Category: Consumer Goods
Consumer Goods market research reports by IDC
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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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Worldwide Travel and Expense Management Software Market Shares, 2021: Data Management Forms New Foundation for T&E
Worldwide Travel and Expense Management Software Market Shares, 2021: Data Management Forms New Foundation for T&E This IDC study reviews the competitive market for travel and expense management software in 2021."IDC believes that vendors looking to capture market share or even to maintain their cu ... 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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The Digital-Native Business Funding Winter Is Coming: Where Are the Opportunities for Technology Suppliers?
The Digital-Native Business Funding Winter Is Coming: Where Are the Opportunities for Technology Suppliers? This IDC Market Perspective presents a first take on the impact of the funding winter on digital-native businesses (DNBs) and the pressures they are currently facing. The report provides a set ... Read More
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Metaverse Implications for Financial Services
Metaverse Implications for Financial Services This IDC Perspective introduces the metaverse and provides insights into its development, major players working toward the creation of the metaverse, and its implications for the financial services industry."Although the metaverse may still be a somewhat ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Customer Data Platforms for Hospitality and Travel
IDC PlanScape: Customer Data Platforms for Hospitality and Travel This IDC PlanScape provides a road map for hospitality and travel organizations considering CDP investments. It breaks down what is driving interest in CDP in hospitality and travel organizations and describes what differentiates CDP ... Read More
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Innovation Scouting — Working with Digital-Native Businesses as Innovation Accelerators
Innovation Scouting — Working with Digital-Native Businesses as Innovation Accelerators This IDC Market Note examines the practice of innovation scouting. The concept of innovation scouting is defined, as well as the reasons for engaging in this practice and how it is executed."Innovation is increas ... Read More
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U.S. Smartwatch and Fitness Tracker Ownership, 2022
U.S. Smartwatch and Fitness Tracker Ownership, 2022 This IDC Survey looks at smartwatch and fitness tracker ownership in the United States. We polled 1,411 current smartwatch and fitness tracker owners on what brand of device they own, whether it was the same brand as their smartphone, and how impor ... Read More
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China Gaming Market Forecast, 2021–2026
China Gaming Market Forecast, 2021–2026 As consumers have adjusted to the pandemic lifestyle, the demand for gaming has also become normalized in 2021. Mobile and PC gaming remain as the dominant segments in the China market, whereas both console and cloud-streamed gaming are gaining momentum in the ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Secure IoT for Retail
IDC PlanScape: Secure IoT for Retail This IDC PeerScape provides a road map for implementing IoT security in retail organizations. "Amid rising retail crime and cyberattacks, now is an important time for retailers to take a proactive approach to security across the many, varied IoT applications acro ... Read More
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These Five Trends Will Allow Grocery Retailers to Ride the Waves of Economic Volatility
These Five Trends Will Allow Grocery Retailers to Ride the Waves of Economic Volatility This IDC Perspective predicts five ways that grocery retailers will accelerate their digital transformation strategies to survive and thrive in rapidly shifting social and economic conditions. Already a narrow ma ... Read More
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Upskilling/Reskilling in the Metaverse — A Distant Reality?
Upskilling/Reskilling in the Metaverse — A Distant Reality? This IDC Market Note explores the current development and prospects on the use of the metaverse as a tool for learning and development (L&D) for IT skills. Although current hype around Web 3.0 and the metaverse cannot be overlooked and ... Read More
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