report from Portio Research (New Mobile Services — Europe 2006) claims that half of the mobile users interviewed said “they were interest…
UK Top 10 Mobile Games — April
Here are the top 10 mobile games downloaded in March as reported by Elspaâ
Top 15 Markets In Terms Of Mobile Subscribers
Some research done by the International Telecommunication Union on the markets with the most number of subscribers…
Mobile Learning Market Growing In US
Ambient Insights has put the current market for mobile learning products and services in the US at $460.4 million. The analysts claim the ma…
Online Advertising Up 38 Percent in Q1
So says an IAB and PwC study: it surged 38 percent to a record $3.9 billion in Q1 this year. Sequentially, the Q1 Internet ad revenue were u…
Marketing Mobile Music
eMarketer has a report on mobile music, not so much on how successful it will be but on what competition it faces, not just from other music…
Going Mobile: ‘Question The Answers: The Dance of the Dueling Analysts’
Steve Palley, Founder and Lead Analyst of mobile games consulting firm Foci Mobile and ex-editor at Gamespot has a column up in Gamasutra ab…
Telephia Launches Mobile TV User Panel
Telephia, a performance measurement company for the mobile industry, has launched a mobile television user panel, which will measure the att…
Greg Ballard, CEO, Glu: Debunking The “Hallucinogenic Myth” Of A Slowdown
Greg Ballard has come out swinging…the CEO of Glu is livid with some of the numbers floating around and market commentary based on those n…
Mobile Music Market To Be Worth $7.75 Billion By 2010
According to a study by eMarketer, the global retail market for full-track downloads and master ringtones will be worth $7.75 billion in rev…
Earnings: CyberMedia’s Online Revenues Grew 42% To Rs 5.57 Crore
Cyber Media India Ltd, a leading Indian specialty media house, announced its results for 2005-06. It has posted a 40 per cent increase in it…
Mobile Content Going Slow
Forbes has an excellent article (by Rob Tercek, former CSO of MForma and now his own startup) about the slowing growth of mobile content, an…
What Services Are Driving Mobile Internet Usage?
There’s a lot of conflicting messages about the growth of mobile content — some reports say that growth is slowing down, or even come to a…
Job Search A Key Online Activity In India: IAMAI
Release: A new report by Internet and Mobile Association of India says that job search is one of the key five activites by internet users in…
Operators And Big Content Battle For Control
This is kind of stating the obvious, but Informa Telecoms & Media have released a report about the mobile direct-to-consumer market, claimin…
US Mobile Game Sales Increase Dramatically
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the stagnation of the mobile games industry…which is belied by a recent survey by Telephia that sh…
Top Mobile Game Titles — M:Metrics
M:Metrics has released some research on the top mobile games in the US for the first quarter of 2006. “M:Metrics reported that in the month…
Lack Of Mobile DRM To Cost 3.5B Euros
The lack of an effective mobile digtial rights management (DRM) solution will cost Europe 3.5 billion euros this year according to Frost and…
Up In The Air
This AP story is about cable operators not having much say in the mobile TV biz…although they’re taking a part with the HiWire service. Th…
The Hindrance To Mobile Games
The Wireless World Forum has put out a series of reports on mobile games.
One argues that “poor consumer experience and a ‘content is king’…
694 Million People Used Internet Worldwide; India 10th Largest Online Nation
According to a latest study, there were 694 million people, age 15+, who used the Internet gobally in March 2006, which represented 14 perce…
What Ails The Mobile Games Industry?
M:Metrics has come out saying the market for mobile games is stagnating (not an unusual claim these days) and they’ve asked the question “wh…
SMS Gets A Leg-up Over Voice In Mobile Usage: IDC Survey
The Hindu Business Line: An IDC survey shows that SMS (Texting) is eating into v…
Mumbai Tops The Chart Of Online Bill Payers
DNA: Mumbai leads the pack of online payment users. According to a study by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), Mumbai top…
Digital Home Networks Poised To Go Mobile
A report from ABI Research claims that “consumer product vendors, content providers and mobile operators are developing solutions to allow c…
Video Handsets Mostly Just Used as Phones (reg required)
NYT has a short piece on some research reported by NPD Group: “More than a quarter of cellphones now in use can play such videos. But only 1…
Travelers’ Perspective On Online Travel Market In India
EstatsIndia, a Delhi-based internet market research agency, has done a study on online travel market in India titled – “A Traveler’s Perspec…
Indian Online Bill Payers To Grow Six-Fold To 1.8 Million By ’07-08
Here is a report from the Internet And Mobile Association of India on online bill payment market in India. According to the report, the numb…
Consumers Want More From Phones: Study
Reuters: It appears US consumers are interested in doing more things with their mobile phone, although they don’t appear to be doing so yet.…
DTH Penetration In India Reaches 2.26 Million Households; Rural Claims 88%
The Economic Times: Here are some numbers on the direct-to-home (DTH) television penetration. According to a study by IMRB International for…
iPod Users Also Use A Lot Of Mobile Content
