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Asia/Pacific Communications SPs Fixed-Line Services Forecast, 2025–2029

Swathi Arunaa, Nikhil Batra — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study examines the fixed-line services market in Asia/Pacific. It presents spending data from fixed voice and fixed data segments and highlights insights into the trends and performances in the region within a five-year forecast.

Canadian Consumer Online Activity Frequency and Preferred Devices Survey Results, 2017–2025: Communication, Entertainment, Productivity, and Shopping Behaviours

Praveen Datta — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey highlights data associated with the consumer services markets. IDC Canada's consumer research group conducts quarterly surveys to understand the behaviours of Canadian consumers. For this document, we surveyed 2,000 Canadian consumers in July 2025 and are including data from prior surveys going back to August 2016 to provide a historic view of how consumer online behaviours have changed over time.

This presentation outlines the longitudinal frequency of consumer activities from 2017 to 2025 for the following activities: communication (email, messaging, video chat, and social), entertainment (listening to podcasts and music, downloading and streaming TV shows and movies, watching user-generated content, playing games, and reading the news), productivity (banking/investing, navigation, photo sharing, and online learning), and shopping (researching products, buying products, downloading apps, and using classifieds). Detailed data for each category is also provided to indicate which devices are most often used for each activity.

There is a considerable volume of data from our surveys beyond what is provided in this presentation and more detailed crosstabs can also be provided. We encourage you to contact your IDC account representative if you have any specific questions about a market or segment of interest.

From Gaming to Gaining: AR/VR Headsets and Smart Glasses Go Mainstream, says IDC

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

NEEDHAM, Mass., September 17, 2025 – Worldwide shipments of AR/VR headsets combined with display-less smart glasses are expected to grow 39.2% in 2025 with volumes reaching 14.3 million units, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC ) Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Tracker. The market will be driven by smart glasses such as Meta’s Ray-Bans, with the category growing 247.5% during the year thanks to new product launches from Meta as well as numerous other companies joining the race to put artificial intelligence (AI) on consumers’ faces.

IDC：2025年上半年全球开放式耳机占比突破 10%，耳夹式产品领跑增长

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

北京，2025年9月18日——IDC《全球可穿戴设备市场季度跟踪报告》数据显示，2025年上半年全球耳戴市场出货量1.7亿台，同比增长11.8%，其中开放式产品出货量占比10.1%，同比增长61.1%，其凭借新颖外观和新兴传导技术引领全球市场增速。

From Scale to Momentum: Regional Opportunities in Global B2C eCommerce

Kelly Brown — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective outlines the growth of global B2C ecommerce spending, which will reach $5 trillion by 2029, with regional dynamics reshaping the competitive landscape. North America will hold steady, while Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and Central and Eastern Europe deliver the fastest growth rates. Providers that act decisively to align resources with regional opportunities will capture growth and strengthen global market positioning.

"Global ecommerce is entering a new phase where stability in mature markets coexists with rapid acceleration in emerging regions. North America and China will remain anchors of scale, but the fastest growth will come from Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and Central and Eastern Europe," says Kelly Brown, research manager, Consumer Market Model and Consumer Market Trends, IDC. "Providers that balance reliable volume in established markets with early moves into high-CAGR regions will capture the broadest share of future growth."

The Future Is Bundled: Making GenAI Essential in Everyday Consumer Services

Kelly Brown — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective examines how bundling GenAI within music streaming, video streaming, fitness, and banking apps enables service providers to convert large free-user populations into higher-value customers. CMM data highlights substantial scale across users, buyers, and spending in these categories, with GenAI positioned to enhance engagement, deepen reliance, and unlock new opportunities for provider growth. Providers that move decisively will set the standard for consumer experience and secure competitive advantage as AI becomes a baseline expectation.

