ME에서 이번에 모바일 컨텐츠 산업에서 중요한 인물 50명을 발표하였다. 발표된 인물은 아래와 같다.(알파벳순)
Ray Anderson
CEO, Bango
Bango is still
innovating in and around the off-portal space, driving small companies
into m-commerce with Bango Start and providing mobile advertisers with
valuable metrics via Bango Analytics.
Marco Argenti
Just appointed VP of Media at Nokia (previously MD, Dada.net)
Dada
was building mobile communities before most others thought about it.
It’s now merging social media with music, and has an interesting
partnership with Sony BMG. Argenti is also the MEF's global vice-chair.
Greg Ballard
CEO, Glu Mobile
Glu is
one of the big three games companies still standing. Ballard and team
have had a tough time on the public markets, but Glu commands enough
deck space to be a force in the business.
Jim Beddows
Head of content and application partnerships, Microsoft
Microsoft
is slowly gathering OS market share – at least in the US. Beddows has a
formidable track record with Disney, Bandai Networks and 20th Century
Fox. He currently serves as MEF Americas chair too.
Salil Bharava
CEO, Jump Games
With
the backing of the giant Reliance corporation, India’s Jump Games was
able to pull off a massive deal with Man Utd, and is now opening
offices across the world. It’s also on the acquisitions trail – and
there are bargains to be had.
Martin Blomkvist
Head of content acquisition and management, Sony Ericsson
Not
a great year for Sony Ericsson as a whole, but big things are happening
at the content unit. The PlayNow music store has started selling
DRM-free tracks and is working with Omnifone on flat-rate music
subscription. Blomkvist should be busy through 2009.
Mark Bookman
CEO, MCN
After
good results in Japan with the major operators, MCN is now taking its
‘federated search’ concept into global markets. The novel approach,
which aggregates results from various search engines, is now being
expanded across Asia Pac, Scandinavia, the US and Turkey. MCN also
offers an ‘Allwords’ ad bidding system.
Russell Buckley
VP of alliances, AdMob
The
public face of AdMob, which serves four billion ads a month across
indie WAP sites. He’s moving to a global ambassadorial role soon, which
ties in nicely with his work as chair of MMA Global.
Andrew Bud
Executive chairman, Mblox
Bud
saw the potential of premium SMS as a billing medium before most – and
is now pioneering WAP billing and driving into the US. Recently elected
chair of the MEF.
Rio Caraeff,
EVP, UMG eLabs
Universal
is the world’s biggest music company, and was first to commit to
Nokia’s game changing Comes With Music idea. Caraeff has been at the
top of the mobile team since the beginning.
Stanislas Chesnais
CEO, Netsize
Netsize
remains a major influence in mobile payments and marketing services –
especially in mainland Europe. It is now directly connected to 80
operators in the continent. Its Netsize Guide is an industry bible.
Ron Czerny
CEO, PlayPhone
Czerny
has built PlayPhone into a major force in US D2C, and is now one of the
most powerful players in the B2B space, thanks to deals with Wal-mart
and many others. Now expanding into Europe with Pitch.
Tom Daly
Group manager, strategy and planning, The Coca-Cola Company
One
of the brands most committed to supporting mobile through banners,
marketing and even advergames. Daly was recently made vice-chair of the
MMA.
Javier Pérez Dolset
CEO, Zed
Zed
has always done things differently – developing products almost
entirely in-house, and moving into community services ahead of most
others. It should turn over around $850 million this calendar year, and
has a huge credit line with which to keep expanding.
Jay Emmet
General manager, OpenMarket
Amdocs
claims to reach 98 per cent of US mobile subscribers, and runs the
OpenMarket mobile commerce platform. Emmet joined in August from mBlox.
Venetia Espinoza
Group manager, mobile applications and partner programs, T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile
may be the smallest of the major US operators, but Espinoza’s plan to
move its portal towards an ‘open’ App Store model could have huge
ramifications.
Andrew Gilbert
President, Qualcomm Internet Services
Gilbert
moved from a European role to become the figurehead for Qualcomm’s
internet services unit and propel the company’s ongoing drive into
widgets, mobile TV and content distribution.
Gerard Grech
Director of strategy/biz dev, content division, France Telecom
Grech
is responsible for a huge range of products and services – especially
with France Telecom committed to a triple play strategy. He also chairs
MEF EMEA.
Michel Guillemot
CEO, Gameloft
Gameloft
has emerged from the consolidation in the games sector to share the top
spot with EA. It’s achieved this via a vast distribution and developer
resource.
Tim Harrison
Director of marketing, EA Mobile
Fabuously
well-connected in mobile gaming, which is hardly surprising since
Harrison went from the juggernaut that is Vodafone to the EA behemoth.
Thomas Hesse
President of global digital business, Sony BMG
Another
towering figure in digital music, Hesse has presided over intriguing
moves such as the JV with Italy’s D2C specialist Dada and the decision
to join Nokia’s Comes With Music project.
