Internet users in Latin America also sharply increased their ownership of TV streaming sticks/devices (a 9.8% gain) and smartwatches (a 9.7% gain). Latin America in Perspective. Latin America’s consumers are highly engaged with both digital and traditional media.

In addition, Norway was second in the region in smartwatch ownership. Norway also made a strong debut in time-spent metrics. It was first in Western Europe in online TV/streaming and print press and second in music streaming and podcasts—a finding that lines up with its top finish in music/audio streaming.

Smart devices in Indonesia are making the mainstream. Since H1 2019, smart TV penetration has climbed from 21.6% to 35.3%, while smartwatches jumped from 9.7% to 15.5% of respondents. PC/laptop/tablet time in Indonesia dropped 30.1% in the past two years. The ability to access the internet via mobile devices, which accounted for 4:46 in H1 2023, has led to the disposability of desktop-like devices.

Because soon as Meta announced their product, for Snap it was both, this is bad for us because now there's a very strong competitor in this space, but on the other hand, this is good for us because it validates this wearables market. Jasmine Enberg (16:40):. Completely. And I think this has been a story with Snap and Meta for a long time. Right.

TV viewing and social media remain on top, while smartwatch ownership grows. Watching broadcast TV is the most popular activity (excluding device usage, such as time spent with mobile, PC, etc.). Central and Eastern Europe spends an average of 2:14 per day watching broadcast TV.

He saw this technology basically just going into phones and all these other wearable AI devices not having a place in the market. What'd you make of that? Gadjo Sevilla (06:41):. I think phones, smartwatches. I mean, these are things that people already have as a part of their lives and they do take voice input. So yeah, they're a natural next step, step and guess which company sells these things?

In her annual tech trend talk at SXSW, futurist Amy Webb outlined how wearables and headsets like the Apple Vision Pro will collect sensory data from users to develop “large action models” as part of this next phase in AI’s evolution, with the ability to offer increasingly personalized services. Artificial general intelligence (AGI): There’s no single agreed-upon definition of AGI.

They’re the sandwich generation when it comes to their use of wearables and health apps, too. Some 36.2% own a wearable that tracks or monitors their health, per our survey. And 62.1% have used a mobile health app for the same purpose or for fitness or wellness in the past year. Those adoption rates are significantly lower than younger generations, yet higher than baby boomers.

OpenAI’s opportunity for device expansion: Partnering with Apple would give the AI startup unparalleled access to billions of users and make ChatGPT a standard on various mobile and wearable devices. OpenAI demonstrated advanced voice assistant capabilities in its GPT-4o model, which boasts AI capabilities across voice, text, and vision.

It’s a relative laggard in TV viewing and video and audio streaming, but it’s a hotbed for newer digital technologies like smartwatches and smart home products. Central and Eastern Europe is now in last place for on-demand/streaming services adoption worldwide. Despite this, the region is only second to last in time spent with online TV/streaming with a 5 minute increase since H1 2022.

While Gen Z edges them out by less than a percentage point in the health and wellness app category, millennials are more likely than any other generation to rely on telehealth or a wearable digital health accessory. Millennials are the largest population on WhatsApp. They make up 36.4% of platform users in the US, while Gen Z and Gen X both hover around 23%.

Does Tubi become preloaded on any kind of smart device or smart TV? Ross Benes (17:16):. You usually have to download Tubi just like you'd have to download Peacock or Netflix or those. It's not built in the same way that Samsung TV plus is when you turn on Samsung or the Roku channel is because they aren't an OEM. So they'd have some discoverability issues to overcome. Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf (17:32):.