Comparing the 114 selected regions regarding the number of newly registered businesses , the United Kingdom is leading the ranking (0.81 thousand companies) and is followed by Brazil with 0.8 thousand companies. At the other end of the spectrum is Bhutan with 0 thousand companies, indicating a difference of 0.81 thousand companies to the United Kingdom. Shown is the number of newly registered businesses. According to World bank, this refers to the number of new limited liability corporations (or its equivalent) that were registered within a given calendar year.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) powered chatbot, is most used by companies in the technical and education industries, with over *** companies using it in 2023. It is perhaps unsurprising that the technical field has embraced the use of ChatGPT, but it is interesting that so many educational institutes have begun to use it. While other industries do utilize the OpenAI-made chatbot, there are less than *** institutions and companies that use ChatGPT in other industries. This is especially true of agriculture, cultural, and legal industries, where only a single company is using ChatGPT in 2023.

In 1999, Microsoft Corp had a market capitalization of approximately 602.43 billion U.S dollars, making it the largest company in the world at the time. Seven of the ten largest companies worldwide in 1999 were based in the United States, with one company from Japan, and two from Europe.

This statistic shows the ways that companies are using data and analytics worldwide as of 2018. Around ** percent of respondents stated that one of the top uses of data and analytics in their company was as a driver of strategy and change.

In 2023, Meta Platforms had a total annual revenue of over 134 billion U.S. dollars, up from 116 billion in 2022. LinkedIn reported its highest annual revenue to date, generating over 15 billion USD, whilst Snapchat reported an annual revenue of 4.6 billion USD.

Slovenia had the largest share of enterprises using artificial intelligence (AI) technology among Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, at over 11 percent in 2023. To compare, in Croatia, which ranked second, almost eight percent of businesses used any AI technology, while in Romania this figure stood at only 1.5 percent.

The revenue is forecast to experience significant growth in all segments in 2029. The trend observed from 2024 to 2029 remains consistent throughout the entire forecast period. There is a continuous increase in the revenue across all segments. Notably, the IT Services segment achieves the highest value of 1.9 trillion U.S. dollars at 2029. Find other insights concerning similar markets and segments, such as a comparison of revenue in the United Kingdom and a comparison of revenue worldwide. The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

There were estimated to be approximately *** million companies worldwide in 2023, a significant increase from 2020, when there were around *** million companies.The most recent figure is also an estimated peak for global company numbers in the provided time period.

When data and analytics leaders throughout Europe and the United States were asked what the top challenges were with using data to drive business value at their companies, ** percent indicated that the lack of analytical skills among employees was the top challenge as of 2021. Other challenges with using data included data democratization and organizational silos.

In the United States, most retail companies are likely to use artificial intelligence (AI) for marketing purposes. Nearly ** percent of professionals from retail companies answering a survey in 2024 stated that their enterprises will be using AI to handle marketing automation. Chatbots and virtual shopping assistants follow in the ranking, with **** percent of answers.

During a survey carried out in 2022 among marketers from across the globe, ** percent of respondents indicated that content marketing was part of their overall marketing strategies. The share increased by ** percentage points compared to the value reported in 2019.

The global big data and business analytics (BDA) market was valued at ***** billion U.S. dollars in 2018 and is forecast to grow to ***** billion U.S. dollars by 2021. In 2021, more than half of BDA spending will go towards services. IT services is projected to make up around ** billion U.S. dollars, and business services will account for the remainder. Big data High volume, high velocity and high variety: one or more of these characteristics is used to define big data, the kind of data sets that are too large or too complex for traditional data processing applications. Fast-growing mobile data traffic, cloud computing traffic, as well as the rapid development of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) all contribute to the increasing volume and complexity of data sets. For example, connected IoT devices are projected to generate **** ZBs of data in 2025. Business analytics Advanced analytics tools, such as predictive analytics and data mining, help to extract value from the data and generate business insights. The size of the business intelligence and analytics software application market is forecast to reach around **** billion U.S. dollars in 2022. Growth in this market is driven by a focus on digital transformation, a demand for data visualization dashboards, and an increased adoption of cloud.

