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Market Size and Structure

B2B Market Overview (2003)

EPS measures the global market for business-to-business (B2B) media and information content services in 2003 at approximately US $ 30 billion.
The figure represents 2003 global B2B-only revenue of publishers and other content providers based North America and Europe (Asia and Latin America will be added in due course).

B2B Market & Information Revenues by Market Segment (2003)

Net revenues (i.e., excluding non-B2B revenues of industry players, in US$ grew 8.5% from 2002 to 2003. Revenues in constant currency grew 2.6% and is estimated to grow by 4% in 2004.

The five largest horizontal market segments collectively account for 64% of the total market:

Credit / Risk $5.1bn
Electronics $ IT $4.8bn
Cross Industry marketing data $4.0bn
Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals $3.0bn
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) $2.5bn

Share of B2B Revenues (2003) by Business Model Type: Who Pays for Media& Information Services?

The dominance of information services is evident in the overall mix of user-paid business models and dwarfs by three times the combined revenue from trade and directory/catalog advertising generated by sellers

Market Size of Business-to-Business (B2B) Media and Information Content Services:

Premium business-to-business information content services is a subset of a much larger premium information content and publishing market sold to primarily to businesses and institutions. According to a study by Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. (EPS) the overall market for premium information content and publishing is estimated to be US$ 82.9bn, of which the B2B segment is US$ 31.3bn.

Source: EPS Market Monitor Analysis.All Rights Reserved. www.epsltd.com. To order Market Monitor products contact Electronic Publishing Services, 26 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4SX, UK +44 20 7837 3345 marketmonitor@epsltd.com

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