Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions, 2022

Deloitte Global predicts that in 2022, at least 150 million paid subscriptions to streaming video on-demand (SVOD) services will be cancelled worldwide, with churn rates of up to 30% per market.

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Deloitte Global predicts that the console market will generate US$81 billion in 2022, up 10% from 2021.

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Deloitte Global predicts that addressable TV advertising, which allows different ads to be shown to different households watching the same program, will generate about US$7.5 billion globally in 2022.

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Deloitte Global predicts that, in the United Kingdom, 2022 will be the final year that traditional television from broadcasters ... collectively makes up more than 50% of video viewing on all screens.

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Deloitte Global predicts that many types of chips will still be in short supply throughout 2022 ... By the end of 2022, we predict those lead times will be closer to 10–20 weeks and that the industry will be in balance by early 2023.

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Deloitte Global predicts that venture capital (VC) firms globally will invest more than US$6 billion in semiconductor companies in 2022.

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Deloitte Global predicts that the market for RISC-V processing cores will double in 2022 from what it was in 2021—and that it will double again in 2023

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Deloitte Global predicts that the number of FWA connections will grow from about 60 million in 2020 to roughly 88 million in 2022, with 5G FWA representing almost 7% of the total

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Deloitte Global predicts that more Wi-Fi 6 devices will ship in 2022 than 5G devices, to the tune of at least 2.5 billion Wi-Fi 6 devices versus roughly 1.5 billion 5G devices.

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Deloitte Global predicts that 320 million consumer health and wellness wearable devices will ship worldwide in 2022

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Deloitte Global predicts that global spending on mobile mental health applications will reach close to US$500 million in 2022.

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Deloitte Global predicts that smartphones ... will generate 146 million tons of CO2 or equivalent emissions (CO2e) in 2022.

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Deloitte Global predicts that the aggregate installed capacity of floating photovoltaics (FPVs) ... will reach 5.2 gigawatts peak (GWp) globally by the end of 2022, representing US$4–5 billion in spending.

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Deloitte Global predicts that boys and men in almost every country will continue to spend less time reading books, and read them less frequently, than girls and women.

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Deloitte Global predicts that large global technology firms, on average, will reach nearly 33% overall female representation in their workforces in 2022, up slightly more than 2 percentage points from 2019

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Deloitte Global predicts that NFTs for sports media will generate more than US$2 billion in transactions in 2022, about double the figure for 2021.

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Deloitte Global predicts that ... the combined market for HE and FL will grow at double-digit rates in 2022 to more than US$250 million.

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Deloitte Global predicts that the multiple companies making quantum computers (QCs) will double their QCs' quantum volume ... from what it was in 2021.

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Deloitte Global predicts that 2022 will see a great deal of discussion about regulating AI more systematically, with several proposals being made— although enacting them into actual enforced regulations will likely happen in 2023 or beyond.

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