Here’s Mary Meeker’s 21st annual Internet Trends report

Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends report has arrived.

Over the last 21 years, Meeker’s annual reports have become a major signal for the biggest trends in tech. This year, Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, tackles slowing smartphone sales; the growing mobile ad industry and ad blocking; the video-ification of social; the future of transportation; and the rise of messaging, bots, and voice-based assistants.

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Here’s the full report:

 

The takeaways

Note: Some are pretty obvious.

• Flat growth of global Internet users 
• Slowing smartphone adoption 
• Google and Facebook’s increasing dominance of the Internet ad biz 
• Video is growing fast and photo-sharing is still huge, too 
• The growth of messaging 
• The significance of searching via your voice and intelligent assistants
•  The evolution of autonomous cars 
• China is an “Internet leader on many metrics” 
• Your data is (maybe) not safe