Mobile TV popular in the 25-34 male crowd

by Brian White posted May 5th 2007 at 2:36PM

That chased-after demographic of 25 to 34 year-old males just found a new fan: mobile TV. ComScore states that 46 percent of current mobile TV subscribers in the U.S. are below the age of 35 and 65 percent are male. To us, that's an obvious conclusion from the research company (who supplied the stats). The research firm concluded that younger males are earlier adopters of newer technologies. Umm, yep -- we had our suspicions. Apparently, that same group is responsible for the spread of newer mobile tech, as comScore added "once the early adopters have had a chance to fully engage with the technology and share their experiences with friends, relatives and colleagues, Mobile TV is substantially more likely to reach a critical mass in the marketplace." Cool. Additionally, the top-recognized "brands" in mobile TV were Verizon's VCAST, MobiTV and Modeo. The research also showed that U.S. consumers wanted a high level of quality on a chosen mobile TV service. We're not sure it's there -- yet.

Filed under: Multimedia

Tags: Cingular Video, CingularVideo, Culture, Mobile Television, Mobile TV, MobileTelevision, MobileTv, MobiTV, Sprint TV, SprintTv, tv on cellphone, TvOnCellphone, VCAST, wireless TV, WirelessTv

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Brian @ May 5th 2007 5:19PM

It's a bit like saying sex is important to 25-34 year old men. Although I suspect more would pay for the sex than strain to see tv that small.

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Yamgo @ Jun 6th 2007 5:47AM

Youtube on your mobile phone

Youtube has a new competitor who has beaten them to launching mobile video sharing. It's live now from www.yamgo.tv You can upload,
share and broadcast your video on mobile phones now. check it out it's pretty cool and the quality is good. http://yamgo.mobi

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Mariyan @ Jun 18th 2007 1:40AM

They seem to be specializing in extreme sports and have a collection of some of the best extreme sports video I seen. The best thing about the service is it�s free. Vodafone charge me every time I want to watch mobile video, but it�s all free to view on Yamgo. I unloaded a video directly from my mobile phone and it was live within 5 minutes, which was cool. The video on their mobile site at http://yamgo.mobi was a bit jerky but the video i uploaded was filmed on my phone was it was actually pretty good.

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