M:Metrics today released the first definitive data to offer quantitative insights into the correlation between users of portable digital music players and mobile content. According to its February Benchmark survey, owners of portable music devices, especially owners of the Apple iPod, are more than twice more likely than average mobile subscribers to use music and video applications on their mobile phone and to express a willingness to pay for such services in the future. Whereas iPod owners comprise only 14.4 percent of the mobile phone market, M:Metrics found that they account for 29.5 percent of those who reported listening to music on their mobile phones and 30 percent of those who watched video on their phone. Additionally, this group was almost three times more likely than the average mobile subscriber to transfer music from their computer to their mobile phone. Owners of Apple iPods were more likely than owners of other portable media devices to turn to their mobile phone for music and video.
“This data indicates that digital media consumers want to access their media from their phones, across a multitude of platforms,” said Mark Donovan, vice president and senior analyst in the press release. “There is clearly demand for converged mobile devices among those who lead a digital lifestyle to enhance, not necessarily replace, their existing digital media devices.” Donovan cites the example of camera phones to illustrate his point: “Nokia has become the world’s largest manufacturer of digital cameras, but camera phones haven’t destroyed demand for dedicated digital cameras. In a similar fashion, mobile music and video capabilities will become ubiquitous but are unlikely to ‘kill the iPod.'” Usage of mobile video services are also more common among iPod owners than the industry average. These subscribers are more than twice more likely to watch live or streaming video, download a short video clip or watch mobile video.
Activity – Total Consumption – Percent of total that own iPods – Percent of total that own other digital music player brand
Watched mobile video – 2,731,216 – 30.4% – 26.6%
Transferred music from PC to phone – 598,376 – 35.9% – 30.6%
Own digital music player – 52,060,593 – 51.4% – 49.6%
In addition, iPod owners are twice more likely to or share a mobile video, either by sending it to a phone or to an e-mail address. M:Metrics also found that 15 percent of iPod owners said they were likely to pay for a mobile music service in the next year, compared to a market average of nine percent. Eleven percent said they would pay to download video clips, versus 6.5 percent. “Consumers’ willingness to pay for mobile media presents a substantial market opportunity for converged digital media services,” said Donovan. “Companies that are developing digital media distribution businesses could see real profit from a sound mobile music strategy.”
M:Metrics measures the consumption of mobile content and applications and benchmarks the performance of mobile operators, device manufacturers, platform providers and publishers using a multi-dimensional methodology that includes the largest monthly surveys of mobile subscribers in the U.S, the U.K. and Germany.
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What do the rest use?
People with iPods have money and are in a position to spend it. Film at 11 or download our video podcast.
Okay, WTF?
Who in the hell wrote this g-ddamned article? How old are they?
I count at least three (3) uses of the phrase “more than twice more likely” in this piece! “More than twice more likely”!!!???
Just . . . just . . . what the f-ck?!?!?! Who teaches these (probably young) people how to construct sentences and write properly? Much less “report” events and news properly? So, they can’t “report” worth a damn, and they can’t speak properly to save their lives . . . and now they can’t write properly either!!!
“More than twice more likely”????? Ummm, you mean, “More than twice AS likely”???
This is just another sign of the sh!t-poor education system in America.
Sorry. This kind of laziness just pisses me off. Happy Monday, everyone.
As long as the cell phone providers try and charge 3-4x as much for a song as on iTunes, they won’t be much of a threat.
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Ah, but they didn’t ask how many were going to continue to use thier iPods for the majority of their mobile listening and viewing? This is the question. I can’t imagine anyone that would pay to join a mobile phone music service also buying the songs to play on their iPod. The same with video.
All this survey might mean is Apple needs to hurry up and get their own iPhone happening. Or it could just be that most iPod users are more techno savvy and don’t hesitate to experiment with these new capabilities on their new cell phones, but once the novelty wears off, they’ll return to using their iPods as their main mobile music/video device.
for two reasons:
First, look how much of a lead iPod has in those percentages. Very little. (Yes, I know, the other # is ALL competitors together.)
Second, analyzing exactly who is playing video and music on their phones is moot–because almost nobody does that at all! So of the 7 people in the world who want to waste their battery that way, 4 own iPods?
Chunky Monkey, you are too funny. I hope you were able to get some stress off of your chest.