The worldwide flat panel market faced a challenging quarter in Q4 2022, losing volume and value year-on-year, according to the latest market tracker from Futuresource Consulting.

Despite a wider category slowdown in Bluetooth speakers, party speakers posted significant double digit percentage point growth by the close of 2022.

The consumer love affair with headphones continues to flourish, with new research from Futuresource Consulting showing the global market achieved both volume and value growth during Q4 2022. That’s despite a number of challenges impacting the wider CE market.

The global home audio market continued to feel the squeeze in Q4 2022, with volume and value both experiencing year-on-year contraction.

MESA’s 2023 event was certainly one for the books. Having rebranded this year from the Content Workflow Management Forum to the Innovation and Transformation Summit: Localisation, the summit saw numerous speakers take to the stage, including Futuresource’s James Duvall.

The professional displays market currently leads the global pro AV segment, capturing 57% of total revenues and achieving $37 billion in 2022. That’s according to a new Strategic Market Outlook report from Futuresource Consulting, which also notes that the market has entered a period of transitional growth across multiple technologies and applications.

Earlier this month, the Mobile World Congress (MWC) – the world’s largest and most influential event for the connectivity industry – took place in Barcelona. Futuresource newbie, Market Analyst, Nikolaos Tzoumerkas, was in attendance, and upon his return, sat down with Vicki from the marketing team, to provide his insights on the event.

Over the years, CES has brought us some of the biggest cultural and technological milestones in audio. From Sony’s and Philips’ collaborative launch of the CD player in 1981 to the introduction of cloud-based music in 2011, the show has set the pace in audio innovation over the past half-century. In 2023, its reputation has been cemented, but a paradigm shift was felt.

The cars we drive are becoming smarter and more connected, opening up a wide range of innovative use cases and business models across a number of verticals.

The AV managed services sector, previously considered a mature market, is now undergoing a transformative renaissance. That’s according to a new report from Futuresource Consulting, which shows that digitalization across the audio and video sector has enabled a transition to software-enabled tools, cloud services and fully managed solutions.

The Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) market has experienced a pronounced power shift. AV vendors are increasingly working to an agenda set by the leading cloud conferencing platforms, with software now firmly in the driving seat.

The global hearables market continues its ascent, with a new report from Futuresource Consulting showing year-on-year shipment growth of 13% in 2022.

While our consumer electronics and entertainment analyst teams are regular fixtures at the  largest and most influential tech event each year, this year saw two members of the Futuresource marketing team head stateside to experience their first CES in Las Vegas.

Global PC devices shipped into K-12 education continue to outpace pre-pandemic levels, despite recent market contraction, according to a new market track report from Futuresource Consulting.

The home audio market experienced a year of twists and turns in 2022, with a difficult first half giving way to a resurgence of consumer activity.

The adoption of esports in education continues to gain a significant foothold across many world territories. A new report from Futuresource Consulting reveals that K-12 schools in the USA and Western Europe will spend an average of between $50,000 and $60,000 each on esports capabilities over the next two years.

B2B display markets took diverging paths in Q3 2022, with flat panel, interactive displays and projection all experiencing different challenges and opportunities.

Owing to its current and future success, it’s the key players in the virtual assistant (VA) industry that are creating AI that is even more responsive and helpful to the consumer than its competitors.