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.
Demand for portable players in the United Arab Emirates continues to rise, driven by the popularity of wireless speakers. This is mainly due to consumers preferring these portable options over built-in smartphone speakers or streaming services with…
In 2024, portable players in China is set to maintain a similar performance to 2023, with decline in retail volume terms, but growth in current value terms. Overall, the advances in technology seen in multifunctional consumer electronics such as…
Demand for portable players in Chile continues to decline, following a downwards trend evident since 2021-2022. This is mainly due to the fact that these devices are being replaced by products considered to offer better functionality, such as…
The decline in retail volume sales of portable players expected to be observed in the US in 2024 can primarily be attributed to the sustained decrease in sales within the other portable media players category. This particular category is set to…
Portable players in Austria continue to experience significant decline in volume sales over 2024 due to falling demand in all sub-categories. At the same time, a slight increase in current value sales reflects the growing preference for higher…
Demand for portable players in South Africa continues to grow, although this is mainly being driven by the dominant format of wireless speakers. The latter’s consistent growth is due to its convenience, and more specifically, its ability to be used…
In 2024, retail volume sales of portable players continue to decline, primarily due to the increasing substitution of e-readers and portable media players with smartphones and tablets. Households are prioritising multifunctional consumer electronics…
Wireless media speakers account for the majority of volume sale of portable players in Colombia and in 2024 are also expected to register the highest volume growth. Volume sales of e-readers continue to decline, partly because many are purchased on…
Overall, retail volume sales of portable players in Canada are projected to decrease only slightly in 2024. This is due to the anticipated very marginal increase in retail volume sales of the dominant category, wireless speakers, as e-readers and…
Demand for overall portable players in the UK remains positive, driven by the dominant category of wireless speakers. Local consumers are increasingly interested in and attracted to different portable audio solutions such as wireless speakers, while…
In 2023, portable players in India saw positive retail volume and current value growth, driven solely by the sale of wireless speakers. The vast majority of sales in portable players can be attributed to wireless speakers, which are witnessing…
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…
Portable players is seeing a healthy performance in 2023, in part thanks to the overall popularity and success of wireless speakers, in addition to the return of gatherings and social occasions out-of-home in the post-pandemic landscape. Indeed, in…
Wireless speakers continued to drive growth in portable players in 2023, being the only product area to have recorded a positive increase in sales in retail volume terms. Compact, portable and affordable, as well as being compatible with “on-the-go”…
With the pandemic being declared over by the World Health Organisation in early 2023 most consumers have now returned to their old lifestyles and behaviour. The rising mobility of the population has helped to drive strong demand for wireless speakers…
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…
Sales of portable players is recording growth in retail volume terms in 2023, but this being fuelled entirely by the growing demand for wireless speakers. E-readers continue to lose appeal while portable multimedia players have now largely…
Portable players is now limited to sales of e-readers and wireless speakers in Australia with the latter dominating category sales and driving growth in 2023. Wireless speakers are marketed towards younger consumers, who place a high value on…
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 looks set to register a slight increase in volume sales in 2023 thanks to wireless speakers, the only expanding category amongst several declining categories. Portable media players has recorded a strong decline in sales as these…