Mobile internet statistics - 10 Reasons the mobile web is alive

So some people are saying that the mobile web is dead.  Of course, lots of people say it's not, but they rarely give any data or statistics.  Here are 10 reasons the mobile web is alive - if you have any of your own then leave a comment, blog them or email us.

update #2: 

The mobile social network Mocospace left a note in the comments saying they have reached 1bn (!) mobile internet page impressions per month. 

ESPN is now getting more traffic from its mobile internet site than its mobile site (thanks Technokitten)

update: here's another one:

* Since June 2007 Tapatap has built up a user base of 400k of which 75% of which use the mobile internet to access the service.

 

Mobile internet success stats

1. According to the MDA,  17 million people in the UK accessed the Internet on their phone in December 2007, that's 23% of mobile users. 

2. Flirtomatic has over 500k members and 100k unique visitors a month, mainly driven off mobile internet generating 101m wap page views per month, compared to 28m page views per month via the PC web

3. Mippin is doing 5m page views a month, purely from mobile

4. itsmy.com - has 2.5 million users and generates 300m mobile page views per month

5. 500k mobile sites have been built on Peperonity.com

6. admob has served 20 billion mobile ads and is now serving up a massive 2.5 billion ads per month.

7. Getjar has delivered 100m downloads of mobile software over the last two years

8. According to M:Metrics, 12.3 million people in the US and Western Europe accessed a social networking site with their mobile in June 2007

9. Mig 33 - has more than 10m members, sending 45m messages a day

10. Mxit - totally dominates the South African social networking market with a mobile client that generates 9m logins per day with 200 Million messages sent per day.

11. (an extra one) Hacks like phonefight are being built - great use of accelerometer extensions (er what?)   

Lastminute.com labs showcase phone fight at MoMoLondon from ribot on Vimeo.

Comments

[Jamie Hall]

We're doing over 1 billion page views a month on mobile at MocoSpace.

[james]

Wow thanks Jamie will add it to the list... 1 bn is amazing

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