Mobile Social Networking: $6 B by 2012

Mobile Social Networking: $6 B by 2012

"Mobile Social Networking: $6 B by 2012


User-generated revenues from social networking sites are expected to grow exponentially as users go mobile by Gemma Simpson Related Items * Leader: Is it safer to hide cash under your mattress? * Editor's Blog: Tech improves... but we don't? * The Weekly Round-Up: 22.06.07 * The CIOs transforming government IT * Bloggers driving change in Egypt Story Tools * post a comment * e-mail this story * print this story * order a reprint * digg this * save to del.icio.us partner logo Social networking fans will drive mobile user-generated content revenues to nearly $6bn by 2012. User-generated revenues from social networking services, dating and content uploaded to third party sites will increase from $572m in 2007 to more than $5.7bn in 2012, analyst house Juniper Research predicts. Social networking is expected to bring in half of the $5.7bn total revenue by the end of the 2012 forecast period, according to Juniper."