A new crop of sports OTT services has emerged in France. Top players include TV networks, Amazon, Eurovision Sports and Mediapro. The lines between TV and digital are blurring, as providers and consumers use multiple platforms and devices.

In Germany, telecoms and digital video giants such as Deutsche Telekom, Sky, Eurosport, Amazon and DAZN are fiercely competing for sports rights with public TV broadcasters ARD and ZDF.

State media network China Central Television (CCTV) is the main purveyor of sports programming in China, but OTT players, including Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, have disrupted the ecosystem by securing streaming rights to major sports properties.

The sports video streaming landscape in Canada is a mix of legacy TV network groups Bell Media and Rogers Media; digital media giants such as Facebook, Twitter and Amazon; and independent startups like DAZN.

In India, disruption in the sports broadcasting industry is coming mainly from mobile, as smartphones and better access to data in rural areas have expanded the market for streaming. Top OTT providers include Hotstar, SonyLIV, JioTV and Airtel TV.

Streaming services, telco-based platforms and hybrid players are disrupting sports TV broadcasting in South Korea. A shift toward mobile is also drawing sports fans away from legacy media.

Traditional TV dominates sports broadcasting in Brazil, but digital platforms are taking hold, including OTT services run by media conglomerates and social media players that are vying for high-profile sports rights.

Will the duopoly dominate in 2019? Will consumer privacy concerns challenge marketers’ efforts? This report explores these digital display trends and more.

This report features eMarketer’s December 2018 update to our B2B US digital ad spending forecast. It also explores the trends that are driving (and preventing) increased spend in 2019 and beyond.

This StatPack provides all the relevant data from eMarketer quantifying consumer media time and digital ad spending in Canada.

Direct-to-consumer brands are growing fast and disrupting the retail industry. How are these brands successfully reaching and converting customers, earning their loyalty, and capturing more of their online and offline spending?

After Facebook’s tumultuous year, the future of social media is in question. In this report, we predict what’s in store for 2019.

In 2018, programmatic accounted for 70% of digital display ad spending in Germany; this year that share will reach 77%. Mobile programmatic outlays are climbing at an even higher rate, and are expected to pass €1.15 billion ($1.30 billion) in 2019.

Our latest UK programmatic ad spend forecast indicates that strong growth remains, despite economic and privacy-related concerns. This year, 87% of all digital display ad spend will flow through programmatic pipes, and that will rise to 89% by 2020.

Investment in programmatic display ads in France passed €1 billion ($1.13 billion) in 2018—a gain of nearly 31% compared with 2017. Programmatic advertising also passed another milestone, accounting for more than 80% of all digital display ad spending.

Mobile video ad spending will grow at a steady clip over the next few years. New ad units and formats like rewarded ads, 6-second nonskippable ads and vertical videos growing in importance for marketers.

The wearables market, long-dominated by fitness trackers, is shifting to more advanced and varied devices, such as smartwatches and hearables.

This report includes our forecast for smart speaker users in Canada, China, France, Germany, the UK and the US, along with a focus on adoption trends for Amazon and Google.

The US digital video marketplace continues to show strong vital signs, with positive indicators including growth projections in programmatic buying and overall ad spending, momentum in subscription-based monetization, platform launches and gains in time spent viewing.

Half of marketers surveyed by The Relevancy Group worked with a customer data platform vendor in mid-2018. One trend for 2019: The adoption of customer data platforms will continue, along with the focus on customer data.

In the annual Digital Trends report, eMarketer predicts what will matter to marketers in 2019, in areas ranging from voice technology to digital video to the “ad tech tax.” It also notes some buzzed-about topics that won’t achieve trend status next year.

Of the 938.2 million proximity mobile payment users worldwide, over two-thirds reside in China and India. Consumer adoption is still in its early days for most markets, but there will be fast growth in retailer support and usage over the next few years.

Most digital display ads are now purchased programmatically in the US, but what’s next? We explore why digital audio, out-of-home and television are prime targets for programmatic buyers.

Mostly lacking smartphones and largely excluded from social networking, kids (i.e., those younger than teens) still manage to rack up a lot of screen time in their distinctive digital lives.

As 2018 nears its end, we are looking back at what happened with Facebook usage, monetization and data privacy over the past year, as well as forward into what changes 2019 may bring.