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
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
Download Slator’s 2017 Buy-Side Report. Structured along industry verticals and featuring 30 buyers in a short profile, the report is a compilation of Slator buyer articles and features information such as buyer name, translation volume and spend, technology, sourcing approach, and other key insights. Continue reading
With the growing global appetite for video, audiovisual translation becomes a billion-dollar opportunity for the language services industry if it plays its cards right. But first, it must deal with a few challenges, including the global need for talent. 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
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