M:Metrics has issued a release showing research that people who use iPods also use a lot of mobile content…”Whereas iPod owners comprise o…
Ad-Supported Mobile Content Models: The Business Case
KPMG International has come out with an excellent study/report on the business case for mobile operators launching ad-supported content serv…
U.S. Ringtone Sales To Hit $600 Million in 2006
So says BMI, the music publishing rights company…it says the ringtone market will surpass $600 million in retail sales, up from $500 milli…
Mobile TV Needs To Be Mobile Specific
Red Bee Media has commissioned a report about mobile video…the basic conclusion being that the shows needed to be made-for-mobile and rela…
Mobile Music To Reach $9.3 Billion By 2011 — ABI Research
ABI Research has predicted that global revenue from mobile music (including ringtones) will explode over the next five years. “People with h…
Australian Mobile Content Market Set To Cross $1 Billion By 2009
Mobile content in Australia is set to cross $1 billion in revenues by 2009, according to research firm Frost & Sullivan. The mobile content…
JupiterResearch On Mobile Video
JupiterResearch has predicted that mobile video will generate $501 million in revenue by 2010, up from $62 million last year. It has found t…
Mobile Video To Reach 36 Million
eMarketer has made some predictions on the growth of mobile TV in the US. “While video on mobile phones is enjoying healthy usage worldwide,…
Young Males Go For Mobile TV — Telephia
Telephia has released a report showing that the penetration of mobile TV in the US youth demographic almost doubled in 2005 — from 1.8% at…
Analysts Divided Over Mobile TV
As operators world over are preparing to launch mobile TV, industry pundits still differ over the prospects for the fledgling technology or…
Mobile Broadcast TV — A Solution Looking For A Problem?
Datamonitor has sounded a cautionary note over the “astronomical forecasts currently in the market place with regards the growth prospects f…
Online Metrics Continue To Confound ; Online Radio Stats Hard To Pin Down
An estimated 30 million U.S. internet users listen to online radio; the numbers and the niche targeting ability should make it an attractive…
Europe And US Will Generate $1 Billion In Mobile Advertising By 2009: Study
While 2006 will be a year of experimentation for the fledgling mobile advertising market, the next five years will see the industry shifting…
Satellites Seen As Key Means To Deliver Mobile TV: Research
It seems satellites will play a major role in bringing mobile TV to the end users. According to a study by Northern Sky Research, satellites…
DVB-H To Win In Europe
Frost & Sullivan has reiterated its belief that DVB-H will become the dominant mobile TV technology in Europe…given a few years. It said t…
Mobile Content Moves Towards Direct Sales
Informa Telecoms and Media has released the Mobile Distribution and Retail report indicating that “the mobile industry has been moving away…
Lies, Damned Lies, And Dodgy Self-Fulfilling Surveys
“Evaluating the appeal of novel services such as watching video on a handheld device is much more complicated than asking a simple true/fals…
Users Want E-Mail, Music — Siemens
Siemens has surveyed 5,300 mobile phone users in eight countries (Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Russia, South Korea and the United…
Mobile-Phone Premium Content Market to Reach $40 billion by 2010
“The global market for mobile-phone premium content, including music, gaming and video, is expected to expand to more than $43 billion by 20…
Study: Mobile Game Market Slows — Carriers Consider Quality
The M:Metrics benchmark survey has focused on games this month…the number of people downloading games has dropped since last September, po…
Open DRM To Drive Mobile Content: Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan has said that as content owners place a greater emphasis on digital rights management across Europe it will boost adoption…
Americans Not Interested In Mobile Video — Survey
A survey of 1001 Americans conducted on behalf of Royal Bank of Canada’s RBC Capital Markets research group found that three-quarters of res…
Industry And Consumers At Odds
This is a bit of a follow on from the RBC Capital Markets consumer survey written about below…at the Mobility Evolution Conference in New…
UPDATE: French DVB-H Trial Reveals Interest In Mobile TV
A French DVB-H trial has revealed interest in mobile TV — the positive trials and research are slowly beginning to outweigh the negative tr…
Handango Releases Mobile Content Statistics for 2005
Handango has released some statistics of mobile content sales for 2005…
There was a surge in multimedia content sales in 2005…”Three of…
Advanced Data Users Drive Mobile Technology
This research from Telephia doesn’t say anything no-one expected to hear, but it does attempt to quantify it…”Innovators, who are the most…
Mobile TV To Grow, But Overhyped
Northern Sky Research has released a report — Mobile TV 2006- Enabling Rich Video on the Go — which predicts that mobile TV will reach 107…
iTunes In Trouble — Strategy Analytics
After predicting that more than $8.2 billion in music will be delivered via digital platforms in Western Europe and North American (almost 3…
WebSideStory Buys Visual Sciences For $57.3 Million
The consolidation in the web analytics space continues: WebSideStory has bought out Visual Sciences, for $57.3 million in cash and stock.