Barry Houlihan
MD, Mobile Interactive Group
MIG
keeps on growing, and is now a serious player in content, participation
TV, mobile advertising and even ‘experiential’. Especially well
connected with broadcasters, for whom it has all kinds of ideas in
development.
Steve Jobs
CEO, Apple
Jobs
claims Apple is the world’s third biggest vendor, with 13 million
iPhone sales to date. What’s incontestable is the effect the device has
had on UI and content retailing.
Sean Kane
Global head of mobile, Bebo
Third
behind Facebook and MySpace, but with 45 million youthful users, Bebo
is still a big player. It already has numerous carrier deals.
Jay Kim
EVP of APAC, WiderThan
WiderThan
created the ringback tone and the successful music rental service
Mel-on. Kim has overall control of WiderThan’s music strategy, and has
served as a board member of MEF Asia.
Pieter Knook
Director of internet services, Vodafone
Knook
was a big money transfer from Microsoft, hired by Voda to design a new
services strategy. It’s been a bit quiet since then, but ME understands
that Knook is masterminding an audacious new direction for the giant
operator.
Marcus Ladwig
COO, Peperonity
Germany’s
Peperoni has been beavering away at mobile social networking for years.
Its Peperonity network has approximately ten million unique users and
half a billion page impressions per month.
KF Lai
CEO, BuzzCity
BuzzCity’s
myGamma social network service reaches 2.7 million users in 70
countries. Lai has used this as a base upon which to build an off deck
ad network, and served 1.7 billion paid impressions in July 2008 alone.
Mitch Lazar
MD of connected life, Yahoo! Europe
Yahoo!
has stolen quite a bit of business from the pureplay mobile search
companies with its Go and OneSearch suite of services.It has also
become a force in advertising. Lazar is a Yahoo! veteran with a big new
job.
Rob Lewis
CEO, Omnifone
Had the
vision to see the potential of subscription music for mobile through a
rich media app. More importantly, he had the drive to make it happen.
Now MusicStation is established with Vodafone and is going to LG and
Sony Ericsson too.
Emma Lloyd
Head of mobile, Sky
Sky
has a formidable presence on operator decks, and has put marketing
oomph behind products like 24-7 Football. Lloyd can expect a more
rewarding time at Sky than she had at the doomed BT Movio.
Brandon Lucas
Senior director of mobile business development, MySpace
The
sheer brand power of MySpace has made it the world’s most popular
mobile destination after Google. Lucas’s decisions could have a
dramatic effect on the whole biz.
Jay McClary
Director, mobile search and advertising, AOL
The
US has, probably unsurprisingly, taken to mobile advertising. McClary
has quite a role to play, as AOL owns Third Screen Media (possibly
biggest mobile banner ad agency in the US).
Rich Miner
Group manager, mobile platforms, Google
Originally
part of the Danger handset team, which pitched the idea of mobile to
Google over two years ago. Now leading the unit behind the G1 Android
phone, which has just launched with T-Mobile.
Alistair Mitchell
VP, multimedia integration, RIM
The
handsets are getting sexier and there’s a new app store coming in
March. Mitchell will use his experience as founder of digital music
firm Puretracks to define a media direction for Blackberry.
Mauro Montonaro
CEO, Fox Mobile
After
a messy two years since Jamba was bought by News Corp, all eyes are on
Montonaro after he was appointed to lead the newly merged Jamba/Fox
entity last month.
Tero Ojanperä
EVP, entertainment and communities, Nokia
Ojanperä
is the public face of Nokia in the entertainment and social media
spaces. He’s made a lot of presentations in the last 18 months, and in
2009 he’ll start to find out whether they were all worth it.
Tony Pearce
CEO, Player X
Under
Pearce, the veteran games distributor has stealthily moved into video
and also store management. It now runs games retailing for O2 with its
100% portal concept. Opened a testing lab in India too.
Mauro del Rio
Chairman, Buongiorno
Buongiorno’s
excellent recent results vindicated its decision to buy iTouch, move
into marketing by acquiring Flytxt and invest in ‘mobile 2.0’ services
such as Blinko and Bing. The company also has thriving B2B content
outsourcing operation with networks worldwide.
Neeraj Roy
CEO, Hungama
Roy
has an incontestable claim to be India’s premier mobile content
ambassador. Hungama’s impeccable Bollywood connections make it the
country’s foremost CP. It also has a flourishing marketing unit. Roy
has just been appointed the new chair of MEF Asia.
Gautam Sabharwal
Director, Tanla Mobile
Under
Sabharwal, Tanla Mobile began as a billing provider little known
outside of India. But it can now offer its customers an array of
payment and content services in Europe and North America.
Ralph Simon
Chairman Emeritus, MEF Americas
Still
roving the world and getting inordinately excited about interesting new
content ideas. Simon received ME’s ‘outstanding achievement’ award in
2007 – and quite right too. He’s the industry’s man in Hollywood,
Silicon Valley and even Capitol Hill.
Vince Staybl
CEO, Gofresh
Staybl
has thrown down the gauntlet to the web-based social networks with his
pureplay service itsmy.com. Constant service innovation has gathered
four million users. The next phase is an internal ad market.
