Slator’s inaugural comprehensive language industry market report. It examines total market size, the 10 main end-buyer industries, competitive landscape, productivity tech, NMT and much more. Continue reading
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, climbs again in May 2019. Continue reading
With Google Stadia, Microsoft’s xCloud, and Apple Arcade bursting into the cloud-based game streaming scene, how will game localization be affected? Continue reading
The world’s biggest provider of technical services to the gaming industry blames the “Fortnite effect” for a hit in localization revenues. Continue reading
The Slator 2019 Language Service Provider Index features the largest LSPs in a Leaders Index and the midfield in a Challengers Index. Continue reading
Figures, insights, case studies, and in-depth analysis of the large and growing game localization space from both sell-side and buy-side. Continue reading
Zoo Digital and Appen outperformed global markets and peers in 2018. SDL and RWS notched up marginal gains, while Keywords took a beating in the second half of the year. Continue reading
Game localizer and technical service provider Keywords Studios grew revenues by 72% to EUR 110m in the first half of 2018 on the back of acquisitions. Growth in localization and localization... Continue reading
Video games localization and production specialist Keywords Studios sees sales soar by 72% as acquisitions power growth. Pre-tax profit up 66% to EUR 15.9m. Continue reading
As markets are trending sideways in 2018, a handful of language services and technology providers in media localization and language data managed to outperform the markets. Continue reading
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... Continue reading
As language service providers expand across more of the localization supply chain, language technologies can be barriers for LSPs to these growth segments. Customer segmentation and industry... Continue reading
China’s game market is huge already, even while its regulations are prohibiting free flow of games into the Chinese market. Continue reading
Who's up, who's down? Listed Language Service Providers continue to do well in 2018 even though the upward trend has slowed somewhat compared to the previous two to three years. Continue reading
Lionbridge to lay off 119 employees in Vancouver (WA) by early June 2018. Layoffs could indicate a move away from software testing towards a renewed focus on core language services and technology... Continue reading
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