Digital 2023 United Arab Emirates (February 2023) v01

Digital 2023 United Arab Emirates (February 2023) v01

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  THE ESSENTIAL GUIDETO THE LATEST CONNECTED BEHAVIOURS DIGITAL 2023 THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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  GWI STATISTA GSMAINTELLIGENCE SEMRUSH DATA.AI PPRO OOKLA SKAI LOCOWISE SIMILARWEB PARTNERS THAT MAKE THE GLOBAL DIGITAL REPORTS SERIES POSSIBLE
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  CLICK THE LINKSBELOW TO READ OUR FULL SUITE OF GLOBAL DIGITAL REPORTS GLOBAL OVERVIEW BOTSWANA DJIBOUTI GUINEA LESOTHO NEPAL ST. KITTS & NEVIS TAJIKISTAN DIGITAL YEARBOOK BRAZIL DOMINICA GUINEA-BISSAU LIBERIA NETHERLANDS ST. LUCIA TANZANIA ABKHAZIA BRITISH VIRGIN IS. DOMINICAN REP. GUYANA LIBYA NEW CALEDONIA ST. MARTIN THAILAND AFGHANISTAN BRUNEI ECUADOR HAITI LIECHTENSTEIN NEW ZEALAND ST. PIERRE & MIQUELON TIMOR-LESTE ÅLAND IS. BULGARIA EGYPT HONDURAS LITHUANIA NICARAGUA ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES TOGO ALBANIA BURKINA FASO EL SALVADOR HONG KONG LUXEMBOURG NIGER SAMOA TOKELAU ALGERIA BURUNDI EQUATORIAL GUINEA HUNGARY MACAU NIGERIA SAN MARINO TONGA AMERICAN SAMOA CABO VERDE ERITREA ICELAND NORTH MACEDONIA NIUE SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE TRANSNISTRIA ANDORRA CAMBODIA ESTONIA INDIA MADAGASCAR NORFOLK IS. SAUDI ARABIA TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ANGOLA CAMEROON ESWATINI INDONESIA MALAWI NORTHERN MARIANA IS. SENEGAL TUNISIA ANGUILLA CANADA ETHIOPIA IRAN MALAYSIA NORWAY SERBIA TURKEY ANTIGUA & BARBUDA CAYMAN IS. FALKLAND IS. IRAQ MALDIVES OMAN SEYCHELLES TURKMENISTAN ARGENTINA CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. FAROE IS. IRELAND MALI PAKISTAN SIERRA LEONE TURKS & CAICOS IS. ARMENIA CHAD FIJI ISLE OF MAN MALTA PALAU SINGAPORE TUVALU ARUBA CHILE FINLAND ISRAEL MARSHALL IS. PALESTINE ST. MAARTEN UGANDA AUSTRALIA CHINA FRANCE ITALY MARTINIQUE PANAMA SLOVAKIA UKRAINE AUSTRIA CHRISTMAS IS. FRENCH GUIANA JAMAICA MAURITANIA PAPUA NEW GUINEA SLOVENIA U.A.E. AZERBAIJAN COCOS (KEELING) IS. FRENCH POLYNESIA JAPAN MAURITIUS PARAGUAY SOLOMON IS. U.K. BAHAMAS COLOMBIA GABON JERSEY MAYOTTE PERU SOMALIA U.S.A. BAHRAIN COMOROS GAMBIA JORDAN MEXICO PHILIPPINES SOUTH AFRICA U.S. VIRGIN IS. BANGLADESH DEM. REP. OF CONGO GEORGIA KAZAKHSTAN MICRONESIA PITCAIRN IS. SOUTH SUDAN URUGUAY BARBADOS REP. OF CONGO GERMANY KENYA MOLDOVA POLAND SPAIN UZBEKISTAN BELARUS COOK IS. GHANA KIRIBATI MONACO PORTUGAL SRI LANKA VANUATU BELGIUM COSTA RICA GIBRALTAR NORTH KOREA MONGOLIA PUERTO RICO SUDAN VATICAN BELIZE CÔTE D’IVOIRE GREECE SOUTH KOREA MONTENEGRO QATAR SURINAME VENEZUELA BENIN CROATIA GREENLAND KOSOVO MONTSERRAT RÉUNION SVALBARD & JAN MAYEN VIETNAM BERMUDA CUBA GRENADA KUWAIT MOROCCO ROMANIA SWAZILAND WALLIS & FUTUNA BHUTAN CURAÇAO GUADELOUPE KYRGYZSTAN MOZAMBIQUE RUSSIAN FEDERATION SWEDEN WESTERN SAHARA BOLIVIA CYPRUS GUAM LAOS MYANMAR RWANDA SWITZERLAND YEMEN BONAIRE, ST. EUSTATIUS & SABA CZECHIA GUATEMALA LATVIA NAMIBIA ST. BARTHÉLEMY SYRIA ZAMBIA BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA DENMARK GUERNSEY LEBANON NAURU ST. HELENA TAIWAN ZIMBABWE
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  ! IMPORTANT NOTES ONCOMPARING DATA The findings published in this report use the latest data available at the time of production. This may include revised figures for historical data points that were not available when we produced previous reports in the Global Digital Reports series. From time to time, we may also change the data sources that we use to inform specific data points, and we may also change how we calculate certain values. Similarly, our data partners may change the ways in which they source, calculate, or report the data that they share with us. As a result, findings published in this report may not correlate with findings published in our previous reports, especially where suchfindingsrepresentchangeovertime(e.g.annual growth). Where we report figures for change over time, such figures will use the latest available data, so we recommend using the values published in this report, rather than trying to recalculate such values using data from previous reports. Wherever we’re aware of the potential for historical mismatches, we’ve included a note on comparability in the footnotes of each relevant slide. Please read these advisories carefully to understand how data sourcesorcalculationshavechangedsinceprevious reports, and beware of making any comparisons with historical data. Where we report values for change over time as “[N/A]”, the most recent data do not correlate with the equivalent data point(s) published in our previous reports, so we strongly advise readers not to compare the associated current figures with the equivalents published in previous reports. In particular, the social media platforms featured in this report regularly revise the figures that they report for advertising reach, and this may result in the latest numbers appearing to be lower than the values for the same data points published in previous reports in this series. However, these source data revisions do not necessarily imply any change in the overall active use of these platforms, and should not be interpreted as such. Furthermore, in addition to changes in data sources and calculations, please note that social media user numbers may not represent unique individuals. This is because some individuals may manage multiple social media accounts, and because some social media accounts may represent ‘non-human’ entities (e.g. businesses, animals, music bands, etc.). As a result, the figures we publish for social media users may exceed the figures that we publish for total population or for internet users. This may seem counter-intuitive,butsuchdifferencesdonotrepresent mistakes. For more information, please read our notes on data variance, mismatches, and curiosities: https://datareportal.com/notes-on-data.
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  GLOBAL HEADLINES
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  7 8.01 8.46 5.164.76 BILLION BILLION BILLION BILLION +0.8% +2.2% +1.9% +3.0% +67 MILLION +180 MILLION +98 MILLION +137 MILLION 57.2% 105.6% 64.4% 59.4% TOTAL POPULATION CELLULAR MOBILE CONNECTIONS INTERNET USERS ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE URBANISATION TOTAL vs. POPULATION TOTAL vs. POPULATION TOTAL vs. POPULATION SOURCES: UNITED NATIONS; GOVERNMENT BODIES; GSMA INTELLIGENCE; ITU; WORLD BANK; EUROSTAT; CNNIC; APJII; IAMAI & KANTAR; CIA WORLD FACTBOOK; COMPANY ADVERTISING RESOURCES AND EARNINGS REPORTS; OCDH; BETA RESEARCH CENTER; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. ADVISORY: SOCIAL MEDIA USERS MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS. COMPARABILITY: SIGNIFICANT REVISIONS TO SOURCE DATA ACROSS ALL METRICS, INCLUDING IMPORTANT REVISIONS TO UNDERLYING POPULATION DATA. FIGURES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. WHERE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IS SHOWN AS “[N/A]”, COMPARISONS WITH HISTORICAL DATA WILL PRODUCE INACCURATE RESULTS. PLEASE READ OUR COMPREHENSIVE NOTES ON DATA FOR FURTHER DETAILS. GLOBAL OVERVIEW NOTE: SIGNIFICANT REVISIONS TO SOURCE DATA MEAN THAT FIGURES SHOWN HERE ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. SEE THE IMPORTANT NOTES AT THE START OF THIS REPORT FOR DETAILS. OVERVIEW OF THE ADOPTION AND USE OF CONNECTED DEVICES AND SERVICES GLOBAL DIGITAL HEADLINES JAN 2023
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  8 OCEANIA SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA SOUTHERN ASIA EASTERN ASIA CENTRAL ASIA WESTERN ASIA SOUTHERN AFRICA EASTERN AFRICA MIDDLE AFRICA WESTERN AFRICA NORTHERN AFRICA EASTERN EUROPE SOUTHERN EUROPE NORTHERN EUROPE WESTERN EUROPE SOUTHERN AMERICA CARIBBEAN CENTRAL AMERICA NORTHERN AMERICA GLOBAL AVERAGE 79.4% 75.6% 74.3% 47.4% 72.5% 70.6% 23.1% 27.9% 48.0% 65.9% 86.9% 88.4% 97.4% 93.5% 80.6% 68.4% 74.9% 92.0% 75.3% 64.4% SOURCES: KEPIOS ANALYSIS;ITU; GSMA INTELLIGENCE; EUROSTAT; WORLD BANK; GOOGLE’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES; CIA WORLD FACTBOOK; CNNIC; APJII; KANTAR & IAMAI; LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES; UNITED NATIONS. NOTE: REGIONS BASED ON THE UNITED NATIONS GEOSCHEME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE AND BASE CHANGES. ALL FIGURES USE THE LATEST AVAILABLE DATA, BUT SOME SOURCE DATA MAY NOT HAVE BEEN UPDATED IN THE PAST YEAR. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR DETAILS. GLOBAL OVERVIEW INTERNET USERS AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL POPULATION INTERNET ADOPTION JAN 2023
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  9 OCEANIA SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA SOUTHERN ASIA EASTERN ASIA CENTRAL ASIA WESTERN ASIA SOUTHERN AFRICA EASTERN AFRICA MIDDLE AFRICA WESTERN AFRICA NORTHERN AFRICA EASTERN EUROPE SOUTHERN EUROPE NORTHERN EUROPE WESTERN EUROPE SOUTHERN AMERICA CARIBBEAN CENTRAL AMERICA NORTHERN AMERICA 0.7% 10.0% 24.0% 18.5% 1.1% 0.9% 2.1% 1.1% 4.0% 3.3% 4.9% 2.6% 2.0% 3.5% 6.8% 0.6% 2.6% 6.7% 4.3% SOURCES: KEPIOS ANALYSIS;ITU; GSMA INTELLIGENCE; EUROSTAT; WORLD BANK; GOOGLE’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES; CIA WORLD FACTBOOK; CNNIC; APJII; KANTAR & IAMAI; LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES; UNITED NATIONS. NOTES: FIGURES MAY NOT SUM TO 100% DUE TO ROUNDING. REGIONS BASED ON THE UNITED NATIONS GEOSCHEME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE AND BASE CHANGES. ALL FIGURES USE THE LATEST AVAILABLE DATA, BUT SOME SOURCE DATA MAY NOT HAVE BEEN UPDATED IN THE PAST YEAR. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR DETAILS. GLOBAL OVERVIEW INTERNET USERS AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL GLOBAL INTERNET USERS SHARE OF GLOBAL INTERNET USERS JAN 2023
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  10 OCEANIA SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA SOUTHERN ASIA EASTERN ASIA CENTRAL ASIA WESTERN ASIA SOUTHERN AFRICA EASTERN AFRICA MIDDLE AFRICA WESTERN AFRICA NORTHERN AFRICA EASTERN EUROPE SOUTHERN EUROPE NORTHERN EUROPE WESTERN EUROPE SOUTHERN AMERICA CARIBBEAN CENTRAL AMERICA NORTHERN AMERICA GLOBAL AVERAGE 62.0% 63.7% 72.0% 32.5% 27.4% 63.6% 41.3% 8.4% 7.4% 13.3% 48.8% 70.5% 76.7% 83.6% 83.3% 71.3% 50.6% 67.5% 73.9% 59.4% SOURCES: KEPIOS ANALYSIS;COMPANY ADVERTISING RESOURCES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS; CNNIC; BETA RESEARCH CENTER; OCDH. ADVISORY: SOCIAL MEDIA USERS MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS. NOTES: DOES NOT INCLUDE DATA FOR SUDAN OR SYRIA. REGIONS BASED ON THE UNITED NATIONS GEOSCHEME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE, BASE, AND METHODOLOGY CHANGES, INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT SOURCE DATA REVISIONS AND CHANGES IN REPORTING APPROACHES. VALUES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH THOSE PUBLISHED IN PREVIOUS REPORTS. FIGURES FOR LOCAL AND REGIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA USE RELY ON DIFFERENT DATASETS TO GLOBAL FIGURES. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR FURTHER DETAILS. GLOBAL OVERVIEW ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL POPULATION (NOTE: USERS MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS) SOCIAL MEDIA USERS vs. TOTAL POPULATION JAN 2023
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  11 OCEANIA SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA SOUTHERN ASIA EASTERN ASIA CENTRAL ASIA WESTERN ASIA SOUTHERN AFRICA EASTERN AFRICA MIDDLE AFRICA WESTERN AFRICA NORTHERN AFRICA EASTERN EUROPE SOUTHERN EUROPE NORTHERN EUROPE WESTERN EUROPE SOUTHERN AMERICA CARIBBEAN CENTRAL AMERICA NORTHERN AMERICA 0.7% 10.7% 29.4% 16.1% 0.5% 4.3% 0.7% 1.0% 0.4% 1.4% 2.6% 5.0% 2.9% 2.2% 4.0% 7.7% 0.6% 3.0% 6.9% SOURCES: KEPIOS ANALYSIS;COMPANY ADVERTISING RESOURCES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS; CNNIC; BETA RESEARCH CENTER; OCDH. ADVISORY: SOCIAL MEDIA USERS MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS. NOTES: FIGURES MAY NOT SUM TO 100% DUE TO ROUNDING. DOES NOT INCLUDE DATA FOR SUDAN OR SYRIA. REGIONS BASED ON THE UNITED NATIONS GEOSCHEME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE, BASE, AND METHODOLOGY CHANGES, INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT SOURCE DATA REVISIONS AND CHANGES IN REPORTING APPROACHES. VALUES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH THOSE PUBLISHED IN PREVIOUS REPORTS. FIGURES FOR LOCAL AND REGIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA USE RELY ON DIFFERENT DATASETS TO GLOBAL FIGURES. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR FURTHER DETAILS. GLOBAL OVERVIEW ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS IN EACH REGION AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL GLOBAL ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS SHARE OF GLOBAL SOCIAL MEDIA USERS JAN 2023
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  12 OCEANIA SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA SOUTHERN ASIA EASTERN ASIA CENTRAL ASIA WESTERN ASIA SOUTHERN AFRICA EASTERN AFRICA MIDDLE AFRICA WESTERN AFRICA NORTHERN AFRICA EASTERN EUROPE SOUTHERN EUROPE NORTHERN EUROPE WESTERN EUROPE SOUTHERN AMERICA CARIBBEAN CENTRAL AMERICA NORTHERN AMERICA GLOBAL AVERAGE 106% 102% 136% 120% 84% 107% 100% 179% 68% 58% 96% 101% 147% 132% 133% 127% 112% 84% 103% 112% SOURCES: GSMA INTELLIGENCE;UNITED NATIONS. NOTE: FIGURES MAY EXCEED 100% BECAUSE SOME INDIVIDUALS MAY USE MORE THAN ONE CELLULAR CONNECTION. REGIONS BASED ON THE UNITED NATIONS GEOSCHEME. COMPARABILITY: BASE CHANGES. GLOBAL OVERVIEW CELLULAR MOBILE CONNECTIONS COMPARED WITH TOTAL POPULATION MOBILE CONNECTIVITY JAN 2023
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  ESSENTIAL DATA FORDIGITAL ADOPTION AND USE IN EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD DIGITAL 2023 LOCAL COUNTRY HEADLINES REPORT THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE WORLD’S CONNECTED BEHAVIOURS GLOBAL OVERVIEW REPORT DIGITAL 2023 CLICK HERE TO READ OUR DIGITAL 2023 LOCAL COUNTRY HEADLINES REPORT, WITH ESSENTIAL STATS FOR DIGITAL ADOPTION IN EVERY COUNTRY AROUND THE WORLD CLICK HERE TO READ OUR FLAGSHIP DIGITAL 2023 GLOBAL OVERVIEW REPORT, PACKED WITH ALL THE NUMBERS YOU NEED TO MAKE SENSE OF THE CURRENT STATE OF DIGITAL DIG DEEPER INTO THE DATA IN OUR DIGITAL 2023 GLOBAL REPORTS
