The EContent 100 List of Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry is now in its 15th year, and big changes have been afoot. We added new judges, new categories, and as a result, we’ve got many new companies on the list. Among other changes, this year we thought it was important to recognize digital marketing technologies in their own category-and bring in some experts to help us separate the wheat from the chafe. If you have recently searched for a new digital marketing platform to work with, you’ll know that narrowing this field down isn’t easy.

We also decided that it was high time we gave technologies that help content providers cope in the global market their due. So we added the Globalization and Localization category. The importance of tailoring your content to global audiences is growing, and this year’s list reflects that. As always, the EContent 100 represents the most important companies in the digital content industries, but it also reflects the trends in the industry that will be integral to success in the digital content industry in the coming year.  

For more on industry trends, be sure to read the commentaries from our industry experts and practitioners, and to stay tuned for the 2016 EContent Sourcebook, which takees deep dives into multiple aspects of the industry and tells you what you need to know for the coming year.

–Theresa Cramer, Editor, EContent


Company Category Executive Summary
Acquia, Inc. Web Content Management  
Acquire Media Corporation Content Commerce, Distribution & Delivery View From The Top Profile
Acrolinx GmbH Content Creation, Content Globalization & Localization, Digital Marketing Technologies  
Act-On Software Inc. Content Creation, Digital Marketing Technologies  
Adobe Systems, Inc. Content Creation, Web Content Management, Analytics, Content Commerce, Digital Marketing Technologies  
Aerospike, Inc. Big Data  
Akamai Technologies Distribution & Delivery  
Amazon.com Inc. Big Data, Distribution & