Murat is swell to keep this list of Mobile Industry statistics updated for fans to inspire each other and to prompt laggards to go mobile (here is our recent point-of-view).
Wow... there is something here for everyone. The latest are at the bottom - each is a link to the source:
- Text messaging in the US hits 4.3 Billion SMS every day
- 975 million mobile web users expected by 2012
- 19% of internet users now use status updates – mobile dominates
- Over half a billion people to use mobile money transfer services by 2014
- 30% of consumers communicate with brands via social networks
- 70% of print publishers step up mobile efforts
- Mobile marketing budgets growing at 26%
- DMA: ‘mobile will be the fastest growing platform for the next five years’
- IAB: ‘Mobile marketing ‘will be the best platform for younger consumers’
- Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012
- US mobile advertising spend 2008 – 2013
- How Much Does An iPhone User Spend On Apps? $80
- Americans Spend More Than 4.5 Hours per Month Browsing on Smartphones, Nearly Double the Rate of the British
- Average iPhone User Downloads 9 Games, Spends $7 On Them
- Android and iPhone usage patterns nearly identical
- Data Revenues Will Push Mobile Biz Past $1 Trillion
- Mobile phones to overtake PCs for web surfing by 2013
- 85% of US Internet users have cell phones – spending on mobile tech increased in 2009
- One Third Of U.S. 11-Year-Olds Have Cellphones
- Gartner: Consumers Will Spend $6.2 Billion On Apps This Year; Only $600m From Ads
- In 2010 the cellphone market will grow by 9.3 percent
- iPhone And Android Now Account For 81 Percent Of Smartphone Web Ads In the U.S.
- Revenue from mobile apps set to quadruple from 2010 to 2013
- 76% Of Users Don’t Use The Mobile Web
- Americans Sending 4 Times as Many Text Messages as Brits
- Mobile Advertising Grows By 41% in 2009
- More Than Half Of Mobile Pageviews Are To Social Networking Sites
- 2 million mobile tickets have been redeemed worldwide
- Facebook dominates UK mobile internet engagement
- One third of phones will use accelerometers in 2010
- Gartner: Mobile To Outpace Desktop Web By 2013
- 80% mobile websites attract global audience
- Mobile shopping will balloon to $119B by 2015
- Mobile marketing to reach $24B in five years, says study
- 300m fewer female mobile phone owners than male around the world
- Mobile gambling estimated to grow to USD 16.6 billion by 2011
- Mobile MVNO revenues expected to rise to USD 67.4 billion in 2012
- 68% of Americans get news and current events information on their cell
- Juniper Forecasts 15bn Mobile Tickets by 2014
- There will be 288 million mobile VoIP users by 2013
- 30.8% of smartphone users accessed social networking sites in January 2010
- Juniper Research: Mobile retail market to exceed $12 billion by 2014
- LBS Revenues to Top $12.7bn by 2012, says Juniper
- ABI Research: Enterprise mobile data revenues to hit $43 billion by 2014
- Mobile apps industry to hit $17.5B by 2012 with 50B in downloads
- Shipments of GPS-enabled handsets increased 92% in 2009
- Google sites accounted for 9% of all mobile internet page views by US users on Opera
- Mobile apps to generate $1.6 billion in revenue in 2010
- Mobile advertising spend to rise 80 percent in 2010
- Mobile Web users increase to 69.9M: Study
- Mobile Data Traffic Expected To Rise 40-Fold Over Next Five Years
- Mobile Web More Popular Than Reading
- Study: 80% Of SMS & MMS Users Report Dropped Texts
- UK mobile advertising market grew 32% in 2009 to £37.6 million
- 29% of all parents don’t allow texting during family meals. 36% of parents of teenagers don’t allow texting during family meals.
- 10% of Under 25s Think It’s Okay to Text During Sex
- Mobile Barcode scanning up 700% in 2010
- Mobile will consume 40bn gigabytes of data in 2012
- Record 77 Million Smartphones Shipped In Q3 2010, Growing 78 Percent Over Last Year
- 6.1 trillion text messages to be sent in 2010
- Mobile ad revenues to hit $3.5bn this year, $24bn by 2015
- 49% of Small Business Owners Use Smartphones
- Survey says that 20% of Americans are planning to switch to prepaid in the first half of 2011
- Only 4.8% of U.S. retailers have mobile-specific Web sites
- Research: 500M Consumers Projected To Use Mobile Health Apps On Smartphones By 2015
- App Store Tops 300,000 Applications
- Facebook generates 25% of all US pageviews in one week – excluding mobile traffic
- Mobile Barcode Survey: 97 Percent Of Consumers Find Them Useful
- Mobile Commerce In The US To Reach $4.9 Billion This Year, Up From Just $363M In 2008
- 7.3 million mobile phone users shop via mobile monthly
- Wi-fi accounts for half of all mobile web connections
- iOS users spend 47% of the time on Apps vs. 12% on the web
- A quarter of Apps are only used once
- Mobile advertising to go from $9.9 mill last year to $46.4 million in 2015
- Global data: Are smartphones more popular with men or women?
- Smartphones vs. Standard mobiles in the youth market
- Apps to explode to $38 billion market by 2015
- 75% of respondents say that mobile is their primary way of accessing YouTube
- Study reveals mobile augmented reality apps to reach 1.4B downloads by 2015
- Mobile Data Revenue To Climb 22% In 2011
- Survey says 19% of drivers browse the web while behind the wheel
- Half of adult texters send and receive ten text messages daily
- 39% reveal using their smartphone in the bathroom
- UK mobile search soars nearly 200% in Q1 of 2011
- 33% of Facebook Posting is Mobile
- 35% of Smartphone Owners Use Apps Before Getting Out of Bed