V…
The UK Teenage Ringtone Market
Xingtone has released a survey of British teenagers to find out how they view the ringtone market. There are some interesting figures, but b…
Glu’s Segerstrale Downplays Influence Of Brands
Glu Mobile’s EMEA managing director Kristian Segerstrale has said that mobile gamers are less influenced by licenses and brands than the wir…
Mobile Music Growth Curbed By Music Industry – Survey
A survey by Informa has found that 83.7% of mobile operators believe that the demands of the music industry for a large slice of the revenue…
Top Ten UK Mobile Java Game Downloads For December
This is based on carrier data from 3, O2, Orange,T-Mobile, and Vodafone, and released by ELSPA.
1) King Kong — Gameloft
2) Tetris — Jam…
Company Creates Cell Phone Movie Ticket
Movie Box Office has launched a service where movie-goers can buy a movie ticket by mobile phone and present an on-screen barcode to the ush…
European Mobile Music To Reach â
Frost & Sullivan has released a report about the mobile music market in Europe, predicting that the revenues in the region will hit 7.85 bil…
Fastest Growing Mobile Markets
Portio Research has released a report (Worldwide Mobile Market Forecasts 2006 – 2011) with the top 25 growth markets…
“Among the top 25 g…
Sprint U.S. Consumer Wireless Usage Study
Sprint has announced the results of the Sprint U.S. Consumer Wireless Usage Study, a nationwide survey of wireless phone users. There are so…
Get Personal For Games Success
Strategy Analytics has put out a report on mobile games, with a “positive outlook”. The recommendation is that operators include community f…
Mobile TV: Lies, Surveys and Statistics
There have been a couple of studies on mobile TV in the UK recently which have been interpreted as showing a great deal of support for mobil…
Mobile Game Survey Findings: Games Are Popular
Glu Mobile conducted a survey of 1,000 UK residents aged 16 and over about mobile games. Unsurprisingly — for anyone following the mobile g…
Russian Mobile Content Market Could Grow 56% In 2006
Research company J’son & Partners has predicted the Russian mobile content market will grow 56% to $530-550 million in 2006…
The type of c…
iFone Crowned Top UK Mobile Game Publisher For A Second Year
iFone was the biggest selling mobile games distributor in the UK after all…as judged by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers…
50 Cent Tops 2005 US Ringtone Chart
It should come as no surprise to anybody that the top selling ringtone in the US for 2005 was by a rap artist…It was Candy Shop by 50 Cent…
Mobile Internet Is SO 2005
The Shosteck Group has released a report — The Portal Wars: Where Next For The Mobile Internet — which claims that the mobile internet is…
‘Simple Games’ Rule Mobile Charts
iFone was the number one mobile games publisher in the UK according to an analysis of the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Asso…
No Conflict Between Ringtone And Full-Track Downloads
NPD Group has released a bulleting concerning the price discrepancies between full-track downloads and ringtones, claiming there is no probl…
Top Ten UK Mobile Java Game Downloads For November
This is based on carrier data from 3, O2, Orange,T-Mobile, and Vodafone, and released by ELSPA.
1) Tetris — Jamdat
2) EA Sports Tiger Wo…
Click Counting, Gold Mines & IAB Standards
Another effort to deconstruct IAB’s Nomenclature Project … Sarah Lacy does a good job of laying out the project, reasons for metrics stand…
IAB Metrics Proposal Could Alter Traffic Counts
The rules will be changing about rolling up traffic from multiple sites to the credit of one. For instance, Fox Interactive can boast traffi…
What People Want From Mobile Content
Buongiorno Vitaminic has released the results of a survey of over 5,000 people in Europe, the US and Africa about their attitude to mobile p…
Mobile Gamers Are Market Drivers
IGN Entertainment has released a report — Mobile Gamers: Early Adopters Establish a Booming Industry — which finds mobile gamers are key g…
Discount Mobility
Discount retailer Aldi launched a no-frills prepaid MVNO service in Germany called Aldi Talk. For those unfamiliar with Aldi it attempts to…
European Mobile Music Aims For 1.5B Euro
Research And Markets have released a report predicting that “the European mobile music market, from music brands and third-party content pro…
Mobile Game Market Exceeds Wild Expectations
A report from Screen Digest, Wireless Gaming Business Models — Opportunities for publishers, developers and network operators, has found th…
What Women Want From Mobile
LimeLife has conducted a number of surveys to find out how women use mobile phones and what women want from mobile content…
The mobile p…
Finnish Mobile Content Hit EUR 67M In 2004
According to Prisma Research Finnish consumers spent 67 million euros on mobile content services in 2004, which will grow to 74 million euro…
Digital Shopping Spree
Motricity has released the results of a survey showing that “it is estimated that traditional retailers in the U.K. will likely lose up to 3…
Nielsen Reports On Mobile Entertainment And Gaming
Nielsen has done a couple of new studies, Benchmarking the Active Gamer study and Benchmarking Mobile Entertainment. The studies will be pub…
India: $1.5 A Month — $466.5 Million A Year
According to Pyramid Research’s BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) Mobile Data Adoption Study , Indians don’t want to pay more than $1.50 a…
