The media localization industry has undergone profound changes over the past half decade as streaming services went mainstream. This report contains actionable insights about media localization, including size of addressable market, competitive landscape, buyer behaviour and preferences, and sales, business development, and marketing strategies. Continue reading
Streaming boom powers localization business for UK-listed ZOO Digital with revenues growing 73% to USD 28.6m for the financial year ending March 2018. New CFO appointed following a 10x rise in the stock price. Continue reading
ZOO Digital was in the right place at the right time when the streaming revolution hit. CEO Stuart Green addressed participants at SlatorCon London in May 2018 and explained how media localization has fundamentally changed and how he plans to take the company forward. 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 is an existential threat to generalists lacking focus. Continue reading
Slator readers tell us what they think about buyers prohibiting subcontracting to other providers, the media and game localization boom, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation rollout, and a resurgence in neural machine translation research and its ongoing implications. Continue reading
UK-based EIKON receives investment by private equity fund YFM to finance expansion in the US and technology development as deal-making in media localization heats up. Continue reading
SoftBank Ventures puts USD 23.5m into Singapore media localizer IYUNO Media Group. Continue reading
Netflix closes Hermes, its online subtitling and translation test and indexing system, and says it has ‘reached its capacity for each one of the language tests’. Continue reading
On the back of strong market tailwinds UK-based Zoo Digital impresses with its full year performance estimate. Government grant and UAE partnership announced recently also lend investor cheer. 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
Keywords continues to bolster growth rapidly through acquisitions announced just one day apart, adding one US company to engineering services and another Mexican one to media localization. Both comes with a client base of the who’s who in gaming. 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
The acquisition of PPC Creative is expected to bring new capabilities to SDI Media Group’s portfolio as the film industry and the media services space continue to globalize and demand for customized marketing grows. 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
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