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Jul 19, 2021
Mobile Carriers Accelerate Digital Services Play

To overcome them, telcos have been forced to rethink their traditional offerings and diversify their revenue streams. Some powerful ways to do that turned out to be digital service bundling in partnership with OTT services and direct carrier billing as a convenient way to pay for the added subscriptions and in-app payments.

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Mar 22, 2021
The Evolution of the Alternative Payment Methods Landscape in 2021 and Beyond

We’ve taken a closer look at what’s driving the mobile payment landscape, and e-wallets in particular, along with what this growth really means to both merchants and consumers. You can read about what we’ve found in this research-based whitepaper, accompanied by several case studies from different global markets.

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Jan 28, 2021
Direct Carrier Billing Opportunities for Merchants Amid the Pandemic

The recent confrontation between a leading games publisher and leading app stores has brought the app ecosystem business and revenue models to the mainstream discourse.

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White Paper
Jan 14, 2021
DCB Market potential whitepaper

Bundling allows telecom companies to grow their share of revenue derived from digital services, augmenting their traditional voice and data revenues. There is a “direct link between average revenue per user (ARPU) and user-retention effects of carrier-bundled paid media services”, according to the recently released Ovum OTT Media Services Consumer Survey & OTT CSP Partnership Study.

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Dec 16, 2020
Direct Carrier Billing vs. Card Payments: A Look at User Experience

Merchants and consumers worldwide have already acknowledged the benefits of paying for digital services and products using direct carrier billing. And with the rise of digital content consumption, especially during the pandemic, paying for it via DCB has also become more common, expected to reach 22% of total digital content spend by 2024.  There are many […]

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White Paper
Sep 09, 2020
Subscription bundling for telcos and merchants

Bundling allows telecom companies to grow their share of revenue derived from digital services, augmenting their traditional voice and data revenues. There is a “direct link between average revenue per user (ARPU) and user-retention effects of carrier-bundled paid media services”, according to the recently released Ovum OTT Media Services Consumer Survey & OTT CSP Partnership Study.

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White Paper
December 2, 2021
The Future of Carrier Billing
. This whitepaper, based on data collected by Juniper Research, explores direct carrier billing opportunities and its impact on content monetization strategies of digital platforms.
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Blog
December 1, 2021
The mobile commerce boom set to accelerate in the holidays
Holidays and festival seasons worldwide are expected to cause a global spike in eCommerce transactions as consumers rush to buy digital goods and services online. Real time digital payment software specialist ACI Worldwide[i] predicts that global eCommerce transactions between October and December 2021 will rise 14% year on year. The trend will be led by […]
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November 29, 2021
Facebook envisions commerce in the Metaverse
Facebook’s recent decision to rebrand itself as Meta is intended to put the social media company at the center of an emerging digital universe which could soon become the default environment for online shopping – the Metaverse. CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes that wholesale adoption of virtual spaces and avatars will combine to help people select, […]
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November 25, 2021
Slower growth for Disney+ amidst maturing SVOD space
While the erstwhile rapid growth of the Disney+ subscriber base appears to have plateaued, for now, a conveyor belt of new, unique content over the next twelve months coupled with its expansion into additional Asian markets could help Disney+ quickly resume its earlier momentum. Disney+ added just 2.1m subscribers in the financial quarter ending 2nd […]
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November 24, 2021
Southeast Asia enters Digital Decade
The commercial markets of Southeast Asia are entering a “digital decade” that could see the value of the region’s Internet economy expand to US$365bn by 2025 and over US$1tn by 2030, according to estimates. The 2021 edition of the economy SEA report compiled by Google, Temasek, and Bain analyzed Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, […]
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November 22, 2021
Amazon broadens US mobile payment options
Amazon’s decision to allow payments via the Venmo digital wallet app in the US illustrates how the world’s biggest online retailers are offering more flexible purchasing options in the face of burgeoning consumer demand. At some point in 2022 (a specific date is yet to be decided), Amazon will allow US customers to fund purchases […]
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November 9, 2021
Merchandising finds new digital channels
The latest collaboration between eCommerce platform provider Shopify and Spotify breaks fresh ground in online shopping, marketing, and advertising by giving musicians, bands, podcasters and others more options to quickly and easily monetise their brand via the audio streaming service. Shopify will now allow artists that use its service to sell their merchandise directly to […]
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White Paper
November 8, 2021
Growth Hacks to Increase Your Customer Lifetime Value
Direct carrier billing is an especially beneficial method for many reasons, one being partnering up with mobile carriers who have an established audience of loyal subscribers, who you can reach with your digital service.
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November 8, 2021
Nubank IPO highlights LatAm digital payments growth
The imminent US$50bn IPO of Nubank, regarded as the biggest digital bank in the entire world,[i] let alone its native Brazil, illustrates how quickly Latin America is embracing new forms of payment. The company estimated contactless payments more than doubled in 2020 over 2019, leading to a partnership with Google in February this year, allowing […]
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White Paper
October 27, 2021
How to boost your revenues with direct carrier billing
Direct carrier billing is an especially beneficial method for many reasons, one being partnering up with mobile carriers who have an established audience of loyal subscribers, who you can reach with your digital service.
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Blog
October 27, 2021
Squid serves up Netflix boost
Netflix may be losing market share to its rivals, but the company still has several aces up its sleeve. And harnessing the power of its localised content engine may arguably be the best of them. The subscription video on demand (SVOD) market leader signed 4.4m new subscribers in the third quarter of 2021, surpassing expectations […]
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October 26, 2021
Google Play cuts fees for digital subscription apps
Cutting the commission fees, developers pay to sell digital subscriptions through the Google Play app store should make it easier for smaller companies to scale up their businesses more quickly and navigate fluctuations in customer churn. The new policies will impact different categories of apps consumers commonly pay for using their smartphones – everything from […]