"Consumers adopt what reduces effort and increases value. When GenAI is embedded in services they already rely on for entertainment, wellness, or finance, it quickly becomes routine," says Kelly Brown, research manager, Consumer Market Model and Consumer Market Trends at IDC. "The result is deeper engagement, stronger retention, and new opportunities for providers to expand growth and loyalty. Those that move early will define the experience consumers come to expect, while laggards will struggle to compete once AI is assumed as part of the bundle."

Consumer GenAI, 2025: Optimism Meets Concerns over Power and Trust

Greg Ireland — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines selected results from IDC's July 2025 GenAI for Content Creators and Consumers Survey. The results and analysis focus on consumer impressions and concerns with respect to GenAI. Specifically, survey results highlight the share of consumer GenAI users who hold positive and negative views of GenAI services and the degree to which users are concerned about vendor power, data privacy, job displacement, Sri Gopal Trust_11Sept2025and inaccurate answers. The results are broken down by generational cohort, respondent country, frequency of GenAI use, and how long consumers have been using GenAI.

"Consumers believe that GenAI is useful, transformative, and productive," said Greg Ireland, senior director for IDC's Consumer Markets and GenAI for Content Creators and Consumer Research. "But many consumers are also concerned about the broader transformative impacts of GenAI."

The Consumer GenAI Takeover, 2025: Gen Z and Millennials Lead the Explosion of New Use Cases

Greg Ireland — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines selected results from IDC's July 2025 GenAI for Content Creators and Consumers Survey. The results and analysis focus on key usage dynamics in the consumer GenAI market, including frequency of use, share of respondents engaged in 27 different use cases, how consumers today access GenAI, and share of respondents using a selection of top apps and services. Included are results broken down by generational cohort, respondent country, frequency of GenAI use, and how long consumers have been using GenAI.

"The rapid growth in the number of ways consumers are using GenAI points to how essential GenAI has become for many consumers," said Greg Ireland, senior director for IDC's Consumer Markets and GenAI for Content Creators and Consumer Research. "While Gen Z and millennial consumers lead the way, a broad selection of use cases across information gather, advice, commerce-related activities, and companionship are taking hold across generations."

2025 Canadian Business Communications Spending Survey Results: Growth Stalls and U.S. Tariffs Drive Preference for Canadian and Non–United States Technology Providers

Praveen Datta — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey focuses on overall communications spend as well as expectations for increasing or decreasing spend on specific communications services, segmented by business size, industry, and region for Canadian enterprises. Details on spending are provided for wireline voice, UCC, WAN, internet, SD-WAN, and wireless services.

IDC Canada surveyed over 360 Canadian businesses in July 2025, across all regions, industries, and business sizes to capture business sentiment on communications spending.

Canadian business intentions on spending with United States and Canadian and non–United States technology vendors are explored in light of recent tariffs and the political climate between Canada and the United States.

This is a refresh of IDC's annual communications survey of enterprises of all size segments, across all regions and vertical markets in Canada. IDC is publishing multiple topic–focused survey documents from our annual survey to share more findings and to help our users find relevant topic-based data more easily.

There is a considerable volume of data from our annual survey beyond what is provided in this presentation and more detailed crosstabs can also be provided. We encourage you to contact your IDC account representative if you have any specific questions about a market or segment of interest.

Beyond Content Creation and Information Gathering, 2025: The Consumer Shift to AI Companions

Greg Ireland — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines selected results from IDC's July 2025 GenAI for Content Creators and Consumers Survey. The results and analysis focus on consumer interest AI companion apps across 12 specific use cases. Included are survey results focused on consumer interest in use cases such as help with daily tasks, shopping assistance, planning trips and events, having conversations, and emotional support. The results are broken down by generational cohort.

"Consumers have already greatly diversified how they use GenAI apps and services," said Greg Ireland, senior director for IDC's Consumer Markets and GenAI for Content Creators and Consumer Research. "Survey results show strong consumer appetite for AI apps that can deliver companionship, support, and help with a multitude of daily tasks."