Yospace tops O2's '50 to Watch' list

Yospace, which was acquired by magazine publisher EMAP last week, won thanks to the successful deployment its UGC technology with the likes of 3 (SeeMeTV) and O2 (LookAtMe).

The 50 to Watch list also includes the likes of Mobile Interactive Group, Volantis, mBlox, Player X, ROK Entertainment and Probability Games.

Mobile games developers and publishers are particularly well repesented, with i-Play (seventh), Tag Games (23), Telcogames (35) and Dynamo Games (47) among the companies making the list, which boasts cumulative revenues of £180 million.

The 50 to Watch in Mobile were selected from a list of more than 200 UK companies by an independent panel of experts including Ovum analyst Eden Zoller, MDA chairman Mike Short, SpinVox founder Christina Domecq and WebMobility Ventures chairman Ken Blakeslee.

Mark Stansfield, sales director at O2, said: "The use of mobile technology is rapidly evolving thanks to highly innovative and talented companies such as the 50 we have listed. The UK mobile data market alone is set to be worth nearly £1 billion by 2009. As customers become more sophisticated in their adoption of mobile services, the demand for newer and better services will only increase."