Publications

Recent thought leadership

• Deloitte and WorldFirst jointly launched Going-Global Seizing the Next Great Opportunity in Digital Trade
  The report focuses on global digital trade and analyzes in detail the growth momentum of digital trade in Asia-Pacific.
  
• Deloitte reveals the latest trends in the cross-border payment revolution
  New paper ‘Beyond Payments’ identifies four key developments in cross-border digital payments that deliver great opportunities for merchants to create a frictionless, personalized, and extended consumer journey
  
• Global Digital Consumer Survey
  Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecom Industry has released its latest annual report, the Global Digital Consumer Trends Survey – China Edition. The report is a result of extensive online research conducted by Deloitte over the past five years, focusing on consumer behaviours, trends, and perceptions of digital technologies, products, and services.
  
• How Digital Asset Infrastructure Carries A City to Become a Web 3.0 Hub
  Deloitte has published the White Paper “How Digital Infrastructure Carries A City to Become a Web 3.0 Hub”, in collaboration with Cyberport and the Web 3.0 thought leaders. This paper is particularly looking at how digital asset infrastructure can shape up the next generation of internet and support innovation and real economy of Hong Kong.
  
• The Metaverse Overview - Vision, Technology, and Tactics
  Deloitte China launches the report of The Metaverse Overview: Vision, Technology, and Tactics to discuss the development vision of the Metaverse, analyze current stage of Metaverse technologies and cases, build the framework of the Metaverse industry, and explore how companies should respond to Metaverse opportunity.
  
• Metaverse report—Future is here: Global XR industry insight
  Deloitte launched the Metaverse report—Future is here: Global XR industry insight. This is the first report of the metaverse series, with focus on the XR industry trends and discusses the investment opportunities in XR market from the perspective of market demand and development.

• Semiconductor Transformation Study - Top executive insights on transformations affecting the semiconductor ecosystem
  To better understand what is driving transformations in the semiconductor industry, Deloitte collaborated with the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) to survey more than 40 top executives to explore their insights and outlook on semiconductor transformations effort.
  
• SAAS Industry Outlook - Time to Ride the Wave
  After over 20 years of development, SaaS has become one of the most focused industry direction for the global tech industry. 
  
• Technology-empowered Digital Trade in Asia Pacific
  The report focuses on cross-border e-commerce and its related services, analyzing key countries in the Asia Pacific market as well as Asia Pacific micro and small multinational enterprises to further explore the future development trend of digital trade in Asia Pacific.
• TMT Predictions 2022
  What’s next for technology, media, and telecommunications? From women in tech to floating solar panels, TMT Predictions gives you a glimpse of what 2022 could have in store.
  
• Technology-empowered Digital Trade in Asia Pacific
  Deloitte today released the <Technology-empowered Digital Trade in Asia Pacific> report, highlighting the latest trends on cross-border trade in the region as it moves towards a more digitalized, greener and more sustainable future, where small and micro businesses play a vital role.
• Anchor of global semiconductor - Asia Pacific Takes Off
  The report reflects on market developments over the past 10 years, driven largely by consumer demand, and looks ahead to the coming decade, which will see a shift to "consumer + corporate" demand, driven by digital technologies including 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT).
  
• Accelerating enterprise innovation  and transformation with 5G and Wi-Fi 6
  To understand how enterprises are adopting advanced wireless technologies during the crisis around the world, Deloitte surveyed global business and IT executives who are responsible for networking at organizations. We uncovered key insights about how and why organizations around the world plan to adopt advanced wireless.
• Delotte Football Money League 2021
  The 24th edition of the Deloitte Football Money League profiles the financial performance of the highest revenue generating clubs in world football during a disrupted 2019/20 season.
• TMT Predictions 2021
  Deloitte's 2021 TMT Predictions report contains nine topics this year. The dominant theme is the way in which COVID-19 has acted like a chemical catalyst, making what was already happening anyway happen much faster.
  
