Pune, India, 5 September 2008
The US Newspaper industry has been battling growing margin pressures since the last few years. Dwindling circulation, drop in advertising revenues, growth of the internet and rising newsprint prices have contributed to the downward trend in margins. Amongst measures like reducing global coverage, cutting edition sizes, streamlining resources and cutting excess jobs, several leading newspaper companies are evaluating offshoring. Over the last couple of years, there has been an increasing trend of US-based newspaper publishers offshoring to India. This trend is set to gain traction in the
According to Arun Jethmalani, CEO ValueNotes, "Currently offshoring has been initiated by the Tier 1 newspaper publishers in the US, and is largely limited to ad crea tu equipacion production services. However, as offshoring matures, crea tu equipacion the Tier 2 and Tier 3 publishers will offshore a range of services to India."
Currently, the offshore vendor market is at a nascent stage with only a handful of vendors in India actively focusing on the newspaper segment. Amongst the India-based service providers, Express KCS, Affinity Express, 2AdPro and Mindworks Global are the market leaders. Given the current lacuna of ‘end-to-end' service capability amongst vendors, we expect the early entrants to grab this slot. These vendors are expected to build complementary capabilities to achieve this objective. The Indian offshore revenues from newspaper publishers are estimated to be $35 m in 2008. Says Jaslene Bawa analyst ValueNotes, "Going forward we expect offshoring to the newspaper segment grow to $120 m by 2012, however the vendors need to gain client confidence in terms of delivering consistently good quality of output and a quick turnaround."
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