Mobile Entertainment: Country Profiles

Key Coverage

Music

• How are the key music segments expected to develop over the next five years and what will be the factors that either drive growth or cause a downward trend in revenues?
• Discover the key business models adopted around the world and learn the impact that they have had on numbers of users and levels of revenues
• Learn the importance of localisation of content and how international artists are failing to break into key markets
• What impact do cultural preferences have on the provision of regional business models?

• What business models are operators looking to deploy in order to exploit the adult services market without losing brand credibility and risking high churn levels?
• How important a role does the content aggregator play in the adult content value chain?
• What services are proving most profitable in the value chain: video, SMS, chat, user generated content?
• Which markets are seeing adult content take off and which have seen the segment stifled?

• What role will direct-to consumer/off-portal initiatives play in the mobile games industry?
• How are successful operators managing their games portals?
• Learn the strategies from around the globe that have been implemented to expand the segment beyond the key 5%
• Why are media companies and console-games publishers stepping up their involvement in mobile games?
• What can be learnt from regional differences in mobile games strategies?

• What is driving video content consumption around the globe?
• Identify the key content partnerships that are driving growth
• Learn the current size of the market and the key factors that shape segment growth over the next five years
• What has been the role of the consumer in creating content and how have operators leveraged this market phenomenon?

• Learn which standards have been adopted in which regions, the pros and cons of adoption and how the mobile TV landscape is likely to evolve
• Licensing, rights and regulation: navigating the complexities of rights ownership
• Examining the business models for mobile TV: what have been the factors that have driven success or initiated failure?
• Personalisation and imaging
• What are the new services and applications driving mobile personalisation?
• Key drivers for growth in avatars, cartoons, screensavers and wallpapers from around the globe
• Which countries are still seeing significant growth and which are seeing slowdown and why?

• Business and revenue models for mobile communities
• What are the different forms mobile community applications and services can take?
• Which countries have successfully monetized communities and what have been the key success factors?

Forecasts

Countries and regions broken out by:

Revenues
Users for each of the key entertainment segments
Music
Ringtones
Ringback tones
Full track download
Music streaming

Games
Mobile TV
Mobile TV broadcast
Mobile TV streaming

Video
Images/Personalisation
Gambling

Countries profiled include

North America

• USA
• Canada

• Brazil
• Rest of Latin America

• Japan
• Korea
• Rest of Asia Pacific (Developed)
• China
• India
• Rest of Asia Pacific (Other)

• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Spain
• UK
• Rest of Western Europe
• Russia
• Rest of Eastern Europe

• Africa
• Middle East