• 2019-2020 China Health and Fitness Market White Paper
  The fitness market in China has been developing rapidly for more than 20 years, going through various phases of development in the past two decades. In the past few years, the fitness industry has once again witnessed accelerated growth. In 2019, the top 18 cities we analyzed, had an estimated total market size of RMB 34 billion, 27,600 stores and 8.79 million members. The industry is becoming more diversified, with personal training studios, boutique studios and new-model gyms contributing to its rapid growth.
• Rise of the " Big 4":The semiconductor industry in Asia Pacific
  The report points to the growing importance of Asia Pacific's "Big 4" semiconductor players in the global market, where 5G, AI and big data are set to become key drivers of demand. The report also analyzes how supply chain resilience is key to succeeding amid the emergence of "multi-markets" in the post-pandemic era.
• Chinese Football Association Super League (CSL) - 2019 Annual Review of Commercial Performance
  The report was jointly conducted by Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Industry, Deloitte Financial Advisory and CSL. With an overview of Chinese sport and football industry’s development, the report included a review on CSL’s performance on the pitch, broadcast and commercial development in the last season. And the report provides thorough studies of football fans personas. The report covers insights of CSL’s main stakeholders for a joint effort to develop the League as the top competition platform to increase the performance of Chinese professional football.
• China Fashion E-commerce Global Growth Report
  Deloitte China Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry and Google jointly released the China FashionE-commerce Global Growth Report. China's e-commerce industry has grown rapidlyover the past twenty years. As theindustrial chain is increasingly complete,more and more e-commerce enterprises are well positioned to go overseas. DTC(direct to consumer) model is a typical way for e-commerce to go overseas bydirecting to consumers through self-built internet online sales platforms. As one of the world's largest e-commerce market, the US is the preferred choice for Chinese DTC companies to go overseas. 
• 5G Smart Cities Whitepaper
  5G Smart Cities Whitepaper is jointly compiled by Deloitte China Technology, Media & Telecommunication Industry and China Unicom. The whitepaper explores smart city development trends in the 5G era, with a focus on typical application scenarios in transportation, safety and security, environmental protection and governance, among other areas. The Whitepaper also sets out the major challenges and implementation approaches to 5G smart cities to facilitate their creation across China.
• Deloitte China and ZTE release 5G+ICT Industry Trends White Paper
  5G+ICT Industry Trends White Paper is jointly compiled by Deloitte China Technology, Media & Telecommunication Industry and ZTE. The white paper comprehensively reviews global 5G development in 2019, analyzes how operators and equipment vendors reduce cost, improve efficiency, and innovate amid the complex international political and economic landscape. It specifies how 5G empowers the development of vertical industries and promotes digital transformation of intelligent manufacturing.
  
• Deloitte Football Money League 2020
  Published just eight months after the end of the 2018/19 season, the Money League is the most contemporary and reliable independent analysis of the clubs’ relative financial performance. 

• Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Development White Paper
  This paper is compiled by Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry. This paper mainly outlines the application of AI technology in major cities around the world, and the profound changes it will bring to various industries including finance, education, digital government, health care, autonomous driving, retail, manufacturing, and smart city when it enters the stage of commercialization.
• Opportunities in Dynamics
  The report is compiled jointly by Deloitte Education Industry and Deloitte Research. With the increasingly mature global artificial intelligence technology and the long-term development goal of educational informatization in China, artificial intelligence technology has been gradually applied in the field of education. In this context, a new education system is taking shape. Policy, capital, technology and consumption will work together to drive the development of AI+ education in China, and promote China's education towards the era of intelligence.
• CBA League Commercial Performance Review White Paper 
  The report was jointly released by CBA League, Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry and Deloitte Financial Advisory. With a wider study on basketball industry in China, the report focuses on the development and present situation of CBA League and its commercial performance. Meanwhile, it describes the overall prospect of CBA League through in-depth survey of CBA League fans, which will bring a new vision and development opportunities for the development of Chinese men's basketball professional league.
• Future in the balance? How countries are pursuing an AI advantage
  The report was published by Deloitte Insights and translated by Deloitte China Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Industry. To obtain a global view of how organizations are adopting and benefiting from AI technologies, in Q3 2018 Deloitte surveyed 1,900 IT and line-of-business executives from companies that are early adopters of AI. Seven countries were represented: Australia, Canada, China, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
  
