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.
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…
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…
Portable players continues to see healthy growth in retail volume terms in 2023, although this is being entirely driven by the strong demand for wireless speakers. Consumers appreciate the convenience of being able to create a fast connection between…
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…
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 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…
Over 2023, portable players is projected to continue to see double-digit retail volume growth and high single-digit retail current value growth. However, there remain significant divergences within the category in terms of retail volume and current…
Retail volume sales of portable players increased in 2023, thanks to better economic conditions, which impacted positively on discretionary consumer spending. Wireless speakers were the key beneficiary of this trend, with a growing demand for these…
Wireless speakers is set to continue its aggressive growth trajectory amongst the Brazilian population in 2023, representing a dynamic shift in the way that people consume and enjoy audio content. With their seamless connectivity and wireless…
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…
In keeping with its results throughout the review period, wireless speakers is set to be by far the most dynamic category within portable players in volume growth terms in 2023. It continues to benefit from the increasing consumer preference for…
The positive volume growth that has been recorded in sales of portable players since 2020 can be attributed entirely to the huge boom that has been seen in demand for wireless speakers. While demand in all other categories of portable players has…
Wireless speakers is driving growth in portable players in 2023. The key factors behind this are connectivity, portability, and specific functions such as voice assistants. Wireless speakers can synch with multiple smart devices – a must-have 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”…
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…
Portable players would be an overall ailing category, was it not for the relative success of wireless speakers. In line with cross-category trends, consumers are rejecting sole-use devices for those which offer multifunctionality and convenience…
Retail volume sales of e-readers continued declining during the review period and appear to be in long-term decline with a further heavy decline set to be seen in 2023. The category has in part been impacted by the popularity of smartphones with some…
Portable players is dominated by wireless speakers, with portable multimedia players accounting for most of the remainder. Compact, portable and affordable, as well as being compatible with “on-the-go” lifestyles, wireless speakers are rapidly…
Portable players has been showing flat-negative growth over the review period, which worsened through 2021-2023. That said, the overall category volume is expected to be back in small positive volume growth in 2024. Wireless speakers remains the…
Portable players in Austria market has registered slight positive growth in retail current value sales and a significant slowdown in retail volume decline towards the end of the review period. Wireless speakers, which dominates retail volume and…