Posts Under: information services

Revenue Up 5.4% for B2B Media & Information Industry in 2017

The 2017 Business Information Network report looks a little different this year, with significantly larger overall revenue estimates for the B2B media and information category as a whole and for the Data and Paid Content category in particular. Working with our partner Outsell, we’ve recast the Data and Paid Content category to expand beyond just B2B media publishers to be more representative of the greater paid content universe that Connectiv now represents (including companies such as Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg BNA, Reed Tech, Lexis Nexis and more). For the BIN report, Outsell is tracking a number of verticals including Commercial Information, Credit & Finance, Legal, Science Technology & Healthcare and Human Capital Management.

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Executive Summit Preview: New York Times To Talk Making Money on Paid Content

According to the Connectiv Media & Information census, by 2020, paid content and information services will be the second largest revenue stream for B2B media information companies, trailing only events. That’s a fundamental shift for many companies that continue to see advertising—in both print and digital formats—as a leading business line.

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B2B Media & Information Industry Up 2.7% to $28.35 Billion in 2015

Double digit growth in digital advertising/marketing services, resurgent events and a growing data and information services business drove overall revenue for the B2B media and information industry up 2.7 percent to $28.35 billion in 2015, compared to $27.6 billion in 2014, according to Connectiv’s Business Information Network, which calculates the size of the industry, aggregating the data for total industry revenue from partners reporting on revenue for digital advertising, conferences and trade shows, print advertising, and data and business information products.

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How Free Content and Paid Research Are Building One Publisher’s Event Business

Traditional publishing was likened to a three-legged stool: editorial, audience and advertising all fed into and off each other. Today a new (potentially higher margin) trifecta is starting to emerge with events, media and market intelligence driving customers across a publisher’s portfolio.

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