MobiTV says it has over four million subscriptions. That's more than all the IPTV users in Europe. The provider is now adding a million subscribers every six months, whitelabelling streaming TV services for operators all over the world. It now plans to expand from hosted services to licensing the use of its servers so partners […]
Mass market adoption of 3G will drive global mobile entertainment revenues to $47.5 billion by 2010. Juniper Research suggests the Far East and China currently provide the largest market for mobile in content services and contrinute around 41 per cent of global revenues.
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eMarketer says US mobile ad spending could rearch $1.7bn in 2008, up for $878m in 2007. It also asserts that advertisers worldwide are expected to spend $19 billion on the platform in 2012. The vast majority of this will be spent on SMS campaigns, with displays ads and search making up the remainder.
Mobile are relieving phone lines. A survey done by Harris Interactive of US consumers showed that 89 per cent of adults have mobile phone, up from 77 per cent year-on-year to December 2007. However, 14 per cent use only mobil phone while just nine per cent only use phone lines -down from 18 per cent […]
iPhone users may have a phone, but they use it for many other things. iSuppli says they spend their time with the product making calls (just 46 por cent), compared with a general average out for “standard” handsets of 71.1 per cent.
For the rest of the time, they pass 12.1 per cent accessing the internet, […]
MultiMedia Intelligent calculates half a billion phones were sold in 2007. The research company says the figure beats the iPod and other media players by 300 million units, making phones the most popular portable music contrivance.
According to Jupiner, mobile search revenues could hit $4.8bn in 2013. It claims that while revenue generated by data charges associated with search is significantly higher than that generated by mobile advertising at the present time, the gap will close over the next five years.
However, the researcher cautions against 'advertising overload' and raises privacy/security concerns.
The mobile-only social network itsmy.com has added its one millionth registered user.
The extraordinary popularity of the network also geneates more than 300 million mobile internet page impressions per month, and five million videos, pictures and wallpapers have been uploaded to date. Members have built more than 4.5 million WAP sites within the community.
Owner Gofresh says […]
AdMob's total ad impressions rose 10 per cent in March to 2.55 billion. The proportion of Nokia devices decreased by 2.5 per cent as US market grew (the Us in one of Nokia's weaker markets for handset sales). Globally, iPhone traffic is now growing at the same pace as the rest of the AdMob network.
Glu Mobile has unveiled a summer release schedule compromising eight new games, including movie tie-ins, arcade classics and original IP. It will lead with two games based on the summer movie blockcusters The Dark Knight and Speed Racer, with Super Breakout, Super Political Boxing, Brain Genius 2, Race Driver: Grid, Wedding Dash and Get Cookin' […]