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In every country, the level of centralization of government contracts has a huge impact on the interpreting market. We found that there is a Centralization Goldilocks Zone in which the markets flourish best.

In last week’s Nimdzi Finger Food post we talked about cloud gaming - both a technological shift & a change in how people play games - which is undoubtedly the major future disruptor in the video game sector. So, just how will the emergence of cloud gaming impact the localization industry?

According to a number of reports, global e-commerce spending for 2019 will reach USD 3.6 trillion. This represents an annual growth of around 18 percent. That makes for a lot of zeroes.

Yet another year in a row, revenues in the games industry have increased from USD 137.9 billion in 2018 to USD 152.1 billion in 2019, according to Newzoo. And this is not going to stop.

As of 2019, the total revenue of the Life Sciences industry presents USD 1.8 trillion. And it is poised to grow through 2024.

The United States is the largest interpreting market in the world. Almost half of the interpreting providers on our ranking of top players in the world are from the US and have a combined revenue of USD 932.4 million.

It comes as little surprise that Life Sciences is a sector firmly on the rise. While access to healthcare is democratizing across the globe, the growing needs of patients go hand in hand with technological advancements transforming the way businesses operate.

Localization, by its very nature, is a global business. The globalized language service company offers several distinct advantages outside of production efficiency. The globalized language service company also has the opportunity to offset domestic revenues with foreign revenues helping to diversify portfolios and create stability regardless of market fluctuations.

Welcome to the ATC UK Language Industry Survey 2019! The data collected for the survey forms a snapshot of the UK’s language services industry, providing us with a glimpse into the UK market as it stands today in a rapidly changing and evolving global industry and an uncertain political arena.

The UK market is the second largest localization and interpreting market in the world. It is defined by several large language service companies, a handful of mid-sized players and over a thousand smaller or specialist companies competing to meet client needs. Nimdzi and the Association of Translation Companies (ATC) have combined their efforts to provide a comprehensive overview of the language industry in the United Kingdom.