What are US Adults doing with their mobiles?

The USA has a mobile penetration of 86%. The majority’s most popular activity on a mobile phone is sending text messages by far! In the age category 18-29, more than 94% use SMS. See Silicon Alley Insider Chart:

Google CEO predicted a massive shift of

advertising revenues from the fixed web to mobile platforms similar to that from print publications to the internet. More.

AOL plans to launch hundreds of local

news sites in 2010. The goal: “To be leaders in one of the most promising ‘white spaces’ on the Internet.” More.

Most media execs believe mobile will

lead future revenu growth. 53% of media and entertainment execs believe the mobile platform will emerge as their primary source of revenue growth over the next 3 years. More.

Metro’s 15th anniversary

Because of Metro, worldwide newspaper markets look very different today than 15 year ago. More.

Trinity Mirror has agreed to buy GMG

Regional Media, which includes the Manchester Evening News, from Guardian Media Group for £44.8 million. More.

Orange is launching a new platform called Shots that allows brands

to target its customers via SMS/MMS mobile ads and will be powered by Blyk Media. More.

Newsquest Sees Property Classifieds

nightmare stabilising. but is still losing money. Newsquest’s 200+ UK papers lost 38.5 percent of their job classifieds income and 26.9 percent of cars small ads. More.

Mobile Data Association about SMS:

“The statistics demonstrate continued growth in mobile messaging; British consumers embrace the simplicity and value of the technology and continue to send each other an increasing number of messages,” Mr. Reynolds said. All stats.

Mobile messaging revenues expected

to top $233B by 2014, up from about $150B in 2009. Global SMS traffic exceeded 5 trillion messages in 2009. More.

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