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European Mobile Downloads Worth $640 million in 2010
09.14.05 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAnother analyst’s made another prediction about the mobile music market, saying that Europeans will spend just $640 million downloading full tracks to their mobiles, but that the market for real music ringtones will be $1.2 billion. I have a theoretical problem with these studies that lump ringtone and full-track downloads together, as although they’re both [...]
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Phones Are Japan’s Dominant Download Platform
08.15.05 | Permalink | Comments OffI posted over at Techdirt Wireless a story on how 98% of music downloads in Japan are to mobile phones, a pretty stunning figure, though this does include ringtones — and we know how the Japanese like ringtones.
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Asia’s Mobile Music Market
Ringtonia found an article in Variety about the Asian digital music market, which wasn’t that interesting, but had some nice stats about what’s going on in mobile music there:
- South Korea’s online and mobile music sales are already higher than CD sales
- 2 billion polyphonic ringtones were downloaded in Japan in 2004 — that’s an [...] -
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Let’s Not Get Ahead Of Ourselves
Clearly I’m a believer in mobile music and its potential. But unfettered hype isn’t what’s needed to realize that potential, hence my skepticism of so many claims coming out of the business. The latest is a claim from somebody from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry that mobile download revenues could overtake those from [...]
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KDDI Sells 10 Million Downloads
06.21.05 | Permalink | Comments OffKDDI says on June 15th, it sold the 10 millionth download from its Chaku Uta Full service.
The service launched in November 2004, boasts a catalog of 30,000 songs, and it now selling 2 million tracks per month and growing. It passed the 5 million mark just in April, after taking two months after launch to [...]
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Mobile Operators, Stats
3 Says 30 Million Music Downloads — But…
06.16.05 | Permalink | Comments Off3 says “more than 30 million full version music clips have been downloaded or streamed over their global networks to date since music services were launched in its nine markets.” Of course, by “full-version” music clips, they mean not just full-length audio, but also music videos, truetones and ringback tones.
That’s lumping in apples and oranges [...]
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Mobile Props Up Japan’s Music Biz
05.31.05 | Permalink | Comments OffThanks to some computer problems, I missed this last week, but it’s a great story on the impact of mobile music in the mature market of Japan. PostPlay reports on a J@pan Inc newsletter piece with details of how mobile music sales there — mainly ringtones — are more than making up for declining royalty [...]
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Content Providers, DRM, Ringtones, Stats
Loose Ends
04.25.05 | Permalink | Comments OffBits and pieces from last week, mostly:
- US mobile content rating system in the works: The trade group of US mobile operators wants to define a standardized content rating and filtering system, not only to make it that much more difficult for kids to see porn, but to also pave the way for them to [...]
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Content Providers, Services, Stats
Loose Ends
04.15.05 | Permalink | Comments OffSome more bits and pieces from this week:
- Ministry of Sound to supply content to two European carriers (thanks, DMEurope): The dance music giant says it will supply ringtones, videos, wallpaper and editorial content to T-Mobile and Orange in the Netherlands.
- American youth are the world’s top mobile spenders (thanks, MocoNews): Americans under 25 will [...]
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Study Says People Want Mobile Downloads, Sort Of
04.05.05 | Permalink | Comments OffMobile content and marketing company Enpocket has released another installment of its regular Mobile Media Monitor stats, both for the UK and for the US. In the UK, 23% of mobile users are interested in downloading songs to their phones, while 29% of US users are interested. This number jumps to 42% for UK users [...]
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