• Semiconductors – the Next Wave
  This report was jointly conducted by Deloitte China Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Industry, Deloitte Taiwan, Deloitte Japan and Deloitte Korea. In the view of the current situation and future trends of the semiconductor market in East Asia, this report mainly illustrates the opportunities brought by the automotive semiconductors and AI chips to the semiconductor market. Furthermore, the report covers the new norm of M&A activities that have been occurring in the semiconductor market, which will provide a broader perspective for Chinese local semiconductor players and the multinationals who are trying to access the Chinese market.
• Post-00s' attitude toward media consumption
  Post-00s, moreover, will also become the core group of media consumers in the next 10 years, consume media content through mobile devices and social media channels, which will also benefit recreation due to the increase of their traffic bonus. Basically, this report will provide reference and valuable insights for media consumption field on the basis of the analysis of the consumer groups of post-00s.
  
• ESports graduates to the big leagues
  The explosion in popularity of eSports is creating new avenues for the media and entertainment industry to reach a wide range of demographics and generate unprecedented, lucrative opportunities.
  
• Chinese Football Association Super League - 2018 Commercial Performance Review White paper
  The report was jointly conducted by Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Industry, Deloitte Financial Advisory and CSL.
  
• Deloitte football money league 2019
  Welcome to the 22nd edition of the Deloitte Football Money League (‘DFML’) in which we profile the highest revenue generating clubs in world football.

• Deloitte China mobile consumer survey 2018
  It is an online survey conducted by Deloitte China Telecommunications industry during the past five years. It focuses on consumer behaviours, trends and opinions regarding a broad range of wireless and mobility products and services. This survey covers several recent hot topics such as the AI-based mobile apps, video contents, mobile payment, high-tech homes and personal data privacy in order to reveal the key trends that drive the mobile markets and to provide suggestions for relevant enterprises.
• 2019 Deloitte China mobile consumer survey
  The report explores the top trends and transformative technologies that will impact the way we live and work, and to explain the impact these factors can have over the next 5 years for companies in Technology, Media, Telecommunications, and other industries.
• Spectrum portfolios in a 5G world
  This report mainly demonstrates the importance of proper valuation of spectrum portfolios in a 5G world. We hope it will help wireless service providers (WSPs), financial community and policymakers understand and maximize spectrum portfolios value, and provide benefits for their decisions of adjusting strategies, business models, and policies.
  
• 5G: Reshaping the Industries
  This report aims to explore the in-depth applications of 5G in various fields and exhibit innovation of 5G business models.
  
• A new era of Education — China education development report 2018
  This report was compiled by Deloitte Education Industry, Deloitte Research, Deloitte Internal Control, Financial Advisory and Consulting team. With the adjustment of Chinese population structure and consumption upgrade in domestic market, education consumption has been playing an increasingly important part in China's household consumption, which allows China's education market to maintain the positive development situation.
  
• Telecommunications Industry Newsletter (August 2018)
  This report aims to provide senior management and industry experts with insights. It monitors the latest industry trends, probes into hot topics, latest policies and regulations in Telecom industry, deeply explores current challenges and opportunities, and thus delivers professional suggestions to players in this industry.
• Technology, Media and Telecommunications Get Smarter
  The report illustrates how cognitive computing could maximize business value for companies, explores company managers' perspectives on cognitive computing, analyzes the opportunities and challenges in adoption and provides a comprehensive reference for business managers who want to adopt cognitive computing technology.
  
• Super Smart City: Happier Society with Higher Quality
  In this report, we delve into the new requirements and goals for “China’s construction of new-type smart cities” based on the development trends of smart city in the country.
  
• Telecommunications Industry Newsletter (January 2018)
  This report aims to provide senior management and industry experts with insights. It monitors the latest industry trends, probes into hot topics, latest policies and regulations in Telecom industry, deeply explores current challenges and opportunities, and thus delivers professional suggestions to players in this industry.
  
