Sonos’ established brand and fine-tuned tech—which includes wireless speakers, home sound systems, and headphones—could attract companies looking to expand in the smart home market. How Amazon could benefit: Amazon recently changed its hardware leadership after poaching Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay, and it has the deep pockets to afford the purchase.
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| Jan 23, 2025
Capability clash: Amazon cut access to an Alexa beta that struggled with hallucinations and smart home actions. Controlling devices is one of Alexa’s key functions. Amazon is struggling to connect a smarter Alexa with third-party devices and services. “Sometimes we underestimate how many services are integrated into Alexa, and it’s a massive number,” Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s head scientist of AGI, said.
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| Jan 15, 2025
How time spent with media, device ownership, and media adoption stacks up in the United States.
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| Oct 30, 2024
This report focuses on how time spent with media, device ownership, and media adoption stack up in Middle East and Africa.
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| Oct 30, 2024
How time spent with media, device ownership, and media adoption stack up in Central and Eastern Europe.
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| Oct 30, 2024
The 14th annual Global Media Intelligence Report details time spent with media, adoption of emerging formats, and device ownership in key markets around the world.
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| Oct 30, 2024
The news: AI has dominated CES 2025, powering connected TVs, smart home devices, IoT products, and even grills and bird feeders with intelligent integration, per Business Insider. “AI is in everything at this year's CES,” Lisa Haiss, ĢAV’S senior Tech and AI briefings editor said from the show floor.
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| Jan 9, 2025
How time spent with media, device ownership, and media adoption stack up in East Asia and Oceania.
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| Oct 30, 2024
On today's episode, we discuss what the current smart home looks like, the most popular categories of smart home devices, and whether Matter's technology can bring the dream of a connected smart home to fruition. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jessica Lis and Gadjo Sevilla.
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| Dec 7, 2022
By 2026, almost half of US household will use smart home devices. Most
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| Dec 19, 2022
On today's episode, we discuss why anchoring augmented reality (AR) experiences to exact locations matters, how the smartphone will transform the smart home, why Apple will revise its app commission policies, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jessica Lis and Yory Wurmser.
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| Jan 6, 2023
On today's podcast episode, we discuss what artificial general intelligence (AGI) is capable of, why everyone is rushing to create it, and how close we are to reaching it. "In Other News," we talk about 'Ready Player One' becoming a metaverse experience and how we will start controlling our smart homes. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jacob Bourne and Gadjo Sevilla.
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| Feb 5, 2024
On today's episode, we discuss the AI conversation that no one is having, how much people watch YouTube on TV, United Airlines showing personalized ads on seat-back screens, the best tasks for smart home robots, the state of working from home, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our director of reports editing Rahul Chadha, director of forecasting Oscar Orozco, and vice president Paul Verna.
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| Jun 14, 2024
The share of worldwide video entertainment smart home device shipments will decrease between 2022 and 2026 as the number of smart security device and smart lighting device shipments grow.
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| Feb 22, 2023
In a less likely—but still possible—scenario, they would also tap into signals from smart home appliances to replenish products like groceries or home office supplies. For high-consideration items, agents will support shoppers. Agents will mediate the discovery and consideration phases to a greater extent than in the “most likely” scenario.
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| Apr 3, 2025
Baby boomer awareness of smart home technology is high, but many don’t see it as a necessity. Around 77% of boomers who bought a home in the past five years own smart home technology, according to a OnePoll survey conducted in July 2023 on behalf of Frontdoor, Inc.
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| Apr 25, 2024
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