HAMPSHIRE, UK — Cherrysauce has been selected as this year’s top award winner in the mobile adult category at the Future Mobile Awards, presented by Juniper Research.The silver award went to Phonebox Entertainment.

The Future Mobile Awards are given to companies that have made significant progress within their sectors during the previous year, and are poised to make a considerable market impact in the year ahead. The gold award recognizes Cherrysauce for making a significant contribution to the future of the mobile adult industry.

“Cherrysauce is very honored and grateful for this recognition from respected industry peers,” said Cherry Media’s Julia Dimambro, who also was voted as one of the mobile industry’s top 50 most influential players. “The key here is in the detail. Being able to maintain a presence in wholesale [business-to-business] distribution of erotic mobile content whilst simultaneously winning the hearts and minds of mobile consumers means Cherry Media is well poised to continue making a massive impact with mobile operators and its [distributor-to-carrier] offerings over the next 12 months.”

Dr. Windsor Holden, a panel judge and principal analyst at Juniper Research, said, “Cherrysauce has continued to demonstrate its pre-eminence within the mobile adult sector, delivering high-quality D2C and B2B services and products and maintaining high subscriber conversion rates. The company’s video-chat services, implemented in association with CC Media, have been particularly successful, generating high monthly spend and exhibiting strong customer retention levels.”

The awards were granted by a panel of expert judges based on a number of criteria including innovation, customer retention, customer growth, commercial deployment, ease of use/user interface, revenue generation, pricing (for services and products), and capability/functionality. From a short list of nominations, the case was made for each nominee, with their relative merits and shortcomings debated and scored. Gold and silver awards were conferred in each category.

Winners in other categories were:
Future Mobile Gaming: Spin3 (gold) and Probability (silver)
Future Mobile Games: EA Mobile (gold) and Gameloft (silver)
Future Mobile Music: Omnifone (gold) and Apple (silver)
Future Mobile TV: 3 Italia (gold) and KDDI (silver)
Future Mobile UGC Services: GoFresh (gold) and CyWorld Mobile (silver)