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  Last year, weemerged from the pandemic into a new online landscape. IRL and URL life were already impossibly entangled, and much was on the horizon: metaverses in which to while away our days, NFTs to deck the walls of digital houses, crypto wallets for paying for goods and services in virtual malls. But this year, what was cracked has now shattered into many segmented realities. An accurate vision of the future is now less like looking through a telescope, more like looking through a kaleidoscope: it’s coming through as several diverse fragments, not one single perspective. In this fragmented space, online factions are carving out their own customs, niches, and territories – their own marginal worlds that have the power to become the mainstream. On a social level, gone are the days of feeds clustered around friends and family – here are the days of For You Pages guided by individual interests. On a cultural level, gone is the universal watercooler chat dictated by shared popular culture – today’s agenda is set by ever-more niche and transient corners of the internet. And on a personal level, identities are more layered and fluid than ever before, more like an ‘avatar du jour’ than a static understanding of self. In the eighth issue of our annual report Think Forward, we unpick the complex and ever-changing web of digital culture and behaviour, and explore the role brands can play in reflecting and shaping it. T H E T R E N D S 1. TEXTURED DISCOVERY PEOPLE WANT SOCIAL TO BE LESS PRECISE AND MORE EXPLORATORY 2.COLLAPSING NARRATIVES STORYTELLING IS NO LONGER LINEAR NOR FOLLOWING ESTABLISHED STRUCTURES 3. MARGIN-CHASERS ON SOCIAL, EXTREME BEHAVIOUR IS SEEN AS MORE AUTHENTIC, GAINING TRACTION AND CUTTING THROUGH 4. NEW COOPERATIVES THE CULT OF THE INDIVIDUAL HAS GIVEN WAY TO LESS EGO-DRIVEN COMMUNITIES 5. EXPANDING IDENTITIES VIRTUAL WORLDS ARE MAKING ONLINE IDENTITY MORE FLEXIBLE AND EXPANSIVE WE ARE SOCIAL FRAGMENTED FUTURES THINK FORWARD 2023 FIND OUT MORE IN THINK FORWARD 2023 > PARTNER CONTENT
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  Meltwater Insights Our 2023Marketing Trends guide provides a glimpse at what the next generation of digital marketing has to offer. Global Overview Thanks in part to Gen-Z’s love of subtitles, closed-captions are now a regular sight in short-form video content across the internet. Social platforms are continuing to invest in those and other accessibility features, but there’s still a long way to go. A 2022 Business Disability Forum survey of disabled consumers found that 42% of respondents couldn’t complete an online purchase because of inaccessible websites or apps. Short-form video is here to stay. And though what qualifies as “short” varies, easily- digestible video content remains a priority for social platforms. Marketers: Now is the time to embrace short-form video and experiment with length and new platform features, especially as social commerce gains even more traction in 2023. The death of third-party cookies is imminent. Until then, marketers need to spend 2023 overhauling their performance metrics. Expect widespread shifts to gathering first- party data and using contextual marketing. Understanding who your audience is, where they are active online, and how they interact with your brand across the web is going to be an important part of strategy building in 2023 and beyond. Short-Form Video’s Heyday Goodbye Third-Party Cookies Accessibility Visibility Want to make the most of rising marketing trends? Download our 2023 Marketing Trends guide. PARTNER CONTENT
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  THE UNITED ARABEMIRATES
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  17 9.48 19.05 9.3810.00 MILLION MILLION MILLION MILLION 87.6% 200.9% 99.0% 105.5% URBANISATION vs. POPULATION vs. POPULATION vs. POPULATION TOTAL POPULATION CELLULAR MOBILE CONNECTIONS INTERNET USERS ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS SOURCES: UNITED NATIONS; GOVERNMENT BODIES; GSMA INTELLIGENCE; ITU; WORLD BANK; EUROSTAT; CNNIC; APJII; IAMAI & KANTAR; CIA WORLD FACTBOOK; COMPANY ADVERTISING RESOURCES AND EARNINGS REPORTS; OCDH; BETA RESEARCH CENTER; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. ADVISORY: SOCIAL MEDIA USERS MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS. COMPARABILITY: SIGNIFICANT REVISIONS TO SOURCE DATA, INCLUDING COMPREHENSIVE REVISIONS TO POPULATION DATA. FIGURES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. ALL FIGURES USE THE LATEST AVAILABLE DATA, BUT SOME SOURCE DATA MAY NOT HAVE BEEN UPDATED IN THE PAST YEAR. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED OVERVIEW OF THE ADOPTION AND USE OF CONNECTED DEVICES AND SERVICES ESSENTIAL DIGITAL HEADLINES NOTE: PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES ON COMPARING DATA AT THE START OF THIS REPORT BEFORE COMPARING DATA ON THIS CHART WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS JAN 2023
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  18 +0.8% +13.3% +0.8%[N/A] +76 THOUSAND +2.2 MILLION +75 THOUSAND [BASE REVISIONS] YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE TOTAL POPULATION CELLULAR MOBILE CONNECTIONS INTERNET USERS ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS SOURCES: UNITED NATIONS; GOVERNMENT BODIES; GSMA INTELLIGENCE; ITU; WORLD BANK; EUROSTAT; CNNIC; APJII; IAMAI & KANTAR; CIA WORLD FACTBOOK; COMPANY ADVERTISING RESOURCES AND EARNINGS REPORTS; OCDH; BETA RESEARCH CENTER; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. ADVISORY: SOCIAL MEDIA USERS MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS. COMPARABILITY: SIGNIFICANT REVISIONS TO SOURCE DATA, INCLUDING COMPREHENSIVE REVISIONS TO POPULATION DATA. FIGURES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. ALL FIGURES USE THE LATEST AVAILABLE DATA, BUT SOME SOURCE DATA MAY NOT HAVE BEEN UPDATED IN THE PAST YEAR. FIGURES FOR INTERNET USER GROWTH MAY UNDER-REPRESENT ACTUAL TRENDS. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED CHANGE IN THE USE OF CONNECTED DEVICES AND SERVICES OVER TIME DIGITAL GROWTH NOTE: MAJOR REVISIONS TO SOURCE DATA MEAN THAT GROWTH FIGURES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ARE CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE; PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES AT THE START OF THIS REPORT FOR DETAILS JAN 2023
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  Meltwater Insights The people,topics, and trends driving conversation in the United Arab Emirates Spotlight on Digital Culture Top Metaverse Fashion Keyword “Community” Meltwater, 2022 Discover how to unlock insights relevant to your organization with Meltwater. Top 2023 Marketing Trend TikTok for Business Meltwater, 2022 Top Influencer Campaign Platform Instagram Klear, 2021 PARTNER CONTENT
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  Socialize/We Are SocialCentral Park Towers | DIFC WE ARE SOCIAL DUBAI CO-CREATION + SOUNDS INCREASINGLY DRIVE BRAND SALES THAT TIKTOK AESTHETIC Coined the ʻArabic Aesthetic’, TikTok has become the new home of lifestyle content that showcases everything from the mundane to the luxurious lives of Arabic creators. With the Middle East being no stranger to opulent living & TikTok having extremely high penetration rates in the region, the platform has taken over as the new home of posturing in digital culture, showcasing the region's love for curated, aesthetic and high quality TikTok content on platform. With a younger-than-average social consumer who devours trend-driven content at the speed of social, the MENA region has seen a sharp shift to ʻsound-on’ consumption coupled with content created by specialists in their own unique online communities. A TikTok study found brand linkage and recall increase by over 8x when distinctive brand sounds are leveraged in ads, compared to other elements like slogans and logos. When coupled with an agile, fast-paced content creation solution, branded content becomes hyper-relevant. Ads that are very obviously sponsored content simply will not work. Although ad like content is never welcome on platform, there’s a clear shift from lo-fi to crafted TikTok content that will only grow in 2023 in MENA. Brands of all industries can connect with local consumers via impactful storytelling & hyper-relevant initiatives and offerings. While TikTok has previously been considered an upper-funnel, awareness-driving platform, the ʻTikTok Made Me Buy It’ phenomenon is the perfect showcase of how the platform is driving massive consideration for GenZ consumers. TikTok is now the home of Search 2.0, with users researching products on TikTok before Google. Creators have driven this consideration, with TikTok users saying they would trust a review they saw on TikTok. With the speed of the algorithm, having a diverse creator management strategy is key to driving consideration on platform. If you’re a brand, you won’t have access to the most trending songs on the most crucial platform - so you have to create your own. Beauty brand e.l.f. Cosmetics’ first original song “Eyes. Lips. Face” resulted in the creation of over 1.4 million videos, with direct correlation between virality of the song with virality of products, which sold out 6-8 times faster than pre-campaign. The likes of Pepsi, American Eagle & Pizza Hut have invested in partnerships with creator/songwriters to produce custom songs for their content and communities. While there is no ʻrecipe’ for a viral TikTok sound campaign, the benefits outweigh the investment. FIND OUT MORE ON Socializeagency.com > Partners in the Middle East PARTNER CONTENT
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  POPULATION ESSENTIALS
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  22 87.6% 133.7 95.5%94.5% 96.2% 9.48 30.7% 69.3% +0.8% 33.5 MILLION +76 THOUSAND URBAN POPULATION POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE PER KM2 ) OVERALL LITERACY (ADULTS AGED 15+) FEMALE LITERACY (ADULTS AGED 15+) MALE LITERACY (ADULTS AGED 15+) TOTAL POPULATION FEMALE POPULATION MALE POPULATION YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN TOTAL POPULATION MEDIAN AGE OF THE POPULATION SOURCES: UNITED NATIONS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES; WORLD BANK; UNESCO; CIA WORLD FACTBOOK; OUR WORLD IN DATA; INDEXMUNDI; KNOEMA; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED DEMOGRAPHICS AND OTHER KEY INDICATORS POPULATION ESSENTIALS JAN 2023
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  23 8.71 M 8.79M 8.88 M 8.96 M 9.03 M 9.10 M 9.18 M 9.25 M 9.33 M 9.40 M 9.48 M +1.0% +0.9% +0.9% +0.8% +0.8% +0.8% +0.8% +0.9% +0.8% +0.8% JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 SOURCES: UNITED NATIONS; U.S. CENSUS BUREAU; LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. NOTE: WHERE LETTERS ARE SHOWN NEXT TO FIGURES ABOVE BARS, “K” DENOTES THOUSANDS (E.G. “123 K” = 123,000), “M” DENOTES MILLIONS (E.G. “1.23 M” = 1,230,000), AND “B” DENOTES BILLIONS (E.G. “1.23 B” = 1,230,000,000). WHERE NO LETTER IS PRESENT, VALUES ARE SHOWN AS IS. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE CHANGES AND BASE REVISIONS. FIGURES MAY NOT CORRELATE WITH VALUES PUBLISHED IN OUR PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED TOTAL POPULATION AND YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE POPULATION OVER TIME JAN 2023 DATAREPORTAL
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  24 27.5% 27.8% 13.7%4.8% 1.8% 9.48 5.1% 8.3% 4.1% 6.9% MILLION 65+ 55-64 45-54 35-44 25-34 18-24 13-17 5-12 0-4 POPULATION AGED 25-34 POPULATION AGED 35-44 POPULATION AGED 45-54 POPULATION AGED 55-64 POPULATION AGED 65+ TOTAL POPULATION POPULATION AGED 0-4 POPULATION AGED 5-12 POPULATION AGED 13-17 POPULATION AGED 18-24 SOURCES: UNITED NATIONS; U.S. CENSUS BUREAU; LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED SHARE OF THE TOTAL POPULATION BY AGE GROUP POPULATION BY AGE JAN 2023
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  25 20.7% 38.6% 17.7%13.5% 8.2% +4.5% (+90 BPS) +21.8% (+690 BPS) +15.7% (+240 BPS) +39.2% (+380 BPS) +26.2% (+170 BPS) 96.2% 96.2% 10.8% 60.5% 38.0% -1.0% (-100 BPS) -1.0% (-100 BPS) +2.9% (+30 BPS) -1.5% (-90 BPS) -2.1% (-80 BPS) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE GAMES CONSOLE SMART WATCH OR SMART WRISTBAND TV STREAMING DEVICE SMART HOME DEVICE VIRTUAL REALITY DEVICE ANY KIND OF MOBILE PHONE SMART PHONE FEATURE PHONE LAPTOP OR DESKTOP COMPUTER TABLET DEVICE SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. NOTES: PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES REPRESENT RELATIVE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT BASIS POINTS, AND INDICATE THE ABSOLUTE CHANGE ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO OWN EACH KIND OF DEVICE DEVICE OWNERSHIP JAN 2023
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  26 1H 29M 0H48M 1H 00M 1H 19M -5.3% (-5 MINS) -9.4% (-5 MINS) -6.3% (-4 MINS) -11.2% (-10 MINS) 7H 29M 3H 05M 2H 50M 2H 00M -13.0% (-1H 07M) -10.6% (-22 MINS) -7.6% (-14 MINS) -0.8% (-1 MIN) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE TIME SPENT LISTENING TO MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES TIME SPENT LISTENING TO BROADCAST RADIO TIME SPENT LISTENING TO PODCASTS TIME SPENT USING A GAMES CONSOLE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE TIME SPENT USING THE INTERNET TIME SPENT WATCHING TELEVISION (BROADCAST AND STREAMING) TIME SPENT USING SOCIAL MEDIA TIME SPENT READING PRESS MEDIA (ONLINE AND PHYSICAL PRINT) SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. NOTES: CONSUMPTION OF DIFFERENT MEDIA MAY OCCUR CONCURRENTLY. TELEVISION INCLUDES BOTH LINEAR (BROADCAST AND CABLE) TELEVISION AND CONTENT DELIVERED VIA STREAMING AND VIDEO-ON-DEMAND SERVICES. PRESS INCLUDES BOTH ONLINE AND PHYSICAL PRINT MEDIA. BROADCAST RADIO DOES NOT INCLUDE INTERNET RADIO. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF TIME EACH DAY THAT INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 SPEND WITH DIFFERENT KINDS OF MEDIA AND DEVICES DAILY TIME SPENT WITH MEDIA JAN 2023
• 27.
  INTERNET
• 28.
  28 9.38 99.0% +0.8%7H 29M 91.4% MILLION [UNCHANGED] +75 THOUSAND -13.0% (-1H 07M) -1.1% (-100 BPS) TOTAL INTERNET USERS INTERNET USERS AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL POPULATION YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS AVERAGE DAILY TIME SPENT USING THE INTERNET BY EACH INTERNET USER PERCENTAGE OF USERS ACCESSING THE INTERNET VIA MOBILE PHONES SOURCES: KEPIOS ANALYSIS; ITU; GSMA INTELLIGENCE; EUROSTAT; WORLD BANK; GOOGLE’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES; CIA WORLD FACTBOOK; CNNIC; APJII; KANTAR & IAMAI; LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES; UNITED NATIONS. TIME SPENT AND MOBILE SHARE DATA FROM GWI (Q3 2022). SEE GWI.COM FOR MORE DETAILS. PERCENTAGE CHANGE FIGURES SHOW RELATIVE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE. “BPS” FIGURES REPRESENT BASIS POINTS, AND SHOW ABSOLUTE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE AND BASE CHANGES. ALL FIGURES USE THE LATEST AVAILABLE DATA, BUT SOME SOURCE DATA MAY NOT HAVE BEEN UPDATED IN THE PAST YEAR. FIGURES FOR INTERNET USER GROWTH MAY UNDER-REPRESENT ACTUAL TRENDS. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED ESSENTIAL INDICATORS OF INTERNET ADOPTION AND USE OVERVIEW OF INTERNET USE JAN 2023
• 29.
