A recent study commissioned by the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM) and carried out by strategy consultant Goldmedia has found that location-based services in Germany are providing a wide variety of offers, have an increasing user base and are also likely to experience high rates of growth.
At the end of 2012, there were 181 location-based services (LBS) providers in Germany. That number is expected to increase, with experts predicting that almost every app will incorporate an LBS function in the future. One in four Germans are already using a service of this kind.