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The global ecommerce market will rise more than 20% in 2019, despite mounting economic uncertainty and declining consumer spending growth around the world.

The reports in this collection look at time spent with media in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, China, Japan, South Korea and India. Two other reports take a close look at time spent with mobile and social in the US.

Consumer privacy concerns affect marketing practices and will continue to alter the digital advertising landscape. Here’s what digital marketers and their companies need to know.

Adults in China spend more time on digital than they do with any other media. Moreover, time spent on digital will continue to grow at a rapid pace, encroaching on time spent with traditional media.

Mobile users worldwide downloaded a record 30.3 billion apps in Q2 2019, according to recent data from App Annie. The bulk of these downloads—22.5 billion—were from the Google Play Store, compared with 7.9 billion from the Apple App Store, and the gap between Google Play and the App Store continues to widen. Google Play downloads outpaced those on the App Store by 185% in Q2 2019, up from 170% in Q1.

Growth of retail sales in China is declining, due to economic and geopolitical challenges, and will not overtake the US until 2021. But retail ecommerce has continued to flourish in some surprising ways under these current circumstances.

eMarketer junior forecasting analyst Nazmul Islam discusses our ad revenue numbers for Tencent and the growth of WeChat.

eMarketer vice president of forecasting Monica Peart breaks down our digital ad spending estimates in China and the influence of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.

eMarketer vice president of forecasting Monica Peart shares our ad spending numbers for radio in China and why growth is outstripping TV and newspapers.

eMarketer forecasting analyst Eric Haggstrom discusses ad spend trends for Weibo, China’s Twitter, and drivers behind its continued growth.