  29 7.66 M 7.95 M8.03 M 8.11 M 8.56 M 8.97 M 9.08 M 9.16 M 9.23 M 9.31 M 9.38 M +3.7% +1.1% +1.0% +5.5% +4.7% +1.3% +0.8% +0.9% +0.8% +0.8% JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN JAN 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 SOURCES: KEPIOS ANALYSIS; ITU; GSMA INTELLIGENCE; EUROSTAT; GWI; CIA WORLD FACTBOOK; CNNIC; APJII; LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES. NOTE: WHERE LETTERS ARE SHOWN NEXT TO FIGURES ABOVE BARS, “K” DENOTES THOUSANDS (E.G. “123 K” = 123,000), “M” DENOTES MILLIONS (E.G. “1.23 M” = 1,230,000), AND “B” DENOTES BILLIONS (E.G. “1.23 B” = 1,230,000,000). WHERE NO LETTER IS PRESENT, VALUES ARE SHOWN AS IS. ADVISORY: DUE TO COVID-19-RELATED DELAYS IN RESEARCH AND REPORTING, FIGURES FOR INTERNET USER GROWTH AFTER 2020 MAY UNDER-REPRESENT ACTUAL TRENDS. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR MORE DETAILS. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE AND BASE CHANGES. FIGURES MAY NOT MATCH OR CORRELATE WITH FIGURES PUBLISHED IN PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED INTERNET USERS OVER TIME NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS AND YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE JAN 2023 DATAREPORTAL
• 30.
  30 9.48 9.89 12.18 MILLIONMILLION MILLION 100.0% 104.3% 128.5% vs. POPULATION vs. POPULATION vs. POPULATION INTERNET USERS: ITU INTERNET USERS: CIA WORLD FACTBOOK INTERNET USERS: INTERNETWORLDSTATS SOURCES: AS STATED ABOVE EACH ICON. NOTES: WHERE SOURCES PUBLISH INTERNET ADOPTION AS A PERCENTAGE (I.E. PENETRATION), VALUES SHOWN HERE COMPARE THE LATEST PUBLISHED ADOPTION RATES IN EACH COUNTRY WITH THE LATEST FIGURES FOR POPULATION TO DERIVE ABSOLUTE USER NUMBERS. WHERE SOURCES PUBLISH ABSOLUTE USER NUMBERS, VALUES SHOWN HERE COMPARE THESE ABSOLUTE USER FIGURES WITH THE LATEST FIGURES FOR POPULATION TO DERIVE VALUES FOR “vs. POPULATION”. COMPARABILITY: POTENTIAL MISMATCHES. INTERNET USER FIGURES QUOTED ELSEWHERE IN THIS REPORT USE DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES, INCLUDING SOURCES NOT FEATURED ON THIS SLIDE. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED INTERNET USER NUMBERS PUBLISHED BY DIFFERENT SOURCES INTERNET USER PERSPECTIVES JAN 2023
• 31.
  31 99.0% 100.0% 100.0%99.2% 0% USES THE INTERNET HAS ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY HAS ACCESS TO BASIC DRINKING WATER HAS ACCESS TO BASIC SANITATION EARNS LESS THAN USD $3.65 PER DAY SOURCES: KEPIOS ANALYSIS; ITU; GSMA INTELLIGENCE; EUROSTAT; GWI; CIA WORLD FACTBOOK; CNNIC; APJII; LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES; WORLD BANK; UNITED NATIONS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED ACCESS TO THE INTERNET IN THE CONTEXT OF ACCESS TO OTHER LIFE ESSENTIALS, AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL POPULATION INTERNET ACCESS IN PERSPECTIVE JAN 2023
• 32.
  32 7H 29M 4H18M 3H 11M 57.5% DAILY TIME SPENT USING THE INTERNET ACROSS ALL DEVICES TIME SPENT USING THE INTERNET ON MOBILE PHONES TIME SPENT USING THE INTERNET ON COMPUTERS AND TABLETS MOBILE’S SHARE OF TOTAL DAILY INTERNET TIME SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED AMOUNT OF TIME THAT INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 SPEND USING THE INTERNET EACH DAY DAILY TIME SPENT USING THE INTERNET JAN 2023
• 33.
  33 58.8% 54.1% 49.2% 49.1% 45.5% 45.1% 44.6% 41.2% 35.4% 35.2% 34.8% 33.5% 33.2% 32.7% 32.2% STAYING IN TOUCHWITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY FINDING INFORMATION FINDING NEW IDEAS OR INSPIRATION WATCHING VIDEOS, TV SHOWS, OR MOVIES RESEARCHING HOW TO DO THINGS RESEARCHING PRODUCTS AND BRANDS KEEPING UP-TO-DATE WITH NEWS AND EVENTS EDUCATION AND STUDY-RELATED PURPOSES RESEARCHING HEALTH ISSUES AND HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS ACCESSING AND LISTENING TO MUSIC FILLING UP SPARE TIME AND GENERAL BROWSING RESEARCHING PLACES, VACATIONS, AND TRAVEL MEETING NEW PEOPLE AND MAKING NEW CONNECTIONS BUSINESS-RELATED RESEARCH SHARING YOUR OPINION SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PRIMARY REASONS WHY INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 USE THE INTERNET MAIN REASONS FOR USING THE INTERNET JAN 2023
• 34.
  34 65.7% 39.7% 33.8%12.6% 16.7% +4.5% (+280 BPS) +5.0% (+190 BPS) -4.5% (-160 BPS) +20.0% (+210 BPS) -4.0% (-70 BPS) 91.4% 74.7% 89.7% 6.5% 31.9% -1.1% (-100 BPS) +5.8% (+410 BPS) -1.2% (-110 BPS) +16.1% (+90 BPS) -7.8% (-270 BPS) MOBILE PHONE (ANY) LAPTOP OR DESKTOP (ANY) SMART PHONE FEATURE PHONE TABLET DEVICE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE PERSONAL LAPTOP OR DESKTOP WORK LAPTOP OR DESKTOP CONNECTED TELEVISION SMART HOME DEVICE GAMES CONSOLE SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. NOTES: “MOBILE PHONE (ANY)” INCLUDES USERS WHO ACCESS VIA A SMARTPHONE OR A FEATURE PHONE. “LAPTOP OR DESKTOP (ANY)” INCLUDES USERS WHO ACCESS VIA THEIR OWN COMPUTER OR A COMPUTER PROVIDED BY THEIR EMPLOYER. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES REFLECT RELATIVE CHANGE. “BPS” VALUES SHOW THE CHANGE IN BASIS POINTS, AND REFLECT ABSOLUTE CHANGE. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO USE EACH KIND OF DEVICE TO ACCESS THE INTERNET DEVICES USED TO ACCESS THE INTERNET JAN 2023
• 35.
  35 139.41 +2.3% 186.76+80.1% MBPS MBPS MEDIAN DOWNLOAD SPEED OF CELLULAR MOBILE INTERNET CONNECTIONS YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN MEDIAN CELLULAR MOBILE INTERNET CONNECTION SPEED MEDIAN DOWNLOAD SPEED OF FIXED INTERNET CONNECTIONS YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN MEDIAN FIXED INTERNET CONNECTION SPEED SOURCE: OOKLA. NOTE: FIGURES REPRESENT MEDIAN DOWNLOAD SPEEDS IN MEGABITS PER SECOND (MBPS) IN NOVEMBER 2022. COMPARABILITY: THE VALUES FOR INTERNET CONNECTION SPEEDS THAT WE FEATURED IN PREVIOUS REPORTS REFLECTED MEAN CONNECTION SPEEDS, WHEREAS WE NOW FEATURE MEDIAN CONNECTION SPEEDS, WHICH OFFER A MORE REPRESENTATIVE INDICATION OF THE CONNECTION SPEEDS THAT “TYPICAL” USERS CAN EXPECT. AS A RESULT, VALUES SHOWN HERE ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH THE VALUES PUBLISHED IN OUR PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED MEDIAN DOWNLOAD SPEEDS (IN MEGABITS PER SECOND) OF MOBILE AND FIXED INTERNET CONNECTIONS INTERNET CONNECTION SPEEDS JAN 2023
• 36.
  36 63.65% 34.58% 1.75%0.02% +8.8% (+514 BPS) -12.5% (-493 BPS) -10.3% (-20 BPS) -33.3% (-1 BP) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE MOBILE PHONES LAPTOP AND DESKTOP COMPUTERS TABLET DEVICES OTHER DEVICES SOURCE: STATCOUNTER. NOTES: FIGURES REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF WEB PAGES SERVED TO BROWSERS RUNNING ON EACH TYPE OF DEVICE COMPARED WITH THE TOTAL NUMBER OF WEB PAGES SERVED TO BROWSERS RUNNING ON ANY DEVICE IN NOVEMBER 2022. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES REPRESENT RELATIVE CHANGE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT BASIS POINTS, AND INDICATE THE ABSOLUTE CHANGE. FIGURES MAY NOT SUM TO 100% DUE TO ROUNDING. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL WEB PAGES SERVED TO WEB BROWSERS RUNNING ON EACH KIND OF DEVICE SHARE OF WEB TRAFFIC BY DEVICE JAN 2023
• 37.
  37 19.3% 25.0% 45.0% 47.9% 54.9% 58.7% 47.3% 53.3% 56.7% 58.5% 63.7% +29.7% +79.9% +6.5%+14.5% +6.9% -19.4% +12.6% +6.5% +3.1% +8.8% NOV NOV NOV NOV NOV NOV NOV NOV NOV NOV NOV 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 SOURCE: STATCOUNTER. NOTES: FIGURES REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF WEB PAGES SERVED TO WEB BROWSERS RUNNING ON MOBILE PHONES COMPARED WITH THE TOTAL NUMBER OF WEB PAGES SERVED TO WEB BROWSERS RUNNING ON ANY DEVICE. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES IN THE WHITE CIRCLES REPRESENT RELATIVE CHANGE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL WEB PAGES SERVED TO WEB BROWSERS RUNNING ON MOBILE PHONES MOBILE’S SHARE OF WEB TRAFFIC JAN 2023 DATAREPORTAL
• 38.
  38 2.34% 1.53% 0.12%3.87% -13.0% (-35 BPS) -16.4% (-30 BPS) +20.0% (+2 BPS) -38.0% (-237 BPS) 68.72% 19.16% 3.00% 1.26% +4.1% (+268 BPS) +3.5% (+64 BPS) -3.8% (-12 BPS) -13.7% (-20 BPS) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE SAMSUNG INTERNET OPERA ANDROID OTHER YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE CHROME SAFARI MICROSOFT EDGE FIREFOX SOURCE: STATCOUNTER. NOTES: FIGURES REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF PAGE VIEWS SERVED TO EACH BROWSER AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL PAGE VIEWS SERVED TO WEB BROWSERS RUNNING ON ANY KIND OF DEVICE IN NOVEMBER 2022. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES REPRESENT RELATIVE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT BASIS POINTS, AND INDICATE THE ABSOLUTE CHANGE. FIGURES MAY NOT SUM TO 100% DUE TO ROUNDING. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL WEB PAGES SERVED TO EACH BRAND OF WEB BROWSER RUNNING ON ANY DEVICE SHARE OF WEB TRAFFIC BY BROWSER JAN 2023
• 39.
  39 11 FILGOAL.COM 6.73M 202 K 13M 26S 2.8 12 XVIDEOS.COM 6.38 M 1.67 M 13M 18S 8.4 13 KOOORA.COM 5.43 M 394 K 17M 44S 4.1 14 LINKEDIN.COM 5.41 M 1.84 M 19M 02S 3.2 15 ESPNCRICINFO.COM 5.40 M 692 K 27M 46S 1.8 16 KHALEEJTIMES.COM 4.83 M 1.32 M 23M 44S 2.7 17 REDDIT.COM 4.68 M 1.62 M 14M 26S 2.6 18 TIKTOK.COM 4.65 M 1.95 M 12M 02S 2.3 19 ETISALAT.AE 4.29 M 1.81 M 10M 56S 2.4 20 GOOGLE.AE 4.24 M 1.05 M 16M 20S 3.4 01 YOUTUBE.COM 130 M 10.9 M 32M 07S 5.6 02 GOOGLE.COM 129 M 14.7 M 22M 34S 3.7 03 FACEBOOK.COM 18.8 M 4.81 M 22M 21S 3.0 04 TWITTER.COM 11.6 M 3.67 M 23M 47S 2.6 05 INSTAGRAM.COM 10.4 M 3.48 M 17M 58S 2.1 06 WIKIPEDIA.ORG 10.3 M 3.58 M 10M 19S 2.4 07 AMAZON.AE 8.36 M 2.85 M 16M 41S 7.0 08 XNXX.COM 7.23 M 1.78 M 13M 34S 9.1 09 PORNHUB.COM 6.97 M 1.65 M 12M 50S 7.8 10 WHATSAPP.COM 6.88 M 2.45 M 19M 32S 1.4 # WEBSITE TOTAL VISITS (MONTHLY AVE.) UNIQUE VISITORS (MONTHLY AVE.) AVERAGE TIME PER VISIT AVERAGE PAGES PER VISIT # WEBSITE TOTAL VISITS (MONTHLY AVE.) UNIQUE VISITORS (MONTHLY AVE.) AVERAGE TIME PER VISIT AVERAGE PAGES PER VISIT SOURCE: SEMRUSH. FIGURES REPRESENT TRAFFIC VALUES FOR THE PERIOD BETWEEN 01 SEPTEMBER AND 30 NOVEMBER 2022. NOTE: VALUES IN THE “UNIQUE VISITORS” COLUMN REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF DISTINCT ‘IDENTITIES’ ACCESSING EACH SITE, BUT MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS, AS SOME PEOPLE MAY USE MULTIPLE DEVICES OR BROWSERS. FIGURES ENDING IN “B” REPRESENT BILLIONS; FIGURES ENDING IN “M” REPRESENT MILLIONS. TIME SHOWN IN MINUTES AND SECONDS. ADVISORY: SOME WEBSITES FEATURED IN THIS RANKING MAY CONTAIN ADULT CONTENT. PLEASE USE CAUTION WHEN VISITING UNKNOWN DOMAINS. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE METHODOLOGY CHANGES. VALUES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED SEMRUSH’S RANKING OF THE MOST VISITED WEBSITES, BASED ON WEBSITE TRAFFIC BETWEEN 01 SEPTEMBER AND 30 NOVEMBER 2022 TOP WEBSITES: SEMRUSH RANKING JAN 2023
• 40.
  40 11 GOOGLE.AE 8.08M 1.11 M 2M 06S 2.8 12 ZOOM.US 7.69 M 1.51 M 1M 53S 2.7 13 XNXX.COM 7.67 M 831 K 6M 58S 14.3 14 YAHOO.COM 7.43 M 936 K 7M 42S 5.8 15 LIVE.COM 6.15 M 937 K 2M 33S 15.4 16 MICROSOFTONLINE.COM 6.12 M 1.08 M 2M 37S 3.1 17 REDDIT.COM 6.00 M 1.02 M 3M 58S 7.7 18 XVIDEOS.COM 5.61 M 900 K 6M 04S 5.4 19 T.ME 5.60 M 1.26 M 7M 40S 8.2 10 DISCORD.COM 5.42 M 309 K 6M 54S 4.3 01 GOOGLE.COM 289 M 10.2 M 11M 04S 9.0 02 INSTAGRAM.COM 34.6 M 5.37 M 8M 44S 11.2 03 WHATSAPP.COM 25.3 M 3.07 M 3M 39S 1.9 04 TWITTER.COM 23.1 M 4.10 M 10M 17S 10.2 05 AMAZON.AE 13.6 M 3.45 M 15M 14S 9.7 06 KHALEEJTIMES.COM 11.6 M 2.13 M 9M 16S 8.6 07 WIKIPEDIA.ORG 11.1 M 3.09 M 9M 11S 3.7 08 NETFLIX.COM 11.1 M 856 K 3M 16S 2.8 09 LINKEDIN.COM 10.5 M 1.54 M 9M 05S 4.5 10 OFFICE.COM 8.82 M 910 K 12M 08S 10.5 # WEBSITE TOTAL VISITS (MONTHLY AVE.) UNIQUE VISITORS (MONTHLY AVE.) AVERAGE TIME PER VISIT AVERAGE PAGES PER VISIT # WEBSITE TOTAL VISITS (MONTHLY AVE.) UNIQUE VISITORS (MONTHLY AVE.) AVERAGE TIME PER VISIT AVERAGE PAGES PER VISIT SOURCE: SIMILARWEB. RANKING AND VALUES BASED ON TRAFFIC BETWEEN DECEMBER 2021 AND NOVEMBER 2022. NOTES: VALUES IN THE “UNIQUE VISITORS” COLUMN REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF DISTINCT ‘IDENTITIES’ ACCESSING EACH SITE, BUT MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS, AS SOME PEOPLE MAY USE MULTIPLE DEVICES OR BROWSERS. VALUES FOR “TOTAL VISITS” AND “UNIQUE VISITORS” REPRESENT MONTHLY AVERAGES. FIGURES ENDING IN “B” REPRESENT BILLIONS; FIGURES ENDING IN “M” REPRESENT MILLIONS. TIME SHOWN IN MINUTES AND SECONDS. ADVISORY: SOME WEBSITES FEATURED IN THIS RANKING MAY CONTAIN ADULT CONTENT. PLEASE USE CAUTION WHEN VISITING UNKNOWN DOMAINS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED SIMILARWEB’S RANKING OF THE MOST VISITED WEBSITES, BASED ON WEBSITE TRAFFIC BETWEEN DECEMBER 2021 AND NOVEMBER 2022 TOP WEBSITES: SIMILARWEB RANKING JAN 2023
• 41.
