Market research on the consumer electronics industry. Standardise...
Market research on the consumer electronics industry. Standardised and cross-comparable total market sizes, and share data, distribution and industry trends and market share ​category level information.
Portable players continued to see positive growth in retail volume terms in 2023. The category is dominated by wireless speakers, which are highly compatible with busy, “on-the-go” lifestyles, particularly since the removal of restrictions associated…
Portable players is another category suffering from cannibalisation from smartphones, along with seeing competition from tablets and laptops (to a lesser extent). The main reason here is the fact that smartphones, tablets, and the like, offer…
Wireless speakers will continue to exhibit volume growth in 2023, with some of this rise in sales coming at the expense of portable media players, a category in steep decline. Smartphones and streaming content are cannibalising portable media…
Wireless speakers are the only growth area in portable players and also account for most volume sales. Low-cost Bluetooth-enabled speakers are especially popular among younger consumers and are mainly used to stream music via smartphones and…
Despite a crisis-driven year, portable players is expected to manage to achieve slightly positive growth in both volume and current value sales in 2023; this makes it one of the few product categories within consumer electronics to do so. An…