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
Game developer and publisher Goodgame Studios considers localization an integral part of the development process. Localization Manager credits “great collaboration” with LSPs for high language... Continue reading
Features 23 buyer profiles along industry verticals including buyer name, translation volume and / or spend (where available), technology used, sourcing approach, other key insights. Continue reading
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), launched in July 2018 to track how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, reached a new high of 104.02 in December... Continue reading
Poland-based Summa Linguae spent USD 2m acquiring Kommunicera, an “almost identical” language service provider, to expand into the Nordics. CEO highlights investment in NMT, API integrations and... Continue reading
A fluent understanding of NMT—neural fluency—is a must for localization departments who need to constantly do more with less for the globalization efforts of their multinational companies. Continue reading
Why content effectiveness is key and translation quality does not happen by default at Indeed.com and how Academia will need to adapt in training future linguists. Continue reading
The language industry is huge, worth around USD 40bn per year. Yet, unlike other industries of this size, there is no one single provider generating a billion US-Dollars in revenue. Here’s how it... Continue reading
Localization Director Estelle Bailly says good localization can encourage players to spend more time in free-to-play games and to monetize. The US game developer regularly outsources work to LSPs... Continue reading
Japan's most popular messaging app LINE has complex requirements for translation and localization. Senior Localization Engineer and Product Manager Robert Wertheim explains the process. Continue reading
Demand for translation and localization is growing at Sony Interactive Entertainment. Localization manager, Yasmin Vanya, discusses how her team works with 22 system languages to bring the... Continue reading
At Slator's Tokyo Meetup, held at the Grand Hyatt in Roppongi, participants discussed what's driving the language industry in 2017. The meetup was well attended by language service providers,... Continue reading
Carla Berquo, Senior Manager of Marketing Operations at hearing aid manufacturer Unitron, discusses why localizing marketing content is extremely challenging and why in translating technical... Continue reading
After an introduction by Common Sense Advisory in early 2015, Amplexor and Sajan set off for a two-year negotiation marathon that saw the deal nearly falling apart at one point. Amplexor CEO... Continue reading
In a major upgrade to its cloud-based translation management system, XTM’s version 10 ushers in the age of mobility for Project Managers. User interface refreshed from the ground up, while... Continue reading
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