• 2017 Deloitte China Mobile Consumer Survey
  Aiming to explore the level of applications, devices and support, this survey covers several recent hot topics such as the content consumption, mobile payment, digital devices, data security, biometrics and internet of things (IoT) in order to reveal the key trends that drive the mobile markets and to provide suggestions for relevant enterprises.
  
• Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions 2018
  The report reveals the perspectives gained from hundreds of conversations with industry leaders, and tens of thousands of consumer interviews conducted across the globe. Our objective with TMT Predictions is to identify critical inflection points that we believe can inform strategic thinking in the industry, and to explain the impact these points can have over the next 5 years for companies in Technology, Media, Telecommunications (TMT), and other industries.
• Three Issues of Platform Economics' Cooperative Governance 
  This paper raises up three major issues of platform economics' cooperative governance and clarifies the necessary of platform economics in the transformation of China's society through the discussion on the development trends, characteristics and the regulation orientation of platform economics, and hope to provide reference for government regulations and relevant enterprises who are involved in the ecosystem.
• Chinese film industry in puberty: Growing pains of a transforming global power
  This report illustrates six trends in film industry including growth outlook, post production trends, globalization, online ticketing trends, new entrant/incumbent dynamics, and how technology will shape the industry's future.
  
• Clean Energy Industry Report 2017
  This paper mainly probes into the prospects of the clean energy industry, covering the sectors of solar energy, wind energy, new energy vehicles, solid waste treatment and disposal, water treatment as well as the new technology for energy saving and environmental protection, and further demonstrates the current situation, opportunities and challenges and future trends within the industry.
  
• Moving Toward New Heights: Deloitte Education Industry Report 2017
  This report mainly talks about the topic of China's education industry: Policy, capital, technology and social concept, as the key factors in driving steady growth of education market for a long time, will bring China's education industry toward six "new heights".
• Performance ecosystem: A decision framework to take performance to the next level
  In this article, we innovatively defined the ecosystems taxonomy, and provided examples of some firms to illustrate the differences between these types. We hope to provide a much more innovative decision framework for executives, thus help them examine the forward way of enterprises from a higher perspective of ecosystem.
  
• Annual Review of Football Finance 2017
  The 26th edition of our publication returns to two familiar themes – the continuation of relentless revenue growth across Europe’s major leagues, in particular the Premier League, and the commitment of this money to spending on players via transfer fees and wages, again led by English clubs.
  
• When tax meets technology ——Tax implications of Industry 4.0
  The article examines the tax implications of Industry 4.0 as organizations seek to use advanced technologies to improve operations or drive business growth. This article disclosed three key transformational plays, and illustrated four key action points regarding the management of tax by manufacturing business and implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies.
  
• China Telecom Industry Newsletter (June 2017)
  The newsletter provides information on recent development of Telecom industry, discussions on hot topics in the industry and latest policies and regulations related to the Telecom industry.
  
• China TMT Industry Overseas M&A Report 2017
  The report analyses the development of overseas M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) of China TMT industry especially technology sector, and examines the driving factors of overseas M&A, the development, risks and challenges of cross border M&A. This report scrutinises four attention-worthy propositions and draws up overall effective plans regarding TMT corporations overseas M&A.
• Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions 2017
  "Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions 2017" reveals the perspectives gained from hundreds of conversations with industry leaders, and tens of thousands of consumer interviews conducted across the globe. Our objective with TMT Predictions is to identify critical inflection points that we believe can inform strategic thinking in the industry, and to explain the impact these points can have over the next 12-18 months for companies in Technology, Media, Telecommunications (TMT), and other industries.
  
• Navigating legacy: Charting the course to business value - 2016-2017 Global CIO Survey
  This report shares findings from Deloitte’s 2016 global CIO survey, a multiyear research effort exploring the nature of the CIO role and legacy. This year’s CIO report focuses on how CIOs can chart the journey between legacy pattern types as they look to create their legacy.
  
• 2016 Digital Education Survey
  Deloitte's TMT practice commissioned its inaugural Digital Education Survey involved in 2800+ responses from demographically-diverse teachers, parents, and students, to better understand how digital transformation is specifically impacting the education ecosystem. Both inside and outside of classroom.
  