Clarification On Mobile TV Usage Stats
A couple of recent stories based on the Global Tech Insight 2005 report from TNS had different figures… India Television indicated that Ko…
Russian Mobile Content Market Rebounds — With Lessons
J’son & Partners has released Russian Wireless Content Market Watch (PDF) which has some interesting stats on the rebound of the Russian mob…
MVNOs To Find Gold In Market Niches
ABI research has released a study claiming that MVNOs — which up until now have gone for the budget market — will increasingly become succ…
People Are Interested In Mobile Music After All
A survey by TNS — the Global Tech Insight 2005 — has found that globally nearly 35% of mobile phone users “chose mobile music as one of th…
Women Buy 69% Of Ringtones — Telephia
The latest report from Telephia has found that women bought 69% of ringtones (by revenue) in the third quarter of 2005… “Overall, more tha…
Music Videos Rocking the Market for Portable Video Downloads
A report from Parks Associates has found that “U.S. consumers, teenagers in particular, show distinct preferences for short, easily consumab…
Mobile Service Fatigue Dogs Mob Users
Here’s an interesting piece of news…”The findings of SmartTrust’s Mobile Trends Guide 2005/06 showed that consumers were struggling to kee…
Global Mobile Data Market To Hit US$147 Billion In 2009
The Yankee Group has launched the Global Wireless/Mobile Premium Forecast which predicts that “worldwide wireless operator service revenue w…
TV On Mobiles Proves A Turn-off
“The findings of a survey of 1,500 entertainment consumers in Britain by Entertainment Media Research (EMR) deflates some of the hype about…
Mobile Data Too Hard, Too Expensive
A couple of surveys have come out saying pretty much the same thing: People will be more encouraged to use mobile content if it costs less.…
Mobile TV Sparks Interest In U.S.
“Nearly 10 percent of U.S. wireless users said they likely would watch mobile TV in the next year, according to the most recent study from M…
Mobile Games Fastest Growing Game Segment
Here’s some figures from Informa Telecoms & Media: “Mobile games is the fastest growing games sector, and is expected to generate revenues o…
Mobile Music 10x Larger Than itunes
Consultants DhaliwalBrown has released a report on mobile music (The Future of Mobile Music) with some interesting figures…”The report fin…
Consumers Interested More In Camera Phones Than Music Phones
A recent survey from Parks Associates has found that more people are interested in camera phones (52% indicating an intent to buy one) compa…
Where’s Mobile In The Future?
The Consumer Electronic Association (CEA) has released its Five Technologies to Watch for 2005…Recordable High Definition Content, Robotic…
Europeans Use Mobile Music 4x As Much As Americans
According to Telephia mobile users in Europe are four times more likely to use their music-capable mobile phones than their counterparts in…
Realtones Capture 60% Of Ringtone Market
Telephia has released a Mobile Audio Report showing that realtones account for 60% of the ringtone market revenue, mono and polyphonic ringt…
DVB-H To Be Mobile TV Standard In Europe: Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan has predicted that DVB-H will be the mobile broadcast TV standard of choice, at least in Europe, and will be a hit by 2008…
Success in the Early Mobile Video Market Requires Fine Tuning
The Diffusion Group has released a report which claims that carriers (and others in the mobile video industry) should specialize on a certai…
Mobile Music Window Closing
In-Stat has released a report which claims that mobile music services (either downloads or broadcast) have greater interest amongst US mobil…
Women Can Use Mobiles Too
Apparently women also know how to use mobiles…but only if they’re “tech-savvy”. The strange part about claims like these (that women are s…
Top Ten UK Mobile Java Game Downloads For August
This is based on carrier data…
1) Monopoly Tycoon — Mforma
2) Pacman — Namco
3) Wall Breaker — Infusio
4) Downtown Texas Hold’em…
Americans Embrace Mobile Gaming
I-play has announced the results of an independent study into the differing behaviours of mobile gamers in Europe and the US…”Americans te…
@CTIA: Why Aren’t You Using Content?
Another survey at a mobile content conference has revealed a distinct lack of people enjoying their own products…A survey by Valista at CT…
@ CTIA: Mobile Research At MECCA
First session of MECCA was a discussion on the state of mobile entertainment with Seamus McAteer from M:Metrics and Paul Leakas from Nielsen…
Research Discovers That Phones Are Phones
Mobeon commissioned a survey which found that “only 17% of those with a mobile use their phone for anything other than to make calls or send…
Mobile Music: The Good & The Not-So-Bad
The NPD Group has released the results of a survey on mobile music, with some very promising results (of course, different surveys have been…
Europe To Lag Behind In Mobile TV Adoption – Report
Research firm Screen Digest has released a report which suggests “Europe is in serious peril of falling behind other global markets in the m…
Mobile Phone Advertising Has Promise
A report from research firm In-Stat about user acceptance of advertising on mobile phones has yielded some results…
“Though consumers aren…
U.S. Mobile Gaming Market Overview: The World is Flat.
