Mobile Media Intelligence: research on mobile TV, video, music, gaming and advertising

Reports

Mobile Market Monitor - Games Q2 2010 | 18 Aug 10 tags › | EA Mobile continues to lead the Western mobile games market with revenues of $52m for Q2 2010. Despite achieving growth for the 12th consecutive quarter, Q2 saw revenue growth slow to 4 per cent, the lowest since Q3 2007. Gameloft remained in second place in the Western market with revenues of $42.7m. Glu Mobile continued to decline, with revenues dropping to $16m, its lowest total since Q1 2007.

Mobile Music Continues To Evolve | 28 Jul 10 tags › | The story of mobile music has evolved along a different path to the rest of the record business. Mastertones - ringtones that use sound recordings - were an unexpectedly fertile revenue source in markets all across the world. In India, South Korea, Japan and China, ringback tones became another lucrative business. But mobile music revenue in the West declined dramatically with the falling populari...

Mobile Market Monitor: Funding and M&A trends Q2 2010 | 16 Jul 10 tags › | This quarterly report provides an overview of the latest VC funding, mergers and acquisitions in the mobile industry.

Analyst commentary

Q1 and Q2 operator data now available | 01 Sep 10 tags › | 2010 first and second quarter operator data is now available in Mobile Media Intelligence. After a very difficult first quarter for Europe with a first ever decline in the number of subscribers, Q2 2010...

US pay TV operators swarm around the iPad | 20 Aug 10 tags › | Verizon has joined Cablevision and Dish Network in announcing an iPad app to offer some form of TV service to their customers. Verizon and Cablevision's apps will, initially at least, be limited to live...

Screen Digest expands mobile application store coverage | 20 Aug 10 tags › | Screen Digest has expanded its coverage of mobile application stores with new five year forecasts for Google's Android Market mobile application store. Coverage of Apple's App Store has also been...

Presentations

Mobile content market: Application stores transform the market | 12 Jul 10 tags › | 2009 was a difficult year for the operator distributed mobile content market, particularly in mature Western markets as content shifts from operators' portals to off-portal application stores and the availability of free media content increases. In response to a recent update of Screen Digest mobile media forecasts, Ronan de Renesse, Head of the Mobile Intelligence team, delivered a webinar highl...

Mobile broadcast technology beyond the delivery of mobile TV | 26 May 10 tags › | Ronan de Renesse, head of mobile media research at Screen Digest, delivered a presentation on mobile TV trends on 24 March 2010, at IPTV World Forum in London. The presentation draws particular attention to the future of mobile broadcast technologies in light of a struggling mobile TV market. The slides are available for download for Mobile Intelligence subscribers.