As the world continues its love affair with smartphones and tablets, mobile has become so essential to our lives that most people couldn't imagine life without it.
If we look at India and the Indian demographics and the Indian consumer, I think the Indian consumer is going digital, social, and mobile. They want everything in a digital format, everything available on the go, and we socially connected.
Mobile usage is going up; mobile conversion is not.
Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share.
Youku Tudou kicked off 2014 in a positive direction. Mobile has become the number one screen for Youku Tudou, and we are the undisputed leader in all of the important mobile video traffic metrics.
Mobile is something I think about all the time now.
Mobile has created a totally different dynamic for discovering apps. You're sitting in a bar, and your friend is taking some pictures, and then you ask what app they're using.
The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.
I encourage all my key people to bring their mobiles when they travel.
If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.
If you think of what you do on your mobile and what you do on your PC, they're typically very different, and because they're different, they bring you additional value and additional opportunities.
The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.
On mobile, knowing where your friends are at any time is actually a pretty important part of your mobile experience.
The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.
In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting to the application's use case.
People use mobile phones in this very distracting environment where you probably don't have time to watch a 30-minute film, but you might have time to look at a film for a minute and learn something you didn't expect while you walk on the streets.
The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.
On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.
Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.
Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.
