Signals Telecom Consulting has published a report on the Latin-American adult content market for mobile phones. The report highlights the fact that the mobile adult content market in Latin America is focused on "Soft" products, with little use of nudes and explicit sex. This is due to the high censorship barriers imposed by mobile operators themselves in the face of fears that this type of content could cause unwanted legal hassles.
"Brazil is the most advanced market with regard to adult mobile content. Its mobile market has a large offering by both operators and integrators, backed by a robust local adult industry. Although Colombia and Venezuela do not have such a strong local adult industry, they do offer a wide ranging offering of image downloads that include complete nudity," explains Elias Vicente, Signals Telecom Consulting analyst and report author.
Finally, this report points out that due to existing product censorship barriers, the adult mobile content segment will experience moderate growth through 2009. It will begin to show much more significant growth levels as from 2010.
"The appearance of amateur explicit sex applications that include footage shot using the web cameras of the novices themselves will be of great importance. This will force the industry to react by developing effective parental control models in order to avoid legal problems as well as "impose" products produced by companies dedicated to the production of adult content," concludes Vicente.
Posted to the site on 5th September 2008
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