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Paul Gagnon

  • Vice President and Industry Advisor, Consumer Technology, Circana
California, San Diego, United States
As seen in: Circana, Omdia, Display Daily
Vice President and Industry Advisor for Circana. Views expressed are solely my own. @WeAreCircana
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Articles by Paul Gagnon

Technology Holiday Retail Sales Pulse

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By Paul Gagnon, Mike Crosby, Ben Arnold
| Circana
By Paul Gagnon, Mike Crosby and Ben Arnold We have reached the peak of the holiday shopping season, and before results for Black Friday and Cyber Week are available, we thought it would be important to check in and see how the season is progressing. So far, seven weeks into the holiday quarter, consumer technology sales are running close to 2023 at this same time, although there was a significant dip in weeks 44 and 45. However, this wasn’t unexpected.
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Consumer Electronics Holiday Outlook Highlights Mixed Signals with Opportunity

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By Paul Gagnon
| Circana
The 2024 holiday shopping season presents a complex landscape for consumer electronics, with overall tech spending intentions reaching a four-year high despite significant demographic variations and economic concerns. The shopping season will be more condensed around the core Black Friday to Christmas Eve period than we’ve seen in a while, and consumers will be very sensitive to promotions and pricing.
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CES 2023 Highlights: TV Focus

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By Paul Gagnon
| npd.com
It was great to be back at CES, in-person, and it felt like the traditional spectacle we’ve all come to appreciate. The usual array of crazy inventive CES gadgets did not disappoint, though overall product announcements did feel a bit more muted than in the past.
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Hot Take - 2019 Black Friday TV Early Observations

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By Paul Gagnon
| ihs.com
11 store visits on Thanksgiving night and Black Friday morning As an annual tradition, and a useful way of gathering early holiday selling season insight, we visited 8 different locations in the San Diego area for various key retailers selling TVs on Black Friday. We visited some locations twice, once on Thanksgiving and again the morning of Black Friday. This allows comparison of floor inventory during the preceding night and early Black Friday morning.
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TCL Surges to the Top of the North American TV Market Amid US-China Trade Turbulence

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By Paul Gagnon
| ihs.com
Chinese brand TCL surged to the top of the North American TV market for the first time ever during the first quarter of 2019, as unit shipments boomed by 112 percent year-over-year. TCL’s share of North American TV shipments rose to 26.2 percent during the first quarter of 2019, up from 16 percent during the same period in 2018, as reported by the IHS Markit TV Sets Intelligence Service.
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