Market Trends

Dallas, Tex., February 13, 2014-- New research from Parks Associates shows mobile consumption of video is driving usage of TV apps, with 55% of U.S. smartphone owners and 61% of tablet owners using a TV-related app at least once a month. The research firm will address the growing influence of the app ecosystem at the 18th-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, May 13-15, 2014, in San Francisco, with keynotes from ARRIS, AT&T, iControl Networks, and Lowe’s.

El Segundo, Calif. February 13, 2014—The global market for connected devices that allow users to access the Internet is set to surpass 6 billion units this year, as new products including cellphones, tablets and computers enter the electronics ecosystem, according to a new report from IHS Technology

Dallas, Tex., February 13, 2014-- A new report titled "Global Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Market (2013 - 2018)" says the global UAV market size can be expected to grow to US$ 114.7 Billion by 2023. North America constitutes the majority share in the global UAV market and demand for UAVs in the US will spur the North American UAV market. Europe is set to spend US$24.3 billion on UAVs across the forecast period and UAV market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.66% in the Asia-Pacific region. 

London, UK, February 10, 2014--The number of TV sets connected to the Internet will reach 759 million by 2018 for 40 countries covered in the Connected TV Forecasts report, up from 115 million at end-2010 and the 307 million expected at end-2013. This translates to 26.8% of global TV sets by 2018, up from only 5.1% at end-2010 and 12.4% by end-2013, according to a new report entitled "Connected TV Foreceast" from reportbuyer.com.

Scottsdale, Ariz., February 10, 2014--Despite continued growth of online video viewing on connected CE devices and excitement from new platforms like Google’s Chromecast and new consoles from Microsoft and Sony, annual increases in mobile online viewing (tablets and smartphones) are higher than any other category. Worldwide mobile views already constitute over 20% of the total (in 2013) and this share will continue to grow – more than doubling during the five year forecast window, according to new research from ABI Research.

El Segundo, Calif., Feb. 7, 2014—The U.S. television market fell a steep 9 percent in 2013 despite the usual last-minute rally during the holiday season in the fourth quarter, which failed to compensate for low demand among Americans throughout the year, according to a new report from IHS Technology.

San Jose, Calif., Feb 5, 2014  -- According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2013 to 2018, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase nearly 11-fold over the next four years and reach an annual run rate of 190 exabytes by 2018. The projected increase in mobile traffic is partly due to continued strong growth in the number of mobile Internet connections, such as personal devices and machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, which will exceed 10 billion by 2018 and be 1.4 times greater than the world's population (the United Nations estimates 7.6 billion people by 2018).

El Segundo, Calif. , Feb. 5, 2014—The market for large-sized liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels is set for a moderate seasonal decline in the first quarter after a busy end-of-year in 2013 that saw record shipments for TV and tablet panels, according to a new report from IHS Technology.

Pune, India, February 4, 2014--According to the new market research report entitled "C4ISR Market (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Land Systems, Airborne Systems and Naval Systems) Forecasts 2014 - 2019", the C4ISR market is estimated to be US$ 83.13 billion in 2014 and is expected to register a CAGR of 2.28% to reach US$ 93.04 billion by 2019.

Dublin, Ireleand, February 3, 2014--Analysts forecast the Global Satellite Broadband Public Safety market to grow at a CAGR of 8.45 percent over the period 2013-2018. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing demand for enhanced public safety operations accroding to a new report by Research and Markets.