Archive for the ‘Research & Stats’ Category

17% of Girls Play Before Going to Bed According to NTT DoCoMo

April 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

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NTT Docomo has presented a small research amongst 900 of their mobile
gaming service consumers in regards to when they play. Half of this
group was below 16 years of age and the group was equally divided in
girls and boys.

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NPD Group: Licensing and Original IP

March 26th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

The NPD Group launched a bulletin about the effect of licensed mobile
games within the market. They kicked off with some generic data like
20% of our target consumer base played games on their mobile and 3% of
them downloaded a game in the first half of the year while 4% bought
one by the end of 2006.

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Handango’s 2006 Statistics

March 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Our friends over at Mobile GD have released details about the
performance of mobile games on the popular Handango portal. The
statistics reach from best selling game, to most used handset. We
posted a quick overview below, for the full details, visit this link!

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AIMIA Has Released A Study About Australian Consumers

March 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Research company AIMIA has released a study about the Australian consumers. The document shows a lot of detail in describing the consumer, but we picket out the most interesting details below.

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Brew worth $ 1 Billion

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew, Research & Stats | 2 Comments »

Qualcomm, the company behind the Brew programming language, has
announced that publishers and developers of mobile games and applications have earned in total more then
$ 1 billion since the first commercial mobile application was sold back in
November 2001.

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Amob February Chart

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

The February edition of Amob‘s salescharts reached our mailbox this morning, showing a top 10 which is slowly getting dominated by branded mobile games, though non-branded games still show excellent results.

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US Q4 06 Mobile Game Downloads Worth $ 151 Million

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Research company Telephia released details about mobile game downloads in the US for the fourth quarter of 2006. The research shows that the value of downloads has increased to $ 151 million which is an increase of 61% in comparison with the fourth quarter 2005.

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4.5 Million Games a Month in Korea

March 2nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Ovum reports a steady number of 4.5 million mobile games downloads take place every month in Korea. The mobile game downloads have a value of $ 200 million a month in both the costs for the game, as well as the traffic charges. Traffic accounts for 39.7% of the revenue, which shows either how expensive data charges are, or more probable, the popularity of connected gaming in Korea. If this figure is compared with the number of consumers in the networks, it shows 12% of the consumers buys a game every month.

Whitepaper download: It’s all phones and games

October 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 3 Comments »

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Juniper Research: $ 10.5 billion in 2009

October 6th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

Juniper Research announced the mobile games market is up for a steep growth. The market is expected to have a value of $ 3 billion this year and will grow to $ 10.5 billion in 2009.