Tuesday 9 August 2011

The shared DNA of Advertising & Design.

Nearly 40 years on, Charles Eames answers are as relevant to the fundamentals for great communication within Advertising, as they are within Design.

Design Q&A with Charles Eames (1972)

Mobile Gaming Statistics for 2011

Even if you're not a gamer you're going to find this infographic interesting. The people at Geekaphone, an online resource for the mobile industry, have been researching the mobile gaming industry and here are some of the results. A collection of pretty huge mobile gaming industry stats for 2011. A few key points that stand out are:

The mobile gaming industry is predicted to reach $54 Billion by 2015.

84% of tablet owners play games.

70 - 80% of all mobile downloads are games.

Android is soon to overtake Apple in number of total available apps.

In-game purchases should overtake pay-per-downloads by 2013.

Angry Birds has been downloaded 140 million times.

Developers made $87 million in ad revenue in 2010 and will grow 10 fold by 2015.

It's certainly pretty eye opening to see how much revenue is already being generated in this industry and more importantly, how huge the future industry predictions are looking.

mobile games infographic
Geekaphone's Mobile Gaming by the Numbers Infographic