According to Infonetics Research, worldwide sales of video-enabled cell phones will double by 2010 with video subscribers  growing to 58.6 million. Sales will also grow to about $125 billion by 2010 from nearly $58 billion last year.

North America is lagging other worldwide regions. However, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa are leading regions for mobile video service revenue last year with 42% of the worldwide total.

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The combination of Internet advertising, Internet TV, mobile ads, game advertising and IPTV advertising will generate $41 billion in revenues by 2011, says research firm MultiMedia Intelligence.

In 2007, new media advertising will generate about $18 billion worldwide, which means ad revenues will more than double in five years.

The company says that three new categories–Internet TV, IPTV and mobile TV–will make up about 20% of media ad dollars in 2011. So far, advertising in these nascent media is pretty low.

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According to a Reuters story, only 5% of Europeans said they were interested in getting mobile TV in the next 12 months. This is according to a Gartner report on mobile video.

Asians were more interested: 20% of Asians said they would watch mobile TV.  The Reuters story said that 1) a lack of business models, 2) various mobile TV technologies and 3) a shortage of airwaves has slowed the takeup of mobile TV.

In mobile TV, DVB-H broadcasts are gaining popularity in Asia, but another technology, MediaFlo by Qualcomm, is also gathering attention.

MocoNews asks: Are mobile users even interested in mobile TV? But I think if the technology is there, and the price is right, people will be interested. Smartphone users can already get a glimpse of the mobile TV future by using the Slingbox and their phones (like Treos) to watch TV from their homes.

If people are building their own mobile TV solutions today, I’d say the interest is there.

[Via MocoNews]

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Research firm iSuppli said that the market for premium mobile content like games, music and video is expected to exceed $44 billion in 2011. That’s more than double the expected $20 billion market this year.

This includes text messaging, and ringtones as well, which make up large portions of revenues for mobile providers. iSuppli said that Universal Music leads the market in terms of sales of mobile music content among the major record labels.

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AT&T announced that its IPTV service called U-verse will be available on PCs and cell phones. Only certain channels, like A&E Broadband, Fox News, The Weather Channel, and Bloomberg TV will be available.

This is an interesting move by AT&T. It differentiates its TV service from cable and satellite providers and from Verizon, an IPTV competitor here in the U.S.

Here’s how it will work. U-verse subscribers pay an extra $10 per month and will be able to watch about 30 channels on their PCs. Later, the service–called U-verse OnTheGo–will be available on AT&T wireless devices.

AT&T is providing this service through a partner, MobiTV. There’s no word on what type of content protection the shows will have or if it will be stored on user’s hard drives. I doubt TV studios would want that. MobiTV currently streams shows to cell phones, so I think that’s how the U-verse content will be delivered.

One analyst called the new service “weak” especially compared with other services like NetFlix, Amazon’s Unbox and others. I think the $10 price tag is a big high. This seems more like a value-added service, if it’s going to PCs.

But it’s an interesting integration of PCs and TVs, except this time the TV is coming to the PC, rather than the other way around. Will people really want to get their U-verse channels on a PC?

AT&T’s U-verse service, launched in 2006, is presently available in 15 U.S. markets.

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