Online grocery took off dramatically in 2020 as a result of the pandemic; that’s no surprise to anyone. According to our estimates, food and beverage was by far the fastest-growing ecommerce category in the US in 2020. Given its low penetration and high sales growth, digital grocery is the next big opportunity in ecommerce.

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Every time these behaviors crystallized for a new set of consumers, it permanently shifted their online buying habits. Grocery ecommerce is now having a similar moment. Millions of first-time online grocery buyers are materializing, and millions of infrequent buyers are now doing so on a weekly basis, vs. over multiple weeks or months. Of course, these shoppers will eventually return to stores.

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There’s no doubt that grocery shopping habits have changed over the past year, with more consumers trying online options for the first time. This year, US online grocery sales will surpass $100 billion, to make up 12.4% of the country’s ecommerce sales.

However, these older viewers will decrease their time spent with TV this year as they return to their 2019 viewing habits. Time Spent with Digital Video. On the digital video side, the viewing gains will continue post-pandemic. In 2021, US adults will spend an average of 2 hours and 29 minutes per day viewing digital video, which is up 9 minutes over the previous year.

But it could also drive users to download the Starbucks app for placing online orders, bringing more customers into the ecosystem who could then begin making proximity payments at other locations. Starbucks is also investing heavily in digital capabilities, like personalized offers, that may bring new users onboard or win back customers who scaled back during the pandemic.

As the coronavirus pandemic renders the population of the UK largely housebound, media consumption patterns will invariably change. Certain media types (such as physical print) will falter, but video (TV and digital) looks set to benefit most.

After the coronavirus pandemic forced issuers to adapt rewards, enhance forbearance, and build out digital tools to cope with a volume hit in 2020, they’re looking to reimagine their offerings in the future to add new customers and regain primary card status.

eMarketer principal analyst Mark Dolliver, junior analyst Lucy Koch and vice president of research Jennifer Pearson discuss the media diets of kids and teens in quarantine. They then talk about how older individuals and women are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, the video streaming platforms with the best kids content and more.

And while boomers typically lag in digital technology adoption compared with younger generations––preferring to only adopt digital tools that are clearly useful––the desire for interaction during the pandemic has motivated their increased digital usage, according to eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Mark Dolliver. Read More:.

With a presidential election and expected record spending on voter persuasion in 2020, there’s no doubt political polarization will be a prominent feature of US culture this year. According to two recent pieces of research, this polarization extends to digital media habits, meaning marketers who know their audience spans the political spectrum will have their work cut out for them.

Generational divides persist in some audio and video habits. Broadcast TV is still a key media experience in Denmark. In H1 2020, 82.7% of internet users ages 16 to 64 watched live TV in the prior month, with higher penetration among older cohorts, according to GlobalWebIndex.

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This development is driven by the prevalence of mobile apps in everyday life; accelerated digital commerce; shifts in consumer spending habits and payment method choices; a troubling increase in credit card fraud; the meteoric rise of BNPL alternatives; industrywide card balance declines; and lingering pandemic-driven consumer spending threats.

By 2024, that figure will reach 28.0 million, more than we previously expected, as pandemic lockdowns have a lasting effect on digital viewing habits. Our growth projections, which reflect an already mature video market with high adoption rates, nonetheless increased across key digital video metrics in Canada due to the pandemic:.

Less than half of the online population regularly read print media or listened to broadcast radio. In Q1 2021, 42.5% of internet users ages 16 to 64 had read a print newspaper in the prior month, and 38.8% had read a print magazine.

The habits that consumers have built up over the past two years have taken root, which is why we, along with NRF and Adobe, expect ecommerce to continue to make up a larger share of retail sales this year. We expect retail ecommerce sales to rise 14.1% to $1.033 trillion.

Our methodology involves the collection of third-party data—primarily survey data—from adult respondents who were asked about their media use habits. Data is also sourced from online and mobile activity tracking services, government data, and interviews with industry experts.

At the same time, they must contend with shifting consumer habits, changing regulations, and mounting competition. In the UK, we forecast mobile proximity payment adoption will rise from around one-fifth this year to nearly a quarter in 2025.

Younger internet users are driving a broader transformation of viewing and listening habits. While many advanced digital gadgets are languishing on suppliers’ shelves, smart TVs are entering Germany’s homes in ever-greater numbers. More than half (50.8%) of internet users polled in H1 2020 owned a smart TV—a gain of 3.7 percentage points year over year (YoY), according to GlobalWebIndex.

That’s no surprise given that digital habits in Australia tend to mirror those of the US and Western Europe, rather than other countries in Asia-Pacific. Other Key Metrics. Latin America. As is the case for Facebook, Latin America is a hotspot for Instagram. Brazil will be the third-largest country worldwide in terms of net users in 2019, and Mexico will be seventh.

Another enormous untapped opportunity within the retail media space is the ability to understand how the digital ecommerce consumer and the physical retail consumer interact with each other. How do you take the impression that is delivered in the ecommerce environment and use it to influence what somebody does in the physical retail environment?

Digital is quickly becoming the channel of choice for many advertisers in Latin America. From 2015 to 2020, digital’s share of total media ad spending in Latin America more than doubled from 18.0% to 39.1%. Given the current circumstances, this share should further improve in the years ahead.

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