As technology is boosting productivity and changing buyer expectations, dropping unit prices presents opportunities to vendors that bring the tech, specialization, and size to seize them but it is an existential threat to generalists lacking focus. Continue reading
Slator launches the 2018 Slator Language Service Provider Index (LSPI). The index comprises the largest language service providers worldwide with aggregate 2017 revenue of USD 4.7 billion derived from services such as translation, localization, language technology, interpretation, subtitling, dubbing, and related services. Continue reading
Acquisition activity picks up in the new year as more announcements create ever bigger LSPs. The Danish government tries their hand at aggregating public sector translation demand, and Microsoft claims “human parity” in machine translation. Continue reading
BTI Studios hires a veteran 20th Century Fox executive as its new EVP of OTT Operations. Eriksen Translations, Semantix, and Teneo Linguistics welcome new sales and marketing professionals on their team. Continue reading
BTI Studios welcomes a new VP for Dubbing while thebigword appoints a business development director to handle defense and security. Delingua Language Services and Nimdzi hire senior managers. Continue reading
Social media platforms are joining Internet VOD players like Netflix to create original programs. This presents growth opportunities for media localizers. Neural MT will affect subtitling but not dubbing in the medium term. Size and adaptation are key for media localizers. Continue reading
Broad agreement among language industry leaders at SlatorCon Zurich that industry is at a turning point. Rapid advances in technology and emerging competitors will require a complete retooling across the language industry supply chain. Continue reading
Los Angeles-based Shamrock Capital Advisors joins Scandinavian private equity firm Altor as investor in media content localizer BTI Studios. Continue reading
Continued international expansion drives Netflix’s third-quarter revenue and subscriber growth, which in turn creates more demand for video localization, including subtitling, dubbing, and closed captioning. Continue reading
With Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and traditional studios expanding aggressively into global markets, demand for media content localization is soaring. Good times for Swedish media content localizer BTI Studios, which just changed its PE owner from Carlyle to Altor. Continue reading
Media content localization spending in EMEA is projected to exceed USD 2.5bn by 2020, according to an industry group. Shortage of talent is becoming a concern and industry expert says it is likely to get worse in the short term. Continue reading
BTI Studios has a new Apac Operations Director, GlobalLexicon names a new Associate Director, Cloudwords appoints a new Growth Strategy VP and a Chief Customer Advocate, and United Language Group beefs up Legal with a couple of new directors Continue reading
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