While putting together Curmudgeon: How to Succeed as an Industry Analyst, I reached out to ARInsights which provided some data on the top 100 industry analyst firms. Give an analyst data and they want to do something with it. So let’s take a look. Gartner is the largest analyst firm with 1,008 analysts. I would argue that Gartner is a pure play analyst firm. Although it has some revenue from consulting and events (9.4% and 1.4% respectively out of Q1 2020 revenue of $1.019 billion) its ability to deliver those are wholly dependent on the value proposition from the analysts. I find it useful to treat its numbers as a benchmark. IDC, acquired in 2017 by China Oceanwide, is the number two firm in the world with 766 industry analysts tracked by ARInsights. As a private company it does not report financial data. Omdia (what most people still think of as Ovum which was rolled up into a larger media empire by Informa) has 289 analysts, although they
Industry Analyst Firms: The Numbers
Industry Analyst Firms: The Numbers
Industry Analyst Firms: The Numbers
While putting together Curmudgeon: How to Succeed as an Industry Analyst, I reached out to ARInsights which provided some data on the top 100 industry analyst firms. Give an analyst data and they want to do something with it. So let’s take a look. Gartner is the largest analyst firm with 1,008 analysts. I would argue that Gartner is a pure play analyst firm. Although it has some revenue from consulting and events (9.4% and 1.4% respectively out of Q1 2020 revenue of $1.019 billion) its ability to deliver those are wholly dependent on the value proposition from the analysts. I find it useful to treat its numbers as a benchmark. IDC, acquired in 2017 by China Oceanwide, is the number two firm in the world with 766 industry analysts tracked by ARInsights. As a private company it does not report financial data. Omdia (what most people still think of as Ovum which was rolled up into a larger media empire by Informa) has 289 analysts, although they