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The mobile industry is worth one trillion dollars! Yes $ 1 000 000 000 000, Twelve 0’s after the 1. Believe it.

For anyone, any business in whatever shape or size not yet fully convinced that the future of digital marketing starts and ends with mobile, allow me to highlight some examples of this ridiculously growing industry

• The latest numbers reveal that the total number of unique mobile phone owners is now 3.05 billion. (46% of the planet’s population do have a mobile phone, even after we remove the multiple subscriptions).
• There are 1.4 billion TV sets in the world. But there are 2 billion mobile phones with a colour screen and at least 2.5G network connectivity, meaning they can display “streaming” ie live TV and video.
• Of the four digital camera giants, only Canon and Nikon remain in the camera business, Konica and Minolta no longer exist in the camera market; and the world’s bestselling camera brand, since 2004, has been Nokia.
• Music on mobile phones today, at the end of 2008, is passing the 11 billion dollar annual revenue level. When we bear in mind, that the total global music industry is only worth 30 billion dollars - it means that more than one in three dollars spent on music globally, is spent on the mobile phone.
• 50 Cents with his smash hit, In da Club, in 2003 earned more as ringtone than all other music formats combined - and most annoyingly of course the Crazy Frog - to the tune of 500 million dollars of global sales of their ringtones and related services in 2005 – that’s one ringtone earning more than all of iTunes’ global sales that year.
• A third of the mobile phone subscribers on the planet sends MMS picture messages - that is 1.3 billion people
• This year mobile social media passed $9 billion
• In the past ten years, mobile content has turned into a global giant industry worth over 71 billion dollars of annual revenues.
• There are under 500 million newspapers sold daily. There are 900 million personal computers connected to the internet. There are 1.3 billion internet users. And 1.4 billion TV sets. But 1.5 billion people will receive ads on mobile phones this year. How many more will receive them next year?

Still see no value in mobile and spending all your advertising budgets on newspapers, radio and TV?

Time to wake up and…

smell the coffee.

mxit angel

Angel is a service on MXit providing real answers to real questions that young people may have on a platform that they are comfortable on. The “Angel” service was launched at the Reconstructed  graduation on 12 December 2008 as an additional service to the Drug Advice and Support (DAS).

With the increase of substance abuse, HIV/Aids, Abuse , depression and stress in our communities a nation is crying out for Angels. This service will inform people about the dangers of the substance abuse, HIV/Aids inform them about the signs and where they can their angels “Find your angel”.

“Find your angel” is where people can find contact details in their various provinces for assistance with their social issue.

Currently “Angel” provides information about Substance abuse, HIV/Aids, Abuse, Stress and Coping, and Depression. The service will being adding other information that the public would need during such a time of need.

How to access Angel on MXit:

• Go to Menu
• Contacts
• Add Contacts
• MXit Services
• Add the following- Service Name: Angel, Nickname: Angel
• Accept Contact

For more information about the Angel on MXit , Drug Advice Support and Reconstructed project visit marlonparker.blogspot.com

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