  41 0.03% 0.23% 0.01%0.29% [UNCHANGED] +21.1% (+4 BPS) [UNCHANGED] +70.6% (+12 BPS) 95.78% 3.09% 0.43% 0.14% -0.7% (-66 BPS) +27.2% (+66 BPS) -32.8% (-21 BPS) +55.6% (+5 BPS) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE BAIDU DUCKDUCKGO NAVER OTHER YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE GOOGLE BING YAHOO! YANDEX SOURCE: STATCOUNTER. NOTES: FIGURES REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF PAGE VIEW REFERRALS ORIGINATING FROM EACH SERVICE AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL PAGE VIEW REFERRALS ORIGINATING FROM SEARCH ENGINES IN NOVEMBER 2022. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES REPRESENT RELATIVE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT BASIS POINTS, AND INDICATE THE ABSOLUTE CHANGE. FIGURES MAY NOT SUM TO 100% DUE TO ROUNDING. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL WEB TRAFFIC REFERRED BY SEARCH ENGINES THAT ORIGINATED FROM EACH SEARCH SERVICE SHARE OF SEARCH ENGINE REFERRALS JAN 2023
• 42.
  42 11 GOOGLE TRANSLATE39 12 IPL 38 13 WORLD CUP 2022 36 14 LIVE CRICKET 34 15 AMAZON 33 16 FIFA 32 17 LIVE SCORE 30 18 ‫جمة‬ ‫تر‬ 29 19 FACEBOOK 28 20 CRICBUZZ 28 01 GOOGLE 100 02 TRANSLATE 97 03 YOUTUBE 72 04 WHATSAPP 71 05 WORLD CUP 65 06 WEATHER 60 07 EMIRATES 60 08 YOU 58 09 CRICKET 55 10 WEB WHATSAPP 52 # SEARCH QUERY INDEX vs. TOP QUERY # SEARCH QUERY INDEX vs. TOP QUERY SOURCE: GOOGLE TRENDS, BASED ON SEARCHES CONDUCTED BETWEEN 01 JANUARY 2022 AND 31 DECEMBER 2022. NOTES: ANY SPELLING ERRORS OR LANGUAGE INCONSISTENCIES IN SEARCH QUERIES ARE AS PUBLISHED BY GOOGLE TRENDS, AND ARE SHOWN “AS IS”, TO ENABLE READERS TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL CHANGES IN HOW PEOPLE USE LANGUAGE IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS. GOOGLE DOES NOT PUBLISH ABSOLUTE SEARCH VOLUMES, BUT THE “INDEX vs. TOP QUERY” COLUMN SHOWS RELATIVE SEARCH VOLUMES FOR EACH QUERY COMPARED WITH THE SEARCH VOLUME OF THE TOP QUERY. ADVISORY: GOOGLE TRENDS USES DYNAMIC SAMPLING, SO RANK ORDER AND INDEX VALUES MAY VARY DEPENDING ON WHEN THE TOOL IS ACCESSED, EVEN FOR THE SAME TIME PERIOD. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED QUERIES WITH THE GREATEST VOLUME OF GOOGLE SEARCH ACTIVITY BETWEEN 01 JANUARY 2022 AND 31 DECEMBER 2022 TOP GOOGLE SEARCHES JAN 2023
• 43.
  43 22.7% 46.7% 27.3%37.0% +42.8% (+680 BPS) -4.3% (-210 BPS) +27.0% (+580 BPS) -3.9% (-150 BPS) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE USE VOICE ASSISTANTS (E.G. SIRI, GOOGLE ASSISTANT) TO FIND INFORMATION EACH WEEK VISIT SOCIAL NETWORKS TO LOOK FOR INFORMATION ABOUT BRANDS AND PRODUCTS USE IMAGE RECOGNITION TOOLS (E.G. GOOGLE LENS, PINTEREST LENS) ON MOBILE EACH MONTH USE ONLINE TOOLS TO TRANSLATE TEXT INTO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES EACH WEEK SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO ENGAGE IN EACH KIND OF ONLINE ACTIVITY ACCESSING ONLINE INFORMATION JAN 2023
• 44.
  44 37.3% 29.8% 36.9%28.6% 31.9% +6.9% (+240 BPS) +13.3% (+350 BPS) +16.4% (+520 BPS) +7.1% (+190 BPS) +15.6% (+430 BPS) 97.2% 55.0% 47.7% 31.4% 30.5% +2.6% (+250 BPS) +1.9% (+100 BPS) -0.2% (-10 BPS) -4.6% (-150 BPS) -4.4% (-140 BPS) EDUCATIONAL VIDEO PRODUCT REVIEW VIDEO SPORTS CLIP OR HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO GAMING VIDEO INFLUENCER VIDEOS AND VLOGS ANY KIND OF VIDEO MUSIC VIDEO COMEDY, MEME, OR VIRAL VIDEO TUTORIAL OR HOW-TO VIDEO VIDEO LIVESTREAM YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. NOTES: “YOY” PERCENTAGE VALUES REPRESENT THE RELATIVE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT THE ABSOLUTE CHANGE (IN BASIS POINTS). ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO WATCH EACH KIND OF VIDEO CONTENT VIA THE INTERNET EACH WEEK WATCHING ONLINE VIDEO CONTENT JAN 2023
• 45.
  45 94.6% 96.3% 1H40M 54.1% PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS WHO STREAM TV CONTENT OVER THE INTERNET INTERNET USERS WHO STREAM TV CONTENT vs. INTERNET USERS WHO WATCH ANY KIND OF TV AVERAGE DAILY TIME THAT INTERNET USERS SPEND WATCHING STREAMING TV TIME SPENT WATCHING STREAMING TV AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL TIME SPENT WATCHING TV SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO WATCH TV CONTENT VIA STREAMING SERVICES (E.G. NETFLIX) EACH MONTH STREAMING TV CONTENT VIA THE INTERNET JAN 2023
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  46 36.5% 26.3% 21.4%17.7% +22.1% (+660 BPS) +30.2% (+610 BPS) +39.0% (+600 BPS) +31.1% (+420 BPS) LISTEN TO MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES LISTEN TO ONLINE RADIO SHOWS OR STATIONS LISTEN TO PODCASTS LISTEN TO AUDIO BOOKS YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. NOTES: “YOY” PERCENTAGE VALUES REPRESENT THE RELATIVE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT THE ABSOLUTE CHANGE (IN BASIS POINTS). ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO LISTEN TO EACH KIND OF AUDIO CONTENT VIA THE INTERNET EACH WEEK LISTENING TO ONLINE AUDIO CONTENT JAN 2023
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  47 18.2% 12.4% 12.5%11.1% -12.5% (-260 BPS) [UNCHANGED] +38.9% (+350 BPS) +23.3% (+210 BPS) 88.2% 72.3% 37.9% 23.6% -2.3% (-210 BPS) -6.6% (-510 BPS) +32.1% (+920 BPS) -7.1% (-180 BPS) TABLET HAND-HELD GAMING DEVICE MEDIA STREAMING DEVICE VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSET ANY DEVICE SMARTPHONE LAPTOP OR DESKTOP GAMES CONSOLE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. NOTES: “YOY” PERCENTAGE VALUES REPRESENT THE RELATIVE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT THE ABSOLUTE CHANGE (IN BASIS POINTS). ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO PLAY VIDEO GAMES ON EACH KIND OF DEVICE DEVICES USED TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES JAN 2023
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  48 $7.55 $6.30 $4.01$3.62 MILLION MILLION MILLION MILLION +11.2% (+$762 THOUSAND) -1.1% (-$73 THOUSAND) +13.0% (+$460 THOUSAND) +13.2% (+$421 THOUSAND) 249.2 $60.07 $25.99 $12.60 THOUSAND MILLION MILLION MILLION +13.2% (+29 THOUSAND) +11.7% (+$6.3 MILLION) +12.2% (+$2.8 MILLION) +18.0% (+$1.9 MILLION) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE VALUE OF SMART HOME SECURITY DEVICE MARKET VALUE OF SMART HOME ENTERTAINMENT DEVICE MARKET VALUE OF SMART HOME COMFORT & LIGHTING MARKET VALUE OF SMART HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT MARKET YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE NUMBER OF HOMES WITH SMART HOME DEVICES TOTAL ANNUAL VALUE OF THE SMART HOME DEVICES MARKET VALUE OF SMART HOME APPLIANCES MARKET VALUE OF SMART HOME CONTROL & CONNECTIVITY DEVICE MARKET SOURCE: STATISTA DIGITAL MARKET OUTLOOK. SEE STATISTA.COM FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: “SMART HOME DEVICES” INCLUDE: DIGITALLY CONNECTED AND CONTROLLED HOME DEVICES THAT CAN BE REMOTELY CONTROLLED; SENSORS, ACTUATORS AND CLOUD SERVICES THAT ENABLE HOME AUTOMATION; CONTROL HUBS THAT CONNECT SENSORS AND ACTUATORS TO REMOTE CONTROLS AND TO EACH OTHER; AND SMART HOME-RELATED SOFTWARE SALES (INCLUDING SUBSCRIPTION FEES). DOES NOT INCLUDE SMART TVS, OR B2B OR C2C SALES. FIGURES REPRESENT ESTIMATES OF FULL-YEAR REVENUES FOR 2022 IN U.S. DOLLARS, AND COMPARISONS WITH EQUIVALENT VALUES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. COMPARABILITY: BASE CHANGES. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED VALUE OF THE MARKET FOR SMART HOME DEVICES (U.S. DOLLARS) SMART HOME MARKET OVERVIEW JAN 2023
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  49 $71.96 $61.82 $41.30$53.34 -4.7% (-$3.57) -11.9% (-$8.34) -2.6% (-$1.11) -5.1% (-$2.89) 12.9% $241 $286 $153 +10.0% (+118 BPS) -1.3% (-$3.20) -4.0% (-$11.80) -1.3% (-$2.00) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE ARPU: SMART HOME SECURITY DEVICES ARPU: SMART HOME ENTERTAINMENT DEVICES ARPU: SMART HOME COMFORT & LIGHTING ARPU: SMART HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE PENETRATION OF SMART HOME DEVICES ARPU: SPEND ON ALL SMART HOME DEVICES ARPU: SMART HOME APPLIANCES ARPU: SMART HOME CONTROL & CONNECTIVITY DEVICES SOURCE: STATISTA DIGITAL MARKET OUTLOOK. SEE STATISTA.COM FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: “SMART HOME DEVICES” INCLUDE: DIGITALLY CONNECTED AND CONTROLLED HOME DEVICES THAT CAN BE REMOTELY CONTROLLED; SENSORS, ACTUATORS AND CLOUD SERVICES THAT ENABLE HOME AUTOMATION; CONTROL HUBS THAT CONNECT SENSORS AND ACTUATORS TO REMOTE CONTROLS AND TO EACH OTHER; AND SMART HOME-RELATED SOFTWARE SALES (INCLUDING SUBSCRIPTION FEES). DOES NOT INCLUDE SMART TVS, OR B2B OR C2C SALES. FIGURES REPRESENT ESTIMATES OF FULL-YEAR SPEND PER SMART HOME FOR 2022 IN U.S. DOLLARS, AND COMPARISONS WITH EQUIVALENT VALUES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. COMPARABILITY: BASE CHANGES. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED AVERAGE ANNUAL SPEND ON SMART HOME DEVICES PER SMART HOME (U.S. DOLLARS) AVERAGE ANNUAL REVENUE PER SMART HOME JAN 2023
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  50 24.3% 30.0% 19.6% USEA BANKING, INVESTMENT, OR INSURANCE WEBSITE OR MOBILE APP EACH MONTH USE A MOBILE PAYMENT SERVICE (E.G. APPLE PAY, SAMSUNG PAY) EACH MONTH OWN ANY FORM OF CRYPTOCURRENCY (E.G. BITCOIN, ETHER) SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO OWN OR USE EACH KIND OF DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICE USE OF ONLINE FINANCIAL SERVICES JAN 2023
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  51 32.8% 26.3% 30.8%41.4% [N/A] COMFORTABLE WITH APPS TRACKING THEIR REAL-WORLD ACTIVITY (E.G. STEPS, SLEEP) PREFER TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS WHEN USING ONLINE SERVICES WORRY ABOUT HOW COMPANIES MIGHT USE THEIR ONLINE DATA DECLINE COOKIES ON WEBSITES AT LEAST SOME OF THE TIME EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT WHAT IS REAL vs. WHAT IS FAKE ON THE INTERNET SOURCES: DATA FOR “CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT IS REAL vs WHAT IS FAKE ON THE INTERNET” VIA REUTERS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF JOURNALISM’S “DIGITAL NEWS REPORT 2021”. FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A GLOBAL STUDY OF ONLINE NEWS CONSUMERS AGED 18+ (SEE DIGITALNEWSREPORT.ORG FOR MORE DETAILS). DATA FOR ALL OTHER DATA POINTS VIA GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERSPECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES OF ONLINE ADULTS RELATING TO THEIR ONLINE DATA PRIVACY AND SECURITY ONLINE PRIVACY AND SECURITY JAN 2023
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  SOCIAL MEDIA
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  ! CORRECTIONS IN SOCIALMEDIA USER NUMBERS Over recent months, the data sources that we use to calculate social media user numbers in each country have made significant revisions to their underlying numbers. As a result, we are currently unable to provide data for the change in social media users over time. Because of these changes, readers should not compare social media user numbers published in this report with similar figures published in previous reports in the Global Digital Reports series, because any such comparisons will deliver inaccurate data and misleading trends. Furthermore, please note that the social media user numbers published in this report may appear to be significantly lower than the figures published in previous reports in this series. However, any such differences are the result of “corrections” in source data published by social media platforms, and our analysis of various data sources confirms that there has been no discernible drop in social media use in any of the countries that we track. As a result, readers should not interpret any negative differences between the numbers published in this report versus previous reports as a decline in social media use, because these differences are due to corrections in source methodologies and data reporting approaches, and do not representachangeinactualusernumbers.Please read our comprehensive notes on data for more details: https://datareportal.com/notes-on-data
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  54 2H 50M 8.230.4% 69.6% 10.00 105.5% 124.6% 106.6% MILLION NUMBER OF SOCIAL MEDIA USERS SOCIAL MEDIA USERS vs. TOTAL POPULATION SOCIAL MEDIA USERS AGE 18+ vs. TOTAL POPULATION AGE 18+ SOCIAL MEDIA USERS vs. TOTAL INTERNET USERS AVERAGE TIME SPENT USING SOCIAL MEDIA EACH DAY AVERAGE NUMBER OF SOCIAL PLATFORMS USED EACH MONTH FEMALE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS vs. TOTAL SOCIAL MEDIA USERS MALE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS vs. TOTAL SOCIAL MEDIA USERS SOURCES: KEPIOS ANALYSIS; COMPANY ADVERTISING RESOURCES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS; CNNIC; BETA RESEARCH CENTER; OCDH; U.N.; U.S. CENSUS BUREAU. ADVISORY: SOCIAL MEDIA USERS MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS. FIGURES FOR REACH vs. POPULATION AND REACH vs. INTERNET USERS MAY EXCEED 100% DUE TO DUPLICATE AND FAKE ACCOUNTS, USER AGE MISSTATEMENTS, DELAYS IN DATA REPORTING, AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CENSUS COUNTS AND RESIDENT POPULATIONS. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR FURTHER DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED HEADLINES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ADOPTION AND USE (NOTE: USERS MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS) OVERVIEW OF SOCIAL MEDIA USE JAN 2023
