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Articles tagged with: Mobile Music and Ringtone
Ringtone Sales in the USA Start to Decline
Broadcast Music (BMI), the U.S. performing right organization has published its annual mobile music market projections for 2008 and figures for 2007. BMI projects that ringbacktones will surpass $210 million in U.S. retail sales during calendar year 2008, up 50% from BMI's 2007 market estimate of $140 million. A ringbacktone is a musical work that is performed to the caller when they place a call to a participating mobile subscriber. more
Mobile Music Revenues Set to Reach $17.5bn by 2012
The total value of the global mobile music market is expected to rise to more than $17.5bn by 2012, driven by rental music services and full-track downloads, according to a new report by Juniper Research. more
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Consumer Spending on Mobile Music Will Surpass US$32 billion by 2010
The amount of money that mobile phone users worldwide spend on music received on mobile handsets will reach US$32.2 billion by 2010, up from US$13.7 billion in 2007, according to new global forecasts from Gartner. This is despite competition from various digital music players and a host of challenges faced by telecommunications carriers in delivering these services. more
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Downloading Music to Phone and PC
TDC Mobile says that it is the first mobile operator to launch 24-7 MusicShop's 'dual delivery' mobile music download service. The new service enables TDC Mobile customers to download music tracks to their phone and receive simultaneous delivery to an online account. The music can then be downloaded to a PC and burned or transfered to another device. more
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UK Leads in Mobile Music Consumption
M:Metrics has released its findings on the audience for mobile music in the USA and Western Europe. The measurement firm found that the UK boasts the highest percentage of mobile subscribers who used their mobile device as a music player in the month of July. At three percent, the volume of British mobile music consumers is higher than the Spanish (2.8%), U.S. (0.7%) and German (1.4%) audiences.
Mobile Music Consumption: Percentage of Subscriber Base: July 2006
| Germany | France | Spain | UK | US | |
| Used Phone as Music Player | 1.4% | 0.6% | 2.8% | 3.0% | 0.7% |
| Listened to Side-Loaded Music | 1.1% | 0.4% | 1.5% | 1.3% | 0.4% |
| Listened to Downloaded Music | 0.4% | 0.2% | 1.7% | 2.0% | 0.3% |
| Downloaded Music | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.5% | 0.2% |
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Ringtones are Fashion, Mobile Music is Another Gadget"
M:Metrics has published some new insights on ringtones and mobile music. The measurement firm reports that although ringtones are universally popular among both males and females, there are significant differences between the sexes when it comes to the types of mobile music downloads. more
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Mobile Music to Breakout Next Year
The convergence of digital music and mobile phones is likely to develop at a steady pace according to a new report published by The NPD Group. The report, which explores consumer demand for mobile music, is based on a survey of more than 8,200 teens and adults. It takes an in-depth look at subscriber interest, how they'd like to access tunes and just how much they're willing to pay for the privilege. more
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Industry Players Speculate On Fate Of Motorola Cell Phone
NEW YORK (AP) -- It has been the great "Whodunit?" of two big technology shows: more
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Cellular music will remain a niche - report
A new Strategy Analytics report says that mobile operators will struggle to generate volume sales of music through their new Music on Demand (MMoD) services, and alternative strategies are needed for success. Strategy Analytics predicts that these services will be generating US$2 billion per year, compared with US$57 billion for SMS, by 2009. more
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Japanese operator orders music platform
Coding Technologies says that Japan's KDDI Corp. has selected MPEG-4 aacPlus for use in their new mobile music download service, EZ "Chaku-Uta Full." With service starting in November, KDDI will initially provide the service on handset models from Toshiba, Hitachi, Sanyo, and Casio. KDDI selected aacPlus, also known as HE AAC, to speed downloads, to reduce network costs, and to store more music on the handsets. more
Related Tags: toshiba, kddi, sanyo, hitachi, casio
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