Accessories
These Are The 5 Newest Headphones To Take On Beats & Bose
Combining the IFA 2015 show in Berlin with the usual Strum und Drang of the headphones industry has the result of an overwhelming number...
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NPD: Soundbars Not Just About TV Sound
Port Washington, N.Y. – For younger people, soundbars are just as much about listening to music as they are about getting good TV sound,...
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Gaming & Points Cards Had Best June In History
Port Washington, N.Y. — June was a good month for gaming. The category welcomed across-the-board growth with an overall sales increase of 18 percent,...
Home Automation
Millennials Embrace The Smart Home
Port Washington, N.Y. –Millennials are more aware of home automation products and more interested in buying them than the population as a whole, an...
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Gaming Sales See March Slip: NPD
Port Washington, N.Y. — Total video game sales slid 6 percent in March, dragged down by decreasing hardware sales, according to figures from The...
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NPD Tracking Home Automation Market
Port Washington, N.Y. –The NPD Group launched a home automation service that includes consumer panel-based reporting, U.S. point-of-sale data, and analysis from NPD analysts....
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Portable Gaming Lifts February Sales: NPD
Port Washington, N.Y. — Video game sales continued their upward momentum in 2015, propelled by strong results in portable hardware. Total video game sales...
Accessories
Beats Still Tops In Headphones
NEW YORK — The headphones category continued on its seemingly unstoppable growth trajectory in 2014, posting yearly sales of $2.6 billion. The factors taking...
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NPD: Cellular Tablet Sales On Upswing
Port Washington, N.Y. – The number of cellular-connected tablets in the U.S. grew 95 percent to almost 16 million in the fourth quarter of...
IP Set-Top Boxes
40% Of Homes To Get Streaming Players
Port Washington, N.Y. – A new study predicts 40 percent of U.S. Internet-connected homes will have a streaming-media player by the end of the...
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NPD: Video Game Revenues Slipped In Nov.
Port Washington, N.Y. — Overall U.S. retail sales revenue for video game hardware, software and accessories declined 11 percent in the month of November...
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Holidays Look Brighter For 4K This Year: NPD
Port Washington, N.Y. — Sales of 4K and Ultra HD TVs have hit $668 million so far this year, marking growth of nearly nine...
Blogs
Apple Takes Another Big Bite from the Smartphone Market
Tuesday’s Apple event proved, once again, that the industry should never underestimate how successfully Apple can break the mold or flaunt conventional wisdom. Everyone...
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Sharp Tops In 70”+ LCD TV Dollar Share
Mahwah, N.J. — Sharp Aquos large-screen LED TVs rank as the No. 1 brand in 70-inch-plus class LCD TVs, according to point of sale...
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Connected TV Use To Reach 204M By 2017
Port Washington, N.Y. — More than 204 million connected TV devices will deliver apps to U.S. homes linked to the internet by 2017, according...
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NPD: June Gaming Sales See Gains
Port Washington, N.Y. – June retail/e-commerce sales of video game hardware, software and accessories grew 24 percent over the same period in 2013, according...
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NPD: New Physical Game Sales Rise In May
Port Washington, N.Y. — Spending on physical video gaming hardware rose a whopping 95 percent to $187 million dollars in May compared with the...
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NPD: Smartphone Upgrade Plans Take Off
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. – Enrollment in cellular early-upgrade plans more than quadrupled to 31 percent of postpaid cellphone users in March from last September’s...
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NPD: Samsung, Pebble Dominate U.S. Smart Watch Market
Port Washington, N.Y. – Consumers spent $96 million to buy almost 500,000 smart watches between October 2013 and the end of May 2014, and...
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NPD: EST TV Sales Grew 68% In Q1
Port Washington, N.Y. – The electronic sell-through (EST) TV and movie market has grown to more than $1 billion since 2012, representing almost 14...
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NPD: More UltraViolet Users Watching Content On TV
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. — More than 16 million registered U.S. UltraViolet users are viewing their content on TV screens, according to a study released...
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Global Tablet Sales Decline In Q1, Says NPD DisplaySearch
Santa Clara, Calif. – Global year-over-year shipments of tablets fell for the first time in the first quarter, dropping almost 5 percent to 56.3...
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NPD: Q1 Sees 47% Increase In Gaming Hardware
Port Washington, N.Y. — Consumer spending on video game hardware grew 47 percent to $983 million in the first quarter of 2014, but dropped...
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NPD Sees IT Growth From Small, Medium Businesses
Port Washington, N.Y. – Purchases of IT equipment for more than half of all small and medium businesses are expected in the next 12...
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NPD: 42M U.S. Homes Have Connected TVs
Port Washington, N.Y. — So-called smart TVs and streaming-media players are driving increases in the U.S. household penetration rate of TVs connected to the...
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