The number of people downloading mobile games in the United States has hovered around 6 million since the end of last year, according to M:M…
European Full-Track Downloads To Hit $640M by 2010
Generator has released a report on mobile music predicting that Europeans will spend $640 million on full-track music downloads to mobile ph…
Frost & Sullivan Names Fuel Best Mobile Platform
Frost & Sullivan handed out some awards in its recent analysis U.S. Premium Mobile Downloadable Content and Applications, selecting Motricit…
Action Needed On Usability
“More than one third of mobile owners are not using data services due to a combination of product complexity and perceived high cost…The g…
Mobile TV: Switching on the Revenue Stream
The research and analyst companies are in overdrive these days, churning out reports on everything from mobile music to mobile video to gami…
MTV & Jamster To Invest In Mobile Entertainment Research Internationally
MTV and Jamster have joined forces to launch a “new international research initiative into the mobile entertainment and the digital content…
Mobile TV Subs to Hit 65 Million by 2010
“A new study by Juniper Research estimates that 65 million people worldwide will be subscribing to streaming or broadcast TV services for th…
E-mail, Weather & Search Top Low Mobile Internet Usage
A June survey by Telephia of 1,200 panelists has revealed an incredibly low percentage of people using the mobile internet, as the table bel…
SMS Revenues To Hit $50 Billion by 2010
That’s according to a new report by UK research firm Portio Research..despite predictions on the contrary, SMS revenues are estimated at $50…
Early Audience For Mobile TV Small But Enthusiastic
Yet another study on the potential success of mobile TV, this one from Parks Associates, which found a low but apparently enthusiastic perce…
Gender Divide On Mobile Phone Isn’t Dramatic
The Australian Mobile Content Industry Development Group conducted a survey (Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index) to find out who was bu…
More Results From Finnish Mobile TV Study
Nokia has released a few more metrics from the DVB-H trial in Finnland…”41% of pilot participants would be willing to purchase mobile TV s…
Teen, College Students Are Most Active Cell Phone Users
Here’s a couple of reports the results of which will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody, but it’s better have some backing for somethin…
Realtones Bring End To Rising Ringtone Revenues
Analyst Visiongain’s ‘Mobile Music Downloads’ report says that although global revenues from ringtones will grow from $4.25bn (
Teens Love Texting, Study Claims
From the Studies That Prove The Blatantly Obvious department…a study by IDC and SMS.ac (which have joined forces for this sort of thing) o…
Puzzles Drive Mobile Game Market
Everyone knows puzzle games are leading the charge into the mobile gaming market, and a study by Telephia as found that these games (along w…
Top Mobile Java Games â
ELSPA (the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association) has released the top UK Java mobile game downloads for June.
1) Lemming…
Study Finds Mobile Gaming Up 70% Annually
A survey of 1,500 households by Ziff Davis Media has found that the number of households engaged in mobile gaming had increased 70% in the p…
Mobile Data Accelerating in North America
“Strategy Analytics has released its ‘Cellular Data Forecast Model (2005 – 2010) for North America’ estimates that end-user spend on mobile…
Mobile Games: A Market Poised To Power Up
NPD Group has released a survey of more than 8,500 teens and adults about mobile games. “The world of mobile gaming is like the Wild West,”…
Survey Sees Growing Demand For Mobile Email
A consumer survey from mobile software firm Critical Path has identified a strong interest in mobile email among consumers. At this point it…
Ringtone Downloading Jumps Fourfold In Past Year
The number of people in the US who have downloaded ringtones increased fourfold in the last twelve months to 23% of mobile phone owners…ab…
Russian Market of Mobile Games Keeps Growing
“According to Russian Wireless Content Market Report by a multinational consultancy firm J’son & Partners sales volume of mobile games in Ru…
MES: Customer Panel Disses Mobile, Can’t Live Without It
Usually people leave conferences like lemmings towards the end but the Mobile Entertainment Summit managed to keep a healthy crowd for its c…
Teens Move To Short, Instant Messaging Systems
In a result that should surprise nobody a study by Pew Internet has found that teenagers find quick messaging systems such as instant messag…
Hot Ringtones
Issue Date: July 30, 2005. Top selling ringtones compiled from internet reports collected and provided by Nielsen Mobile, via BillboardPostP…
Top Mobile Java Games — ELSPA
ELSPA (the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association) has released the top UK Java mobile game downloads for May.
