Common Sense Advisory

Crowdsourced Translation Yields More Multilingual Content in Less Time Through the Power of Online Communities

Market research firm Common Sense Advisory’s latest report for buyers of language services details the findings and best practices from more than 100 companies.

New Suite of Localization Maturity Research Reports and Guides Available for Global Businesses

Research by Common Sense Advisory helps companies localize products for new countries more quickly and cost-effectively.

Globalization Fuels Growth for Translation and Interpreting Firms, Even in Times of Recession

New Study from Common Sense Advisory details the characteristics of fastest-growing language services providers.

Global Software Firms Seek to Capture More Revenue from International Markets

New report from Common Sense Advisory helps developers benchmark their spending on localization and translation as part of global expansion efforts.

How Translation and Localization Professionals Beat the Recession

New study from Common Sense Advisory shows steady pay increases, overall employment stability, and high levels of job satisfaction for workers in the language services industry.

Global Businesses Depend More Than Ever on Translation and Localization Suppliers to Meet International Marketing Goals

New Common Sense Advisory report sheds light on how global organizations are managing their vendors and developing partnership approaches with language service providers (LSPs).

Translation and Localization Industry Pricing Survey Reveals While Demand is Up, Prices are Down

Translation underpins successful business globalization. While technology, business practices, regulatory compliance, and marketing issues support the international or domestic multicultural outreach of any organization, words always convey information about what an organization does, sells, or offers. And, according to new research by Common Sense Advisory, these words are getting cheaper. The net result of global supply, advances in technology, economic troubles, and more aggressive buyers has conspired to drive down the prices of most major and up-and-coming language pairs since the firm last collected data on pricing in late 2007.

Customers Push Global Software Developers to Deliver More Products in More Languages

Common Sense Advisory report provides insight into how global product localization is changing in the face of increased customer expectations.

Market Research Report Provides Best Practices for Authoring in Global Communications

Common Sense Advisory report includes six-step process for breaking the siloed approach to content creation, translation, and publishing.

First-Ever Comprehensive Study of the North American Interpreting Market

Market data, interpreter pay rates, and other results to be revealed at Washington DC summit.