• Decrypt Mobile Consumers Behavior: 2016 Global Mobile Consumer Survey – China Edition
  The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the supply and demand relationship between consumers and mobile digital devices, and it points out the opportunities and challenges that operators, equipment manufacturers, application developers and enterprises in mobile telecom industry are facing.
  
• Telecommunications Industry Newsletter (Q3 2016)
  The newsletter provides information on recent developments of Telecommunications industry, discussions on hot topics in the industry, and latest policies and regulations related to the Telecommunications industry.
  
• Deloitte Football Money League 2016
  Welcome to the 19th edition of the Deloitte Football Money League in which we profile the highest earning clubs in the world’s most popular sport. Published just eight months after the end of the 2014/15 season, the Money League is the most contemporary and reliable analysis of the clubs’ relative financial performance.
  
• Annual Review of Football Finance 2016
  2016 marks the 25th edition of the publication, and with the Premier League set to embark on its 25th season, it seems natural to reflect on the unprecedented change and development in the game since we first published the Annual Review of Football Finance in 1992.
  
• Global mobile consumer trends: 1st Edition Mobile proves to be indispensable in an always-connected world
  This report is an online survey Deloitte's TMT industry conducted for the past five years. The survey focuses on consumer behaviors, trends and opinions for a broad range of wireless and mobility products and services.
  
• China Telecom Industry Newsletter (June 2016 edition)
  The newsletter provides information on recent development of Telecom industry, discussions on hot topics in the industry and latest policies and regulations related to the Telecom industry.
• Golden age of the Chinese education market
  China's education industry is entering a "golden age." It is rapidly expanding in terms of both industry scale and market activity. Government policies, capital flow, frequent cross-border business, and technological innovation are driving China's education industry toward six major transformative trends. This report shares insight into this transformation.
• 2015 China Media Consumer Survey Report - Unparalleled Chinese Media Consumers
  The report involves 2000 consumers and focuses on different areas of the media industry in China and the United States, examining consumer experiences with TV, OTT video, internet, advertisements, games, as well as new media, and analyzing consumers' behavioral attitudes and consumption preferences.
  
• TMT Predictions 2016
  The objective of the report is to identify critical inflection points that we believe can inform strategic thinking in the industry, and to explain the impact these points can have over the next 12-18 months for companies in TMT and other industries.
  
• Beyond the Dumb Pipe: The IoT and the New Role for Network Service Providers
  The report shows that with the rise of IoT, smart and connected objects, companies will be able to compete not only over functionality but also over the information created by the use of products and services.
• 2015 CleanTech Industry Report
  This report provides the trends and outlook of CleanTech industry.
  
• The Future of Mobile
  The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the supply and demand relationship between consumers and mobile digital devices, it points out the opportunities and challenges that operators, equipment manufacturers, application developers and enterprises in mobile telecom industry are facing.
  
• Strategy, not Technology, Drives Digital Transformation
  This is an annual global study led by MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte.
  
• Development of Private Education Industry in China 2015
  The year 2014 was a very important year for Chinese private education market. Various private education institutions went public respectively. Many commercial organizations including internet giants crossed industry boundary and entered education field. The scale of vocational education industry took a round of changes. Growing number of Chinese abroad students not only brought huge market interests for abroad education agencies but advanced the transition of abroad study service agencies mode.
• Cracking the Mobile Payment Maze
  Demand for secure, quick and easy payment is high. Mobile payment is subverting the structure of traditional payment. In Deloitte China Mobile Consumer Survey 2014, over 60% of respondents had shopped online, making payment or transfer online. Nearly 70% of respondents are willing to use mobile phones for micro payments in store, indicating that consumers’ demand of mobile payment cannot be ignore.
  
• 2015 Technology, Media & Telecommunications Predictions
  Our objective with this report is to analyze the key market developments over the next 12-18 months. Our points of view are built around hundreds of meetings with industry executives and commentators from around the world, as well as our proprietary programs of research with tens of thousands of consumers worldwide.
  
