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Black Friday brick-and-mortar traffic drops 28.3% from 2019 but rises 47.5% over last year: The results shows consumers are stretching out the holiday season by shopping earlier in wake of supply chain concerns.

2020 Outlook: Mcommerce to surpass 50% of full-year ecommerce sales

Mcommerce is fueling growth as well

That level of engagement is translating across digital channels, as evidenced by surging mcommerce and online grocery shopping during the pandemic. Banks Have Key Advantages Over Super App Competitors. Financial Infrastructure.

Billions of dollars from SoftBank, others are poised to transform India’s digital economy: Broader 4G coverage, along with regulatory challenges tied to operating in China, increasingly make India a land of market opportunity.

Payments and Mobile Commerce. As noted in our “Future of Retail 2021” report, digital-first retail experiences with zero-touch checkout will become more commonplace this year.

The major social platforms hit the ground running in 2021, making substantial investments into many of today’s top social trends: audio, influencers, and short video, to name a few.

Payment tools: After adding peer-to-peer (P2P) payments and mcommerce, providers are broadening their ambit through services like cross-border transfers that might be appealing as digital remittance volume grows. Credit and buy now, pay later (BNPL), where US adoption will exceed one-third of digital buyers by 2025, might follow. Generational Shifts Widen the Addressable Base.

US click-and-collect sales more than doubled in 2020, driven by the coronavirus pandemic, and will sustain double-digit growth rates over the next four years. Over 150 million people will make a purchase via click and collect at least once in 2021.

Sales made via mobile helped to drive ecommerce’s growth during the pandemic; we expect mcommerce will make up 39.4% of retail ecommerce dollars this year. By 2025, ecommerce sales will reach $1.607 trillion, up 13.8% YoY. Retailers ranked: It is no surprise that Amazon ranked No. 1 in retail ecommerce sales share, gaining nearly 2 percentage points and commanding a 41.0% market share in 2021.

Robert Franklin, senior vice president of ecommerce at Peloton Interactive, leads the product and technology teams to improve the shopping experience for the company’s bikes, treadmills, accessories, subscriptions, and more.

5G networks are operating in over 60 countries as of early 2021. This report reviews what the arrival of 5G means and focuses on some of the critical applications that will make it revolutionary.

Ecommerce growth was 32.5%, falling a few points below our 35.8% growth forecast, with similar growth rates for desktop ecommerce and mobile commerce. As consumers spent more time at home, desktop ecommerce maintained its share after ceding ground to mcommerce every year prior.

On today's episode, we discuss what exactly happened to the amount of time people spent on mobile over the last few years, what will happen to it going forward, whether the calming of the pandemic has a direct correlation with reduced mobile screen time, and which mobile activities folks will keep doing into the future. We then talk about why Apple's not slowing down, a bill that aims to impose new rules on app stores, and some new mobile shopping behavior research. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Yory Wurmser.