Category: Consumer Goods & Retailing
Consumer Goods & Retailing market research reports by IDC
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The Top 5 Things to Know About Advertising in the Metaverse
The Top 5 Things to Know About Advertising in the Metaverse This IDC Perspective explores how advertising might look like in Meta Platforms' proposed metaverse, what its commercial volume could be, what gating factors might affect consumer adoption, and how advertisers could go about gathering exper ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Operationalize Repair, Reuse, Recycle
IDC PeerScape: Practices to Operationalize Repair, Reuse, Recycle This IDC PeerScape examines several successful practices in the areas of repair, reuse, and recycle that retailers or brands have undertaken in their efforts to operate more sustainably."Operating 'eaches' businesses at scale, as we ... Read More
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Worldwide Cloud-Streamed Gaming Forecast, 2022-2026: Mobile Gathers Momentum
Worldwide Cloud-Streamed Gaming Forecast, 2022-2026: Mobile Gathers Momentum This IDC study examines the cloud-streamed gaming market from 2019 through 2026. It considers monthly users, hours of use, and revenue globally and in four geographic regions: North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific (in ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Product Life-Cycle Management Practices to Achieve Sustainability in Apparel
IDC PeerScape: Product Life-Cycle Management Practices to Achieve Sustainability in Apparel This IDC PeerScape examines some of the challenges of wasted time and resources and of the ability to collect and analyze data about environmental impact that apparel retailers and brands encounter in the pro ... Read More
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The Future of Experiences in the Metaverse
The Future of Experiences in the Metaverse This IDC Perspective discusses how the advent of Web3 technologies and other metaverse components will have an impact on the future of customer experiences. It highlights the key factors that make it relevant to consider these technologies now, which of the ... Read More
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The European Union Versus Big Tech: The Digital Services Act
The European Union Versus Big Tech: The Digital Services Act This IDC Market Perspective discusses the digital service regulations. The European Commission published its proposals for the Digital Services (DSA) and Digital Markets (DMA) Acts in December 2020, kicking off a paradigm shift in the regu ... Read More
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Top 15 Market Influences on Digital Commerce: Out-Maneuver Competitors, Win the Customer, and Future-Proof Your Business
Top 15 Market Influences on Digital Commerce: Out-Maneuver Competitors, Win the Customer, and Future-Proof Your Business The storms of digital disruption blew digital commerce off course into braver territory during the COVID-19 pandemic. The shifting tides of fortune led to enormous opportunities a ... Read More
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Worldwide Enterprise Community Software Applications Market Shares, 2021: The First-Party Data and Metaverse Gateway
Worldwide Enterprise Community Software Applications Market Shares, 2021: The First-Party Data and Metaverse Gateway This IDC study examines the vendor revenue performance in the enterprise community software applications market for 2021.Enterprise community software applications are a fast-growing ... Read More
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Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming Forecast, 2022–2026: Subscriptions and CSG Make Headway
Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming Forecast, 2022–2026: Subscriptions and CSG Make Headway This IDC study forecasts digital PC gaming through 2026 in four regions: North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific (including Japan), and a combined the rest of the world region. The digital PC gaming marke ... Read More
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Sustainable Food Distribution: How Grocery Retailers Will Use Technology to Reduce Food Waste and Improve Customer Experience
Sustainable Food Distribution: How Grocery Retailers Will Use Technology to Reduce Food Waste and Improve Customer Experience This IDC Perspective illuminates how humanitarian and climate pressures are driving city, state, and national policies driving retailers to reduce food waste. Grocery retaile ... Read More
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Blockchain, NFTs, Crypto, and Gaming: Much Ado About Something TBD
Blockchain, NFTs, Crypto, and Gaming: Much Ado About Something TBD This IDC Market Perspective has three main parts: a primer on consumer-facing blockchain, NFTs, and crypto for those who may be unfamiliar with this technology; five gaming-specific use cases that were featured or touched on at GDC 2 ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Marketplaces for Retailers
IDC PlanScape: Marketplaces for Retailers This IDC PlanScape explores the characteristics of digital marketplaces as facilitators and robust tools to enhance a brand's online presence, underlying characteristics that make them particularly effective in specific business moments."Marketplaces are one ... Read More
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U.S. First Responder Wireless Services Forecast, 2022–2026
