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| Sep 22, 2023
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The Asia-Pacific coverage in the Global Media Intelligence Report includes poll results from Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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| Oct 20, 2022
In 2024, retail sales in India will be the fourth largest in the world. In terms of retail growth, the market trails only the Philippines, Vietnam, Russia, and Argentina. Walmart’s Flipkart and Amazon India will command 31.3% and 30.0% of retail ecommerce sales shares, respectively, followed by Reliance Retail with a 7.2% market share.
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| Mar 25, 2024
India and Latin America will stand out, as usual. Now that China’s era of seemingly universal high growth across all categories has ended, the next exciting markets are India and Latin America. For sub OTT, Brazil, Mexico, India, and Argentina will round out the top five for viewer growth in 2024 and in 2025, trailing only Indonesia both years.
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| Dec 15, 2023
The top 10 countries for digital ad spending will be the same next year as this year, but in 2026 India will join the list. India is still a relatively small player in the digital ad space, but its fast pace of growth will lead it to overtake South Korea for 10th place in 2026. In total media ad spending, India has been in the top 10 for two years already and will pass the $13 billion mark in 2024.
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| Jan 10, 2024
Internet users in India are enthusiastic gamers, but overall penetration is low. India will lead the world in digital gamer growth in 2023. Although its 5.5% growth rate this year will be modest by historic standards, it will still be enough to lead the 13 countries we track. India will also lead in 2024, but growth will be under 4.0% after that.
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| Nov 27, 2023
In Threads’ first week, 33.5% of app downloads came from India, followed by Brazil (22.5%) and the US (16.1%), according to data.ai.
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| Jul 17, 2023
Consumption is on a roll in India. The nation has the fastest-growing major economy in the world and a young and increasingly wealthy population. To top things off, India overtook China in 2023 as the most populous nation. This positive momentum has led more consumer brands to assess the market opportunity in India.
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| Dec 5, 2023
India will be the only megamarket to make the top 10 list. Brazil, Mexico, and Russia are also relatively large economies set for impressive ecommerce growth, but unlike India they’re not in the $100 billion ecommerce club—a threshold only six countries have crossed as of the end of 2023. Every country we track will post positive ecommerce growth in 2024.
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| Feb 27, 2024
India, China, and Japan will all post slower ecommerce growth than last year, but the declines will be minimal. India in particular will remain among the world’s fastest growers across both total retail and ecommerce. Southeast Asia, meanwhile, will see a modest uptick after a shaky 2023.
Latin America will be the top region for ecommerce growth, but not overall.
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| Mar 4, 2024
India and other regions exploring CBDCs will need to overcome this adoption problem to make their investments in the digital currencies worth it.
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| Jan 8, 2024
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| Jun 26, 2023
India will leapfrog Germany in the digital sales rankings this year, and Indonesia is also surging. The top five countries for total ecommerce sales have not changed in a while, but the bottom half of the top 10 tends to fluctuate. This year, India will move one spot up and Indonesia will leap two spots to No. 8.
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| Aug 11, 2023
The fintech is focused on expanding in foreign markets like India and improving products at home with higher-rate savings accounts.
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| Jun 21, 2023
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| Jul 29, 2022
Live shopping faces an uncertain future in India and Japan. More than 61% of digital buyers in India said they are interested in live shopping if the featured products interest them (in part because of its capability to enable communication and possibly bargain with sellers), according to a recent survey by social media platform LocalCircles.
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| Jul 14, 2023
In India, TikTok was banned in 2020, leading to a higher rate of penetration for Snapchat. Additionally, the penetration rate for social users in India is relatively low due to the country’s more rural population and slower adoption of devices with internet connectivity. Social users in India will grow 6.9% in 2023, outpacing the region as a whole by a wide margin.
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| Jun 27, 2023
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| Jan 18, 2022
We expect retail sales in India to grow 11% this year: That’s enough to make it the fastest-growing market in the world, which is one reason Amazon is investing in the region.
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| Jan 23, 2023
Netflix is making moves in India to compete with Disney+ Hotstar and Amazon Prime Video: Streaming services have turned to the country to make up lost ground back at home, but breaking in may not be so easy.
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| Dec 15, 2021
Apple’s manufacturing shift from China: The iPhone maker is looking to India and Vietnam to manufacture its most profitable products—a sign that Apple’s long time reliance on China’s manufacturing could be coming to an end.
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| Sep 27, 2022
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| Oct 21, 2021
On today's episode, we discuss Facebook's plan to be cool again, Amazon testing a TikTok-style feed, what to make of the price of Netflix with ads, WhatsApp's superpowers in India, TikTok and YouTube making TV their new home, an unpopular opinion about ad-free social media, the most livable cities in the world, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our director of reports editing Rahul Chadha and analysts Evelyn Mitchell and Max Willens.
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| Sep 8, 2022
Both countries are researching the regulatory nuances for a potential CBDC while China and India push ahead with their own CBDCs.
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| Jan 14, 2022