Germany is already taking its place as a regional ecommerce powerhouse, thanks to its large population, excellent infrastructure and generally high standard of living.

Ecommerce sales in France will rise 11.5% in 2019, to €58.84 billion ($69.40 billion), accounting for 9.5% of total retail sales. Sales via mobile devices will post the highest annual growth rate, at 20.6%.

Digital ad spending in Germany will approach €7.3 billion ($8.6 billion) this year—nearly 10% more than in 2018. The sectors we analyze—including automotive, consumer packaged goods (CPG), financial services, healthcare/pharma, retail and travel—will all see much higher spending on mobile ads.

Total retail sales in Germany will top $927 billion in 2019. Ecommerce will account for an estimated 8.8% of that, or $81.85 billion—but digital sales are rising much faster, at 7.8% this year.

On average, adults in France will spend more than 10 hours each day with media in 2019. While viewing, listening and reading content digitally continues to displace traditional media, total time spent is reaching a plateau.

Digital ad spending will total £14.73 billion ($19.64 billion) in the UK in 2019. For such a digitally advanced country, it’s no surprise to see every industry investing in digital channels, leading to an even spread of spend.

Retail sales in the UK are slowing as Brexit concerns bite. However, ecommerce growth remains robust, underpinned by smartphone shopping and buying. The future of retail, however, is omnichannel.

In 2019, adults ages 18 and older in Germany will spend nearly 10 hours per day, on average, with digital and traditional media. Digital will account for the largest slice of the total, or 3:53. TV will account for 3:33.

Consumers are uncomfortable with their advertising experiences, due to a combination of intrusive formats and privacy-invading practices. As a result, about one-quarter of US consumers block digital ads.

The reports in this collection look at time spent with media in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, China, Japan, South Korea and India. Two other reports take a close look at time spent with mobile and social in the US.

There may be a significant performance gap in what CMOs believe are important capabilities for their businesses to achieve and what they deliver well today, according to the Dentsu Aegis Network.

The global ecommerce market will rise more than 20% in 2019, despite mounting economic uncertainty and declining consumer spending growth around the world.

Amazon Prime Day has emerged as a massive midsummer shopping event that drives incremental shopping at Amazon and competing retailers while serving as the unofficial lead-in to the back-to-school shopping season.

Consumer privacy concerns affect marketing practices and will continue to alter the digital advertising landscape. Here’s what digital marketers and their companies need to know.

Consumers’ reasons for blocking ads point sharply in the direction of user experience. It’s clear internet users are unhappy with ad loads overall, but there are also some types of ads they like more—or less. The ones that provoke the most ire are those that get in the way of consumers’ ability to view the content they have sought out.

eMarketer forecasting analyst Eric Haggstrom discusses our estimates for traditional media and why two countries still have a large share of time spent with TV, radio and print.

eMarketer has downgraded Facebook user growth in both France and Germany, due to declines among younger age groups as they shift their usage to other platforms. Total user growth for the platform will essentially be flat in both countries, according to our latest social user forecast.

The reports in this collection look at ad spending in the retail, financial services, computing products and consumer electronics, automotive, telecom, travel, health and pharma, media, entertainment and CPG industries. Countries covered in this report series include the US, UK and Germany.

Traditional text messages may (finally) be getting an overhaul. In June, Google announced that it will allow Android users in the UK and France to opt in to Rich Communication Services (RCS), the new texting standard intended to replace the current SMS protocol. That's a step forward for RCS, which has been off to a slow start, but it's not likely to mean much for consumers or marketers yet.