From MobileYouthReport.com
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If you’re interested in Malaysia check out the Mobile Youth Conference in Kuala Lumpur March 2010
3 Key Points featured in the Slides:
1) Malaysia is Stable. Of all the South East Asian mobile youth markets, Malaysia remains stable with positive revenue growth forecast 2009-2012.
2) Changing the growth story. [...]
Upstart Radio by Graham Brown
This week featuring Ian Stewart – Asia’s leading youth marketer with a career spanning 20 years of insights with Friendster, MTV and Coke.
When you want to know about youth trends in Asia you speak to Ian Stewart. I’ve been tracking his work since his days at MTV when he produced superb [...]
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As a prelude to our focus on emerging markets (China / India) and youth this week
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Is Twitter the new CNN?
Social website Twitter has played a big part at making the world aware of the situation in Iran. Social media also allows the citizens of Iran to organize and take action against the government. (Grownup Thinking.com)
Check out more news covered here on mobileYouth about Iran. Referencing Are today’s freedom fighters using [...]
Mobile advertising in Asia
Listening to music, taking pictures and sending SMS were the top activities of young adult mobile phone users in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. “The ability to stimulate user action will be the key to success in mobile advertising,” said Yeunsil Lee, an ROA Group analyst. (eMarketer)
Japan and social networking
Where do the [...]
Asian youth and music downloads
Only a small percentage of young Asians actually pay for music downloads compared to those who download “free” unpaid music. A report also shows that the highest percentage of illegally acquired music occurs in China but they also have the third highest percentage for legal music downloads. (Source Dan Calladine @ [...]
Check out our special feature on youth marketing in China. Click the photo to access Ebooks, Videos & Interviews on Youth Culture in China:
Despite having lived in Tokyo, set up offices in India, travelled all over South East Asia and the Himalayan region I’ve never actually set foot in China. Who knows? Yet, undeniably, China’s [...]
It’s easy to get lost in the quant – take a look at the numbers: the mobile youth market is worth over $250 billion. However, numbers are meaningless without the qualitative. So, following the earlier post on Youth Trends in China, here’s a short presentation on Chinese Youth vintage fashion from Youthology.
The innovative nature [...]
We hear a lot about youth not spending like they used to on music. Change it appears has not favoured the record industry. However, one can’t deny innovation such as Radiohead’s flexible charging models and the subsequent fan response as a vindication that while the charging models may be suspect, the $250 billion mobile youth [...]
Having failed miserably in the U.S. Disney plans to launch a mobile phone service in Japan next year offering customers animated content.
Disney will use mobile phone carrier Softbank Corp’s network and the two would jointly develop handsets, according to Nikkei business daily.
Disney’s entray into Japan as a mobile virtual network operator is likely to trigger further competition in an already saturated [...]