1) LMA Man…
IDC Forecasts U.S. Wireless Music Market to Surge by 2009
IDC has predicted the U.S. wireless full-track music downloads market segment — a component of the overall wireless music market — will su…
Location Based Services to Grow to Over $275 million in 2005
“Revenues from mobile location-based services (LBS) in the European market will grow by 153 percent during 2005 to reach 274 million euros,…
Mobile Video Is A Tough Sell According To In-Stat
In-Stat conducted a recent mobile phone survey which revealed that one in eight respondents indicated they were interested in purchasing mob…
Hot Ringtones
Issue Date: July 23, 2005. Top selling ringtones compiled from internet reports collected and provided by Nielsen Mobile, via BillboardPostP…
Mobile Content Around the World
A study by LogicaCMG has found that about 20% of mobile phone users around the world have downloaded content to their handsets, with the per…
Consumers Want More Local Mobile Content
unsurprisingly, more mobile customers have expressed an interest in using local weather and traffic condition mobile services than in watchi…
Brand Owners Take Over Mobile Content
Informa Telecoms and Media has released a report predicting that teleocs will lose top dog status in terms of mobile content, and it will in…
Business Using Mobile Data Faster Than Planned
Criticism has been leveled at the mobile content community several times for focussing on consumers and letting the business market fall by…
Hot Ringtones
Issue Date: July 9, 2005. Top selling ringtones compiled from internet reports collected and provided by Nielsen Mobile, via BillboardPostPl…
Teens Want More Than Voice
A study by the Yankee Group has found that more and more US kids are using mobile phones — 44% of US tweens and teens between the ages of 1…
Family Plans Cloud Download Visibility
M:Metrics has pointed out that the most common types of payment plans in the US are family plans — 41.4% of subscribers and 51.9% of 13-24…
Personal Content Takes Up One-Third Of Mobile Activity
Merlin Mobile Media has done a study which found that personal content applications account for “a little more than one-third of user-initia…
Hot Ringtones – Top 10
Issue Date: June 18, 2005. Top selling ringtones compiled from internet reports collected and provided by Nielsen Mobile, via BillboardPostP…
Hot Ringtones – Top 10
Issue Date: June 11, 2005 — Top selling ringtones compiled from internet reports collected and provided by Nielsen Mobile, via BillboardPos…
Women Buy More Mobile Games
According to a report from Telephia, which measures monthly mobile content purchase activity from the phone bills of 30,000 US panelists, “…
Mobile Content Gathers Pace in Australia
Frost & Sullivan has released a report indicating the mobile content market in Australia was worth AU$129m in 2004, equating to “an average…
Mobile TV: There’s Sizzle, But Is There Steak?
Business 2.0 has an article/review slamming the experience of watching TV on mobile phones…”It was the talking heads on MSNBC who convince…
iGillottResearch: Mobile Content To Be 40% Of Operators’ Revenue by 2009
iGillottResearch has predicted that by 2009 forty percent of the average revenue per user (ARPU) will come from mobile data and content with…
One-Third of Digital TVs Will be Cell Phones in 2010
That’s according to Strategy Analytics: “In the context of the cellphone industry, digital TV will be a relatively minor event,” said David…
Broadcast & Mobile Multimedia Sees 124.8 Million Mobile TV Users
Broadcast and Mobile Multimedia, a new strategic report from Informa Telecoms & Media, predicts there will be “124.8 million broadcast mobil…
13.6% Of US Mobile Users Downloaded A Ringtone In April
M:Metrics’ monthly Benchmark Survey has found that 24.58 million U.S. mobile subscribers — 13.6 percent — downloaded a ringtone in April.…
UPDATE: Study: Gens X, Y Want Ad-Supported Music Via Mobile Phone
The Management Network Group has released a study on what 13-34 year-olds want from their mobile phone.
34% were interested in mobile mus…
Another Record Year Thanks To Japanese Mobile Music
For the second year in a row, JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers) has reported a record amount of roya…
77% of UK Mobile Users Don’t Use Data
According to an independent NOP survey of 800 mobile users aged 15-65 commissioned by Olista 77% of mobile phone users “have never used any…
Backpackers And MoSoSo Design
Howard Reingold has interviewed Jeff Axup, a PhD student working in a project funded by the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID).…
Mobile Game Revenue To Increase Fourfold: Informa
Informa Telecoms And Media has released a report on Mobile Games predicting that global revenue from mobile games will increase from US$2.6…
Only 19% Are Willing To Pay For Mobile TV
Talk about the glass being half empty…LinuxElectrons has reported on a JupiterResearch report on consumer attitudes to watching TV on mobi…
Gender Gap In Mobile Games
M:Metrics has found a gender gap in people who download mobile games — men are twice as likely to download mobile games as women, despite t…
British Youth Spend
NetImperative has a strange story on mobile music derived from the MobileYouth 2005 report…Some interesting stats came first: “Young peopl…
Operators To See US$124bn In Mobile Data Revenues By 2010
A new report from Informa Telecoms and Media predicts that mobile operators will see the level of revenues contributed by data traffic to ri…
Nielsen//NetRatings Adds Mobile Content Analytics Service in Australia
Nielsen//NetRatings has opened an Australian office to track the downloads of mobile content. “According to managing director Mark Henning,…
IDC: U.S. Mobile Content Market Approached $250M In Q404
“IDC research found that total revenues from paid downloads by U.S. wireless subscribers approached $250 million in the fourth quarter of 20…
Mobile Phones To Detect Adolescent Depression
“The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is trialling a Java-based mobile application that helps with early warning-sign detection and mon…
