Top 10 Companies in the $365 billion Information Industry: Outsell Report
The top 20 companies
accounted for $106.4 billion of 2006 revenues in the $365 billion
information industry, according to Outsell's new report. The top 20
account for 29.1% of the entire market, with the average revenue
per company at approximately $5.3 billion.
Outsell, Inc. has released its new report, “Information Industry Market Size and Share Rankings; Preliminary 2006 Results” during the Software & Information Industry Association’s Information Industry Summit.
Most notably, Google rose from number 4 in 2005 to the number 1 market share position in 2006 with a whopping 68.8% growth.
The top 10 companies:
- Google,
- Reed Elsevier,
- Thomson Corporation,
- Pearson plc,
- Gannett,
- Yahoo!,
- McGraw-Hill Companies,
- VNU Group,
- Reuters Group,
- Wolters Kluwer.
Eleven through 20 on the list include Bloomberg, The Asahi Shimbun Company, News Corporation, The Tribune Company, Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT), Idearc Media Corp. (SuperPages), The Yomiuri Shimbun, New York Times Company, Yell, and International Data Group (IDG).
Outsell forecasts the information industry to grow 6.2% in 2007, led by the Search & Aggregation and Market Research segments.
