Uncommitted and undecided past attendees are the canaries in the coal mine for the events industry when it comes to planning the return of in-person events. Understanding their needs by generation is critical to plotting the course back.
The global standards publishing market has been expecting a consolidation among the top three aggregators. Instead, a merger between a standards developer and an aggregator adds a new dimension to the competitive landscape.
It’s become a truism that COVID-19 accelerates trends in the information industry that were already on the rise. The use of VR for teaching and learning is no exception, as Immersive VR Education’s recent results and activities show.
Thomson Reuters takes a big leap forward with its legal platform strategy, which could potentially result in bringing its competitors into its own platform.
SAGE Campus, originally part of the SAGE Ocean portfolio, now has an expanded portfolio and a new institutional business model, creating a compelling new offering.
In-person events will look different and more spread out when they eventually return. Venue size, location, and focus will matter for the first returnees. Outsell surveyed past attendees in the US to help plot a course for B2B event companies and event operations teams to follow.
Business transparency remains a challenge in China. Moody’s AI is extrapolating Chinese company data to enhance visibility, turning alternative data into actionable intelligence. Information providers may find alternative data an effective means for bypassing traditional ways of obtaining insight.
Sourcing, ingesting, normalizing, and analyzing data from multiple sources places excessive time and work demands on commercial enterprise practitioners. With the rise of data marketplaces, a battleground is unfolding as providers and vendors launch and expand platforms to shift the burden of work.
Differentiation is critical for news providers looking to avoid commoditization. Automated journalism enables ALM to stand out by being first with its news alerts and creating niche content specific to lawyers’ practice areas.
Publishers that focus on making data a bona fide research artifact create a compelling reason for authors to choose their journals. Wiley’s pilot initiative serves as a case study for the greater industry on delivering an alternative type of content that can potentially replace the core type.
ZoomInfo’s purchase won’t move the market share needle immediately, but it provides a lesson for other companies in the data, information, and analytics economy on not only the importance of foundation data but how it is gathered.
Refinitiv acquires GIACT to boost its digital identity and verification service in KYC screening. This move demonstrates the financial information provider’s increasing appetite for front-line visibility into fraud.
The strategic rivalry between the US and China has led to unprecedented strains in the relationship and an increasingly difficult environment for foreign information businesses operating there. Don’t expect much to change any time soon.
Now that election day has passed in the US, researchers will be eager to scrutinize social media political advertising spend. Facebook is taking steps to block one effort, and the outcome could impact the broader media industry.
Financial results from the largest US textbook providers show the extent to which COVID-19 has accelerated digital take-up, generating growth for some and losses for others.
So far, transformative agreements have excluded highly selective journals. Springer Nature and Max Planck Digital Library have found a way to include them through an initiative that will change the scholarly communications landscape if it takes root.
