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BMJ Group Mobile Applications and doc2doc Wednesday 15 th June 2011
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Where we are Over 100k downloads Conducted User Research Delivered Native Apps Move to tablet Talking to –Customers –Carriers –Potential sponsors/partners –Device manufacturers
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Our mobile work to date Mobilising some of our content via - Mobile sites, iPhone apps, iPad apps, … … “Test, Learn, Test”
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Mobile site Careers Launched BMJ Careers November 2009 Vets July 2010 Runs on our own platform. Works on all high end mobiles Cost £ small (developed in house)
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Mobile site Medical Journal Journal of Emergency Medicine launched January 2011 Developed as a pilot for Specialist Journals Developed by Highwire Usage – too early to tell
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Mobile site onExamination Launched in Jan 2010 Developed ‘in house’ Uses ‘Work Hard’ technology Synchronised with onExamination’s exam products Free as part of their exam revision subscription 66% of users are referred from our main web site
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iPhone App Differential Diagnosis Launched January 2010 Added functionality - can also take notes, photos, share, e-mail etc Sells at £4.99 Has clearly been a success story 3*
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iPhone App Student BMJ Launched June 2010 A free app Downloads articles users want to read off line *
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iPhone App Careers Launched September 2010 A free app Alerts users to new jobs fitting their profile
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iPhone App onExamination Pilot launched July for 2 exams Price £9.99, £4.99 (100 questions) Sold 300+ units
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iPhone App Best Practice Launched October 2010 Complex content, large image download Sells at £9.99 or £19.99 for any of 15 specialist collections. £59.99 for all.
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iPhone App Best Health Launched December 2010 3 apps to date (more poss) –Depression in adults (1 topic) –Child Health (30+ topics) –Diabetes type 1 (1 topic) Experimental consumer facing, no first mover advantage, flat content, limited marketing Sell at £1.19 & £2.99
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iPhone App Doctor’s Tool Bag Launched December 2010 Developed in conjunction with the CEBM (Oxford) A ‘bag’ of 60+ simple but useful tools aimed at helping Doctors in the patient consultation Sells at £4.99 (+in app purchase at £8.99) Still early days – sold around 400 in first four weeks, then 300 in a single day, and straight to ‘number 1’, after marketing campaign Usage Stats Total downloads:4,007 Chart position:59 Usage Stats Total downloads:4,007 Chart position:59
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iPhone App BNF BNF 60 just launched Produced by Medhand Also available on Windows mobile and Palm Sells at £26.49 Consistently the best grossing app in the medical section BNFC just launched Tayside formulary app
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iPad App The BMJ Launched January 2011 Brings ‘browse the journal’ weekly experience to a global audience Truly leverages the iPad’s capabilities –Slick navigation, Interactive, News feeds, Blogs, Podcasts, Video, Web links £9.99 for 4 weeks, £2.99 a back issue
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iPad App Best Practice Just launched Same pricing as for iPhone app Looking at institutional access – voucher system?
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User research Direct –91% pay for own Apps –63% use Smartphone or Tablet –52% use medical Apps –51% use Clinical decision aid Apps –Apple lead the way –Emerging markets paint a different story
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User research Institutional subscribers –50% provide mobile devices –Split between iProducts and Bberry –88% expect end users to purchase own Apps –Primary usage of Apps Clinical decision aid Articles –Budget €10-20k (taken from online Journal budget) NHS – Approved suppliers –Blackberry –Dell – iPhone/iPad?
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Landscape Fast paced Growing market –50bn Apps (2012) –$17.5bn (2012) Crowded market Emerging markets App store reliance (a thing of the past?) Consolidated market
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The Major Players - Platforms PlatformNumber of AppsNumber of downloads Android200k*3bn to date iOS320k + 70k10bn to date Symbian40k4m a day Blackberry25k*23.5m to date Windows12k- Get Jar75k1bn to date
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Growth of the mobile OS market Source:Gartner (April 2011). Figures as % Platform2010201120122015 Android22.738.549.248.8 Microsoft4.25.610.819.5 Apple15.719.418.917.2 RIM1613.412.611.1 Symbian37.619.25.20.1 Other3.83.93.43.3
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Growth of the Tablet market Source:Gartner (April 2011). Figures as % Platform2010201120122015 iOS83.968.763.547.1 Android14.219.924.438.6 QNX05.66.610 WebOS043.93 MeeGo0.61.11.21 Other1.30.60.50.2
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Latest trends Tablets HTML5 WAC 4G QR Codes Cloud Data offloading Subscription: m-publishing –Google One pass –Yahoo!Livestand Consolidated platforms Operator billing
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Potential Other platforms –WAC –HTML5 Sell direct Create new –Labtests –Evidence Centre Provide subscription model –Blackberry Enterprise Server –Blackberry Enterprise Store –App Store Volume Purchase Program –D4 –M-publishing platforms Enterprise model
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RIM Institutional Structure AW WWW BBerry Tablet Firewall AW
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Next steps Prioritise on what customers want –Existing –New Pilot –HTML5 –Device –Carrier –Primary & Secondary Care –m-publishing –Medical schools
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Overview Launched January 2009 45,000 members 1,500 new members per month International 500 discussions a month Over 2,000 posts a month 20,000 unique visits a month Open and closed access Forums, blogs, people search, polls
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