U.S. First Responder Wireless Services Forecast, 2022–2026 This IDC study analyzes the outlook for the public safety segment of the U.S. mobile services market for the 2022–2026 period. The forecast focuses on connections to public safety–specific wireless plans including both voice and data connect ... Read More
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State of Digital Commerce in Asia/Pacific Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
State of Digital Commerce in Asia/Pacific Small and Medium-Sized Businesses This IDC Market Perspective sheds light on how Asia/Pacific small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are adopting digital commerce and their initiatives to shift to digital commerce, their future technology investment plans, ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Livestream Shopping in Retail and D2C
IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Livestream Shopping in Retail and D2C This IDC PeerScape discusses the main issues that emerge in retailers' livestream business models and how to solve them through decisions and directions."A retail company using livestream shopping for the first time might be bew ... Read More
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Worldwide Smart Home Device Forecast Update, 2022–2026: CY 3Q22
Worldwide Smart Home Device Forecast Update, 2022–2026: CY 3Q22 This IDC study updates the five-year forecast for the worldwide smart home device market published in January 2022.At a worldwide level, the total value of smart home device shipments will grow from $289.8 billion in 2021 to $306.3 bill ... Read More
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eSports Market Update: The Emerging Influencer Marketer Connection
eSports Market Update: The Emerging Influencer Marketer Connection This IDC Market Perspective reviews recent news and trends relating to the two core elements of the esports market: pro tournaments and leagues and pro teams and companies. It also examines three esports-adjacent market segments: le ... Read More
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The E3 That Wasn't, 2022: New Games Incoming as the Industry Braces for Potential Recession
The E3 That Wasn't, 2022: New Games Incoming as the Industry Braces for Potential Recession This IDC Market Note reviews new PC, console, and VR game release news that was broken in June and assesses its likely impact, as well as inflationary and recessionary concerns, through 2023. "The 4Q22 exclus ... Read More
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Siemens and NVIDIA Partnership to Develop and Scale the Industrial Metaverse
Siemens and NVIDIA Partnership to Develop and Scale the Industrial Metaverse This IDC Market Note examines the key elements and implications of the partnership between Siemens and NVIDIA that aims to enable the industrial metaverse and increase the use of AI-driven digital twin technology across the ... Read More
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European Human Augmentation Forecast, 2021-2026: How AR/VR, Biometrics, Wearables, and Other Augmentation Techs Will Elevate Human Skills and Transform Businesses
European Human Augmentation Forecast, 2021-2026: How AR/VR, Biometrics, Wearables, and Other Augmentation Techs Will Elevate Human Skills and Transform Businesses This IDC Market Forecast analyzes the human augmentation market in Europe and provides a spending forecast between 2021 and 2026. Accordi ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: The Retail Commerce Platform
IDC PlanScape: The Retail Commerce Platform This IDC PlanScape enables retail companies and brands to identify the main drivers (why), foundational elements (what), key actors (who), and business outcomes (how) to enhance omni-channel and headless commerce using a retail commerce platform (RCP). "Om ... Read More
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U.S. Wearable Computing Device Forecast Update, 2022–2026: CY 3Q22
U.S. Wearable Computing Device Forecast Update, 2022–2026: CY 3Q22 This IDC study presents the U.S. wearable computing device forecast update for the 2022–2026 period."The past two years have propelled the U.S. wearables market to unprecedented levels, thanks to strong demand for earwear — by far th ... Read More
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Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Hardware Forecast Update, 2022–2026: CY 3Q22
Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Hardware Forecast Update, 2022–2026: CY 3Q22 This IDC study provides an updated forecast for the worldwide augmented and virtual reality hardware market for the 2022–2026 period."The worldwide AR/VR market is heading for slow and certain growth in the years ah ... Read More
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The Metaverse Tech Ecosystem: How and When Human Augmentation Technologies will Support the Metaverse
The Metaverse Tech Ecosystem: How and When Human Augmentation Technologies will Support the Metaverse This IDC Perspective discusses the role of human augmentation techs (including AR/VR, affective computing, smart peripherals, and brain-computer interfaces) as part of the metaverse technology ecosy ... Read More
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Worldwide Wearable Computing Device Forecast Update, 2022–2026: CY 3Q22
Worldwide Wearable Computing Device Forecast Update, 2022–2026: CY 3Q22 This IDC study presents the worldwide wearable computing device forecast for the 2022–2026 period."As the worldwide wearables market reaches maturity, we expect growth to continue albeit at a slower rate," says Ramon T. Llamas, ... Read More
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