The Need To Simplify Intellectual Property Rights Management And The U.S. Mobile Video Industry
A report from Frost & Sullivan focussed on the US mobile video industry cites the management of intellectual property rights as a main conce…
Latin America’s Wireless Content Market Set to Samba
Exploding subscriber growth, maturing network technologies and burgeoning interest in interactive, real-time communications are among severa…
Data Dollars Adding Up
US mobile operators generated almost 6 percent of revenues from data in the fourth quarter of 2004 (a dollar figure of $1.6 billion), with t…
M:Metrics And Seasonal Content Usage
Infospace recently got savaged by stock analysts for claiming a slowdown in mobile content revenues was due to “seasonality”, but now M:Metr…
Mobile Video Services Expected To Generate $5.4 Billion Annually By 2009
By 2009, mobile video services are expected to generate $5.4 billion in annual revenues, or approximately 14.9% of total wireless data reven…
TV for Mobile Phones Set to Reach Masses
That’s according to some new research by Informa…about 125 million consumers will be watching TV on their mobile phone in five years from…
How MMetrics Is Making Mobile Content Count
Business 2.0 has discovered that companies are doing mobile metrics, and put up an article on M:Metrics…”The 20-person startup could face…
Operators To See US$124 bn in Mobile Data Revenues by 2010
According to a new Mobile Content and Services report from Informa Telecoms and Media mobile operators can “expect to see the level of reven…
In-Depth Analysis of How Real Music Ringtones Relate to Digital Music
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Ringtones: Past, Present and Future Volume 2 to their offering. “The replacement of polyp…
IDC Sees Fast Growth For US Mobile Video
IDC has forecast a strong growth in people watching video (TV and films) on mobiles, despite listing some obvious obstacles (lack of handset…
Industry Analyst Examines The Future Of DRM
“Key issues for the future of Digital Rights Management (DRM) are the question of proprietary versus “open” technologies, and whether govern…
Average Revenue Per U.S. Wireless Subscriber To Trend Upward Through 2009
“It is clear that U.S. wireless carriers have not yet fully leveraged data services to increase their average revenue per user (ARPU). As wi…
Americans Are Top Mobile Phone Spenders
“In the United States, 50 million cell phone owners are younger than 25 and will collectively spend $20 billion this year on their cell phon…
Games Rule Content Download
M:Metrics has released some mobile content metrics for February, claiming it shows people are making use of the increased capabilities of th…
Sports and Infotainment Mobile Alerts To Top $4.5 Billion
That’s according to some new research by Juniper Research…around 21 per cent of the world’s mobile users – some 380 million people – will…
Mobile Video Gets Ratings
Nielsen//NetRatings is “creating a ratings system to measure the number of people who are accessing news, entertainment and other services o…
Mobile Games Growing Up
Mobile games passed the US$1 bn revenue mark in 2004, apparently an important point. “According to a briefing note by senior Ovum analyst Da…
Research and Markets Report
Research and Markets has released a report — Global Mobile Data and Content Markets – What Is the Future? — covering mobile data and mobil…
US Catches Up With Worldwide Mobile Content Craze
JupiterResearch has predicted big things for mobile content in the US – which was expected, really. “According to the report, ring tone reve…
Tweens: Generation Mobile
Sorrent has shared preliminary results of its research into US users of mobile entertainment at CTIA. “Tweens (10-13 year olds) led mobile g…
IDC To Track Mobile Content & Services
Suddenly, wireless content and services tracking/metrics technologies are hot now: first it was Nielsen Mobile, then M:Metrics, and now IDC…
M:Metrics To Measure Mobile Content Market
M:Metrics has launched a syndicated mobile market measurement service,providing continuous measurement of mobile content including games, mu…
Nielsen Forms Mobile Division To Track Mobile Content
Nielsen Entertainment, the entertainment info and analysis arm of Nielsen (part of VNU), has formed a mobile arm called Nielsen Mobile, to t…
MP3 players: “Size does not matter”
In good news for the battle of mobile phones against portable MP3 players a recent poll by WebTV Europe found that “of the 5,000 tracks that…
Mobile music revenues could top $9B in next four years
Juniper Research has predicted that total mobile music revenues will reach $9.3 billion by 2009. Ringtones and master tones are predicted to…
Mobile content is an escape
One researcher (which the BBC has identified only by his name, Michael Hulme) has said that while we are becoming increasingly dependant on…
Mobile TV Hype Not Justified by Risk
So says Strategy Analytics, in a new study, arguing that the vendor-led rush to bring broadcast services to market misses the critical issue…
BMI Forecasts US Ringtone Sales Will Double in 2005 to $500 Million
BMI, the U.S. performing rights organization representing more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, predicts that the (…
A Premium Nightmare – A critical look at the US mobile VAS-industry
An analyst at Strand Consult has claimed that the European model for Premium VAS is far better than the Japanese one, and goes on to say tha…
IDC Finds Wireless Industry is Not Playing Around
You’d think they would have noticed the wireless industry was serious when they blew all that money on 3G spectrum a few years ago… but th…
UK mobile phone penetration exceeds 100 percent
“The Mobile Data Association expects UK mobile users to send 30 billion SMS messages in 2005, with WAP page views to hit 15 billion by end-2…
So far, so good for wireless data in 2004
The Yankee Group has released some data that shows the promise of mobile content.
