Statista

According to Statista Market Insights, print newspaper and magazine readership is expected to decline sharply, from 2.1 billion in 2017 to 1.4 billion by 2025, and 1.1 billion by 2030. Meanwhile, digital readership is on the rise. The number of digital magazine and newspaper readers, which stood at 900 million in 2017, is projected to exceed 1.4 billion by 2025 and reach 1.7 billion by 2030. This shift has been partly driven by the rise of smartphones which accelerated the trend towards online consumption. Statista analysts note that advertising budgets have also moved online, with U.S. magazine ad revenues falling from $10 billion in 2017 to $4.3 billion in 2025. Projections suggest this will drop further to $3.2 billion by 2030. In contrast, digital magazine ad revenue is expected to grow from $9.4 billion in 2017 to $13.2 billion by 2030. The trend is evident in several other major markets too, including the UK, Germany, China and Japan, albeit with the U.S. seeing a sharper decline due to its initially higher ad revenue. India bucks this trend. Newspaper and magazine ad revenue there peaked at $2.6 billion in 2019 before falling to $1.6 billion during the pandemic. It has been recovering since, but with revenue forecast to reach $2.1 billion this year, it still hasn’t returned to its earlier levels. The loss of advertising has led to many print publications closing in the U.S., disproportionately affecting rural and poor areas. It has also led to mass job losses, with newspapers having let go of at least 77 percent of their positions over the past two decades, according to 2024 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics published by The Washington Post.

The global TV landscape is led by a handful of major broadcasters whose reach spans continents. Companies like RTL Group, BBC, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery and Comcast continue to play a key role in how audiences consume news and entertainment. Their influence remains strong as the industry adapts to streaming, shifting viewer habits and new technologies.

Women around the world are more likely than men to worry about their financial future. This is according to a Statista Consumer Insights survey carried out between October 2024 and September 2025. As women in many countries continue to be less financially independent than men, face more hurdles in the workplace and more often shoulder unpaid domestic tasks like child or elder care, finances are an important topic governing female self-determination, wealth, success and even safety. Out of 27 countries surveyed, women in 22 were at least slightly more worried than their male counterparts about their financial future. The biggest gap opened in Finland with 51 percent of women but only 32 percent of males worried about the prospect. The same gap stood at 10 percentage points in France and Australia. In three countries – Mexico, the Philippines and Thailand – men and women worried the same, while in two, Italy and Colombia, men actually worried more. Gaps in worry appeared smaller in Asian countries, while some of the largest were observed in English-speaking countries. In 19 out of 27 countries, women also felt slighly less well informed about their personal financial situation than males. However, only in 11, this gap was larger than two percentage points. Women felt significantly less informed in Colombia and Italy as well as Japan, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. In South Korea, India as well as Austria, women felt better informed and still worried more about finances.

The global artificial intelligence market is set to expand considerably over the next five years. Valued at nearly $260 billion in 2025, according to estimates published in October by Statista Market Insights, the market is projected to surge to over $1,200 billion by 2030, reflecting a fourfold increase. This anticipated explosion underscores AI's increasing integration across industries, driven by advancements in algorithms, infrastructure and sustained massive investments in research and development. As detailed in our chart, machine learning and natural language processing (computers and human language interaction) are the biggest segments of the AI market. They account together for more than half of its size and are expected to remain equally important by 2030. In addition, AI robotics, natural language processing and computer vision are considered the most dynamic areas, with all three projected to grow faster than the market average over the next five years. These sectors are anticipated to experience a boom fueled by the rising adoption of AI-driven solutions in enterprise, healthcare and consumer markets.

The Big Search identified 471 AI leaders in major consumer goods, retail and digital marketplace companies. They represent the new generation of executives: technically skilled, commercially oriented and visibly engaged in the broader ecosystem through teaching, speaking and thought leadership on emerging AI trends like GenAI, LLMOps and ethical AI. According to this analysis, Germany has emerged as one of the strongest hubs for such talent as a Statista map shows, followed by Great Britain and the Netherlands. But which companies attract the most AI leaders? It's adidas! Since its major data and analytics expansion in 2021, the company has been building dedicated advanced analytics teams focused on AI and big data as part of its plan to double e-commerce sales. Other important AI hubs include companies such as Procter & Gamble and the Expedia Group. Mars and Danone complete the top five. At first glance, you might find it surprising that retailers and big FMCG companies lead in front of pure online players like Zalando or Booking.com. But once you consider scale, it makes more sense. Want to read the whole The Big Search analysis? Click here: https://lnkd.in/eu3pAi-t

