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Articles tagged with: Ringback Tones and Mobile Music
USA Ringback Tones to Grow to $235 Million in 2009
Music performing rights organization, Broadcast Music (BMI) has published its annual mobile music market revenue projections for 2009 and finalized its earlier figures for 2008. BMI projects that ringback tones will surpass $235 million in U.S. retail sales during calendar year 2009, up 15% from BMI's 2008 market estimate of $205 million and 68% from BMI's 2007 estimate of $140 million. BMI estimates that more than 10 million U.S. subscribers are signed up for ringback-tone services with their wireless carriers. Ringback-tone services have an industry-wide average penetration rate of approximately 4%. Subscriber penetration by carrier for ringback tones ranges from less than 2% to a high of 9%. more
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Ringback Tones Worth $4.7 Billion in 2012
Ringback tones are on track to become the most attractive mobile content category by 2012, according to new market research from MultiMedia Intelligence. With worldwide revenue nearly tripling to $4.7 billion, ringback tones will fall just short of mobile gaming revenue in capturing the largest share of the mobile premium content market (not including mobile video and mobile TV). more
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Music, video: Fastest-growing apps in mobile entertainment
The Asia-Pacific (mobile) premium content market grew 57.4 percent in 2006 on the back of rising popularity of mobile multimedia content and a fast-growing mobile data services segment as users demand a richer experience on their mobile devices. 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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Chinese Wireless Value-Added Services Market has Room to Grow
According to Ovum, the 437 million mobile phone users in China undeniably make it the world's most promising market for wireless value-added services (WVAS), and the market will grow at a very dynamic and robust pace in the years ahead. With data contributing 21% of total mobile service revenues by June 2006, Ovum forecasts that WVAS will generate over US$11.5 billion revenues in China by 2010, a 48% surge from 2006. more
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Mobile TV Revenues to Soar Driven by Events Such as the Ashes
The mobile entertainment market will more than double over the next five years reaching US$38.1 billion in 2011, according to Informa Telecoms & Media, publisher of the new report, "Mobile Entertainment". The market is was responsible for US$18.8 billion in revenues worldwide in 2006. more
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AsiaPacific Mobile Music Revenues Soaring
From almost nothing five years ago, the mobile music market in Asia/Pacific grew to US$3.3 billion in 2005, and will reach US$9.3 billion by 2010, reports In-Stat. The breakthrough years for mobile music in Asia/Pacific will be 2007 and 2008, the high-tech market research firm says. Growth drivers include large markets like China and India reaching a critical mass of mobile subscribers and 3G services becoming prevalent region wide. more
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RealNetworks has announced that it is buying the mobile entertainment services group, WiderThan for approximately $350 million. WiderThan is a provider of ringback tones, music-on-demand and other mobile entertainment services to more than 50 wireless carriers in more than 25 countries including leading carriers such as SK Telecom in South Korea, Verizon Wireless in the USA, and Bharti Airtel in India. more
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Mobile Music Market to Shift From Ringtones to Full Track Downloads
Annual mobile music revenues will top US$14 billion worldwide by 2011 -- according to the latest report from Juniper Research -- with Asia Pacific expected to contribute 40% by this time, Europe 27%, North America 18% and Rest of the World 15%. 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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