By the end of the second quarter of 2004, wireless data u…
Carriers will struggle with music on demand services
Strategy Analytics has expressed concern that carriers will struggle to cash in on the (by their estimate) $2 billion mobile music on demand…
Too Quick to Click with Camera Phones?
A nice round-up here of all the recent research released on camera phones. “Picture-related activities top the list of favorite mobile conte…
Pricing overhaul needed to kickstart Europe’s mobile content market
Analysis reckons that the European mobile content market (which it put as generating EUR2.3 billion in 2003) is lagging far behind where it…
Enpocket Mobile Media Monitor US Unveils Photography as the Nation’s Favored Content Application
A survey has come out with dubiously high interest in various applications of higher end phones. The results include: 50% are interested in…
How and Why People Use Camera Phones
Picturephoning.com has drawn attention to a report by HP as to how and why people use camera phones. The study looked at what people were in…
Handango Releases November 2004 Mobile Download Stats and Best Sellers
Handango has released its November 2004 edition of the Handango Yardstick, a monthly report on the state of the mobile downloads economy.
-…
The Top Ten Wireless Services in the World
A report has come up with the top 10 wireless services in the world based on “take-up, ARPU, market share, cannibalisation of existing servi…
Games fuel mobile Java eruption
Another study, this one by Jupiter Research, has predicted a large boost in mobile revenues. The study reported that “Java downloads will ge…
Wireless Users Making Multimedia Connections
The Telecommunications Management Group has predicted that there will be 110 million people worldwide who will use mobile devices to downloa…
Operators need to invest in infrastructure to reap content benefits
A report by Research and Markets claims: “It is projected that by the year 2008 the mobile data services will constitute more about 60% of t…
Mobile Content and Entertainment Services to bring signficant revenue
A study by Research and Markets has found that mobile content will be responsible for a significant part of mobile revenue growth in Europe…
Consumers Too ‘Dumb’ to Use Mobiles
A recent survey by mobile component manufacturer Wacom Components has some news for telcos – most customers are finding it too difficult to…
Teens want video on mobiles
A survey by OpenWave has revealed that people want video on their mobiles, but are worried about the small screen. “Teens want a video libr…
Europeans favour music for portable gadgets
A survey of 5,000 consumers from Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Spain and Italy by Jupiter Research has revealed that most people don’t w…
Mobile Phone Gaming to Top $1 Billion in ’04
According Screen Digest, mobile phone gaming also will grow by more than six times to $6.4 billion between 2004 and the end of decade…Curr…
Online and Mobile’s Pie of Entertainment Spend
A chart which shows the $112 billion total entertainment spending in U.S., by types..online is a very small sliver for now, and shows the p…
Mobile Games Poor Relation To Ringtones
Research firm Ovum says that mobile games represent only 5 to 20 per cent of the current market for handset personalization. Ringtones are t…
Mobile video unlikely to draw consumers in short term
Only 13 percent of mobile-phone users are interested in viewing video clips on their handsets. In an apparent contradiction, though, users s…
Java downloads to generate $4.8 bln in mobile revenues
Java downloads will generate over $4.8 billion in mobile revenues by 2009, with mobile games accounting for the vast majority of revenues, a…
Keep cell phones simple, says Cap Gemini
Cap Gemini VP Kieren Sheedy said at a conference that users would gladly trade in advanced features for simpler devices and easier payment o…
M-Commerce Market to grow to $40bn fuelled by micropayments
The global mobile commerce market excluding mobile entertainment, will become a $40bn industry by 2009, fuelled by a growth in micropayment…
MMS P2P to top SMS revenue by 2008
Peer-to-peer multimedia messaging service will generate more revenue for wireless operators than P2P short message service by 2008, accordin…
Study nearly split on cell-phone TV interest
A slim majority of mobile-phone users in U.S. aren’t interested in watching television broadcasts on their handsets, according to a new repo…
Global DoCoMo i-mode Subscriber Statistics
A good resource…
$300 Million US Ringtone Market for 2004
According to research consultancy Consect, global mobile phone ringtone sales will total $4 billion in 2004. In the US market, total sales h…
Mobile Gaming Attracts U.S. Wireless Data Subscribers and Revenues
In-Stat/MDR believes that mobile gaming, while remaining a small market, will continue its rise as a key contributor to wireless data usage…
Mobile Services Market -Status, Evolution and Forecasts
(PDF File ) Another presentation PDF, also from the Nokia forums (by Joshua Pak from the Forum Nokia Mobile Developer Workshop in Mumbai, I…
Mobile Media Market Continues To Grow
This is a vendor survey, so please take it with a pinch of salt. New data from Enpocket’s quarterly mobile marketing report, Mobile Media Mo…
Strategy Analytics Raises Worldwide Mobile Data Forecast
Strategy Analytics estimates that global revenues from mobile data will grow from around $61 billion this year to just over $189 billion in…
Cellular TV: The Next Thing On Your Screen
IMS Research forecasts that live TV-over-cellular services will be viewed by more than 120 million users worldwide by the end of 2010, equat…
