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

Tax, Accounting & Audit reached $64.1B in 2025, up 11%, and is forecast to hit $82B by 2028. Workflow software drives 93% of revenue. Growth is led by AI, compliance digitization and audit scrutiny, while consolidation shifts buying power toward larger firms and trusted, integrated platforms.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Tax, Accounting, and Audit: 2026 Ecosystem View

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: August 12, 2026

Outsell’s B2B 100 segment view ranks top companies delivering industry media, events, and marketing services. Despite geopolitical challenges and AI threats, B2B 100 company revenue grew to $50B in 2025. Events once again sparked the sector and have opened the door to M&A activity.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: The B2B 100 Segment View: Top Vendors Offering Media, Event, and Marketing Services

Author: Rob Keenan

Date: August 10, 2026

ASME’s partnership with Articul8 raises the stakes for standards publishing: it tests whether innovation leadership can turn authoritative content into disruptive, AI-native engineering value.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: The ASME–Articul8 Partnership: An AI Force Multiplier for Engineering Intelligence

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: August 06, 2026

Anthropic’s Claude for Teachers joins OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teachers and Google’s Gemini for Education targeting the US K-12 teacher desktop. Each is betting on what wins loyalty: curriculum alignment, LMS embedding, or admin control, and each bet implies a different role for education publishers.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Split Three Ways on K-12

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: August 05, 2026

The Outsell 2026 B2B Buyers Study is a first. It shows the impact that AI tools and technology have on the buying process and reveals that AI has not only reshaped B2B purchasing by breaking down vendor selection; it is also reinventing the entire funnel.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Outsell 2026 B2B Buyers Study: New Rules, New Playbook for Media & Events Operators

Author: Rob Keenan

Date: August 04, 2026

How did your performance compare against your peers? The Outsell and M3 Learnings quarterly Sales Benchmark provides the data and insights to measure and improve sales performance.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Outsell & M3 Learning’s Q2-Q3 2026 Sales Benchmark Results

Author: Michael Dziekan

Date: July 29, 2026

Elsevier has added three new agentic AI tools to LeapSpace, grounding them in 20+ million peer-reviewed works. How well this platform, built on trusted content and embedded into user workflow, is able to help Elsevier counter AI-related disintermediation will provide a valuable industry-wide signal.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Elsevier Expands LeapSpace With Agentic AI Tools

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: July 16, 2026

ASME’s acquisition of BSB Edge couples a major SDO with a mature regional aggregator at the very moment when publishers are rethinking channels, digital formats, and workflow integration.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: ASME-BSB Edge: A Strategic Signal for Standards in an AI Native, Aggregator Weary World

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: July 15, 2026

Individuals from libraries, publishers, and research bodies have launched TrustMarc, a machine-readable framework making digital content’s trust credentials visible and verifiable to both humans and LLMs, and addressing users’ daily struggle to identify credible resources amid AI-generated noise.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: TrustMarc: Turning Trust Into Infrastructure

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: July 08, 2026

The content-and-workflow consolidation has reached compliance, as Bloomberg Industry Group pairs its primary sources with Regology’s regulatory AI to move customers from awareness to action.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Bloomberg Industry Group Acquires Regology

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: July 06, 2026

The Education market topped $100B in 2025, growing at 5% year on year. GenAI is reshaping classrooms, assessment is shifting toward portfolios and projects, and learners are demanding stackable, portable credentials with clear skills mapping tied to real-world employability and outcomes.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Education: 2026 Ecosystem View

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: June 30, 2026

AI is not just disrupting your competitors. It is redrawing the competitive map entirely. Where your products sit on the Outsell Value Pyramid determines what plays are available to you. This playbook shows you exactly what to do next.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Navigating the Outsell Value Pyramid: A Playbook for the Age of Applied Intelligence

Author: Grant Hunter

Date: June 29, 2026

Springer Nature’s integration of AdisInsight into Claude highlights a strategic challenge that now confronts every information provider: how to create value when AI increasingly mediates the relationship between users and information.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Springer Nature Bets on AI Distribution Over Platform Exclusivity

Author: Nick Scheponik

Date: June 25, 2026

Wiley’s $452M acquisition of Emerald Publishing is one of scholarly publishing’s biggest consolidation moves in years, reshaping social sciences, signaling a subscription model comeback, and raising urgent questions for libraries, societies, and anyone in the AI content economy.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Wiley Acquires Emerald in the Latest Scholarly Publishing Consolidation Wave

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: June 23, 2026

Infosys acquired Optimum Healthcare IT to expand its healthcare transformation capabilities as health systems accelerate AI adoption, interoperability initiatives, cloud modernization, and workflow digitization.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Healthcare IT Meets Information Services: Infosys and the AI Workflow Economy

Author: Nick Scheponik

Date: June 22, 2026

Standards are weathering current shocks, but publishers now juggle two models: a still‑reliable subscription business and an emerging data‑driven, workflow‑integrated, tightly governed content business.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Outsell Segment View: 2026 Standards Publishing

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: June 18, 2026

The acquisitions of Hyve and Zonda signal that B2B M&A is gaining momentum. While Hyve highlights the continued appeal of event-driven business models, Zonda’s sale to CoStar offers a more important lesson about the value of data, workflow, and vertical depth.

Read more on the Outsell Platform: Hyve Highlights Event Value; Zonda Reveals the Future for B2B

Author: Rob Keenan

Date: June 17, 2026