The figure includes China, where the app is known as Douyin, but doesn’t include downloads from third-party Android stores in China or other regions. Twitter:. Twitter had 166 million worldwide monetizable DAUs (mDAUs) in Q1, up 24% year over year and 9% over Q4. It was the highest growth rate by either measure in at least two years.

He mentioned direct manufacturers in China as one potential pool of advertisers interested in moving up the funnel with Amazon ads.

Data from kid-focused agency Dubit Limited showed that weekly time spent using screens by UK children and teen internet users stood at 57:15 as of April 2020, up from 53:51 in April 2019. The increases in screen time were not equal, however, with TV and desktop/laptop time growing significantly. While the effects of home schooling (Google Classroom, anyone?)

After the FlexPai’s debut in China last year, Samsung’s Galaxy Fold and Huawei’s Mate X (also launched in China) followed. And at CES, TCL introduced a working prototype of a 5G foldable phone that it hopes to sell more affordably. Also expected later this year: a foldable Razr, an Android-powered Microsoft Duo, foldables from LG, Lenovo, and Sony and upgrades from Samsung and Huawei.

This makes sense, given that 82.3% and 76.3% of internet users in the region will use social networks and watch digital video this year, respectively, according to our estimates. Display vs. Search.

Another complication is that China is the chief supplier for many mass consumer brands sold online, including fashion labels. Reduced production capacity in China in Q1 and Q2 will mean lower output in Q3, when the world hopes to see growth pick up again. Meanwhile, though, ecommerce is one of the few parts of France’s economy seeing sustained activity.

But according to a CivicScience poll in the lead-up to Thanksgiving, only 14% of US internet users said they had started shopping earlier to account for the compressed holiday calendar. “Thanksgiving promotions start now as soon as the trick-or-treaters go to bed,” Bitar of RetailNext said.

An Appinio survey conducted in early April 2020 found that 40% of internet users ages 16 to 65 had increased their online buying, while 31% had shopped less in physical stores. That said, not all products and services are experiencing the same level of demand during the crisis.

Livestream shopping took off in China four to five years ago, but has developed into a $300 billion industry this year, accounting for 11.7% of all retail ecommerce sales in the country. To put that in perspective, that figure makes the livestream shopping market in China larger than every other entire retail ecommerce market in the world, except for China and the US.

A June 2019 Pew Research Center privacy survey found that 85% of US internet users had some concerns about how much information advertisers had about them, and nearly half of those (39%) had “a lot” of concern.