Research Reports

As retailers increasingly struggle to effectively match online pricing, digitize their physical stores, meet new order fulfillment models, and streamline the shopping experience, electronic shelf labels (ESLs) are gaining market momentum.

If looking at the fourth quarter alone, the new iPhone 7 was the 2016 best-seller, followed by iPhone 7 Plus, based on research from the IHS Markit, which tracks quarterly shipment data for more than 350 smartphone models.

The overall wearables market is expected to return to strong growth after a brief slowdown in 2016 that resulted from delayed launches of major platforms and notable vendors struggling to maintain pace.

2G and 3G networks are entering the second year of double digit subscriber decline.

The Philippines once again had the lowest average connection speed among surveyed Asia Pacific countries at 4.5 Mbps.

On the contrary, the compact point-and-shoot camera segment registered the sharpest decline in both volume and value.

But the study noted that an important differentiation telcos have over the digital giants is the richness of data available to them because they control the end-to-end delivery platform.

Shipments for the entire year grew 25% as new vendors entered the market and previous champions refreshed their product lineups.

Global mobile display advertising surged 72 percent in 2015 compared to the previous year, and accounted for 45 percent of all online display advertising revenue.

AR/VR spending is expected to accelerate over the next several years, achieving a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 198.0% over the 2015-2020 forecast period and totaling $143.3 billion in 2020.