Twitter’s user growth has been plateauing for years, as social media users gravitate toward newer platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. But among the countries included in our forecast for Twitter user growth, seven of the top 10 are in Asia-Pacific—a regional trend also evident with Facebook and to some extent, Instagram.

2020 was a tumultuous year to say the least, but as the adage goes, in crisis there is opportunity. This idea is literally embedded in the Chinese word for “crisis” (危机): Its second character means opportunity. China’s populace appeared to have embodied that spirit. In a challenging year, entrepreneurs and regulators alike worked together to steady the ship and found ways to restore some normalcy through resilience, digital innovations, and timely policies.

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In 2021, mobile finance apps reached 573.1 million downloads in the US, up nearly 19% from 481.9 million in 2020.

For more insights and key statistics on the biggest trends in today's most disruptive industries, subscribe to our Chart of the Day newsletter. In 2021, social audio app Clubhouse registered a total of 6.7 million downloads in the US. About 42% of those downloads occurred during Q1 2021, when the app received extraordinary media buzz.

How retailers can reach new mobile audiences and tap into shopping trends. Plus! Mike Peralta, VP and general manager at Marketing Solutions, a division of T-Mobile USA, joins the conversation. Presenters:. Yory Wurmser is a principal analyst at Insider Intelligence. He leads the technology team and covers mobile media, networks and devices as well as regulatory issues related to data and technology.

Laptops and gaming PCs are still in demand, but tablets are on a downward trend; fourth-quarter shipments for tablets are predicted to decline by 8.6% YoY. The bigger picture: The frenzied demand for PCs at the start of the pandemic sustained double-digit growth even as manufacturers felt the sting of a protracted chip and component shortage this year.

In 2021, 233 mobile apps crossed the $100 million mark in consumer spending worldwide, and just under 75% of them were games. That’s down from about 82% in 2020, as more nongaming apps passed that milestone than their gaming counterparts. Still, games continue to drive much of the consumer spending in the multibillion-dollar mobile ecosystem.

Customers already use biometric technology, like facial recognition or fingerprint scanning, to verify transactions made using mobile wallets, but now the tech is reaching payment hardware. Amazon has been bringing Amazon One, a biometric-based terminal that enables authentication with a palm scan, to its own retail locations and other venues.

“Though it’s possible the same scenario could play out in the US, we anticipate the opposite effect,” said Yoram Wurmser, eMarketer principal analyst and author of our report, “Mobile Trends 2020: 10 Trends to Monitor as 5G Ramps Up and Privacy Battles Loom.”. “The spread of contactless capabilities will make it easier to make mobile payments," he said.

The trend: The advertising industry is rethinking how it targets and measures ads in the wake of Apple’s phase-out of mobile data trackers and Google’s planned demise of third-party cookies in response to consumer privacy concerns, and the stakes are high.