Artificial intelligence (AI) and fast connectivity – critical ingredients for the next era of category leaders such as smartphones, smart home devices and smart speakers – will drive the US consumer technology industry to a record-breaking $398 billion in retail revenues ($301 billion wholesale) in 2019 and 3.9 per cent year-over-year (YOY) growth, which includes
Customers purchased millions more Amazon Devices this holiday season compared to last year – the best-selling Amazon devices this holiday included all-new Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with all-new Alexa Voice Remote, and Echo. The company announced a record-breaking holiday season thanks to its customers all around the world, with more items ordered worldwide […]
Samsung Electronics has unveiled Remote Access, a new feature that will be available on its Smart TV line-ups starting 2019. The Remote Access feature will provide enhanced wireless connectivity with PCs, tablets, and smartphones – allowing consumers to control compatible programs and apps remotely through their Samsung Smart TV. With Remote Access, input devices, including […]
Ooyala has put together its thoughts on how the UK will be watching content over the Christmas period, and how broadcasters might try to fight back to regain a slice of the viewing market. Discussing the key viewing trends we’re likely to see over the next few weeks, Jim O’Neill, principal analyst, Ooyala, commented: “Over […]
Brits are ditching their DVD players and desktop PCs and increasingly turning to newer technology – with smart TVs and smart watches on the rise – according to findings from comms regulator Ofcom. Shoppers in the UK are predicted to spend billions of pounds again this year on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and much […]
Smartphone video starts topped 50 per cent globally for the first time, a 13.2 per cent year-over-year change and the largest in five quarters, according to Ooyala’s Q2 2018 Global Video Index Report. Despite a temporary leveling-off in the first quarter of 2018, video plays on mobile devices (tablets and smartphones) surged 9.8 per cent […]
Sony president Kenichiro Yoshida told the FT that “it’s necessary to have a next-generation hardware”, but he declined to say whether the successor would be branded the PlayStation 5. The announcement comes as Sony and others have been experimenting with streaming games as an alternative. Sony allows titles on its cloud-based PlayStation Now service to […]
BARB, the official source of UK television viewing figures, has begun to report multiple-screen television programme ratings. For the first time, BARB is producing daily viewing figures which break down the number of people watching TV programmes on four screens: TV sets, tablets, PCs and smartphones. These multiple-screen viewing figures are the output of Project […]
Amid roiling debates about the impact of screen time on teenagers, roughly half of those ages 13 to 17 are themselves worried they spend too much time on their cellphones. Some 52 per cent of US teens report taking steps to cut back on their mobile phone use, and similar shares have tried to limit […]
The amount of time Americans spend with media continues to increase, largely the result of the widespread connectivity and available content platforms. In just the few months since the end of the third quarter of last year, US consumers 18 and older increased their time with media by more than a full half hour, according […]