Location-based Service Revenues to Achieve Significant Growth
August 31, 2015 | Berg InsightEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
The global market for mobile location-based service (LBS) will show solid growth in the next few years, according to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight. LBS revenues are forecasted to increase from € 10.3 billion in 2014 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.5 percent to € 34.8 billion in 2020. “The increase in usage of LBS has resulted in significant revenue growth, especially for leading players like including Google, Facebook, Baidu, Tencent, Twitter and Yahoo!”, said André Malm, Senior Analyst, Berg Insight. Together, these companies accounted for an estimated 60 percent of global LBS revenues in 2014.
The social networking and entertainment category – comprising services like social networking, messaging apps and games – is now the largest LBS segment in terms of the number of users and the second largest is terms of revenues. “Revenue growth in the category comes from a larger active user base and the fact that more leading players have started to monetise their mobile services, primarily through ads and in-app purchases”, said Mr Malm. The local search and information service category, which includes general search services, directories, local discovery, shopping and coupon services, is now the second largest LBS category in terms of unique users, but the largest in terms of revenues. Mapping, navigation and transportation is the third largest segment both in terms of revenues and in terms of the number of active users. Although the number of active users of mapping and navigation services is still growing, revenues are only increasing slowly as competition from free and low cost services has intensified.
Since over-the-top players now dominate the LBS ecosystem for consumer oriented apps and services, mobile operators are instead looking for new opportunities to monetise location data through various forms of enterprise and B2B services. Location data is now used to enhance a broad range of services such as fraud management, secure authentication and location-based advertising. Some operators have also launched analytics services for external customers that use the insights for applications such as site selection and footfall monitoring in the retail industry, outdoor media planning for advertisers, as well as for urban planning and traffic monitoring. “Operators however often face uncertainty regarding subscribers’ reaction to privacy issues regarding mass location data collection, which still limits the willingness to launch analytics services on a broad scale”, concluded Mr Malm.
About Berg Insight
Berg Insight is a dedicated M2M/IoT market research firm based in Sweden. We have been specialising in all major M2M/IoT verticals such as fleet management, car telematics, smart metering, smart homes, mHealth and industrial M2M since 2004. Our vision is to be the most valuable source of intelligence for our customers. Berg Insight offers numerous market reports, detailed market forecast databases and advisory services. We provide custom research tailored to your requirements including focussed research papers, business case analysis, go-to-market strategies and bespoke market forecasting. In addition to M2M/IoT, we are also active within Location-Based Services, mobile Value-Added Services and Next Generation Technologies. We have provided analytical services to 800 clients in 69 countries on six continents to date. Our customers range from many of the world’s largest mobile operators, IT companies and telecom vendors, to venture capitalists, technology start-ups and specialist consultants.
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