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  55 0.7% 1.0% 5.4% 12.8% 12.3% 30.2% 7.7% 17.9% 2.5% 5.9% 0.7% 1.6% 0.5%0.8% 13 – 17 YEARS OLD 18 – 24 YEARS OLD 25 – 34 YEARS OLD 35 – 44 YEARS OLD 45 – 54 YEARS OLD 55 – 64 YEARS OLD 65+ YEARS OLD FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE SOURCES: KEPIOS ANALYSIS; META’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES. NOTE: META ONLY PERMITS PEOPLE AGED 13 AND ABOVE TO USE ITS PLATFORMS, SO WHILE THERE MAY BE USERS BELOW THE AGE OF 13, THEY DO NOT FEATURE IN THE AVAILABLE DATA. META’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES ONLY PUBLISH GENDER DATA FOR “FEMALE” AND “MALE”. COMPARABILITY: IMPORTANT BASE DATA REVISIONS AND SOURCE REPORTING CHANGES. VALUES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH VALUES PUBLISHED IN OUR PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED SHARE OF COMBINED, DEDUPLICATED POTENTIAL ADVERTISING REACH ACROSS FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, AND MESSENGER, BY AGE AND GENDER DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF META’S AD AUDIENCE JAN 2023 DATAREPORTAL
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  56 46.8% 33.8% 32.3% 30.4% 29.2% 29.2% 28.2% 28.1% 27.4% 27.1% 26.9% 25.2% 23.1% 22.6% 21.7% KEEPING IN TOUCHWITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY FILLING SPARE TIME READING NEWS STORIES FINDING INSPIRATION FOR THINGS TO DO AND BUY WATCHING OR FOLLOWING SPORTS WATCHING LIVE STREAMS SEEING WHAT’S BEING TALKED ABOUT MAKING NEW CONTACTS FINDING CONTENT (E.G. VIDEOS) WORK-RELATED NETWORKING OR RESEARCH FINDING PRODUCTS TO PURCHASE SEEING CONTENT FROM BRANDS FOLLOWING CELEBRITIES OR INFLUENCERS SHARING AND DISCUSSING OPINIONS POSTING ABOUT YOUR LIFE SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. NOTE: FIGURES REPRESENT THE SHARE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO REPORT USING AT LEAST ONE SOCIAL MEDIA OR MESSENGER PLATFORM IN THE PAST MONTH. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PRIMARY REASONS WHY SOCIAL MEDIA USERS AGED 16 TO 64 USE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS MAIN REASONS FOR USING SOCIAL MEDIA JAN 2023
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  57 79.6% 78.7% 73.4% 67.4% 63.2% 55.0% 48.1% 44.5% 41.2% 31.9% 24.9% 19.8% 14.9% 12.7% 12.3% WHATSAPP FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM TIKTOK FB MESSENGER TWITTER LINKEDIN TELEGRAM SNAPCHAT PINTEREST SKYPE IMESSAGE REDDIT WECHAT VIBER SOURCE: GWI(Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. NOTE: YOUTUBE IS NOT OFFERED AS AN ANSWER OPTION FOR THIS QUESTION IN GWI’S SURVEY. COMPARABILITY: A VERSION OF THIS CHART THAT APPEARED IN OUR PREVIOUS REPORTS WAS BASED ON A PREVIOUS QUESTION IN GWI’S SURVEY THAT INCLUDED YOUTUBE AS AN ANSWER OPTION. GWI’S CURRENT SURVEY FEATURES A REVISED VERSION OF THIS QUESTION THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE YOUTUBE AS AN ANSWER OPTION, WHILE OTHER CHANGES TO THE QUESTION’S WORDING MAY MEAN THAT THE VALUES AND RANK ORDER SHOWN HERE ARE NOT DIRECTLY COMPARABLE WITH THOSE SHOWN ON A SIMILAR CHART IN PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO USE EACH PLATFORM EACH MONTH MOST USED SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS NOTE: YOUTUBE IS NOT OFFERED AS AN ANSWER OPTION FOR THIS QUESTION IN GWI’S SURVEY, SO IT WILL NOT APPEAR IN THIS RANKING JAN 2023
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  58 26.9% 17.8% 17.5% 14.6% 5.7% 4.3% 2.7% 2.4% 1.2% 0.9% WHATSAPP INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK TIKTOK TWITTER FB MESSENGER LINKEDIN SNAPCHAT PINTEREST TELEGRAM SOURCE: GWI(Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. NOTE: YOUTUBE IS NOT OFFERED AS AN ANSWER OPTION FOR THIS QUESTION IN GWI’S SURVEY. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO SAY THAT EACH OPTION IS THEIR “FAVOURITE” SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FAVOURITE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS NOTE: YOUTUBE IS NOT OFFERED AS AN ANSWER OPTION FOR THIS QUESTION IN GWI’S SURVEY, SO IT WILL NOT APPEAR IN THIS RANKING JAN 2023
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  59 19.1% 14.0% 16.7%13.6% +10.4% (+180 BPS) +26.1% (+290 BPS) +11.3% (+170 BPS) +33.3% (+340 BPS) 78.8% 46.7% 20.7% 16.6% +4.1% (+310 BPS) -4.3% (-210 BPS) +7.3% (+140 BPS) +17.7% (+250 BPS) MESSAGING AND LIVE CHAT SERVICES MICRO-BLOGS (E.G. TWITTER) VLOGS (BLOGS IN A VIDEO FORMAT) ONLINE PINBOARDS (E.G. PINTEREST) ANY KIND OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM SOCIAL NETWORKS QUESTION & ANSWER SITES (E.G. QUORA) FORUMS AND MESSAGE BOARDS YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. NOTE: VALUES FOR “ANY KIND OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM” INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE OF: SOCIAL NETWORKS, QUESTION AND ANSWER SITES (E.G. QUORA), FORUMS AND MESSAGE BOARDS, MESSAGING AND LIVE CHAT SERVICES, MICRO-BLOGS (E.G. TWITTER), BLOGS ON PRODUCTS / BRANDS (NOT SHOWN AS AN INDIVIDUAL VALUE ON THIS CHART), VLOGS (I.E. BLOGS RECORDED IN A VIDEO FORMAT), AND ONLINE PINBOARDS (E.G. PINTEREST). ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO USE EACH SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNEL TO FIND INFORMATION ABOUT BRANDS AND PRODUCTS USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BRAND RESEARCH JAN 2023
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  60 46.6% 31.2% 30.9% 29.2% 28.8% 28.5% 27.2% 23.9% 23.4% 22.9% 22.7% 22.0% 21.8% 20.0% 19.6% FRIENDS, FAMILY, ANDPEOPLE YOU KNOW RESTAURANTS, CHEFS, OR FOODIES ACTORS, COMEDIANS, OR OTHER PERFORMERS ENTERTAINMENT, MEMES, OR PARODY ACCOUNTS TV SHOWS OR CHANNELS SPORTS PEOPLE AND TEAMS INFLUENCERS OR OTHER EXPERTS FITNESS EXPERTS OR ORGANISATIONS BANDS, SINGERS, OR MUSICIANS BRANDS YOU PURCHASE BRANDS YOU’RE CONSIDERING PURCHASING GAMING EXPERTS OR GAMING STUDIOS COMPANIES RELEVANT TO WORK TRAVEL WRITERS AND COMPANIES CONTACTS RELEVANT TO WORK SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO FOLLOW EACH TYPE OF ACCOUNT ON SOCIAL MEDIA TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS FOLLOWED JAN 2023
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  61 0.42% 0.15% 0.45%0.02% 0.01% -31.1% (-19 BPS) -21.1% (-4 BPS) -8.2% (-4 BPS) -33.3% (-1 BP) -50.0% (-1 BP) 76.43% 10.96% 4.94% 3.38% 3.24% -4.9% (-395 BPS) +54.8% (+388 BPS) +58.8% (+183 BPS) -11.7% (-45 BPS) -23.9% (-102 BPS) FACEBOOK TWITTER INSTAGRAM PINTEREST YOUTUBE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE REDDIT TUMBLR LINKEDIN VKONTAKTE OTHER YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE SOURCE: STATCOUNTER. NOTES: SHARE DOES NOT INCLUDE TRAFFIC FROM MESSENGER PLATFORMS. DATA ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A SELECTION OF PLATFORMS, AND PERCENTAGES REFLECT SHARE OF AVAILABLE PLATFORMS ONLY. FIGURES REPRESENT THE SHARE OF WEB TRAFFIC ARRIVING ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES VIA CLICKS OR TAPS ON LINKS PUBLISHED ON EACH PLATFORM AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL WEB TRAFFIC ARRIVING FROM THE AVAILABLE SELECTION OF SOCIAL PLATFORMS IN NOVEMBER 2022. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES REPRESENT RELATIVE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT BASIS POINTS, AND INDICATE THE ABSOLUTE CHANGE. FIGURES MAY NOT SUM TO 100% DUE TO ROUNDING. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED SHARE OF WEB TRAFFIC ARRIVING ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES VIA CLICKS OR TAPS ON LINKS PUBLISHED IN SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS (ANY DEVICE) WEB TRAFFIC REFERRALS FROM SOCIAL MEDIA JAN 2023
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  SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
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  63 77.8% 88.9% 26.9%73.1% 7.30 77.0% -9.3% +1.4% MILLION -750 THOUSAND +100 THOUSAND 90 FACEBOOK AD REACH vs. TOTAL INTERNET USERS FACEBOOK AD REACH vs. POPULATION AGED 13+ FEMALE FACEBOOK AD REACH vs. TOTAL FACEBOOK AD REACH MALE FACEBOOK AD REACH vs. TOTAL FACEBOOK AD REACH TOTAL POTENTIAL REACH OF ADS ON FACEBOOK FACEBOOK AD REACH vs. TOTAL POPULATION QUARTER-ON-QUARTER CHANGE IN REPORTED FACEBOOK AD REACH YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN REPORTED FACEBOOK AD REACH SOURCES: META’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. NOTES: VALUES USE MIDPOINT OF PUBLISHED RANGES. GENDER DATA ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR “FEMALE” AND “MALE”. ADVISORY: REACH FIGURES MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS OR MATCH THE TOTAL ACTIVE USER BASE. VALUES FOR REACH vs. POPULATION AND REACH vs. INTERNET USERS MAY EXCEED 100% DUE TO DUPLICATE AND FAKE ACCOUNTS, DIFFERENT RESEARCH DATES, AND DIFFERENCES IN CENSUS DATA vs. RESIDENT POPULATIONS. SOURCE DATA REVISIONS MAY DISTORT VALUES FOR CHANGE OVER TIME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE DATA REVISIONS. VALUES MAY NOT BE COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR FURTHER DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED THE POTENTIAL AUDIENCE THAT MARKETERS CAN REACH WITH ADS ON FACEBOOK FACEBOOK: ADVERTISING AUDIENCE OVERVIEW NOTE: PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES ON COMPARING DATA AT THE START OF THIS REPORT BEFORE COMPARING DATA ON THIS CHART WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS JAN 2023
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  64 0.34 54.46% 42.36%2.72% 0.47% AVERAGE NUMBER OF PAGE POSTS PER DAY PHOTO POSTS’ SHARE OF TOTAL PAGE POSTS VIDEO POSTS’ SHARE OF TOTAL PAGE POSTS LINK POSTS’ SHARE OF TOTAL PAGE POSTS STATUS POSTS’ SHARE OF TOTAL PAGE POSTS SOURCE: LOCOWISE. FIGURES REPRESENT AVERAGES BETWEEN 01 SEPTEMBER 2022 AND 30 NOVEMBER 2022. NOTES: FIGURES ARE AVERAGES BASED ON A WIDE VARIETY OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF PAGE, WITH DIFFERENT AUDIENCE SIZES, IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. VALUES MAY NOT SUM TO 100% DUE TO ROUNDING. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED POSTS OF EACH TYPE AS A PERCENTAGE OF ALL POSTS MADE BY FACEBOOK PAGES SHARE OF FACEBOOK PAGE POSTS BY POST TYPE JAN 2023
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  65 0.02% 0.02% 0.02%0.04% 0.23% AVERAGE FACEBOOK PAGE POST ENGAGEMENTS vs. PAGE FANS: ALL POST TYPES AVERAGE FACEBOOK PAGE POST ENGAGEMENTS vs. PAGE FANS: PHOTO POSTS AVERAGE FACEBOOK PAGE POST ENGAGEMENTS vs. PAGE FANS: VIDEO POSTS AVERAGE FACEBOOK PAGE POST ENGAGEMENTS vs. PAGE FANS: LINK POSTS AVERAGE FACEBOOK PAGE POST ENGAGEMENTS vs. PAGE FANS: STATUS POSTS SOURCE: LOCOWISE. FIGURES REPRESENT AVERAGES BETWEEN 01 SEPTEMBER 2022 AND 30 NOVEMBER 2022. NOTES: PERCENTAGES COMPARE THE COMBINED TOTAL OF REACTIONS, COMMENTS, AND SHARES WITH THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGE FANS. FIGURES ARE AVERAGES BASED ON A WIDE VARIETY OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF PAGE, WITH DIFFERENT AUDIENCE SIZES, IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. VALUES MAY NOT SUM TO 100% DUE TO ROUNDING. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED FACEBOOK PAGE POST ENGAGEMENTS (REACTIONS, COMMENTS, AND SHARES) AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL PAGE FANS FACEBOOK POST ENGAGEMENT BENCHMARKS JAN 2023
• 66.
  66 7.72 98.7% 28.0%72.0% MILLION 8.99 94.8% 95.8% -0.8% MILLION -70 THOUSAND POTENTIAL REACH OF ADS ON YOUTUBE YOUTUBE AD REACH vs. TOTAL POPULATION YOUTUBE AD REACH vs. TOTAL INTERNET USERS YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN REPORTED YOUTUBE AD REACH YOUTUBE’S ADVERTISING REACH: USERS AGED 18+ YOUTUBE’S AD REACH AGE 18+ vs. TOTAL POPULATION AGE 18+ FEMALE YOUTUBE AD REACH AGE 18+ vs. TOTAL YOUTUBE AD REACH AGE 18+ MALE YOUTUBE AD REACH AGE 18+ vs. TOTAL YOUTUBE AD REACH AGE 18+ SOURCES: GOOGLE’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. NOTES: DATA ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR ALL LOCATIONS; FIGURES BASED ON AVAILABLE DATA ONLY. AGE AND GENDER DATA ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR “FEMALE” AND “MALE” USERS AGED 18+. ADVISORY: REACH FIGURES MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS OR MATCH THE TOTAL ACTIVE USER BASE. VALUES vs. POPULATION AND vs. INTERNET USERS MAY EXCEED 100% DUE TO DUPLICATE AND FAKE ACCOUNTS, USER AGE MISSTATEMENTS, DIFFERENT RESEARCH DATES, AND DIFFERENCES IN CENSUS DATA vs. RESIDENT POPULATIONS. SOURCE DATA REVISIONS MAY DISTORT VALUES FOR CHANGE OVER TIME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE DATA REVISIONS. VALUES NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED THE POTENTIAL AUDIENCE THAT MARKETERS CAN REACH WITH ADS ON YOUTUBE YOUTUBE: ADVERTISING AUDIENCE OVERVIEW NOTE: PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES ON COMPARING DATA AT THE START OF THIS REPORT BEFORE COMPARING DATA ON THIS CHART WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS JAN 2023
• 67.
