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According to a new report from Juniper Research, the strong growth amongst games and infotainment applications, in part fostered by consumer tablet market, will push mobile entertainment revenues to more than $65 billion annually by 2016, up from $36 billion last year.
The report titled “Mobile Entertainment Strategies: Business Models & Forecasts 2012-2016″ noted that while the transition to an app-store centric ecosystem had dramatically increased consumer adoption of casual games, it had also resulted in the development of a far greater variety of content for mobile devices. In that sense, revenues across a spectrum of infotainment services like leisure and lifestyle aps have already experienced dramatic growth.
However, while overall entertainment revenues would continue to increase steadily, some sectors would fare less well like ringtone market, which is expected to peak this year.
Some other findings from the report include:
- Far East & China will account for the largest share of mobile entertainment revenues throughout the forecast period.
- Mobile operators should seek to leverage their billing relationship to retain a share of entertainment revenues.
And as usual, you can get additional information from Juniper’s website.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
