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Jack Kent
What’s the best way to make money in the smartphone apps market?
Surprisingly, the answer is to give away apps for free—and to generate revenue on subsequent sales of in-app purchases.
In-app purchases will rise to account for 64 percent of total market revenue in 2015, up from 39 percent in 2011, as shown in the figure below. Revenue from in-app purchases will increase to $5.6 billion in 2015, up from $970 million in 2011
Press Release
December 23, 2011
Warner Home Video’s launch of the first UltraViolet-enabled Blu-ray Disc (BD) titles sounds the starting gun for the studios’ bid to resuscitate the health of their flagging video retail business by...
Market Watch
December 22, 2011
Between October and December 2011, South Korean retail chains E-Mart, Homeplus and Lotte Mart have all launched their own branded TVs. E-Mart began selling its own branded...
Market Watch
December 21, 2011
US cable operator Time Warner Cable (TWC) has extended remote-control functionality and DVR scheduling to Android devices. For Android handsets running Android 2.1 and...
Market Watch
December 20, 2011
After the launch of the iPlayer app on Android and iPad in February 2011, the BBC has released an iPhone and iPod Touch version. The new app provides access to almost all of...
Market Watch
December 20, 2011
Pay TV technology vendor NDS has filed for an IPO with the US stock market regulator, the SEC. NDS were taken private in 2009 when Permira completed the purchase of 51 percent of...
Market Watch
December 20, 2011
Dutch cable operator Ziggo has updated its pre-existing "Ziggo TV" application for the iPhone and iPod Touch to enable subscribers to watch live streams of 10 Dutch...
Market Watch
December 19, 2011
Poland's digital terrestrial television (DTT) multiplex 1 officially launched on 15 December with initial coverage of 15 per cent of the country's 14.5m homes. The multiplex is broadcasting...
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iSuppli market research partner Screen Digest provides leading news and media research to business executives worldwide, as well as to all our Intelligence clients and to the individual subscribers of our various research bulletins. We offer up-to-date, compelling media intelligence on a significant array of fields and subjects, including media industry trends, media industry news, advertising intelligence, advertising industry trends, games research, digital online media, television, digital and 3-D cinema, mobile entertainment, television technology, video and DVD.

The core of Screen Digest's Intelligence services lies in our unique databases of primary research data on the entertainment, communications, and technology markets. In 40 years of collecting and modeling data, Screen Digest has built an unparalleled reputation for reliability, accuracy, consistency, comprehensiveness, and insight. All our models and forecasts are built by senior analysts with extensive knowledge of the markets they are tracking, using tried and tested methodologies to produce data that our clients know are the best available. Our focus is on global coverage, with the same research and forecasting methodologies applied for all countries, and to all markets. Unlike many of our competitors, we also invest heavily in primary data gathering, using a large network of trusted contacts and relationships established over the past 40 years to build comprehensive sets of extremely difficult-to-find data. Our models are largely built up step-by-step from these granular data sets, at each step cross-checked for reliability and realism with many other inputs.

All our data sets are delivered in Excel workbooks.

iSuppli | Screen Digest offers the following areas of intelligence:

  • Advertising Intelligence. By subject: Total advertising, television, online, radio, newspaper, magazine, out-of-home, cinema, and mobile. By company: television broadcasters, out-of-home operators, and Internet media.
  • Broadband Media Intelligence. By subject: Basic data, Online music, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), online movies, portable media players, and technology. By company: ISPs, network operators
  • Cinema Intelligence. By subject: Admissions, box office revenue, digital cinema, distributor market shares, exhibitor market shares, prints, screen advertising, site and screens, production
  • Games Intelligence. By platform: TV-based consoles (PlayStation, Xbox, Wii, Dreamcast); handheld (Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, Gameboy); PC games (PC Games, PC Educational Reference); online (Xbox Live, MMOG)
  • Mobile Media Intelligence. By subject: Mobile TV, mobile video, mobile music, mobile games, mobile advertising, mobile broadband, application stores, devices, content, messaging, voice, 3G, basic data. By company: company rankings
  • TV Intelligence. By subject: Summaries, cable, satellite, IPTV, DTT, premium services, analog platforms, on-demand, multiservice and triple play, HDTV, public TV, technology, exchange rates. By company: Company rank
  • TV Technology Intelligence. By subject: Demand by country, demand by region, revenue by country, revenue by region. By vendor: Conditional access, middleware, set-top boxes
  • Video Intelligence. By subject: All formats, Blu-ray, DVD, VCD, VHS, retail environment
  • U.S. Media Intelligence (AMR): Advertising, broadband, games, mobile, television, theatrical, video
  • Intelligence for Investors: Advertising, broadband digital media, home video and DVD, mobile media, motion pictures, television, video games
  • Others: Consultancy, reports, research bulletins, analyst commentary, presentations, events