  67 01 SONG 100 02MOVIE 97 03 SONGS 57 04 MOVIES 27 05 LIVE NEWS 21 06 HINDI MOVIE 21 07 MALAYALAM MOVIE 16 08 NEW MOVIE 15 09 MUSIC 14 10 NEW SONG 14 11 BABY 13 12 MALAYALAM FULL MOVIE 12 13 ‫اغاني‬ 10 14 CARTOON CARTOON 8 15 CARTOON 7 16 COCOMELON 7 17 TIKTOK 6 18 ARY NEWS 6 19 HINDI SONG 6 20 NEW HINDI MOVIE 5 # SEARCH QUERY INDEX # SEARCH QUERY INDEX SOURCE: GOOGLE TRENDS, BASED ON SEARCHES CONDUCTED ON YOUTUBE BETWEEN 01 JANUARY 2022 AND 31 DECEMBER 2022. NOTES: ANY SPELLING ERRORS OR LANGUAGE INCONSISTENCIES IN SEARCH QUERIES ARE AS PUBLISHED BY GOOGLE TRENDS, AND ARE SHOWN “AS IS”, TO ENABLE READERS TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL CHANGES IN HOW PEOPLE USE LANGUAGE IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS. GOOGLE DOES NOT PUBLISH ABSOLUTE SEARCH VOLUMES, BUT THE “INDEX vs. TOP QUERY” COLUMN SHOWS RELATIVE SEARCH VOLUMES FOR EACH QUERY COMPARED WITH THE SEARCH VOLUME OF THE TOP QUERY. ADVISORY: GOOGLE TRENDS USES DYNAMIC SAMPLING, SO RANK ORDER AND INDEX VALUES MAY VARY DEPENDING ON WHEN THE TOOL IS ACCESSED, EVEN FOR THE SAME TIME PERIOD. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED QUERIES WITH THE GREATEST VOLUME OF YOUTUBE SEARCH ACTIVITY BETWEEN 01 JANUARY 2022 AND 31 DECEMBER 2022 TOP YOUTUBE SEARCHES JAN 2023
• 68.
  68 52.7% 60.3% 35.4%64.6% 4.95 52.2% -7.5% -5.7% MILLION -400 THOUSAND -300 THOUSAND 90 INSTAGRAM AD REACH vs. TOTAL INTERNET USERS INSTAGRAM AD REACH vs. POPULATION AGED 13+ FEMALE INSTAGRAM AD REACH vs. TOTAL INSTAGRAM AD REACH MALE INSTAGRAM AD REACH vs. TOTAL INSTAGRAM AD REACH TOTAL POTENTIAL REACH OF ADS ON INSTAGRAM INSTAGRAM AD REACH vs. TOTAL POPULATION QUARTER-ON-QUARTER CHANGE IN REPORTED INSTAGRAM AD REACH YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN REPORTED INSTAGRAM AD REACH SOURCES: META’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. NOTES: VALUES USE MIDPOINT OF PUBLISHED RANGES. GENDER DATA ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR “FEMALE” AND “MALE”. ADVISORY: REACH FIGURES MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS OR MATCH THE TOTAL ACTIVE USER BASE. VALUES FOR REACH vs. POPULATION AND REACH vs. INTERNET USERS MAY EXCEED 100% DUE TO DUPLICATE AND FAKE ACCOUNTS, DIFFERENT RESEARCH DATES, AND DIFFERENCES IN CENSUS DATA vs. RESIDENT POPULATIONS. SOURCE DATA REVISIONS MAY DISTORT VALUES FOR CHANGE OVER TIME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE DATA REVISIONS. VALUES MAY NOT BE COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR FURTHER DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED THE POTENTIAL AUDIENCE THAT MARKETERS CAN REACH WITH ADS ON INSTAGRAM INSTAGRAM: ADVERTISING AUDIENCE OVERVIEW NOTE: PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES ON COMPARING DATA AT THE START OF THIS REPORT BEFORE COMPARING DATA ON THIS CHART WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS JAN 2023
• 69.
  69 87.7% 105.2% 25.8%74.2% 8.23 86.8% -0.3% +22.5% MILLION -21 THOUSAND +1.5 MILLION 90 TIKTOK AD REACH AGE 18+ vs. TOTAL INTERNET USERS TIKTOK AD REACH AGE 18+ vs. POPULATION AGE 18+ FEMALE TIKTOK AD REACH vs. TOTAL TIKTOK AD REACH MALE TIKTOK AD REACH vs. TOTAL TIKTOK AD REACH POTENTIAL REACH OF ADS ON TIKTOK (AGE 18+ ONLY) TIKTOK AD REACH AGE 18+ vs. TOTAL POPULATION QUARTER-ON-QUARTER CHANGE IN REPORTED TIKTOK AD REACH YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN REPORTED TIKTOK AD REACH SOURCES: TIKTOK’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. NOTES: DOES NOT INCLUDE DOUYIN. REACH DATA ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR “FEMALE” AND “MALE” USERS AGED 18+. DATA ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR ALL LOCATIONS; FIGURES BASED ON MIDPOINTS OF AVAILABLE DATA ONLY. ADVISORY: REACH FIGURES MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS OR MATCH THE TOTAL ACTIVE USER BASE. VALUES vs. POPULATION AND vs. INTERNET USERS MAY EXCEED 100% DUE TO DUPLICATE AND FAKE ACCOUNTS, USER AGE MISSTATEMENTS, DIFFERENT RESEARCH DATES, AND DIFFERENCES IN CENSUS DATA vs. RESIDENT POPULATIONS. SOURCE DATA REVISIONS MAY DISTORT VALUES FOR CHANGE OVER TIME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE DATA REVISIONS. VALUES MAY NOT BE COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED THE POTENTIAL AUDIENCE AGED 18+ THAT MARKETERS CAN REACH WITH ADS ON TIKTOK TIKTOK: ADVERTISING AUDIENCE OVERVIEW NOTE: PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES ON COMPARING DATA AT THE START OF THIS REPORT BEFORE COMPARING DATA ON THIS CHART WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS JAN 2023
• 70.
  70 53.8% 61.5% 26.5%73.5% 5.05 53.3% -7.3% +4.1% MILLION -400 THOUSAND +200 THOUSAND 90 MESSENGER AD REACH vs. TOTAL INTERNET USERS MESSENGER AD REACH vs. POPULATION AGED 13+ FEMALE MESSENGER AD REACH vs. TOTAL MESSENGER AD REACH MALE MESSENGER AD REACH vs. TOTAL MESSENGER AD REACH TOTAL POTENTIAL REACH OF ADS ON MESSENGER MESSENGER AD REACH vs. TOTAL POPULATION QUARTER-ON-QUARTER CHANGE IN REPORTED MESSENGER AD REACH YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN REPORTED MESSENGER AD REACH SOURCES: META’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. NOTES: VALUES USE MIDPOINT OF PUBLISHED RANGES. GENDER DATA ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR “FEMALE” AND “MALE”. ADVISORY: REACH FIGURES MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS OR MATCH THE TOTAL ACTIVE USER BASE. VALUES FOR REACH vs. POPULATION AND REACH vs. INTERNET USERS MAY EXCEED 100% DUE TO DUPLICATE AND FAKE ACCOUNTS, DIFFERENT RESEARCH DATES, AND DIFFERENCES IN CENSUS DATA vs. RESIDENT POPULATIONS. SOURCE DATA REVISIONS MAY DISTORT VALUES FOR CHANGE OVER TIME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE DATA REVISIONS. VALUES MAY NOT BE COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR FURTHER DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED THE POTENTIAL AUDIENCE THAT MARKETERS CAN REACH WITH ADS ON FACEBOOK MESSENGER MESSENGER: ADVERTISING AUDIENCE OVERVIEW NOTE: PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES ON COMPARING DATA AT THE START OF THIS REPORT BEFORE COMPARING DATA ON THIS CHART WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS JAN 2023
• 71.
  71 70.3% 84.3% 30.9%69.1% 6.60 69.6% +4.8% +15.8% MILLION +300 THOUSAND +900 THOUSAND 90 LINKEDIN AD REACH vs. TOTAL INTERNET USERS LINKEDIN AD REACH vs. POPULATION AGED 18+ FEMALE LINKEDIN AD REACH vs. TOTAL LINKEDIN AD REACH MALE LINKEDIN AD REACH vs. TOTAL LINKEDIN AD REACH TOTAL POTENTIAL REACH OF ADS ON LINKEDIN LINKEDIN AD REACH vs. TOTAL POPULATION QUARTER-ON-QUARTER CHANGE IN REPORTED LINKEDIN AD REACH YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN REPORTED LINKEDIN AD REACH SOURCES: LINKEDIN’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. NOTES: VALUES ARE BASED ON TOTAL REGISTERED MEMBERS, SO ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH OTHER PLATFORMS IN THIS REPORT. GENDER DATA ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR “FEMALE” AND “MALE”. ADVISORY: REACH FIGURES MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS, OR MATCH THE TOTAL ACTIVE USER OR REGISTERED MEMBER BASE. VALUES FOR REACH vs. POPULATION AND REACH vs. INTERNET USERS MAY EXCEED 100% DUE TO DUPLICATE AND FAKE ACCOUNTS, DIFFERENT RESEARCH DATES, AND DIFFERENCES IN CENSUS DATA vs. RESIDENT POPULATIONS. SOURCE DATA REVISIONS MAY DISTORT VALUES FOR CHANGE OVER TIME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE DATA REVISIONS. VALUES MAY NOT BE COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED THE POTENTIAL AUDIENCE THAT MARKETERS CAN REACH WITH ADS ON LINKEDIN LINKEDIN: ADVERTISING AUDIENCE OVERVIEW NOTE: PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES ON COMPARING DATA AT THE START OF THIS REPORT BEFORE COMPARING DATA ON THIS CHART WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS JAN 2023
• 72.
  72 42.6% 48.7% 43.9%55.5% 4.00 42.2% +11.1% +23.1% MILLION +400 THOUSAND +750 THOUSAND 90 SNAPCHAT AD REACH vs. TOTAL INTERNET USERS SNAPCHAT AD REACH vs. POPULATION AGED 13+ FEMALE SNAPCHAT AD REACH vs. TOTAL SNAPCHAT AD REACH* MALE SNAPCHAT AD REACH vs. TOTAL SNAPCHAT AD REACH* TOTAL POTENTIAL REACH OF ADS ON SNAPCHAT SNAPCHAT AD REACH vs. TOTAL POPULATION QUARTER-ON-QUARTER CHANGE IN REPORTED SNAPCHAT AD REACH YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN REPORTED SNAPCHAT AD REACH SOURCES: SNAP’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. NOTES: DATA ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR ALL LOCATIONS; FIGURES BASED ON MIDPOINTS OF AVAILABLE DATA ONLY. (*) GENDER DATA ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR “FEMALE” AND “MALE”, BUT GENDER VALUES DO NOT SUM TO TOTAL. ADVISORY: REACH FIGURES MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS OR MATCH THE TOTAL ACTIVE USER BASE. VALUES vs. POPULATION AND vs. INTERNET USERS MAY EXCEED 100% DUE TO DUPLICATE AND FAKE ACCOUNTS, DIFFERENT RESEARCH DATES, AND DIFFERENCES IN CENSUS DATA vs. RESIDENT POPULATIONS. SOURCE DATA REVISIONS MAY DISTORT VALUES FOR CHANGE OVER TIME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE DATA REVISIONS. VALUES NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR FURTHER DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED THE POTENTIAL AUDIENCE THAT MARKETERS CAN REACH WITH ADS ON SNAPCHAT SNAPCHAT: ADVERTISING AUDIENCE OVERVIEW NOTE: PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES ON COMPARING DATA AT THE START OF THIS REPORT BEFORE COMPARING DATA ON THIS CHART WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS JAN 2023
• 73.
  73 32.5% 37.1% 33.2%66.8% 3.05 32.2% +7.0% +24.5% MILLION +200 THOUSAND +600 THOUSAND 90 TWITTER AD REACH vs. TOTAL INTERNET USERS TWITTER AD REACH vs. POPULATION AGED 13+ FEMALE TWITTER AD REACH vs. TOTAL TWITTER AD REACH MALE TWITTER AD REACH vs. TOTAL TWITTER AD REACH TOTAL POTENTIAL REACH OF ADS ON TWITTER TWITTER AD REACH vs. TOTAL POPULATION QUARTER-ON-QUARTER CHANGE IN REPORTED TWITTER AD REACH YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN REPORTED TWITTER AD REACH SOURCES: TWITTER’S ADVERTISING RESOURCES; KEPIOS ANALYSIS. NOTES: VALUES USE MIDPOINT OF PUBLISHED RANGES. GENDER DATA ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR “FEMALE” AND “MALE”. ADVISORY: REACH FIGURES MAY NOT REPRESENT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS OR MATCH THE TOTAL ACTIVE USER BASE. VALUES vs. POPULATION AND vs. INTERNET USERS MAY EXCEED 100% DUE TO DUPLICATE AND FAKE ACCOUNTS, ACCOUNTS THAT DO NOT REPRESENT HUMAN INDIVIDUALS (E.G. BUSINESSES, MUSIC BANDS, ETC.), DIFFERENT RESEARCH DATES, AND DIFFERENCES IN CENSUS DATA vs. RESIDENT POPULATIONS. SOURCE DATA REVISIONS MAY DISTORT VALUES FOR CHANGE OVER TIME. COMPARABILITY: SOURCE DATA REVISIONS. VALUES MAY NOT BE COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. SEE NOTES ON DATA FOR DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED THE POTENTIAL AUDIENCE THAT MARKETERS CAN REACH WITH ADS ON TWITTER TWITTER: ADVERTISING AUDIENCE OVERVIEW NOTE: PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES ON COMPARING DATA AT THE START OF THIS REPORT BEFORE COMPARING DATA ON THIS CHART WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS JAN 2023
• 74.
  MOBILE
• 75.
  75 19.05 200.9% +13.3%98.1% MILLION +2.2 MILLION NUMBER OF CELLULAR MOBILE CONNECTIONS (EXCLUDING IOT) NUMBER OF CELLULAR MOBILE CONNECTIONS COMPARED WITH TOTAL POPULATION YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF CELLULAR MOBILE CONNECTIONS SHARE OF CELLULAR MOBILE CONNECTIONS THAT ARE BROADBAND (3G, 4G, 5G) SOURCE: GSMA INTELLIGENCE. NOTES: TOTAL CELLULAR CONNECTIONS INCLUDE DEVICES OTHER THAN MOBILE PHONES, BUT EXCLUDE CELLULAR IOT CONNECTIONS. FIGURES MAY SIGNIFICANTLY EXCEED FIGURES FOR POPULATION DUE TO MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS AND CONNECTED DEVICES PER PERSON. COMPARABILITY: BASE CHANGES. VERSIONS OF THIS CHART PUBLISHED IN SOME OF OUR PREVIOUS REPORTS FEATURED CELLULAR CONNECTION FIGURES THAT INCLUDED CELLULAR IOT CONNECTIONS. FIGURES SHOWN HERE DO NOT INCLUDE CELLULAR IOT CONNECTIONS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED USE OF MOBILE PHONES AND DEVICES THAT CONNECT TO CELLULAR NETWORKS MOBILE CONNECTIVITY JAN 2023
• 76.
  76 16.9 M 17.0M 17.3 M 16.9 M 16.8 M 18.3 M 18.9 M 19.0 M 19.0 M +1.0% +1.7% -2.6% -0.3% +8.8% +3.6% +0.3% +0.3% JAN APR JUL OCT JAN APR JUL OCT JAN 2021 2021 2021 2021 2022 2022 2022 2022 2023 SOURCE: GSMA INTELLIGENCE. NOTE: WHERE LETTERS ARE SHOWN NEXT TO FIGURES ABOVE BARS, “K” DENOTES THOUSANDS (E.G. “123 K” = 123,000), “M” DENOTES MILLIONS (E.G. “1.23 M” = 1,230,000), AND “B” DENOTES BILLIONS (E.G. “1.23 B” = 1,230,000,000). WHERE NO LETTER IS PRESENT, VALUES ARE SHOWN AS IS. COMPARABILITY: BASE REVISIONS. NUMBERS MAY NOT CORRELATE WITH VALUES PUBLISHED IN OUR PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED NUMBER OF CELLULAR MOBILE CONNECTIONS AND YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE CELLULAR MOBILE CONNECTIONS OVER TIME JAN 2023 DATAREPORTAL
• 77.
