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

Authors: Leigh Watson Healy, Chief Analyst; Ned May, Vice President & 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.