Research Reports

Premium audio system sales in new vehicles are expected to grow from just over 8.6 million units globally in 2014 to more than 11.6 million units in 2021, with branded speaker system sales expected to grow from more than 8.7 million units to 11.1 million units in the same timeframe.

While IDC expects overall sales to decline in 2015, some segments of the product category are poised to experience strong growth.

While overall smartphone growth will continue to slow, many markets will experience robust growth in 2015 and beyond, and worldwide shipment volumes are forecast to reach 1.9 billion units annually by 2019.

Education is the primary market for Chromebooks and represented 72 percent of the global Chromebook market in 2014.

For the second quarter in a row, Apple lost a substantial share of the tablet market as shipments declined and growth of the overall market remained stagnant, according to ABI Research.

Advertising is the principal mechanism of monetizing online video, generating more revenues than subscription or transactions, according to the IHS and Vidiro white paper.

A new report from Juniper Research has found that global brand and retail spend on digital marketing activities will reach $200 billion this year, up by 15% on 2014 levels.

Device vendors will have to raise the prices of PCs to offset the effects of currency devaluation, according to analyst firm Gartner.

Apple still leads the overall market despite five consecutive quarters of negative annual shipment growth. Apple shipped 12.6 million iPads in the first quarter, capturing 26.8 percent of the market in volume and declining -22.9 percent when compared to 1Q14.