  77 $53.74 1.78% $4.290.13% PRICE OF THE CHEAPEST SMARTPHONE HANDSET (IN USD) PRICE OF THE CHEAPEST SMARTPHONE HANDSET vs. AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE PRICE OF 1GB OF CELLULAR MOBILE DATA (IN USD) AVERAGE PRICE OF 1GB OF CELLULAR MOBILE DATA vs. AVERAGE INCOME SOURCES: HANDSET PRICES: ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE INTERNET; ACCESS THE FULL DATASET AT A4AI.ORG. MOBILE DATA PRICES: CABLE.CO.UK; WORLD BANK. COMPARABILITY: VALUE FOR HANDSET PRICES vs. MONTHLY INCOME AS PUBLISHED BY A4AI, AND MAY USE A DIFFERENT VALUE FOR AVERAGE MONTHLY INCOME COMPARED WITH THE DATA USED TO CALCULATE THE PRICE OF 1GB OF MOBILE DATA vs. MONTHLY INCOME. AS A RESULT, VALUES MAY NOT CORRELATE ACROSS DATA POINTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED THE COST OF BUYING A SMARTPHONE HANDSET AND 1GB OF CELLULAR MOBILE DATA, AND COMPARISONS WITH AVERAGE MONTHLY INCOME AFFORDABILITY OF MOBILE INTERNET ACCESS JAN 2023
• 78.
  78 72.66% 27.03% 0.28%0% 0.03% -0.1% (-9 BPS) +0.7% (+18 BPS) -12.5% (-4 BPS) -100.0% (-1 BP) -57.1% (-4 BPS) SHARE OF MOBILE WEB TRAFFIC ORIGINATING FROM ANDROID DEVICES SHARE OF MOBILE WEB TRAFFIC ORIGINATING FROM APPLE IOS DEVICES SHARE OF MOBILE WEB TRAFFIC ORIGINATING FROM SAMSUNG OS DEVICES SHARE OF MOBILE WEB TRAFFIC ORIGINATING FROM KAI OS DEVICES SHARE OF MOBILE WEB TRAFFIC ORIGINATING FROM OTHER OS DEVICES YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE SOURCE: STATCOUNTER. NOTES: FIGURES REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF WEB PAGES SERVED TO BROWSERS ON MOBILE PHONES RUNNING EACH OPERATING SYSTEM COMPARED WITH THE TOTAL NUMBER OF WEB PAGES SERVED TO MOBILE BROWSERS IN NOVEMBER 2022. FIGURES FOR SAMSUNG OS REFER ONLY TO THOSE DEVICES RUNNING OPERATING SYSTEMS DEVELOPED BY SAMSUNG (E.G. BADA AND TIZEN), AND DO NOT INCLUDE SAMSUNG DEVICES RUNNING ANDROID. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES REPRESENT RELATIVE CHANGE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT BASIS POINTS, AND INDICATE THE ABSOLUTE CHANGE. FIGURES MAY NOT SUM TO 100% DUE TO ROUNDING. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF WEB PAGE REQUESTS ORIGINATING FROM MOBILE HANDSETS RUNNING EACH MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEM IN NOVEMBER 2022 SHARE OF MOBILE WEB TRAFFIC BY MOBILE OS JAN 2023
• 79.
  79 569.0 +16.4% $434.8+25.3% MILLION +80 MILLION MILLION +$88 MILLION TOTAL NUMBER OF MOBILE APP DOWNLOADS YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF MOBILE APP DOWNLOADS ANNUAL CONSUMER SPEND ON MOBILE APPS AND IN-APP PURCHASES (USD) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN CONSUMER SPEND ON MOBILE APPS AND IN-APP PURCHASES SOURCE: DATA.AI INTELLIGENCE. SEE DATA.AI FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: FIGURES REPRESENT COMBINED CONSUMER ACTIVITY ACROSS THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE, APPLE IOS APP STORE, AND THIRD-PARTY ANDROID APP STORES BETWEEN JANUARY AND DECEMBER 2022. FINANCIAL VALUES ARE IN U.S. DOLLARS. “CONSUMER SPEND” ONLY INCLUDES SPEND ON APPS AND IN-APP PURCHASES VIA APP STORES, AND DOES NOT INCLUDE REVENUES FROM ECOMMERCE OR MOBILE ADVERTISING. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED HEADLINES FOR MOBILE APP DOWNLOADS AND CONSUMER SPEND (IN U.S. DOLLARS) BETWEEN JANUARY AND DECEMBER 2022 MOBILE APP MARKET OVERVIEW JAN 2023
• 80.
  80 01 WHATSAPP META 02FACEBOOK META 03 INSTAGRAM META 04 FACEBOOK MESSENGER META 05 TIKTOK BYTEDANCE 06 AMAZON AMAZON 07 TELEGRAM TELEGRAM 08 BOTIM ALGENTO 09 ALHOSN UAE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND PREVENTION 10 TWITTER TWITTER 01 PUBG MOBILE TENCENT 02 ROBLOX ROBLOX 03 SUBWAY SURFERS SYBO 04 CANDY CRUSH SAGA ACTIVISION BLIZZARD 05 8 BALL POOL TENCENT 06 FREE FIRE SEA 07 CLASH OF CLANS TENCENT 08 CALL OF DUTY: MOBILE ACTIVISION BLIZZARD 09 LUDO STAR GAMEBERRY 10 AMONG US! INNERSLOTH # MOBILE APP COMPANY # MOBILE GAME COMPANY SOURCE: DATA.AI INTELLIGENCE. SEE DATA.AI FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: RANKINGS BASED ON COMBINED MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS ACROSS IPHONES AND ANDROID PHONES BETWEEN JANUARY AND DECEMBER 2022, EXCLUDING PRE-INSTALLED APPS (E.G. YOUTUBE ON ANDROID PHONES, IMESSAGE ON IPHONES). ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED MOBILE APPS AND GAMES RANKED BY AVERAGE MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS BETWEEN JANUARY AND DECEMBER 2022 APP RANKING: MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS JAN 2023
• 81.
  81 01 TIKTOK BYTEDANCE 02WHATSAPP BUSINESS META 03 BOTIM ALGENTO 04 INSTAGRAM META 05 FACEBOOK META 06 ALHOSN UAE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND PREVENTION 07 CAPCUT BYTEDANCE 08 WHATSAPP META 09 UAE PASS DUBAI SMART GOVERNMENT 10 IMO IMO.IM 01 YALLA LUDO YALLA 02 SUBWAY SURFERS SYBO 03 PUBG MOBILE TENCENT 04 LUDO KING GAMETION 05 CANDY CRUSH SAGA ACTIVISION BLIZZARD 06 ROBLOX ROBLOX 07 8 BALL POOL TENCENT 08 1945 AIR FORCES ONESOFT 09 FIFA SOCCER ELECTRONIC ARTS 10 FREE FIRE SEA # MOBILE APP COMPANY # MOBILE GAME COMPANY SOURCE: DATA.AI INTELLIGENCE. SEE DATA.AI FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: RANKINGS BASED ON COMBINED USER ACTIVITY ACROSS THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE AND APPLE IOS APP STORE BETWEEN JANUARY AND DECEMBER 2022. VALUES FOR CHINA ONLY INCLUDE ACTIVITY ON THE APPLE IOS APP STORE. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED RANKING OF MOBILE APPS AND MOBILE GAMES BY TOTAL NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS BETWEEN JANUARY AND DECEMBER 2022 APP RANKING: DOWNLOADS JAN 2023
• 82.
  82 01 TIKTOK BYTEDANCE 02YOUTUBE GOOGLE 03 SHAHID MBC GROUP 04 TINDER MATCH GROUP 05 LINKEDIN MICROSOFT 06 BIGO LIVE JOYY INC. 07 CHAMET FULIAO 08 GOOGLE ONE GOOGLE 09 HOTSPOT SHIELD VPN AURA COMPANY 10 NETFLIX NETFLIX 01 PUBG MOBILE TENCENT 02 YALLA LUDO YALLA 03 ROBLOX ROBLOX 04 RISE OF KINGDOMS LILITH 05 CLASH OF CLANS TENCENT 06 EVONY TOP GAMES 07 STATE OF SURVIVAL FUNPLUS 08 TOP WAR: BATTLE GAME TOPWAR STUDIO 09 RISE OF EMPIRE LONG TECH NETWORK 10 MOBILE LEGENDS: BANG BANG BYTEDANCE # MOBILE APP COMPANY # MOBILE GAME COMPANY SOURCE: DATA.AI INTELLIGENCE. SEE DATA.AI FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: RANKINGS BASED ON COMBINED USER ACTIVITY ACROSS THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE AND APPLE IOS APP STORE BETWEEN JANUARY AND DECEMBER 2022. VALUES FOR CHINA ONLY INCLUDE ACTIVITY ON THE APPLE IOS APP STORE. “CONSUMER SPEND” ONLY INCLUDES SPEND ON APPS AND IN-APP PURCHASES VIA APP STORES, AND DOES NOT INCLUDE REVENUES FROM ECOMMERCE OR MOBILE ADVERTISING. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED RANKING OF MOBILE APPS AND MOBILE GAMES BY TOTAL CONSUMER SPEND BETWEEN JANUARY AND DECEMBER 2022 APP RANKING: CONSUMER SPEND JAN 2023
• 83.
  ECOMMERCE
• 84.
  84 85.9% 84.1% 25.6%27.3% 72.9% 67.3% 8.7% 15.0% 75.5% 74.9% 26.1% 25.2% 6.7% 13.3% 11.9% 17.3% 75.1% 25.4% 11.5% 15.9% 84.6% 26.8% 68.8% 13.3% FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE MADE A DIGITAL PAYMENT (PAST YEAR) MADE A PURCHASE USING A MOBILE PHONE OR THE INTERNET (PAST YEAR) USED A MOBILE PHONE OR THE INTERNET TO SEND MONEY (PAST YEAR) USED A MOBILE PHONE OR THE INTERNET TO PAY BILLS (PAST YEAR) FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE ACCOUNT WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION CREDIT CARD OWNERSHIP DEBIT CARD OWNERSHIP MOBILE MONEY ACCOUNT (E.G. MPESA, GCASH) SOURCE: WORLD BANK. NOTES: SOME FIGURES HAVE NOT BEEN UPDATED IN THE PAST YEAR, SO MAY BE LESS REPRESENTATIVE OF CURRENT BEHAVIOURS. PERCENTAGES ARE OF ADULTS AGED 15 AND ABOVE, NOT OF TOTAL POPULATION. MOBILE MONEY ACCOUNTS ONLY REFER TO SERVICES THAT STORE FUNDS IN AN ELECTRONIC WALLET LINKED DIRECTLY TO A PHONE NUMBER, SUCH AS MPESA, GCASH, AND TIGO PESA. FIGURES FOR MOBILE MONEY ACCOUNTS DO NOT INCLUDE PEOPLE WHO USE ‘OVER-THE-TOP’ MOBILE PAYMENT SERVICES SUCH AS APPLE PAY, GOOGLE PAY, OR SAMSUNG PAY. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL POPULATION AGED 15+ THAT OWNS OR USES EACH PRODUCT OR SERVICE FINANCIAL INCLUSION FACTORS JAN 2023
• 85.
  85 62.3% 37.0% 16.0%25.8% 18.7% +5.8% (+340 BPS) +10.8% (+360 BPS) +18.5% (+250 BPS) +7.9% (+190 BPS) +64.0% (+730 BPS) PURCHASED A PRODUCT OR SERVICE ONLINE ORDERED GROCERIES VIA AN ONLINE STORE BOUGHT A SECOND-HAND ITEM VIA AN ONLINE STORE USED AN ONLINE PRICE COMPARISON SERVICE USED A BUY NOW, PAY LATER SERVICE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. NOTES: “YOY” PERCENTAGE VALUES REPRESENT THE RELATIVE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT THE ABSOLUTE CHANGE (IN BASIS POINTS). ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO ENGAGE IN SELECTED ECOMMERCE ACTIVITIES EACH WEEK WEEKLY ONLINE SHOPPING ACTIVITIES JAN 2023
• 86.
  86 45.2% 32.0% 30.2% 30.0% 29.7% 26.2% 26.2% 24.2% 20.5% 19.5% 19.1% 17.5% 17.5% 16.5% 16.4% FREE DELIVERY EASY RETURNSPOLICY NEXT-DAY DELIVERY COUPONS AND DISCOUNTS LOYALTY POINTS ABILITY TO PAY CASH ON DELIVERY REVIEWS FROM OTHER CUSTOMERS FAST, EASY ONLINE CHECKOUT “CLICK AND COLLECT” “LIKES” OR GOOD COMMENTS ON SOCIAL PRODUCT OR COMPANY IS ECO-FRIENDLY INTEREST-FREE PAYMENTS EXCLUSIVE CONTENT OR SERVICES “GUEST” CHECK-OUT LIVE-CHAT BOX SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO SAY EACH FACTOR WOULD ENCOURAGE THEM TO COMPLETE AN ONLINE PURCHASE ONLINE PURCHASE DRIVERS JAN 2023
• 87.
  87 7.00 $11.58 $1,65470.5% MILLION BILLION +1.0% (+72 THOUSAND) +0.8% (+$90 MILLION) -0.2% (-$4.00) +5.5% (+366 BPS) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE PURCHASING CONSUMER GOODS VIA THE INTERNET ESTIMATED TOTAL ANNUAL SPEND ON ONLINE CONSUMER GOODS PURCHASES (USD, 2022) AVERAGE ANNUAL REVENUE PER CONSUMER GOODS ECOMMERCE USER (USD, 2022) SHARE OF 2022 CONSUMER GOODS ECOMMERCE SPEND ATTRIBUTABLE TO PURCHASES MADE VIA MOBILE PHONES SOURCE: STATISTA DIGITAL MARKET OUTLOOK. SEE STATISTA.COM FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: “CONSUMER GOODS” INCLUDE: ELECTRONICS, FASHION, FURNITURE, TOYS, HOBBY, DIY, BEAUTY, CONSUMER HEALTHCARE, PERSONAL CARE, HOUSEHOLD CARE, FOOD, BEVERAGES, AND PHYSICAL MEDIA. FIGURES REPRESENT ESTIMATES FOR FULL-YEAR 2022, AND COMPARISONS WITH EQUIVALENT VALUES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. FINANCIAL VALUES ARE IN U.S. DOLLARS. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES ARE RELATIVE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT BASIS POINTS, AND INDICATE ABSOLUTE CHANGE. COMPARABILITY: BASE AND CATEGORY DEFINITION CHANGES. FIGURES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED HEADLINES FOR THE ADOPTION AND USE OF CONSUMER GOODS ECOMMERCE (B2C ONLY) OVERVIEW OF CONSUMER GOODS ECOMMERCE JAN 2023
• 88.
  88 $1.16 $323.6 $71.34$633.1 BILLION MILLION MILLION MILLION +3.4% (+$38 MILLION) +29.5% (+$74 MILLION) +13.6% (+$8.5 MILLION) +9.9% (+$57 MILLION) $4.57 $1.94 $1.73 $1.15 BILLION BILLION BILLION BILLION +3.5% (+$154 MILLION) -7.8% (-$165 MILLION) +5.4% (+$88 MILLION) -12.2% (-$159 MILLION) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE PERSONAL & HOUSEHOLD CARE FOOD BEVERAGES PHYSICAL MEDIA YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE FASHION ELECTRONICS TOYS, HOBBY, DIY FURNITURE SOURCE: STATISTA DIGITAL MARKET OUTLOOK. SEE STATISTA.COM FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: FIGURES REPRESENT ESTIMATES OF FULL-YEAR REVENUES FOR 2022 IN U.S. DOLLARS, AND COMPARISONS WITH EQUIVALENT VALUES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. THE “PERSONAL & HOUSEHOLD CARE” CATEGORY INCLUDES BEAUTY AND CONSUMER HEALTHCARE. THE “PHYSICAL MEDIA” CATEGORY DOES NOT INCLUDE DIGITAL DOWNLOADS OR STREAMING. COMPARABILITY: BASE AND CATEGORY DEFINITION CHANGES. FIGURES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED ESTIMATED ANNUAL SPEND IN EACH CONSUMER GOODS ECOMMERCE CATEGORY (B2C ONLY, U.S. DOLLARS, FULL-YEAR 2022) ECOMMERCE: CONSUMER GOODS CATEGORIES JAN 2023
• 89.
