Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report: All the slides and highlights

Mary Meeker, a former Morgan Stanley internet analyst and now partner at venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, delivered her annual internet trends report at this year’s Code conference in California today (May 30). Here are her slides:

By Mike Murphy1 min readUpdated July 20, 2022

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Mary Meeker, a former Morgan Stanley $MS internet analyst and now partner at venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, delivered her annual internet trends report at this year’s Code conference in California today (May 30). Here are her slides:

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Some highlights:

Global smartphone shipment growth has fallen to effectively nil.
Growth in the world’s number of internet users has also slowed to about 7% in 2016, down from 12% in 2016.
Roughly 50% of the world, about 3.6 billion people, now have some access to the internet.
The average adult spends about 6 hours per day with a digital device.
Wifi is everywhere: There are around 450 million wifi networks in the world, up from about 100 million five years ago.
There are three messaging apps—WhatsApp, Facebook $META Messenger, and WeChat—that each have more than 1 billion monthly active users.
Around 60% of all payment transactions are now done digitally, with over 500 million mobile payment users in China alone.
We’re spending around 30 minutes each day watching videos on mobile devices.
It’s estimated that there are more than 30 million Amazon $AMZN Echo devices in users’ homes, up from about 10 million at the end of 2016.
Roughly 13% of all retail sales come from e-commerce, up from about 5% a decade ago.