Airtel recorded 75 million wallpaper downloads, a 300% rise from last year, with Katrina Kaif and Shahrukh Khan taking the top honors in Bollywood segment last year, according to the Airtel Mobitude 2012 survey released by the company. Wallpaper downloads of female actresses outnumbered the same recorded for their male counterparts by over 6788 percent, and South India showed a strong traction for imagery than the numbers seen for top 5 Bollywood actors put together. It's interesting to note that Airtel terms it downloads for wallpapers and not buy. We were surprised that people still download wallpapers these days, since most of the mobile phone's homescreen is used for widget customization, rather than background. Also, given the issues of forced downloads from mobile VAS companies, we wonder how many of the wallpaper purchases are customer initiated. 'Airtel Mobitude 2012' essentially captures content consumption and/or purchases of Airtel’s 186 million plus connections. Some data shared by Airtel below: - MobileTV saw a 65% jump in viewership than that seen in 2011. IPL viewing minutes jumped a record breaking 74% and viewership increased over 46% from numbers witnessed in 2011. The top five mobile TV channels were: Sony, Aaj Tak, Zoom, UTV Movies, and Star Plus. We believe the rise in Mobile TV usage could be attributed to the availability of 3G services that allows faster data download speed for seamless streaming. - Airtel recorded over 150 million mobile music downloads with Chikni Chameli and Dirty Dancer emerging as the most downloaded song of the year in the Bollywood…
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