The mobile content providers have overlooked a million Euro market!
While the market for ringtones and logos in Europe is today worth around Euro 0.5 billion and will continue to earn money in the coming years, content providers who are…
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New Mobile services on stand-by until the mobile operators have their terminal strategy ready
Now that the first mobile phones sporting MMS and GPRS – and even colour screens and built in cameras are available on the market, one of the big questions is,…
Mobile Services will be a major source of income for the Media Sector
There is already money to be made on mobile services – as some media companies have found out and have been taking advantage of during the past year. But it…
WAP could jeopardise MMS – before MMS even gets going!
Following the dismal flop that WAP turned out to be when introduced in the late 90’s, WAP now stands a good chance of turning the predicated success of MMS into…
New report concludes: South Korea is the most developed market for mobile services in the world
Being the first is not always the same as being the best.Japan was first to launch a 3G network for mobile services. But South Korea has been by far the…
Record Companies that are barking up the wrong tree will not survive
Most record companies are barking up the wrong tree by focusing on Internet lawsuits that they hope will help to maintain their traditional business. But their traditional business of selling…
Media companies tired of “crystal ball” predictions
Media Companies have spent (and lost) fortunes getting their content on to new media platforms, including the Internet and digital television, based on reports containing fantastic predictions of explosive revenue…
Media Companies are afraid of more online investments and are thereby missing out on mobile opportunities
Some Media Companies have simply pulled the plug on their New Media Divisions, as they fail to fulfil the initial promised return on investment. Others are quietly cutting back and…
Interactive Advertising on Digital TV faces new problems
The mobile phone will be the preferred TV return path. Still shaken after the collapse of ITV Digital in the UK, the DTV industry faces a new threat – mobile…
New report concludes
Bringing i-mode to Europe is like importing a Japanese car to a place with no roads. A new report by Strand Consult concludes that DoCoMo’s i-mode is not the success…
Commercial Television Broadcasters will need to offer new services to their advertisers
or face the consequences of loosing them. Advertising revenue has been declining on almost all media-platforms, as advertisers cut back on budgets and scramble in their search for the ever…
New report concludes: South Korea is probably the most developed market for mobile services in the world
A new report by Strand Consult concludes that mobile operators should look to South Korea rather than Japan or elsewhere for mobile Internet success stories: South Korean operators are managing…
