Bits 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 [...]
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Loose Ends
by on 15. Apr, 2005 in Content Providers, Services, Stats
Some 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 [...]
Study Says People Want Mobile Downloads, Sort Of
by on 05. Apr, 2005 in Stats
Mobile 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 [...]
High Interest In On-Demand Media
by on 28. Mar, 2005 in Stats
A study released last week (38-page PDF alert) indicates that Americans’ use on “on-demand media devices” (such as TiVos and iPods) is on the rise, with services like Internet radio, video-on-demand, mobile e-mail and Internet video growing in popularity. The old-media takeaway, as reflected in a radio trade pub, is that people are choosing these [...]
There’s Speculation, Then There’s Analyst Predictions
by on 25. Mar, 2005 in Stats
A research firm says the mobile music market with be worth more than $9 billion by 2009. It expects ringtones to make up just over half of this, but it’s hard to think that ringtones will be a $4.8 billion business in 2009, given the proliferation of DIY ringtone tools and the increasing use of [...]
Digital Sales Boost Global Music Revenues
by on 22. Mar, 2005 in Stats
The global music-label trade body says that music sales worldwide were flat in 2004, the best year-on-year trend in five years. While sales of physical music products slipped, digital sales grew astronomically. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry still blames file-sharing for most of the industry’s woes, failing to realize the digital sales figures [...]
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