  89 11 APPLE 27 12LAPTOP 27 13 IPHONE 13 26 14 DIOR 23 15 CARREFOUR 22 16 GUCCI 19 17 AMAZON UAE 18 18 IPHONE 13 PRO 18 19 TABLET 17 20 HUAWEI 17 01 SHOES 100 02 IPHONE 74 03 AMAZON 74 04 SAMSUNG 61 05 NIKE 46 06 BED 33 07 NOON 31 08 PHONE 29 09 ADIDAS 29 10 IKEA 28 # SEARCH QUERY INDEX vs. TOP QUERY # SEARCH QUERY INDEX vs. TOP QUERY SOURCE: GOOGLE TRENDS, BASED ON SHOPPING SEARCHES CONDUCTED ON GOOGLE SEARCH BETWEEN 01 JANUARY 2022 AND 31 DECEMBER 2022. NOTES: ANY LANGUAGE ANOMALIES OR SPELLING ERRORS IN QUERIES ARE AS PUBLISHED BY GOOGLE TRENDS, AND ARE SHOWN “AS IS”, TO ENABLE READERS TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL CHANGES IN HOW PEOPLE USE LANGUAGE IN THEIR SEARCH ACTIVITIES. GOOGLE DOES NOT PUBLISH ABSOLUTE SEARCH VOLUMES, BUT THE “INDEX vs. TOP QUERY” COLUMN SHOWS RELATIVE SEARCH VOLUMES FOR EACH QUERY COMPARED WITH THE SEARCH VOLUME OF THE TOP QUERY. ADVISORY: GOOGLE TRENDS USES DYNAMIC SAMPLING, SO RANK ORDER AND INDEX VALUES MAY VARY DEPENDING ON WHEN THE TOOL IS ACCESSED, EVEN FOR THE SAME TIME PERIOD. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED SHOPPING QUERIES WITH THE GREATEST VOLUME OF GOOGLE SEARCH ACTIVITY BETWEEN 01 JANUARY 2022 AND 31 DECEMBER 2022 TOP GOOGLE SHOPPING SEARCHES JAN 2023
• 90.
  90 23% 48% 11%10% 8% SHARE OF B2C ECOMMERCE TRANSACTION VOLUME ATTRIBUTABLE TO DIGITAL AND MOBILE WALLETS SHARE OF B2C ECOMMERCE TRANSACTION VOLUME ATTRIBUTABLE TO DEBIT AND CREDIT CARDS SHARE OF B2C ECOMMERCE TRANSACTION VOLUME ATTRIBUTABLE TO BANK TRANSFERS SHARE OF B2C ECOMMERCE TRANSACTION VOLUME ATTRIBUTABLE TO CASH-ON-DELIVERY SHARE OF B2C ECOMMERCE TRANSACTION VOLUME ATTRIBUTABLE TO OTHER PAYMENT METHODS SOURCE: PPRO. NOTE: FIGURES REPRESENT SHARE OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF B2C ECOMMERCE TRANSACTIONS IN 2021. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF ALL B2C ECOMMERCE TRANSACTIONS IN 2021 COMPLETED USING EACH TYPE OF PAYMENT METHOD PAYMENT METHODS USED FOR ECOMMERCE JAN 2023
• 91.
  91 $315.6 $305.6 $168.1$2.36 MILLION MILLION MILLION MILLION +38.4% (+$88 MILLION) +27.9% (+$67 MILLION) +34.3% (+$43 MILLION) +135% (+$1.4 MILLION) $429.4 [N/A] $98.91 $13.77 MILLION [N/A] MILLION MILLION +1.9% (+$7.9 MILLION) [N/A] +91.0% (+$47 MILLION) +27.9% (+$3.0 MILLION) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE HOTELS PACKAGE HOLIDAYS VACATION RENTALS CRUISES YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE FLIGHTS TRAINS CAR RENTALS LONG-DISTANCE BUSES SOURCE: STATISTA DIGITAL MARKET OUTLOOK; STATISTA MOBILITY MARKET OUTLOOK. SEE STATISTA.COM FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: FIGURES REPRESENT ESTIMATES OF FULL-YEAR REVENUES FOR 2022 IN U.S. DOLLARS, AND COMPARISONS WITH EQUIVALENT VALUES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. VALUES DO NOT INCLUDE REVENUES ASSOCIATED WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORT, NON-COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS, FERRIES, TAXIS, RIDE-SHARING, RIDE-HAILING, OR CHAUFFEUR SERVICES. COMPARABILITY: BASE AND CATEGORY DEFINITION CHANGES. FIGURES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED ANNUAL ONLINE SPEND ON TRAVEL AND TOURISM SERVICES (U.S. DOLLARS, FULL-YEAR 2022) ONLINE TRAVEL AND TOURISM JAN 2023
• 92.
  92 15.8% 21.1% 11.1%9.6% 9.7% +22.5% (+290 BPS) +46.5% (+670 BPS) +19.4% (+180 BPS) +28.0% (+210 BPS) +16.9% (+140 BPS) 29.7% 22.4% 22.0% 18.1% 11.5% +17.9% (+450 BPS) +47.4% (+720 BPS) +2.3% (+50 BPS) +11.0% (+180 BPS) [UNCHANGED] MOVIE OR TV DOWNLOAD MUSIC DOWNLOAD NEWS SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION TO AN ONLINE MAGAZINE DIGITAL BOOKS AND E-BOOKS MOVIE OR TV STREAMING SERVICE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICE MOBILE APP MOBILE GAME MOBILE APP IN- APP PURCHASES YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO PAY FOR EACH KIND OF DIGITAL CONTENT EACH MONTH TYPES OF DIGITAL CONTENT PURCHASED JAN 2023
• 93.
  93 $521.2 $288.1 $162.4$36.21 $34.49 MILLION MILLION MILLION MILLION MILLION +2.9% (+$15 MILLION) +3.9% (+$11 MILLION) +3.0% (+$4.7 MILLION) +1.0% (+$350 THOUSAND) -2.6% (-$930 THOUSAND) TOTAL VIDEO GAMES VIDEO-ON-DEMAND EPUBLISHING DIGITAL MUSIC YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE SOURCE: STATISTA DIGITAL MARKET OUTLOOK. SEE STATISTA.COM FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: FIGURES REPRESENT ESTIMATES FOR FULL-YEAR SPEND IN 2022 IN U.S. DOLLARS, AND COMPARISONS WITH EQUIVALENT VALUES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. INCLUDES CONTENT DOWNLOADS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS TO STREAMING SERVICES AND ONLINE PUBLISHERS. DOES NOT INCLUDE PHYSICAL MEDIA OR USER-GENERATED CONTENT. COMPARABILITY: BASE AND CATEGORY DEFINITION CHANGES. FIGURES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED FULL-YEAR 2022 SPEND ON DIGITAL MEDIA SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DOWNLOADS (IN U.S. DOLLARS) DIGITAL MEDIA SPEND JAN 2023
• 94.
  94 2.30 -1.2% $1.16+1.4% $506 MILLION -29 THOUSAND BILLION +$16 MILLION +2.7% (+$13.10) NUMBER OF PEOPLE ORDERING FOOD DELIVERY VIA ONLINE PLATFORMS YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF ONLINE FOOD DELIVERY USERS TOTAL ANNUAL VALUE OF ONLINE FOOD DELIVERY ORDERS (USD, 2022) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN THE VALUE OF ONLINE FOOD DELIVERY ORDERS AVERAGE ANNUAL VALUE OF ONLINE FOOD DELIVERY ORDERS PER USER (USD, 2022) SOURCE: STATISTA DIGITAL MARKET OUTLOOK. SEE STATISTA.COM FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: ONLY INCLUDES ORDERS OF PREPARED FOOD THAT ARE MADE VIA ONLINE SERVICES. INCLUDES ONLINE ORDERS THAT ARE COLLECTED AT A RESTAURANT. FIGURES REPRESENT ESTIMATES FOR FULL-YEAR 2022, AND COMPARISONS WITH EQUIVALENT VALUES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. FINANCIAL VALUES ARE IN U.S. DOLLARS. ONLY INCLUDES ORDERS MADE VIA ONLINE SERVICES. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES ARE RELATIVE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT BASIS POINTS, AND INDICATE ABSOLUTE CHANGE. COMPARABILITY: BASE AND CATEGORY DEFINITION CHANGES. FIGURES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED HEADLINES FOR THE ADOPTION AND USE OF ONLINE MEAL AND TAKEAWAY DELIVERY SERVICES ONLINE MEAL DELIVERY OVERVIEW JAN 2023
• 95.
  95 4.55 -1.8% $249.1+21.6% $54.81 MILLION -82 THOUSAND MILLION +$44 MILLION +23.9% (+$10.56) NUMBER OF PEOPLE USING E-HEALTH DEVICES AND SERVICES YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF E-HEALTH USERS TOTAL ANNUAL VALUE OF THE E-HEALTH MARKET (USD, 2022) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN THE VALUE OF THE E-HEALTH MARKET AVERAGE ANNUAL SPEND ON E-HEALTH PER USER (USD, 2022) SOURCE: STATISTA DIGITAL MARKET OUTLOOK. SEE STATISTA.COM FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: INCLUDES E-HEALTH DEVICES AND APPS, OVER-THE-COUNTER PHARMACEUTICALS SOLD VIA THE INTERNET, AND ONLINE DOCTOR CONSULTATIONS. DOES NOT INCLUDE DIGITAL FITNESS DEVICES AND SERVICES, SMART CLOTHING, SMART SHOES, OR SMART EYEWEAR; APPS FOR TRACKING SLEEP OR TRACKING HEALTH; MOOD IMPROVEMENT APPS; OR APPS TO MANAGE ADDICTION, DEPRESSION, EATING DISORDERS, OR SCHIZOPHRENIA. FIGURES REPRESENT ESTIMATES FOR FULL-YEAR 2022, AND COMPARISONS TO EQUIVALENT VALUES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. FINANCIAL VALUES ARE IN U.S. DOLLARS. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES ARE RELATIVE; “BPS” VALUES SHOW ABSOLUTE CHANGE. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED HEADLINES FOR THE ADOPTION AND USE OF DIGITALLY ENABLED HEALTHCARE DEVICES AND SERVICES E-HEALTH OVERVIEW JAN 2023
• 96.
  96 3.49 +3.1% $203.7+3.3% $58.35 MILLION +106 THOUSAND MILLION +$6.6 MILLION +0.2% (+$0.13) NUMBER OF PEOPLE USING DIGITAL FITNESS & WELL- BEING DEVICES AND SERVICES YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF DIGITAL FITNESS & WELL-BEING USERS TOTAL ANNUAL VALUE OF THE DIGITAL FITNESS & WELL- BEING MARKET (USD, 2022) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN THE VALUE OF THE DIGITAL FITNESS & WELL-BEING MARKET AVERAGE ANNUAL SPEND ON DIGITAL FITNESS & WELL- BEING PER USER (USD, 2022) SOURCE: STATISTA DIGITAL MARKET OUTLOOK. SEE STATISTA.COM FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: INCLUDES SMARTWATCHES, FITNESS AND ACTIVITY TRACKING WRIST-WEAR, SMART SCALES, FITNESS APPS THAT TRACK ACHIEVEMENTS, NUTRITION APPS (E.G. CALORIE COUNTING), AND MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS APPS. DOES NOT INCLUDE SMART CLOTHING, SMART SHOES, SMART EYEWEAR, HEALTH TRACKING APPS, PARAMETER-SPECIFIC BIOSENSORS (E.G. BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORS), OR APPS THAT FOCUS ON SPECIFIC DISEASES. FIGURES REPRESENT ESTIMATES FOR FULL-YEAR 2022, AND COMPARISONS TO EQUIVALENT VALUES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. FINANCIAL VALUES ARE IN U.S. DOLLARS. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES ARE RELATIVE; “BPS” VALUES SHOW ABSOLUTE CHANGE. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED HEADLINES FOR THE ADOPTION AND USE OF DIGITAL FITNESS & WELL-BEING DEVICES AND SERVICES DIGITAL FITNESS & WELL-BEING OVERVIEW JAN 2023
• 97.
  97 8.05 +2.7% $26.28+11.2% $3,265 MILLION +208 THOUSAND BILLION +$2.7 BILLION +8.3% (+$251) NUMBER OF PEOPLE MAKING DIGITAL PAYMENTS YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE MAKING DIGITAL PAYMENTS TOTAL ANNUAL VALUE OF DIGITAL PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS (USD, 2022) YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE IN THE VALUE OF DIGITAL PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS AVERAGE ANNUAL VALUE OF DIGITAL PAYMENTS PER USER (USD, 2022) SOURCE: STATISTA DIGITAL MARKET OUTLOOK. SEE STATISTA.COM FOR MORE DETAILS. NOTES: “DIGITAL PAYMENTS” INCLUDE MOBILE P.O.S. PAYMENTS (E.G. PAYMENTS VIA APPLE PAY OR SAMSUNG PAY), B2C DIGITAL COMMERCE, AND B2C DIGITAL REMITTANCES. VALUES DO NOT INCLUDE B2B TRANSACTIONS. FIGURES REPRESENT ESTIMATES FOR FULL-YEAR FOR 2022, AND COMPARISONS WITH EQUIVALENT VALUES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. FINANCIAL VALUES ARE IN U.S. DOLLARS. PERCENTAGE CHANGE VALUES ARE RELATIVE (I.E. AN INCREASE OF 20% FROM A STARTING VALUE OF 50% WOULD EQUAL 60%, NOT 70%). “BPS” VALUES REPRESENT BASIS POINTS, AND INDICATE ABSOLUTE CHANGE. COMPARABILITY: BASE CHANGES. FIGURES ARE NOT COMPARABLE WITH PREVIOUS REPORTS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED HEADLINES FOR THE ADOPTION AND USE OF DIGITALLY ENABLED PAYMENT SERVICES BY END CONSUMERS OVERVIEW OF CONSUMER DIGITAL PAYMENTS JAN 2023
• 98.
  DIGITAL MARKETING
• 99.
  99 28.7% 27.5% 24.9% 24.3% 24.1% 24.0% 22.4% 20.7% 20.3% 20.2% 19.9% 18.4% 18.2% 17.3% 17.3% ADS ON SOCIALMEDIA SEARCH ENGINES ONLINE RETAIL WEBSITES ADS ON WEBSITES ADS ON TV BRAND OR PRODUCT WEBSITES IN-STORE DISPLAYS OR PROMOTIONS WORD-OF-MOUTH RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FRIENDS OR FAMILY RECOMMENDATIONS OR COMMENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ADS IN MOBILE OR TABLET APPS TV SHOWS OR FILMS CONSUMER REVIEW SITES COMPANY EMAILS, LETTERS, OR MAILSHOTS ADS ON BILLBOARDS OR POSTERS BRANDS’ SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATES SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO DISCOVER NEW BRANDS, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES VIA EACH CHANNEL OR MEDIUM SOURCES OF BRAND DISCOVERY JAN 2023
• 100.
  100 48.5% 45.7% 17.4%16.3% 20.3% -1.4% (-70 BPS) -14.3% (-760 BPS) +25.2% (+350 BPS) +1.2% (+20 BPS) +2.0% (+40 BPS) RESEARCH BRANDS ONLINE BEFORE MAKING A PURCHASE VISITED A BRAND’S WEBSITE IN THE PAST 30 DAYS CLICKED OR TAPPED ON A BANNER AD ON A WEBSITE IN THE PAST 30 DAYS CLICKED OR TAPPED ON A SPONSORED SOCIAL MEDIA POST IN THE PAST 30 DAYS DOWNLOADED OR USED A BRANDED MOBILE APP IN THE PAST 30 DAYS YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGE SOURCE: GWI (Q3 2022). FIGURES REPRESENT THE FINDINGS OF A BROAD GLOBAL SURVEY OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64. SEE GWI.COM FOR FULL DETAILS. ARAB EMIRATES THE UNITED PERCENTAGE OF INTERNET USERS AGED 16 TO 64 WHO SAY THEY ENGAGE IN EACH KIND OF ONLINE ACTIVITY ENGAGEMENT WITH DIGITAL MARKETING JAN 2023