• 2014 Deloitte's Report on Clean Energy Industry
  The report deeply explores the status quo where China is committed to developing clean energy and establishing a stable energy supply system and points out the key challenges and opportunities encountered in the process of adjusting the energy structure.
  
• White Paper on Marketing Communications in China: Trends of 2025
  This report provides an examination on the macro forces driving the Chinese marketing communications market and the transformations it is undergoing, as well as the challenges and opportunities ahead.
  
• 2014 Global Mobile Consumer survey - China edition
  The China version of the 2014 Global Mobile Consumer survey provides unique insights into how Chinese consumers in different demographics interact with mobile devices.
  
• 2014 State of the Media Democracy - China edition 
  The first China edition of Deloitte's State of the Media Democracy survey provides unique insights into how Chinese consumers in different demographics interact with media, including TV, newspaper, social network, gaming, advertising, and digital devices.
  
• Tech Trends 2014
  We discuss 10 trends that exemplify the unprecedented potential for emerging technologies to reshape how work gets done, how businesses grow, and how markets and industries evolve.
• Report on the Diversification of China's Education Industry 2014
  An overview on the current development of China's private education sector, current status of China’s online education and its challenges, and what's ahead.
• The China Newspaper Industry: Crisis and Rebirth
  Current status and trends of the new media development in China and internationally, with analysis on hot issues during the newspaper industry’s transformation
• What does Oriental Hollywood need?
  China's Wanda Group now owns the AMC and Wanda cinemas. But what else does its Oriental Hollywood need? Would the Chinese version of Hollywood become a reality?
• TMT Predictions 2014
  What's ahead for the technology, media & telecommunications industries in the next 12 - 18 months?
• 2013 Deloitte Cleantech Survey Report
  This publication draws upon the findings of a survey conducted among the CEOs of participating cleantech companies with the goal to understand their views and needs in relation to the industry and corporate development.
• The Battle over the Living Room
  The battle over the living room is on. Who will dominate the last screen in the living room in the near future? Deloitte uses scenario planning methodology to analyze the possible moves of different players and provide strategic suggestions.
• Explore the future of China’s mobile internet
  we interviewed a number of leading practitioners in the finance, education, media and publication, games and medical care sectors for in-depth discussions on their strategic layouts and solutions in coping with the imminent era of mobile internet, and proposed new business models applicable to them.
• Global Mobile Consumer Behavior Survey Report 2013 – China version
  This China cut of Deloitte’s Global Mobile Consumer Behavior Survey Report 2013 highlights the findings based on the data from Chinese respondents and provides an analysis of the mobile trend in China.
• Big Data: What's the Big Deal?
  Who will lead the future development of big data? What are the changes it will bring & the challenges ahead?
• OTT and the Changing Eco-system in China Telecom Industry
  Investigating the business environment for operators with analysis on the possible landscape of the telecom industry in China
• Analysis of the Competition Strategy for MVNOs
  With insight that draws on thorough examination of strategies of more than 1,200 MVNOs around the world
• Reflections on Education and Technological Development in China 2013
  How to grasp the opportunities as the world is shifting to mobile
• China's Culture and Entertainment Industry Research Report 2013
  An overview of the industry scale (with focuses on the movie and game sectors), its current state and future prospects as well as an analysis on its financing and investment patterns
• The Telecommunication Industry: Challenges & Opportunities
  An examination of the challenges and opportunities for telecom operators
• Talent-spotting: Greater China Culture & Entertainment M&A spotlight
  A historical review of M&A activity over recent years & proprietary insights from rainmakers within the industry
• Reflections on the Development of the Private Education Industry in China 2012
  This report provides a thorough analysis of recent trends in this industry, including special focus on developments in the after-school tutoring sector.
• Cleantech Top 20 CEO Survey 2012
  This publication includes the results of the 2012 program and findings of the survey conducted among the CEOs of the participating cleantech companies with the goal to understand their views and needs in relation to the industry and corporate development.
• China Education Industry Research
  Along with the improvement of public and personal awareness for the importance of education industry, the education sector has been rapidly developing, education privatization and diversification have become an international trend.