Several key trends will shape this year mobile digial media.

A nice visual overview has been done by Infographic Journal in Mobile Trends for 2012.

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Nice video, to rethink about it.

“Design Matters: Doing Better with Less” is a short but powerful animated story about using design to create sustainable wealth, and it provides essential insights into the future of business and innovation.

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This visual review and history of CES is simply wonderful. Kudos.

Sortable The Consumer Electronics Show Infographic

Latest research from Nielsen Wire, The State of Mobile Apps, show some interesting results.
Among them:

* Games are the most downloaded – both free and paid
* Facebook, Google Maps and Weather Channel are the most popular apps across smartphones
o iPhones: Facebook (58%), iTunes (48%), Google Maps (47%)
o Android: Google Maps (67%), Facebook (50%), Weather Channel (38%)
o Blackberry: Facebook (51%), Google Maps(34%), Weather Channel (28%)

* Social Networking: Facebook clearly favorite app, but MySpace is hugely popular among teens; LinkedIn attracts adults 25-44
* News/weather: Weather Channel was used by 58%; age distribution across sites was similar, save for Time Mobile and Thomson Reuters
* Shopping: Amazon and eBay lead (57% and 41%)
* Search/Map: skew male, particularly Instamapper (80/20)
* Video/Movie: skewed towards males; Imeem and Moviefone show a higher proportion of young users
* Music: iTunes, Pandora, Sirius XM appeal more to males, while Yahoo Music almost evenly split (51/49)

Lots of successful mobils apps comes from pc/web world.
will we see some successful born mobile apps to became leader in pc/web browsers or tv world?
Multidevice strategies are far to be developed effectively but the role of brands (old or new) will be key in a multiscreen world.
I am curious to see what can come out from AppCircus at the Barcelona Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference

And It’s nice to watch Steve Jobs interview on iphone’s origin and the evolving multidevice landscape for content brands

Device borders are less and less important while user experience with context and brand is taking the lead.
We have to work on it.

Reaching and engaging with the audience in an fragmented media landscape is a key topic these days.

Innovation and creativity are key themes for media brands looking to grow and keep strong relationships with their audiences in a context where social media platforms are changing the information landscape.

Some interesting discussion in Fora.tv

…curious to listen about the emotional engagement concept from groundreport CEO interview

What direction broadcasters must go to reinvent themselves to stay competitive?
SNL Kagan’s broadcast experts give us a hint on industry’s future where internet presence and digital multiplatorm distrbution strategies will be key.

and while broadcasters and media companies are entering the “everywhere tv” world, “Comcast Introduces a Streaming TV Service and CanalSat Web starts streaming to everyone

Internet based video grows

and innovate

The discussion on the future of news is stronger than ever and here you will find couple of videos i have watched these days.

As Ken Auletta, author of the book “Googled: The End of the World As We Know It”, points out, it’s more about an ecosystem change than a single company choice and market approach.
It’s about finding new ways of doing business in the context of The Internet culture.

And, as this ongoing debate continues, this can drive creativity and innovation to flourish.
A key area where to discover potential innovation and value is multiscreen distribution strategies. This is a territory where old barriers and competitive advantages are blurring.
Here companies alongside the media value chain can find untapped and hidden areas of possible cooperation that may help them creating value for the audience and…the customer.

This is Ken Auletta – Would You Pay for Online News? ….

…and this is an excerpt of the Panel Discussion on The Future of News Worldwide at Paley Center, from ForaTV

What do yuo think?

still not using an android phone but, coming from iphone, i am very curious on apps there…i found this collection very nice.

From Fora.tv, a very interesting session from The Paley Center for Media’s International Council 2009 NYC.
An event about next big things happening in the digital media space, bringing together companies from different experiences that try to innovate and create value.
Among them it was interesting to hear on crowdsourcing radio Jelli, onlinevideo and tv client aggregator/social media center Boxee, video platform Freewheel.tv, iphone social apps Tapulous.
It liked particularly gdgt on creating social experiences around gadgets, interesting their view that …”gadgets themselves have activity streams”. Also i liked hotpotato for connecting people on online events, in their words it’s about “collective storytelling”
Enjoy it.

Lots of stuff i have read around Youtube lately that make me think on the liquid role that this product can have in the content market, looking also at the overall value chain in the video industry.

more and more open and flexible syndication platform?
stronger and stronger destination site?
more and more quality will be the driver?

what evolution we can expect from youtyube in the next year?
how other players in the market (aggregators, studios, broadcasters) will co-exist and evolve with it?
what kind of direct competition we can expect?
looking at the numbers of youtube vs the other players, online video penetration and usage, trends in content offer….I am seeing lots of space in the video arena that can be gained with creativity, innovation and a strong marketing approach.

Blip.tv Brings Programs to YouTube, Ads to ‘Channel Awesome’
about changing roles and innovation in conten syndication and monetization
YouTube Ad-Serve Play Opens It Up to Big Media Content Players
on ad-tech evolutions and its impact on the way win-win partnership can be done with youtube and similar ugc aggregators
“YouTube Can Be Very Profitable In The Near Future”
around youtube cost structure and potential advantages

Nice insight also from Chris Anderson on “Free” and YouTube
and the video YouTube Full of Crap!

I also liked a lot this:
An anthropological introduction to YouTube from The Googlization of everything