Category: Media
Media market research reports by Euromonitor International
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Portable Players in Vietnam
Portable Players in Vietnam 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 wireless speakers and ... Read More
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Home Audio and Cinema in Austria
Home Audio and Cinema in Austria With some respite in some categories, such as hi-fi systems, home cinema and speaker systems, speakers, and “other” home audio and cinema, due to the fall back on the home for entertainment in the wake of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, home audio and cinema is ... Read More
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Home Audio and Cinema in Turkey
Home Audio and Cinema in Turkey Retail volume sales of home audio and cinema continues to decline in 2023. Hi-fi systems and digital media player docks are increasingly unpopular among the Turkish population and are considered outdated. This sector is also challenged by the presence of high technolo ... Read More
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Portable Players in the US
Portable Players in the US 2023 saw e-readers experience declining volume sales after positive growth was registered in the category during 2022. This return to negative sales growth is indicative of the general slowdown that is being seen in demand for these products despite the efforts of leading ... Read More
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Home Video in Colombia
Home Video in Colombia Retail volume sales of home video declined in 2023, as local consumers faced significant constraints on household spending in the wake of rising inflation and low economic growth. Additionally, in the 12 months from March 2022 to March 2023, the Colombian peso was devalued alm ... Read More
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Portable Players in the Philippines
Portable Players in the Philippines Sales of portable players are seeing growth in retail volume terms in 2023 for the second year running but this growth is being driven by wireless speakers with all the other categories posting heavy losses. A major fact in this is that wireless speakers are seen ... Read More
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Home Audio and Cinema in Italy
Home Audio and Cinema in Italy Italian consumers make considerable use of audio content, from audiobooks to podcasts to listening to music. In recent years, podcasts have seen staggering growth in consumption thanks to the fact that several platforms, such as Spotify, have increased their freemium c ... Read More
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Home Video in Chile
Home Video in Chile Home video experienced strong retail volume growth during the pandemic in 2021, when consumers had the opportunity to increase their discretionary expenditure, given the withdrawal from pension funds and direct government help. However, with most demand already met, and replaceme ... Read More
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Home Video in Austria
Home Video in Austria Following a spike in 2020, when the exigencies of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forced consumers to focus on home entertainment, retail volume sales of televisions have continued to fall sharply. The market size of televisions fell below the 2019 pre-pandemic level in 202 ... Read More
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Home Audio and Cinema in Colombia
Home Audio and Cinema in Colombia The decline of home audio and cinema in 2023 is due to its inability to compete with wireless devices with greater technology and functionality. Colombian consumers are increasingly familiar with smart systems, which has led to home audio and cinema products becomin ... Read More
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Portable Players in France
Portable Players in France 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 largest subcategory in volu ... Read More
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Home Video in Vietnam
Home Video in Vietnam Despite seeing an uptick in economic activity in Vietnam after the pandemic peaking, sales of home video products have been declining during 2022-2023. This is partially due to category maturity and a high penetration rate, which has limited demand, but also because many consum ... Read More
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Home Video in the US
Home Video in the US Recent years have seen a significant shift in demand for televisions in the US as the category’s leading players have increasingly embraced the emerging category of OLED TVs. This has accompanied an increase in the production of the technology required to manufacture OLED TVs, w ... Read More
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Home Audio and Cinema in Hungary
Home Audio and Cinema in Hungary Home audio and cinema recorded strong volume decline in 2023 as these products faced competition from wireless sound systems, the increasing sound quality of portable computers and smartphones, and a growing preference for compact and interior design-friendly audio a ... Read More
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Portable Players in Malaysia
Portable Players in Malaysia 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 growing in popularity among ... Read More
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Home Audio and Cinema in Japan
Home Audio and Cinema in Japan 2023 is set to be another year of volume decline for home audio and cinema. Indeed, sales in the category have been decreasing for over a decade. It is clear that the decrease is due to a structural shift in how consumers engage with music. This has been an inevitable ... Read More
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Portable Players in Japan
Portable Players in Japan It was in May 2022 that Apple announced it was discontinuing its iPod brand. Apple’s iPod is an iconic device, changing the face of music over the last two decades. With the advertising copy “1,000 songs in your pocket”, the first model debuted in 2001. Until then, major wa ... Read More
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Home Video in Japan
Home Video in Japan There was huge demand for televisions in the country little more than a decade ago. During the period 2009-2011, two drivers pushed up sales of televisions significantly. One was the shift of broadcasting from analogue to digital in July 2011. The other was the Eco-Point programm ... Read More
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Portable Players in China
Portable Players in China After seeing exceptionally strong retail volume growth at the beginning of the review period, portable players turned to decline in 2020, with this trend continuing in 2021. A fall in sales is also expected in 2022, although at a slower rate, with a low single-digit decline ... Read More
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Home Audio and Cinema in China
Home Audio and Cinema in China Home audio and cinema in China is characterised by its maturity, which is evident in its stable to declining retail volume sales and stable brand ranking. Foreign players Philips, Samsung and Sansui are expected to maintain their leading positions in volume terms in 20 ... Read More
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Home Video in China
Home Video in China The on-and-off pandemic situation in China in 2022 has cast a shadow on the home video category, with bad news from both the supply and the demand sides. On the one hand, the prices of LCD panels soared in 2021, consequently contributing to a significant all-encompassing surge in ... Read More
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Home Video in Australia
Home Video in Australia Televisions is expected to fail to maintain growth in 2022, with volume sales set to turn to a slight decline. Lockdown-related factors such as increasing demand for in-home entertainment and an increase in discretionary income contributed to solid growth in 2020 and 2021. Ho ... Read More
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Portable Players in Australia
Portable Players in Australia Wireless speakers was the only category within portable players to see growth during the review period, and its momentum is set to continue in 2022 and indeed throughout the forecast period. These products are marketed towards younger consumers, who place a high value o ... Read More
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Home Audio and Cinema in Australia
Home Audio and Cinema in Australia The rise in demand seen in home audio and cinema in the review period has been attributed to pandemic-induced home seclusion and the popularity of direct-to-home film releases supported by streaming service providers such as Netflix and Disney+. However, life is re ... Read More
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Portable Players in Sweden
Portable Players in Sweden Sales of portable players continued to decline during 2022, with decreases registered in both value and volume terms. Whilst wireless speakers benefited from higher volume sales of smartphones in 2021 and 2022, e-readers, portable multimedia players and other portable medi ... Read More