U.S. consumers will spend more than $500 in 2013 for imaging applications on their mobile phones, according to research firm Parks Associates.The market will expand beyond photo-sharing services to personalized content management and social networking applications.
Around one-fifth of all U.S. households are without an Internet connection and have never used email, according to research firm Parks Associates.An annual phone survey of households by Parks found 20 million households have no Internet access, making up approximately 18 percent of all U.S. households.
If a Parks Associates report is right, the next handful of years should be a great time for everyone in the "new multimedia platforms" advertising business; the report's findings state that, in 2012, over $12.6 billion will be spent on these platforms.