Canalys: Baidu takes second spot in worldwide smart speaker market for Q2 2019

According to the latest report from Canalys, Chinese search giant Baidu is now the second leading smart speaker vendor in the world, trailing only Amazon. The company which only sells its devices on the local Chinese market grew from a 0.7% market share in Q2 2018 to a sizeable 17.3% now, translating to a staggering 3,700% annual growth. The smart speaker market as a whole grew by 55.4% during the April - June period resulting in 26.1 million units shipped worldwide. Out of those, 6.6 million were from Amazon and its Echo line, Baidu secured 4.5 million shipments while Google pushed out...