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TV Ownership & OS Trends Report -

The TV Ownership & OS Trends Report quantifies the U.S. TV installed base, room location trends, and delves into what drives consumers to replace their TVs. The dashboards include a 12-year trend. These data provide a view of how the TV replacement cycle impacts the resulting installed base. The dashboards are updated quarterly.

Last wave we added new reporting on the importance of the TV operating system (OS) as well as the specific aspects of it such as ease of use, advertising insertion, and available apps, etc.

 Key findings this wave include:

Device Ownership Trends & Profile Report -

The Device Ownership Trends & Profile report is your go to for understanding what devices consumers own and how that has changed over the past 3-years. The profile tool segments over 300 consumer groups. You can quantify device ownership penetration for your target demographic, shopper, viewer, subscriber and more. The analysis is published every other wave, and the accompanying excel data dashboard provides a more in-depth view of the trends every quarter.

Promotions Marketplace -

Circana Connected Intelligence’s new Promotions Marketplace report is a monthly updated tracker providing insights into a wireless carrier and national distributor's promotional incentive practices. The report provides a detailed list of all promotional activities captured via Circana’s retail and online store visits conducted on a periodical basis. Captured promotions are categorized (i.e., service plan, accessories, device discounts, BOGOs, Gift Cards, etc.) and dated (start date/end date) for easy navigation and analysis purposes.

Service Plans Marketplace - November 2024

The Circana Connected Intelligence Service Plans Marketplace Report provides a complete view of all mobile broadband service plans offered by the nationwide postpaid and prepaid carriers. This report features each carrier's service plans on smartphones and mobile broadband products in separate tabs, which provides sectional navigation to postpaid and prepaid plans. The data is gathered from multiple sources (online and retail store surveys) during the last week of each month.

Key highlights from the November 2024 Marketplace Reports:

Mobile Device Marketplace - November 2024

Circana Connected Intelligence's Device Marketplace report provides a comprehensive view of the US mobile device landscape through the online tracking of mobile phones and other cellular-powered products such as tablets and mobile hotspots. The monthly updated report provides device spec and pricing information on the afforementioned products available through all major postpaid and prepaid service providers' digital channels as well as national distributor outlets (including Best Buy, Walmart, Target online stores) and manufacturer direct online store of Apple.

Industry Overview - November 2024

Slight Ownership Decline

Smartwatch ownership has decreased slightly in the past 12 months, dropping from 42% to just over 40%. We had projected essentially a flat year for growth, and we still expect that ownership will bounce back in the coming year. 

Promotions

Promotions are continuing to drive sales with devices such as Apple’s Watch Ultra showing $100 discounts, for example, several times this year. This is helping to drive sales as noted above, but not helping to pull in significant numbers of new customers.

Flattening Curve

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