Research from O2 highlights a significant disconnect between awareness and behaviour when it comes to sun protection. The research has been backed by The British Skin Foundation which has highlighted that getting burnt just five times over a lifetime more than doubles the risk of getting a melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. […]

Xsolla, a video game commerce company, has released its Q2 2025 Edition of The Xsolla Report: The State of Play. The report provides insights, trends and opportunities shaping the gaming landscape. In 2024, global mobile app usage soared to 4.2 trillion hours, an all-time high that powered $150 billion consumer spending across mobile platforms. Mobile […]

During VidCon in Anaheim, US, Jill Nicholson, CMO of Chartbeat, parent company to Tubular Labs,  presented some data and insights around YouTube views and engagement, including: Mobile Dominates Viewership But TV Has Surprising Share of Minutes Watched: 69 per cent of YouTube viewership occurs on mobile devices. While only 16 per cent of views occur […]

DoubleVerify, a software platform to verify media quality, optimise ad performance, has released the discovery of ShadowBot, a fraudulent bot scheme that generated over 35 million spoofed mobile devices in Q1 2025 and cost unprotected advertisers an estimated $2.5 million (€2.1m) since the start of the year. The DV Fraud Lab identified ShadowBot targeting mobile […]

The mobile industry’s operational emissions fell by 8 per cent between 2019 and 2023, even as mobile connections grew by 9 per cent and data traffic quadrupled, according to the GSMA’s fifth annual Mobile Net Zero report. The findings show the mobile industry has successfully started to decouple emissions from data and connectivity growth – […]

Ofcom research compares how the UK’s broadband, mobile and landline customers rate their providers for customer service – including call waiting times, complaint handling and overall satisfaction. The media regulator says that it has “seen signs” that companies have improved the way they deal with complaints. Customer satisfaction with complaints handling for mobile (61 per […]

Samsung Ads has announced an expansion of its connected TV (CTV) advertising ecosystem, with the integration of Samsung mobile smartphone usage data to enhance targeting, insights and reporting. Advertisers in the UK, France, Italy, Spain and Germany can now benefit from a larger deterministic dataset that encompasses a broader spectrum of devices and consumer touchpoints […]

The emergence of eSIM technology marks an important evolution in the telecommunications sector. It provides a more flexible approach to global connectivity and comes at a time when the industry is moving away from traditional SIM cards. eSIMs are helping set the stage for a new era in device management. It’s a technology that’s facilitating […]

Would-be international satellite direct-to-device business Lynk Global has won a modification to its existing operating licence from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Luxembourg-based SES has an investment position with Lynk. “We want to thank the FCC for quickly granting our licence modification to provide service in the United States. Lynk previously received the world’s […]

AST SpaceMobile (AST) activated one of its first BlueBird satellites over Japan in order to make a video call with staff from cellular telco Rakuten, its partner operator in Japan. Abel Avellan, CEO at AST, commented: “Another historic first! We completed our initial activation of our first BlueBird satellites in Japan with Rakuten Mobile to […]