IDC's ConsumerScape 360º service utilizes direct global primary research to provide insights and trends regarding consumer electronics and digital services. As data, communication, video, and entertainment services proliferate, the way business segment consumers needs to evolve. Using advanced market segmentation techniques, ConsumerScape 360º identifies and profiles consumer technology market segments based on usage/ownership behavior, technology adoption, brand preference, competitive analysis, and psychographic factors governing cross-category spend.

• Notebooks, desktops, Ultrabooks, and peripherals (keyboards, monitors, headsets, etc.)
• Tablets and other evolving form factors
• Portable electronics: PMPs (MP3, MP4), cameras
• Smartphones and mobile phones
• Video game consoles, handhelds, and peripherals
• Home audio/video, HDTV, and DVD/Blu-ray
• Brand and product satisfaction, preference, and loyalty metrics
• Telecom services (cable, satellite, telco TV, Internet access, and home and mobile phone services)
• Service provider metrics for ISPs, MVNOs, and carriers
• Multiscreen consumption of content and services
• Usage models for all major device types
• Internet consumption (both fixed and mobile)
• Digital/OTT media (music, video/TV, online activity, etc.)
• Consumer cloud (adoption, barriers, and drivers of adoption)
• Device security software, external storage ownership, and brands
• Apps across tablets, smartphones, and PCs

• The Global Digital Consumer Segmentation
• Smartphones — Usage Patterns, Brand Metrics, and Market Structure Worldwide
• PCs — Current Ownership and Usage, Form Factor Evolution, and Brand Metrics Worldwide
• Connectivity and the Internet — Global Consumption Patterns via PCs and Mobile Phones
• Consumer Electronics Worldwide
• PC — Brand Metrics and Competitive Positioning
• Smartphones — Current Ownership, Free and Paid App Usage
• Media Consumption Patterns — Social and Traditional Media Analysis; Worldwide, Regionally, and by Market Segment
• TV Devices and Services — Ownership and Active Install Base, Spend, and Future Purchase Trends
• TV Devices and Services — Brand Perceptions, Usage Models, and Key Purchase Drivers

In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct research on specific topics or emerging market segments via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

1. How can companies better serve and market to households by segment? Which segments are the highest priority and what is their market size?
2. In which global markets is the usage of key CE products and services highest?
3. What are the trends moving forward?
4. What is the composition of households according to ownership and/or usage of CE, PC, and mobile products and services?
5. How is the face of the "early adopter" segment changing? How does this group differ across key markets?
6. Where are today’s key CE opportunities strongest? Where are the opportunities likely to be tomorrow?
7. How do consumers use different connected devices, and how are usage trends evolving as new products such as media tablets enter the marketplace?

This service reviews strategies, market positioning, competitive landscape, and future directions in the consumer technology market across more than 1,000 brands globally, fielded in the following countries:

Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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