"Google upped the ante this week by paying $1.65 billion for YouTube, validating the success and future potential of user-generated video content. The mobile phone is a unique and rich source of on-the-move, spontaneous, personal videos -- the kind that made YouTube a worldwide phenomenon to begin with. It is your tube on the move," said Kanishka Agarwal, VP of New Products, Telephia.
The Motorola RAZR is the top handset choice among recent handset buyers who take videos with their phones, securing a 21 percent share and besting the next top device by nearly four to one. The Nokia 6101, Motorola E815, Sony Ericsson Z525 and the LG VX8100 were also favorites.
While more and more U.S. mobile consumers use their phones to capture videos, they still lag behind Europeans and Canadians. Among the six European countries Telephia measures, Italy and Spain secured the highest adoption rates at 15 and 14 percent, respectively. The U.K. and Sweden also posted double-digit penetration with recent handset buyers, while both France and Germany secured a nine percent penetration rate.
Canada edged out the U.S. by one point, with a 4 percent adoption rate.
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