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It's earnings season and several publicly traded companies from the Nimdzi 100 — our ranking of the 100 largest language service providers (LSPs) in the world — have released their half-year results for 2022. We at Nimdzi collected, normalized, and analyzed the data in an effort to see how 2022 is advancing for the language industry and to check if our growth projections are panning out.

Imagine this: you decide to expand your very successful and popular mobile cooking app to other markets across the globe. You want to reach a wider audience and maximize your return on investment. You start by contacting translators and localization experts to ensure your app’s content is accessible to audiences from different countries. But is that enough?

As Nimdzi’s co-founder Renato Beninatto likes to say, there have only ever been three disruptive innovations in the language industry: e-mail, Translation memory software, Machine translation, and Google Translate in particular. But is there anything else? An idea so innovative that it could transform and reshape our industry?

The Nimdzi 100 is one of our flagship publications. It includes a ranking of the top 100 LSPs by revenue, a watchlist of large players that don’t disclose their revenues, and a detailed overview of the size and state of the language services industry. The Nimdzi 100 is widely considered an industry standard and is read by tens of thousands of people in the translation and localization space and beyond. LSPs, localization buyers, investors, savvy job seekers, and analysts will benefit from this free resource.

The language services industry once again proved to be impervious to crises and continued to grow in 2021. It now also has its first billion dollar company. Long-time industry leader TransPerfect just revealed that the company reached USD 1.1 billion in revenue in 2021.

The ATC UK language services industry report is the reference publication on the size and the state of the language services market in the UK. This year, upwards of 200 respondents took part in the survey. This is the most up-to-date and relevant snapshot of the trends governing the market in the UK.

The Nimdzi Interpreting Index is an in-depth report on the state of the global interpreting market that analyzes trends, market forces, and includes a ranking of the top 35 interpreting LSPs by revenue.

There are many different ways to look at the size of the language services industry. Judging purely by headquarters location, Europe is the frontrunner, with 39.9 percent of the 153 medium-to-large-sized language service providers (LSPs) identified in the Nimdzi 100 based there.

Research Findings: Communication Secrets of Localization Leaders - A recent research project conducted by Ren Yi and Cissy Liu titled "Communication Secrets of Localization Leaders" has shed some light on management and leadership practices of top language service industry leaders. The project was part of the Leadership for Localization Management course at MIIS (Middlebury Institute […]

The gaming industry accounts for 26% of total revenue in the media industry and it is projected to increase to USD 196 billion by 2022. The purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive picture of the total addressable market (TAM) for multilingual user-generated content (UGC) for player support in the gaming industry.