The revenue is forecast to experience significant growth in all segments in 2030. The trend observed from 2025 to 2030 remains consistent throughout the entire forecast period. There is a continuous increase in the revenue across all segments. Notably, the Office Software segment achieves the highest value of 33.3 billion U.S. dollars at 2030. Find further statistics on other topics such as a comparison of the revenue in Poland and a comparison of the revenue in Lithuania. The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

In 2021, **** percent of U.S. marketers in companies largest than 100 employees were expected to use social media for marketing purposes. In 2013, the share stood at **** percent. Social media marketing – additional informationEveryone knows that social media started as an entertainment tool and evolved to a powerful marketing tool. While it serves its primary purpose of connecting people, at the same time it plays a major role in connecting marketers with current and potential customers. Marketing professionals agreed that social media was very important to their business. In fact, ** percent agreed with it strongly. These convictions are reflected in growing expenditures towards this medium. In the United States alone, social media marketing spending is expected to exceed ** billion U.S. dollars in 2019 – almost ** billion increase, compared to 2014.When asked about the leading challenges of social media marketing, ** percent of surveyed marketers stated that assessing its effectiveness was their main concern, followed by strategy design and analyzing obtained data. In order to evaluate the effectiveness, U.S. social media specialists employed a number of measurements. Counting the number of hits, visits or page views was the leading social media metric used in 2014. In addition, ** percent of respondents believed that the number of friends or followers on social platforms was a significant indicator of marketing success.Specific platform usage among social media professionals varies depending on the type of commerce transaction. Twitter seems to be a shared platform, ranked second in usage for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer industries. The difference is visible when considering the primary spot. Among B2C marketers, ** percent used Facebook, while among B2B marketers, ** percent indicated using LinkedIn.

In 2024, around ** percent of people from companies using generative AI said that they used it as part of their products or services. ** percent of companies that planned to implement generative AI said it was to support internal operations for individual business areas.

This statistic shows the share of companies using social networks in different European countries in 2019. In Iceland, 75 percent of companies declared using social networks in this survey, compared to only 50 percent of French companies.

In 2023, there were estimated to be over ****** million companies operating worldwide, of which over *** million were in Asia, ** million were in Africa, and ** million were in Europe.

The market size for business intelligence and analytics software applications is forecast to increase worldwide over the next few years from **** billion U.S. dollars in 2021 to more than ** billion in 2026. The business intelligence and analytics software application market is a subsegment of the enterprise application software market. Enterprise application software - a market with worldwide revenues of *** billion U.S. dollars in 2020 - aims at responding to the needs of organizations. These software programs make it easier for companies and businesses to accomplish their corporate goals, by helping to improve supply chain management, manage resources, or interact better with customers, among others. Business intelligence and analytics     Business intelligence applications are used to collect and analyze current, actionable data in order to maintain, optimize or streamline business operations. Business analytics tools, on the other hand, are used to analyze data to be able to predict business trends. The leading companies in the business intelligence and analytics market are Microsoft, SAP and IBM, with revenues of *** billion U.S. dollars, *** billion, and *** billion respectively in 2018.

According to a recent survey, ** percent of respondents stated that big data/ analytics was the technology initiative that provided their company the highest competitive advantage for 2023. By contrast, only ***** percent of respondents considered that Metaverse gave their company a competitive advantage.

During a 2025 survey among marketers worldwide, around 83 percent reported using Facebook for marketing purposes. Instagram and LinkedIn followed, respectively mentioned by 78 and 69 percent of the respondents. The global social media marketing segment According to the same study, 60 percent of responding marketers intended to increase their organic use of YouTube for marketing purposes throughout that year. LinkedIn and Instagram followed with similar shares, rounding up the top three social media platforms attracting a planned growth in organic use among global marketers in 2025. Their main driver is increasing brand exposure and traffic, which led the ranking of benefits of social media marketing worldwide. Social media for B2B marketing Social media platform adoption rates among business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) marketers vary according to each subsegment's focus. While B2C professionals prioritize Facebook and Instagram, both run by Meta, Inc., due to their popularity among online audiences, B2B marketers concentrate their endeavors on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn due to its goal to connect people and companies in a corporate context.