eMarketer is pleased to moderate a Tech-Talk Webinar featuring Magith Noohukhan, a customer engagement evangelist at Braze, and Jean Thomas, CMO of Pomelo Fashion. They will share how to provide meaningful, relevant brand experiences using a variety of different technologies, including customer data platforms (CDPs) and analytics platforms.

This report covers key events in the global social media market, new data, trends and business activity in Q2 2019. It also includes our updated forecasts for social network users in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and worldwide.

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.

Amid unprecedented recessionary headwinds caused by the coronavirus pandemic, China’s total ad spending will downshift considerably, but remain in positive territory at 0.4% growth. This will make it the only national market we cover to see net growth this year. Digital ad spending in China, meanwhile, will grow by 5.0%.

In a tumultuous year for advertising, every market we cover except China will experience a decline in ad spending, and Google will see its first ever contraction in digital ad revenues.

Already No. 1 in ecommerce, China will overtake the US this year to become the world’s largest overall retail market for the first time.