I included this video within my presentation at EyeForPharma, gives a good overview on mobile market and future predictions.
Stats from the video:
- Since 2008 mobile data traffic has ballooned by 3000% and its expected to grow 40-fold over the next 5 years
- 90% of the worlds population has access to mobile networks
- 2/3rd of American's get news on a mobile device
- Mobile web is now more popular than reading books, papers and magazines
- Say goodbye to digital cameras and video players, 76% of people use their phone to take pictures
- Over 100 million YouTube videos are played on mobile devices everyday In two years mobile ready sites have grown from 150,000 to 3 million, thats 2000%
- 10.9 billion apps downloaded in 2010, this expect to grow to 76.9 billion in 2014
- How much does an iPhone user spend on apps? $80
- Consumers spent $6.2 billion on apps last year, 2014 prediction $35 billion
- In 2013 more people will use their phones than PCs when surfing the web
- In 2014 over half a billion people will use mobile money transfer services
- Mobile ad revenues hit $3.5 billion last year, and estimated to hit $24 billion by 2014