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Outsell’s latest survey finds that peer review looks healthy from the researcher’s side, but the goodwill keeping it afloat rests on a small, overstretched group of reviewers. Meanwhile, AI is reshaping how reviews are written before anyone has agreed the rules.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: The Future of Peer Review: Voice of the Researcher
Author: Kate Worlock
Date: October 22, 2026
Silverchair’s Research Bridge helps scholarly publishers distribute content via AI research assistants, but may divert usage from the platforms Silverchair hosts. It highlights a challenge for information services: capturing value from AI distribution without undermining existing business models.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Silverchair Builds a Bridge to the AI Information Economy
Author: Nick Scheponik
Date: October 21, 2026
Standards bodies and technology vendors agree on the shape of the deal but not the number. In the absence of a proven formula, breaking out of pilot purgatory takes internal decisions and a tolerance for risk on both sides of the table.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: The Missing Formula: Pricing the AI-Era Derivative Product
Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: October 15, 2026
The tracker logs 112 AI announcements in engineering, standards, supply chain and compliance (Oct 2024 to Oct 2026). Each gets one test: does AI remove a workflow stage, or only speed up one that remains? Compression leads two to one; displacement is where reference stops being looked up.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Outsell Embedded Intelligence Tracker
Author: Tatiana Khayrullina
Date: October 15, 2026
Top 100 sales and marketing tool and service providers delivered a banner year in 2025, growing 9.8% YoY. In 2026, that growth is colliding with a harder reality: AI is reshaping how enterprises buy, build, and staff sales and marketing work, and the old delivery model is no longer a safe bet.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Sales & Marketing Top 100: Revenue Holds; GTM Doesn’t
Author: Rob Keenan
Date: October 14, 2026
Informa’s purchase of Clarion doubles down on B2B and puts distance between it and competitors. But the long-term win won’t be scale. It will be Clarion’s buyer data and how well Informa turns it into insights and revenue.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Informa Bets on B2B and Buyer Data through $3B Clarion Deal
Author: Rob Keenan
Date: October 12, 2026
Informa’s decision to “separate” Taylor & Francis (T&F) from the rest of the group puts the world’s fifth largest scholarly publisher onto the market. The question of future ownership remains on the table, with no clear potential buyer at this early stage.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Informa Announces Plans for Separation of T&F
Author: Kate Worlock
Date: October 12, 2026
Governance, Risk & Compliance reached $79.9B in 2025, up 11%. Workflow software drives 87% of revenue. Growth is led by due diligence, IT risk and AI-driven compliance automation, while platforms such as ServiceNow and SAP gain share and fraud, AML and identity converge.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Governance, Risk and Compliance Solutions: 2026 Ecosystem View
Author: Hugh Logue
Date: October 05, 2026
Copyright awareness has stopped rising just as AI is accelerating the flow of third-party content beyond licensed use. New research reveals where the risk is concentrating, why traditional compliance has reached its limit, and how content owners can build licensing into the tools where work happens.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Copyright Awareness Has Peaked, AI Use Has Not
Author: Hugh Logue
Date: September 23, 2026
If your AI strategy is “build a better assistant,” you may be defending the wrong front. New analysis on where publishers can still get paid once customers leave the platform.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Scientific Publishers May Be Fighting on the Wrong Front
Author: Thibault Géoui
Date: September 21, 2026
Trust in scholarly publishing has eroded — paper mills, fabrication, and high-profile retractions have undermined peer review’s credibility. Research integrity is maturing in response: trust markers shift the model from reactive fraud detection to proactively demonstrating trustworthiness upfront.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Mapping the Evolving Scholarly Content Trust Marker Landscape
Author: Kate Worlock
Date: September 17, 2026
Salesforce’s partnership with Anthropic demonstrates how SaaS companies respond to growing SaaSpocalypse concerns while allowing Anthropic to increase its position of strength in enterprises. More importantly, the move shows how data holds the key to drive company value for B2B SaaS brands.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Salesforce, Anthropic Partnership Turns Data into B2B Differentiator
Author: Rob Keenan
Date: September 08, 2026
The AI content licensing market has stopped rewarding good negotiators and started rewarding good infrastructure. The corpus sale was a one-off event, and metered access at the moment of use is the new revenue line.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Operating Practice: Building Scalable AI Licensing Strategies
Author: Hugh Logue
Date: September 02, 2026
McGraw Hill, Pearson and Cengage’s latest financial results show higher education growth rates splitting apart on AI strategies and business models, while international markets proved problematic for everyone. Investors remain cautious, with all three seeing flat share prices or small declines.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Education Half Year Update 2026: Higher Ed Diverges as the AI Infrastructure Race Begins
Author: Kate Worlock
Date: August 24, 2026
The five largest listed scholarly publishers all grew in H1 2026, but only Wiley’s share price rose. The market isn’t rewarding AI exposure — it’s rewarding AI revenue that recurs, and punishing the kind that doesn’t.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: Scholarly Research Half Year Update 2026: Solid Growth, Selective Belief
Author: Kate Worlock
Date: August 19, 2026
RELX, TR, and WK all grew faster in H1 2026 than a year earlier, despite shares falling sharply on AI disruption fears. Investors are pricing a collapse that is not happening, but the risk is Big Tech AI costs a fraction of incumbents’ tools, but lag only slightly on quality, and keep improving.
Read more on the Outsell Platform: RELX, Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer H1 2026: Growth Accelerates, Valuations Don’t
Author: Hugh Logue
Date: August 17, 2026