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Thematic Analysis
NewAdvertising Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Advertising has been caught up in the artificial intelligence (AI) frenzy and will be one of the industries most disrupted by AI. Generative AI is reshaping advertisers’ practices through tailored, effective ads and dynamic campaigns that evolve according to consumer response. As a result, the relationship between technology, artists, and brands paying for campaigns will profoundly change over the coming years. There is a real concern that advertisers will divert their money into AI-generated art rather than paying artists and...
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Thematic Analysis
NewComponent Makers Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
The component makers sector continues to struggle in the face of some significant challenges. Demand is anemic in two major areas for components: smartphones and electric vehicles (EVs). Both areas require customer investment that is not forthcoming in the face of a credit crunch caused by interest rate rises. Marginal upgrades for mobile phones and EVs that are too expensive for most means limited demand. There is light at the end of the tunnel in the industrial sector, where demand...
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Thematic Analysis
NewEnterprise Security Software Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a double-edged sword in cybersecurity. It can help organizations improve their threat detection, hunting, and incident response capabilities, but adversaries can and will use AI in cyberattacks. There is every likelihood that AI will spur new merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in cybersecurity, especially of companies judged to be AI specialists. In the thematic screen of GlobalData’s enterprise security software sector scorecard, AI has a weighting of 20%, higher than any other theme.
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Thematic Analysis
NewSemiconductors Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Companies scoring strongly in artificial intelligence (AI) and geopolitics-related themes lead the thematic screen of GlobalData’s semiconductors sector scorecard. Indeed, the AI, AI chips, geopolitics, and China impact themes jointly account for 50% of the weighting of the thematic screen, reflecting both the growing importance of AI, particularly generative AI, in the industry and the impact of the ongoing US-China trade dispute. Among the thematic leaders are companies with either advanced AI products, such as Nvidia, Amazon, Tesla, and Alibaba,...
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Thematic Analysis
NewMusic, Film, and TV Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Amazon retains its lead on the thematic screen of GlobalData’s music, film, and TV sector scorecard. Since the last quarter, Tencent has fallen from second position to fifth as Netflix, Disney, and Apple climbed to second, third, and fourth places, respectively.
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Thematic Analysis
NewTelecom Infrastructure Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
The thematic screen of GlobalData’s telecom infrastructure sector scorecard is led by global vendors that score well in the themes related to cloud computing (e.g., programmable infrastructure, edge computing, private networks), 5G, and artificial intelligence (AI). The leaders include US network vendor Cisco, European radio access network (RAN) specialists Nokia and Ericsson, and innovative new entrants such as Mavenir and Rakuten, which is reaping the benefits of acquiring Open RAN vendor Altiostar.
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Analyst Opinions
NewUnited Kingdom (UK) Bancassurance Distribution Dynamics and Future Market, 2023 Update
This report discusses the bancassurance landscape for UK personal and commercial insurance. This includes discussion of the SME market, with due consideration given to smaller businesses and their comparatively simpler insurance needs. In addition, market leaders are outlined and consumer purchasing and switching behaviors are discussed. The bancassurance distribution landscape in the UK varies between personal and commercial lines. Banks account for 6.2% of business within personal lines and 19.9% within commercial lines, respectively. Bancassurance plays a crucial role as...
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Sector Analysis
NewNew Build Trunk-Transmission Pipelines Projects by Development Stage, Regions, Countries, Project Type and Forecast to 2028
A total of 508 new-build trunk/transmission pipeline projects are expected to start operations from 2024 to 2028. Of these, 368 represent gas pipeline projects, 67 constitute oil pipelines, 60 projects belong to product pipelines, and 13 account for natural gas liquids pipelines. Globally, about 230 upcoming pipeline projects are in the construction stage and are more likely to start operations from 2024 to 2028. Approval and feasibility are the other major project stages with 146 and 77, respectively.
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Sector Analysis
NewTransformers Market Size, Share and Trends Analysis by Technology, Installed Capacity, Generation, Key Players and Forecast to 2028
GlobalData's latest report " Transformers Market Size, Share and Trends Analysis by Technology, Installed Capacity, Generation, Key Players and Forecast, 2023–2028" offers in-depth analysis of the transformers market at global, regional (Asia-Pacific, Americas, Europe, and Middle East and Africa) and key countries (the US, Brazil, China, India, Japan, Germany, the UK, and Saudi Arabia) levels. The report analyzes the market value ($m) and market capacity (MVA) for the years of 2019–2028; split between the historical period (2019–2023) and forecast period...
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Company Insights
NewM-PESA – Competitor Profile
M-PESA is a mobile-based fund transfer and micro-level banking service available to customers of Safaricom, Kenya’s largest mobile network. Introduced in 2007, the service has become a primary channel for fund transfers in the country. Originally developed as a low-cost microfinance loan repayment system, it was extended as an open platform to remit funds and make consumer payments due to its rising popularity. This was largely a result of factors such as the high cost of remitting funds through banks,...