Sentences with phrase «speaker sales»

Most of the revenue forecasts around voice focus on the revenue generated from smart speaker sales.

There are many estimates on smart speaker sales that report varying levels of purchases.

A smart speaker forecast by research firm Arizton suggested about $ 1.3 billion in smart speaker sales in 2017.

Using that as a baseline, TrendForce's total global smart speaker sales for 2017 would be 25 million.

Sonos had strong performance and resurgence at the top end of the market even as it lost share among wireless speaker sales overall.

Amazon and Google were willing to lose money on smart speaker sales over the holidays by discounting their hardware in order to gain market share.

Sonos had strong performance and resurgence at the top end of the market even as it lost share among wireless speaker sales overall.

However, Q4 sales were so strong that Strategy Analytics raised 2017 global smart speaker sales estimates to 30.9 million units.

The 2016 sales number from Arizton can also be used to estimated 2016 smart speaker sales of 10.8 to 12.9 million units.

Forrester's estimate for 22 million Echo unit sales in 2017 indicate a higher overall smart speaker sales volume.

The new announcement is part of Amazon's wider push to expand Alexa's presence going forward, with its efforts to do so being aggressive to the point that it actually willingly lost money on Echo speaker sales over the last holiday period, according to some estimates.

Google has its own smart speaker that was released in response to the Echo, though the Google Home clearly isn't putting much of a dent in Alexa speaker sales.

Michael Dobbs, a vice president at 360i, believes one reason Amazon continues to dominate smart - speaker sales despite Alexa's relatively poor technical performance is because of the company's two - year head start.

According to Strategy Analytics, an estimated 68 percent 2017's smart speaker sales belong to Amazon's Echo series, popularized by its recognizable virtual assistant, Alexa.

However, this doesn't necessarily point to a spike in Google Home smart speaker sales as the app also works with Chromecast.

Strategy Analytics global smart speaker sales analysis shows Google with a 35.7 % Q4 share so it slightly underperformed in Europe in the full year 2017 compared to other geographies.

Amazon Echo led European smart speaker sales market share by a factor of two - to - one.

However, it is impressive that Google Home accounted for one - third of European smart speaker sales given that it had the equivalent of only a half - year of sales opportunity.

A total of 19 - 20 million global smart speaker sales in Q4 2017 seems increasingly likely although other analysts are telling me they are thinking that it was closer to 15 million units in the top five markets.

Voice Assistant distribution has achieved critical mass for these two companies and will no longer be dependent on smart speaker sales for growth in usage.

However, Q4 sales were so strong that Strategy Analytics raised 2017 global smart speaker sales estimates to 30.9 million units.

The 2016 sales number from Arizton can also be used to estimated 2016 smart speaker sales of 10.8 to 12.9 million units.

Forrester's estimate for 22 million Echo unit sales in 2017 indicate a higher overall smart speaker sales volume.

The smart speaker hasn't been around for long; it reached the market since late 2016, when it was initially launched with half of its current functionality in time to compete with Amazon's Echo speaker sales that holiday season.

Google and Amazon likely lost money on their smart speaker sales over the holiday period which saw aggressive discounts being attached to both the Home and Echo - series devices, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing analysts of IHS Markit and IDC.

Smart speaker sales from manufacturers other than Amazon and Google captured 12.5 % of global Q4 market share in 2017 but were not present or inconsequential in Europe.

U.S. smart speaker sales in 2018 are expected to account for 68.2 % of the total while purchases in China will be the next largest market at 7.8 %.

IDC has released a new smart home device forecast that estimates 2017 smart speaker sales were $ 4.4 billion and will..

The more aggressive 7 million HomePod unit sales forecast by Loup Ventures would require total smart speaker sales to more than double in 2018.

That figure would fit nicely with Strategy Analytics forecast of 3.8 million HomePods sold in 2018 assuming a 50 % rise in total global smart speaker sales.

Research Firm Canalys is predicting 56.3 million smart speaker sales in 2018 worldwide.

This data also suggest 2017 smart speaker sales were $ 1.29 billion.

This sizable increase will be driven by Amazon's smart speaker sales, in particular, the report said.

Research Firm Canalys is predicting 56.3 million smart speaker sales in 2018 worldwide.

The more aggressive 7 million HomePod unit sales forecast by Loup Ventures would require total smart speaker sales to more than double in 2018.

That figure would fit nicely with Strategy Analytics forecast of 3.8 million HomePods sold in 2018 assuming a 50 % rise in total global smart speaker sales.

IDC has released a new smart home device forecast that estimates 2017 smart speaker sales were $ 4.4 billion and will..

This data also suggest 2017 smart speaker sales were $ 1.29 billion.

Using that as a baseline, TrendForce's total global smart speaker sales for 2017 would be 25 million.

Smart speaker sales have exploded, with 47 million Americans now using one, up from about zero two years ago.

Smart speaker sales in the U.S. rose sharply to nearly 25 million in 2017, with close to 11 million purchased during the holiday season.

IDC has released a new smart home device forecast that estimates 2017 smart speaker sales were $ 4.4 billion and will grow to $ 17.4 billion in 2022.

Amazon and Google are making a hard push for smart speaker sales this holiday season.

Even though the search giant is lagging behind in smart speaker sales, Google Assistant is on 200 million devices, when you factor in the Pixel devices and all the other Android phones that have the agent built - in.

We cover market share for the leading voice assistant providers, how home size and broadband connectivity in Asia may temper smart speaker sales and much more.

U.S. smart speaker sales in 2018 are expected to account for 68.2 % of the total while purchases in China will be the next largest market at 7.8 %.

It may have captured more than 30 % of all smart speaker sales in 2017 which helped it rise to 18.4 % U.S. smart speaker market share in terms of total users.

Strategy Analytics has completed its analysis of global and European smart speaker sales for 2017 and data show that nearly 6.5 million units were sold in the U.K., Germany and France in 2017.

On a global scale, it projected that smart speaker sales would reach 56.3 million shipments.