May 7th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »
Link: Mobile Advertising Blog.
entertainment today, promising an even brighter future.
Every year U.S. women spend $5 billion on magazines, movies and other lifestyle “content.” Now, marketing experts tell UPI’s Wireless World, the mobile-phone industry is eyeing the women’s market as a new niche, hoping to provide customized content, whether it is ringtones, personalized “wallpaper” or other features exclusively for female customers.
Surprisingly, the survey showed, mobile games are also very popular with women customers, coming in second only to ringtones as a desired download. The survey showed that 69 percent of women age 18 to 22 surveyed have already downloaded one or more ringtones. The use of ringtones as “caller ID” identifiers is also representative of the importance of customization and personalization in mobile content for younger women, the pollsters said. Read on
