5. – 6.8 billion people
– 5+ billion mobile
subscriptions
• 3+ Billion unique
– US – 277 million
subscriptions
• 233 million unique
The rest of the world can’t
9. Mobile 3rd Most Used Media
Channel
Source: Microsoft Advertising Mobile Consumer Vertical Study - The
Future of Mobile Advertising, Nov. 11, 2009
Average number of hours per week spent with:
11. The convergence of media
TV Radio Recordings Comms. Print Cinema
Source: Ahonen (2007)
Internet
12. The many paths of mobile
Content
Source: comScore (Feb. 2010)
13. U.S. Text Messaging Growth
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Dec 00
Dec 01
Dec 02
Dec 03
Dec 04
Dec 05
4.6 9.7
18.7
48.1
110.4
152.6
Source: CTIA Semi-Annual Wireless Survey; Tomi Ahonen, 2010
Worldwide est: 8 trillion messages in 2011
(Billions of messages)
18. Mobile Users Access a Wide
Range of Content
49%
44%
36%
34%
31%
29%
24%
22%
21%
21%
20%
18%
18%
17%
15%
13%
13%
12%
12%
12%
weather
search
news
maps
sports information
entertainment news
movie information
stock quotes or financial news
bank accounts
tech news
restaurant information
traffic reports
business directories
general reference
classifieds
television guides
gaming information
electronic payments
auction sites
online retail
Top 20 Mobile Content Categories
Reach Among Active Users
(Browsing, Apps, SMS), April 2010, US
Product:comScore MobiLens
Data: Three month average ending April 2010