The Financial Times and Statista have released the second edition of the Best Employers Asia-Pacific ranking, featuring the top 500 companies across the region. More than 50,000 employees shared their views on their workplaces; rating factors included work-life balance, management support, and how likely they are to recommend their employer. This year’s No. 1 goes to JPMorganChase, followed by KLA and Microsoft. Once again US companies lead the list, with Japan and India close behind. More information can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gs6P7fVY

Meet the 4 AI consumer personas of 2026. From over 12,000 voices across the U.S., UK, and Germany, these archetypes tell a fresh and sometimes unexpected story about how real people are navigating AI-driven shopping. Curious which persona is shaping the trends your business can’t ignore? Download our whitepaper for an inside look at the future of decision-making, discovery, and delight in retail. https://lnkd.in/e27HC8jp

In case you missed it 💡 #ICYMI 🗳️ Broken Beyond Repair? Barely Anyone Trusts Politicians   🦃 Family Matters   🔴 Uneven Progress: The Global Fight Against Child Poverty   🌐 How Life Expectancy Has Changed Over the Decades   💊 Antibiotic Resistance Is Highest in Southeast Asia

As the global AI boom continues, the world's largest tech companies have embarked on an unprecedented spending spree to stay ahead of the curve and build the infrastructure needed for the AI revolution. This year alone, Meta, Alphabet Inc., Amazon and Microsoft are expected to spend between $350 and $400 billion in capital expenditure, most of it dedicated to building AI datacenters that are the foundation of all AI applications. That's more than double the amount spent two years ago and there is no end in sight to what experts are calling the "AI arms race". While cloud market leaders Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure) and Alphabet (Google Cloud) are pouring billions into expanding the AI capabilities of their cloud infrastructure - which is a $400 billion market in itself - Meta is more product-focused, hoping that AI investments will improve its products, boost ad sales and eventually help them develop a "personal superintelligence", as CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently laid out. With each announcement of another increase in capital expenditure, the pressure on competitors rises to do the same, creating a spending spiral as no one wants to risk falling behind in the race towards the AI-centric future. One company that appears to have fallen behind already is Apple. Not only has the iPhone maker known for its seamless integration of hardware and software failed to impress with the AI tools baked into its latest devices, but it's also falling behind its peers in terms of AI investments. In the fiscal year that just ended, Apple's capital expenditure amounted to $12.7 billion, which is a 33-percent increase from the year before but far from the spending levels seen from the aforementioned hyperscalers.

NVIDIA's share price jumped 5 percent at the opening bell on Thursday, after the company had blown away expectations in its third-quarter earnings report on Wednesday. Nvidia's record quarter, which was accompanied by a bullish outlook for the current quarter, could be the catalyst for a year-end rally, as no company is currently watched more closely than Nvidia, the linchpin of the AI revolution. But it's not only Nvidia's symbolic role as the AI poster child that has the potential to move markets, it is its sheer size as the world's most valuable company as well. Due to the fact that the S&P 500 is a market-cap-weighted index, the performance of mega cap companies such as Nvidia and Apple and Microsoft, both valued at more than $4 trillion, is particularly important to its overall performance. According to Howard Silverblatt, Senior Index Analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices, Nvidia has once again been the biggest driver of the S&P 500's performance this year. As of October 31, the index had returned 17.5 percent in 2025, with Nvidia alone accounting for nearly 20 percent of the index's overall gain. That puts the company ahead of Alphabet, Microsoft and Broadcom, who accounted for 10.2, 10.1 and 8.2 of the index' year-to-date return, respectively. At the other end of the scale, UnitedHealth Group was the largest negative contributor to the index's performance, followed by Fiserv, Salesforce and Accenture. All of these companies saw their share prices drop by 22 (Saleforce) to 68 percent (Fiserv), but due to their limited weight in the index, their performance only accounted for minus 4.9 percent of the index's overall performance, dragging its return down 0.87 percentage points on aggregate.