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Danielle Levitas
Group Vice President, Consumer, Broadband and Digital Marketplace

Team: Consumer Markets
Digital Marketplace and New Media
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Danielle Levitas is the Group Vice President of IDC's Consumer, Broadband & Digital Marketplace team. She is responsible for driving research initiatives across the consumer market, covering audio, video, gaming, home networking, bundled services, broadband and the digital marketplace. In addition to researching the digital TV, DVD and new media markets, Ms. Levitas serves as IDC’s consumer markets expert and conducts custom consulting on a variety of consumer market issues. She is a driven professional with a strong commitment to customer service, advising her clients on a variety of industry trends and developments.

In 2001, Ms. Levitas launched IDC's Interactive Consumer Services programs, expanding IDC's coverage in gaming and TV research. In 2004, she expanded IDC’s consumer research products to create dedicated programs for the home networking and audio markets and helped launch IDC’s regional consumer research programs. In 2006, Ms. Levitas helped launch the industry's first advanced bundled services program – Consumer Multiplay Services. Also in that year, Danielle developed IDC's consumer Internet research strategy and launched the innovative Digital Marketplace programs in 2007. She is now launching IDC's ConsumerScape 360º program, which is a multi-country, survey-based program profiling consumers and households across the globe, examining ownership, preferences, behaviors and spending to assist clients in identifying and delivering compelling solutions to the market.

Prior to joining IDC's Consumer Device and Technologies service in 2000, she was a research manager for IDC's storage service, responsible for conducting research on the worldwide storage market. She has been widely quoted in the press, including in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle, CNET, and other media outlets. Ms. Levitas has a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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News of Note at Macworld 2008
Danielle Levitas
Jan 2008 - Doc # lcUS21040708      IDC Link

At Macworld on Tuesday, January 15, Steve Jobs chunked out his keynote into ...


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Intel Broadens Its Platform, Reaching into Mobile Handhelds, Internet TV, and Scalable x86 Servers
Shane Rau, Bob O'Donnell, Danielle Levitas, Matthew Eastwood, Kenneth Cayton, Jean S. Bozman, David Reinsel, Jonathan Gaw, Richard Walsh, Susan Kevorkian
Sep 2008 - Doc # 214161      Insight
This IDC Insight provides an overview of the announcements made by Intel at its annual Intel Developer Forum (IDF), held in San Francisco, from August 18 to 21, 2008. It outlines the key points relating to Intel's expansion of ...
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Intel Drives Processor Density for Virtualization, Visualization, and Power Efficiency
David Reinsel, Jean S. Bozman, Shane Rau, IdaRose Sylvester, Danielle Levitas, Matthew Eastwood
Mar 2008 - Doc # 211235      Insight
This IDC Insight describes the highlights of the Intel Business and Technology Summit analyst conference, held February 13–14, 2008, in Santa Clara, California. The purpose of the annual summit is to provide a snapshot of the c ...
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Appearances

The IDC Enterprise Social Networking Forum
San Francisco, CA United States
February 12, 2009

IDC at CTIA Wireless 2008
San Francisco, CA United States
September 11, 2008

Consumer Predictions 2008: Content on the Move
United States
January 31, 2008

IDC at CES 2008
Las Vegas, NV United States
January 07-09,2008

The Hype and Reality of Social Networking
United States
November 20, 2007