Jed Stremel
Director of mobile, Facebook
Incredible
year for Facebook. In mobile, the firm claims about ten million active
users every month, with numbers doubling every six months. Its apps are
increasingly being embedded by operators and handset vendors.
Anssi Vanjoki
Executive VP and general manager of multimedia, Nokia
ME’s
‘outstanding contribution’ award winner in 2008 has masterminded
Nokia’s move into content services with Ovi, Nokia Music Store, Nokia
Maps and N-Gage. He was also behind the very successful Nseries device
range, although he failed to convince the trade to call them
‘multimedia computers’. Got quite a year ahead.
Jon von Tetzchner
CEO, Opera Software
Tetzchner
and his colleague Geir Ivarsøy conceived Opera when they worked for
Telenor Research in 1995. The made-for-mobile browser Opera Mini now
has 21 million enthusiastic users worldwide.
Are Traasdahl
CEO, Thumbplay
Norwegian
Traasdahl ensured Thumbplay was first into the embryonic US D2C market
when it launched in 2005. Thumbplay now has deals with all major labels
and s well-established among the US’s top off-portal players.
Lee Williams
Executive director, Symbian Foundation
The
second life of Symbian, as an open source organisation, will be led by
Williams, who switched from a similar role at Nokia Series 60 in
October.
Midori Yuasa
President, Capcom Mobile
Yuasa
was appointed in 2005 to head up Capcom’s mobile and interactive
division. But her workload escalated when she was tasked to lead a
fresh drive into Europe earlier this year.
Yingbo Zhu
VP, China Mobile
Everyone
wants to cosy up to China Mobile, with its continent-sized user base.
It’s not easy, and the operator remains quite inscrutable. Zhu is its
representative in overseas markets.
대부분이 북미나 유럽쪽 CEO인데, WiderThan(왜 와이더댄이라고 소개되었는지 모르겠다. '리얼네트웍스 아시아 퍼시픽'으로 해야 하는게 아닌가?)의 'Jay Kim'이란 분이 당당이 포함되어 있다. 통화연결음(컬러링)과 멜론에서의 업적이 좋은 평가를 받은 듯 하다. 개인적으로 아는 분은 아니지만 축하드린다. 인물들이 소속된 회사를 보면, 어떠한 회사들이 모바일 컨텐츠 시장을 주도하는지 알 수 있을 것이다.
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성숙하지 않은 시장에 기업들이 진입한 경우의 대부분은 원점으로 돌아가서 '과연 이 시장에 고객의 니즈가 존재하는가'를 물어보면 답이 나오는 것 같습니다. 니즈가 존재한다면 시장은 언젠가는 성장할 것이고, 니즈가 존재하지 않는다면 그 시장은 끝내 꽃 피우지 못하고 사라지게 되는 것 같습니다. 질문 자체가 어려운 건 아닌데 답을 찾기가 쉽지 않네요.
조금은 어려운 문제군요. 개인적으로는 전 조금 다른 생각을 하고 있습니다. 모든 시장이라는게 니즈가 있다고 자생적으로 생기는 것은 아니고, 프론티어 정신을 가지고 기업들과 Consumer들의 노력과 투자에 의해서 열려지는 것이라고 생각합니다. 관점의 차이일 수도 있겠네요. 좋은 성탄절 보내세요~ ^^
최근 스마트폰용 application software 에 관심이 많아졌습니다. 해외에서 Nokia, iPhone, Blackberry등 여러 스마트폰에 널리 사용되는 검증된 software를 들여오는 것도 고려 중입니다. 국내 상황에 맞게 어떠한 변화는 필요하겠지요. 어떤 자료를 보건데, 국내에서 2009년말까지는 스마트폰 가입자가 100만명 수준까지는 되지 않을까요? 이동통신 가입자 약 4500만명의 2.2% 정도인데요. 국내 에서휴대폰이 2008년에 2300만대, 2009년 1월에 150만대 이상 팔렸다는데, 2009년 스마트폰 가입자 예상 어떻게 보시는지요?
어려운 질문입니다. 제가 어떤 예상을 하는 것은 별 의미는 없으나... 싱싱님께서 물어보셨으니 굳이 답변을 드리자면 40만 이하라고 봅니다. 이통사의 마케팅이나 요금제의 변화가 있다면 60만까지도 가능할 것 같구요.
질문의 요지와 한걸음 떨어져 볼 것은 스마트폰과 유사한 스마트 가젯의 성장세 또한 무섭다는 것인데요. 네트워크와 연결 가능한 가젯의 수요가 스마트폰 못지 않게 팔리지 않을까 생각을 해봅니다.
네, 신속한 답변 갑사 드립니다. 저는 이제야 막 mobile 분야에 조금 관심을 가졌기 때문에 조금씩 공부한다는 생각으로 접근해 보고자 합니다. 님의 글들은 관련 시장 동향, 전망, 사업기회등에 대한 insight, 많은 참고가 될 것으로 기대합니다.
thanks for it.