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HotTopics: Information Industry Market Size And Share Rankings; Preliminary 2006 Results

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Authors: Leigh Watson Healy, Chief Analyst; Ned May, Director & Lead Analyst; Pooneh Fooladi, Director & Market Analyst

This HotTopics analyzes preliminary estimates of 2006 revenue and 2005-to-2006 growth of the $365 billion information industry and its segments, and includes:

- Revenue and growth rates of the total information industry and its top 20 companies, which in aggregate grew 10.4 percent in 2006
- Revenue and growth rates of the top 10 leaders in 10 industry segments
- Commentary on the trends driving growth in each segment
- Insights about fast-growing companies such as Google and Yahoo!, which continue to disrupt the status quo
- Outsell’s top 10 predictions for 2007

Outsell maintains and continuously updates a database of over 6,000 publishers and information providers worldwide. Outsell uses a supply-side methodology to size the information industry.


Pub Date: January 30, 2007
Type: Briefing, HotTopic
Segments: B2B CF E & T HR IM ITTRRS LTR MRRS NEWS STM SAS ALL
Keywords: Forecast, Market Analysis, Market Statistics
Pages: 16
Format: PDF Application_pdf

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Table of Contents

  • Why This Topic?
  • Total Market Size and Top 20 Market Share Leaders
    1. Information Industry Growth Slowed to 5.8 Percent in 2006
    2. Google Now No. 1 in Information Industry
  • Market Share Leaders by Segment
    1. B2B Trade Publishing
    2. Company Information
    3. Credit & Financial Information
    4. Education & Training
    5. Legal, Tax & Regulatory
    6. Market Research, Reports & Services
    7. IT & Telecom Research, Reports & Services
    8. News Providers & Publishers
    9. Scientific, Technical & Medical Information
    10. Search, Aggregation & Syndication
  • Top 10 Predictions for 2007
  • Companies Mentioned in This HotTopics
  • - Google
  • - Reed Elsevier
  • - Thomson Corporation
  • - Pearson
  • - Gannett
  • - Yahoo!
  • - McGraw-Hill Companies
  • - VNU
  • - Reuters
  • - Wolters Kluwer
  • - Bloomberg
  • - The Asahi Shimbun Co.
  • - News Corporation
  • - The Tribune Company
  • - Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT)
  • - Idearc Media Corp. (SuperPages)
  • - The Yomiuri Shimbun
  • - New York Times Co.
  • - Yell Ltd.
  • - International Data Group (IDG)