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Creator Economy & Social Platforms Report (June–July 2025)

In June 2025, YouTube rolled out a wave of features around VidCon, including new audience segments “New,” “Casual,” and “Regular” viewers. The YouTube Community Tab became available to all channels and now lets fans post from mobile. YouTube Shorts gained shopping stickers globally with tests showing 40% higher product click-through in the U.S. YouTube reports viewers spend 80 million hours per day watching shopping-related videos. YouTube expanded auto-sync video editing for Shorts to automatically match music beats. YouTube introduced a Fan Leaderboard for live chats globally and added animated donation GIFs (US-only). YouTube launched Player for Education, an ad-free embeds

10 July 2025

Latest Digital Trends as of Mid‑2025 (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Gartner projects worldwide generative AI spending will reach $644 billion in 2025, up 76% from 2024. By mid-2025, over 72% of companies have adopted some form of AI, with about 65% of firms using generative AI in 2024. Deloitte predicts 25% of AI-using companies will pilot autonomous “agentic AI” systems in 2025, rising to 50% by 2027. The global AI agent market is projected to grow from $5.1 billion in 2024 to $47.1 billion by 2030, a 45% CAGR. The EU AI Act, in force since 2024, bans AI with “unacceptable risk” from February 2025 and will add transparency and

27 June 2025

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Belgium’s Broadband Boom: The Surprising Truth About Internet Access in 2025

As of early 2025, fiber coverage reached about 43% of Belgian homes, with Proximus aiming for 50% by end-2025, 70% by 2028, and 95% by 2032. Proximus FTTH/B offers symmetric speeds up to 8.5 Gbps in some areas as part of its fibre expansion. Proximus formed joint ventures Fiberklaar (Flanders) and Unifiber (Wallonia) to accelerate FTTH rollout, targeting 1.5 million and 0.6 million connections respectively by 2028. Cable broadband uses DOCSIS 3.1, with about 95.6% of households passed and 95.4% already on DOCSIS 3.1 gigabit networks, and Telenet offering up to 1 Gbps down. 5G rollout had 75% population coverage

1 June 2025

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