BANGALORE, India and PALO ALTO, Calif (September 10, 2009) Today InMobi, the largest mobile advertising network in India, released a survey revealing nuances of mobile internet usage patterns in India. The survey was conducted at IIT School of Management and surveyed 205 college-aged consumers.  Although a very specific sample group, the results do offer some insight into India’s youth generation who make up the largest population sector in the country.
According to the survey, fifty-seven percent (57%) of respondents browse the internet on their mobile phones, and close to one-third of respondents who surf the Internet through their mobile phones engage with brands that advertise. Of whose who engaged with the ads, they were most likely to visit the ad’s website (72.5%) but also went so far as to call the company (10%), or buy the product (17.5%).
Survey results also showed that the college-aged consumers are equally interested in almost all genres of mobile advertising, as long as the advertisements have something significant to offer and do not interfere with the mobile browsing experience. Among ads, those most welcomed are fast free coupons, free mobile games with embedded unobtrusive ads, money transfer services, free humorous clips and Bluetooth-based “alerts” for items on sale nearby.
Mobile internet usage broke down in the following way:
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*Respondents may select more than one website
India is currently the second largest mobile market in the world after China, and nearly 10 to 12 million mobile subscribers are added monthly in the country. (Source: VitalAnalytics) The country’s largest cities have the highest mobile Internet usage; however, many small to midsized towns such as Meerut, Aligarh, Jalandhar, Kanpur, Kota, Hassan and Trivandrum generated almost a fourth of the mobile browsing traffic.
Mobile internet browsing is also spread across income groups of those with mobile phones. Specifically, 20% of the respondents who access the Internet on their mobile phones are from the working class demographic, 38% are from the lower middle class and 42% are from the upper middle class. This data shows that mobile Internet usage is not limited to only the upper middle class.
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Mobile is clearly becoming a mass medium in India – having extended out from only the most affluent individuals in the very largest metropolitan areas.
In addition, Airtel is the clear leader in terms of the percentage of respondents browsing the Internet on their mobile phones. Reliance is the only service provider where less than 50% of the respondents browse the internet, most likely because Reliance phones are not used frequently for value-added services.
About InMobi
Founded in 2007, InMobi - formerly mKhoj - is a global mobile ad network that delivers the best results to its partners through its intelligent mobile web advertising solutions. InMobi allows advertisers to discover their target audience using its advanced targeting technology via mobile internet sites and it enables publishers of such sites to earn advertising revenue. The mission of InMobi is to provide both the business model and technology to enable the growth of the mobile internet ecosystem.
InMobi has offices in Palo Alto, California; Bangalore, India; Mumbai, India and Singapore

About the survey
The survey was conducted at the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi via Google online surveys on behalf of InMobi from March 4, 2009 to April 10, 2009 among 205 children and adults spanning across all ages. The survey was conducted in two parts: the first was to determine the demographics and browsing habits of mobile internet users, while the second was to gauge the expectations of consumers of India in terms of mobile advertising. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.

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BANGALORE, India, PALO ALTO, California and HAGEN, Germany (11 August, 2009) - InMobi (formerly mKhoj), a global mobile advertising network, and peperonity.com, the world’s first and probably largest mobile Web 2.0 platform, are reporting strong results from their mobile web advertising partnership. InMobi monetizes peperonity’s mobile traffic in its top 10 markets including Indonesia, India, South Africa and Bangladesh. The partnership is delivering higher advertising revenue than other networks, and greater scale & effectiveness to InMobi’s advertisers. peperonity’s diverse user base of more than 10 million users is a tremendous mobile advertising opportunity – especially when combined with InMobi’s existing mobile ad network of over 700 publishers.
“We are proud to work with truly global partners like peperonity.com” says Amit Gupta, Head of Business Development for InMobi. “In the four months that we have been working together, peperonity’s global user base combined with InMobi’s intelligent ad serving platform have allowed us to deliver the highest level of monetization to peperonity.com in many countries while offering enhanced value to our advertisers.”
Peperonity’s Co-Founder and COO Marcus Ladwig adds, “InMobi’s capacity to deliver consistently high advertising revenue, even for volumes of inventory, affirmed our partnership with InMobi. The swift technical integration for ad optimization and commercial results has been outstanding. We look forward to extending our partnership as we continually strive to provide our users the best social networking experience available anywhere, including targeted and relevant advertising.”

About InMobi
InMobi, formerly mKhoj, is one of the fastest growing global mobile advertising networks. InMobi delivers the best results to its partners through its intelligent mobile web advertising solutions. The advanced technology enables advertisers to discover their target audience on mobile internet sites in a measurable manner. Publishers can leverage the capability to serve contextual ads to the users of their sites, thereby increasing the value of their mobile property. InMobi’s vast reach in collaboration with the precision of the mobile medium provides the optimal platform for advertisers and publishers of mobile internet sites.

Since its inception in 2007, InMobi’s mission has been to provide the business model and technology that will help in the development of the mobile internet ecosystem as a whole.

About peperonity.com
Peperonity.com is the world’s first and probably largest mobile Web 2.0 platform. Launched back in 2001, today more than 10 million people use the content creation and networking features to simply present themselves or find new friends every month. The platform features site building, blogging, chat, photo album, video download functionality and much more - all for the average user with no programming skills required and free of charge (except for data costs). Peperonity.com is among the top 5 mobile sites not only in South Africa and Indonesia but also among the top mobile websites accessed worldwide outranking popular websites like Facebook and YouTube.

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