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B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information: 2007 Final Market Size and Share ReportB2B Trade Publishing & Company Information is a global market segment of the information industry sized at $25.6 billion in 2007. It ranks seventh in revenue among the professional information market segments in the information industry, and accounts for 6.6% of the total $387 billion industry revenue. It was also one of the slower growing market segments in 2007. This report provides Outsell’s final 2007 market size and share data for this segment and analyzes significant trends and issues facing top companies and their markets.

Search, Aggregation & Syndication: 2007 Final Market Size and Share ReportSearch, Aggregation & Syndication (SAS) is a global market segment of the information industry sized at $41.6 billion in 2007, representing 26.0% growth. It ranks third in revenue among the professional information market segments in the information industry, and accounts for 10.7% of the total $387 billion industry revenue. Led by Google, the segment continues to outpace the rest of the industry, as it has since 2003. This report provides Outsell’s final 2007 market size and share data for the SAS segment and analyzes significant trends and issues facing top companies and their markets.

News Providers & Publishers: 2007 Final Market Size and Share ReportThe News Providers & Publishers segment is still the behemoth of the $387 billon information industry, with $133.3 billion in revenues. However, it’s also the only information segment showing negative growth, at -1% globally. This report provides Outsell’s final 2007 market size and share data for the News segment and analyzes significant trends and issues facing top companies and their markets.

Legal, Tax & Regulatory: 2007 Final Market Size and Share ReportThe Legal, Tax & Regulatory (LTR) segment of the information industry generated $13.9 billion in revenues in 2007, representing 10.1% growth over 2006. This growth was ahead of historical growth rates, but was heavily influenced by currency exchange rates. This report provides Outsell’s final 2007 market size and share data for the LTR segment and analyzes significant trends and issues facing top companies and their markets.

K-12 Education: 2007 Final Market Size and Share ReportThe US K-12 Education segment, as defined in this report, grew 3.6% in 2007 to reach $23.7 billion. It was dominated by state, district, and school spending on assessment and enterprise software and technology services, as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) continued to leave its mark on the industry. The K-12 Education segment is comprised of three subsegments: instructional materials, technology infrastructure, and education services: and overall is poised for modest growth.

Postsecondary Education: 2007 Final Market Size and Share ReportThe US Postsecondary Education segment, as defined in this report, was sized at $19.3 billion in 2007, representing 8.2% growth over 2006. Its three subsegments: content, technology, and institutional services: consist of a wide spectrum of markets at different levels of maturity, consolidation, supplier competition, and projected growth. Annual growth for the industry has been on a steady incline as strong postsecondary institutional spending patterns have continued to support new suppliers and evolving markets. This report focuses on essential data and analysis providing an in-depth view into the US Postsecondary Education segment.

Credit & Financial Information: 2007 Final Market Size and Share ReportThe Credit & Financial Information (C&F) segment continued to outperform the information industry as a whole in 2007, with growth of 11% against total industry growth of 6.6%, to achieve a total market size of $40.5 billion. This report provides Outsell’s final 2007 market size and share data for the C&F segment and analyzes significant trends and issues facing top companies and their markets.

How Social Networking Supports Workplace Communities: Summary of Outsell’s June 11, 2008 WebinarWeb 2.0 and social networking have enabled content generation and exchange in ways that information management (IM) leaders could never have imagined even a few years ago. As communities and social networks proliferate on the open web, everyone, from kids to scientists to CEOs, is finding sites and venues for all kinds of communication, sharing, and collaboration. Information professionals are keen to use similar applications to deliver their products and services and to enhance their organizations’ knowledge landscapes. To help information professionals understand social networking and to provide some real life stories of its application in IM, Outsell hosted a webinar on June 11, 2008.

Annual Advertising and Marketing Study 2008Outsell’s Annual Advertising and Marketing Study 2008 is the third edition of Outsell’s ongoing research and analysis in this area. It answers key questions about what publishers need to know about their advertisers. Advertising is one of the three major funding sources for the information industry, accounting for 42% of the $381 billion industry; the other two revenue streams are libraries and end-users (and their departments). This report augments our annual study with a complete view of the size of the advertising market. It reveals “where, why, and how fast” advertisers are moving more of their spending online, and examines the impacts of these shifts in 2008 on print spending, events, and other media. It gauges advertisers’ adoption of specific metrics and analytics and updates Outsell’s click fraud research.

Information Management Under Fire: Good Enough ContentEnterprise information management (IM) functions are straining under the weight of constant funding scrutiny, radically changing service delivery models, and outside drivers that continue to force information professionals to think of their business in new ways. Against this backdrop, Outsell is producing a series of Briefings, Information Management Under Fire, to help information managers tackle these challenges and provide ideas for creatively addressing them. This report, the third in the Under Fire series, looks at free or low-cost content and the possibility of IM selecting “good enough” sources for their enterprise’s everyday needs.