Market Data Category: Market Data

ATM

ATM skimming on the rise

By Michael Hartleben, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev and Partners / May 17, 2012

The number of ATM skimming crimes in Russia shoot up ninefold to 362 in Q1 of 2012 compared to only 40 in Q1 of 2011, reports the Russian Europay Members Association (REMA). Such rapid rise in skimming crimes comes somewhat expected as the numbers for Q4 of 2011 (184) were up by 460% already. This information is based on data provided by the REMA’s 20 largest banks, which control approximately 90% of all 184,000 ATMs in Russia.

ATM skimming is a type of fraud, where a victim’s bank card information is electronically recorded while the victim uses an ATM machine. The collected information is then transferred onto a fake bank card, which is either used by the perpetrator or sold on for profit to a third party.

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tablet

E-books now 5% of market, but pirates still dominate

Special to East-West Digital News by Oleg Kouzbit in partnership with Marchmont News / May 14, 2012

Russia’s e-book market has been growing at a robust CAGR of 120% over the past three years, swelling from 11 million rubles (just under $370,000) in 2008 to 135 million rubles ($4.5 million) in 2011, Russia’s Federal Press and Mass Communication Agency reports in its overview of the national book market’s progress and trends for this year.

According to the report, the top players in the market are LitRes and IMobilco, controlling an aggregate 74% of the domestic e-book trade. LitRes, the leader with a 54% market share, also boasts the majority ownership of copyright for distributing Russian-language books on the Russian-language Internet.

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Big Three mobile operators

Mobile penetration rate over 150% in Russia, market close to saturation

By East-West Digital News / May 08, 2012

For the first time ever, all three major Russian mobile operators lost subscribers in early 2012, according to a report from AC&M Consulting, a Russian management consulting and research agency specializing in telecommunications and media.

Vimpelcom, MTS and Megafon saw their active subscriber bases – defined on a six- or three-month basis – shrink by 1.6 million, 579,000, and 1,500 people respectively.

This recent evolution could be a sign of market saturation, AC&M analysts say.

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iPhone

iPhone sales finally grow – operators accused of overpricing conspiracy

By East-West Digital News, Marchmont News / May 04, 2012

In 2011, the Russian mobile operator and retailer MTS – one of the two exclusive importers of iPhones to Russia – brought in as many iPhones (for $140.8 million) as it had during all the years dating back to the product’s launch in Russia in 2008.

According to the IT and telecom news portal CNews.ru, MTS’s purchases of iPhones amounted to $65.4 million in 2008 and to $79.4 million in 2010 — but to just $3.4 million in 2009, due to the initial commercial failure of the smartphone.

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Cybercrime

Russian-speaking hackers lead global cybercrime

By Elena Mikhaylova, East-West Digital News / May 03, 2012

Group-IB, a leading Russian cybercrime investigation company, has just published its 2011 report on the “State and trends of the ‘Russian’ digital crime market.”

Russian-speaking hackers – both from Russia and abroad – generated more than one third of the global cybercrime value: they earned an estimated $4.5 billion out of a global “cybercrime market” which amounted to $12.5 billion in 2011. Cybercrime from Russia reached $2.3 billion, doubling from $1.2 billion in 2010, the report reveals.

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Odnoklassniki

Odnoklassniki.ru leading social network among 18+ users

By East-West Digital News / Apr 20, 2012 / 3 Comments

According to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) earlier this month, Odnoklassniki.ru has become Russia’s most popular social network among Russians who are 18 year-old and over – ahead of Vkontakte.ru, whose leadership is more affirmed among teenagers.

Odnoklassniki’s reach is now estimated to be no less than 61% – compared to 51% for Vkontakte, 28% for Moi Mir and just 12% for Facebook – of a total of 57.8 million adult Internet users in Russia, FOM reported.

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IDC

IDC on Russia’s IT: crisis-woven cobwebs blown away

Special to East-West Digital News by Oleg Kouzbit in partnership with Marchmont News / Apr 05, 2012 / 1 Comment

After spending three years in a post-crisis mire, IT sales in Russia reached an all-time high in 2011, IDC reported to Vedomosti and CNews.ru. According to IDC analysts, the Russian IT sector posted double-digit gains last year, growing at a CAGR of 25% to $30 billion, staging a spectacular comeback from 2009’s 40% year-on-year sag.

Russia’s IT slump was the most painful among IT markets worldwide, and the recent growth surpassed IDC’s more conservative growth forecasts for 2011, released last November, by more than ten percentage points.

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Russia

Russian IT market faces cloudy future

By Vsevolod Pulya, Russia Beyond The Headlines / Mar 15, 2012

Even though the Russian IT market is growing fast, having recovered completely from the 2008-2009 crisis, a number of issues have come to the forefront.

The Russian Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev has reported that the country’s information technologies market saw a growth spurt of 14.6 percent in 2011, and the Ministry of Economic Development predicts that the market will grow by 15.8 percent in 2012, and by 18.1 percent in 2013, hitting no less than $32 billion.

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Social networks

Russian banks attract half a million fans on social networks

By East-West Digital News / Feb 27, 2012

The popularity of banks on social networks – especially official corporate pages on Facebook or Vkontakte, and Twitter accounts – has increased more than 50-fold over the past year, says a report from Artenom Consulting.

“One third of the country’s 100 largest banks has either established an official presence on social networks or is using new communication channels such as ICQ or Skype,” the report reveals.

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AKAR

Online outran print on advertising revenues, up 56% in 2011

By East-West Digital News, Marchmont News / Feb 23, 2012

Online advertising spending surpassed print advertising for the first time in 2011, the Russian Association of Communication Agencies (AKAR) annnouced in its annual report, published this week.

According to the report, the Russian online advertising market reached $1.4 billion, up 56% from 2010, demonstrating the fastest growth among the different segments of the market. In 2010, online advertising spending had grown by 42%.

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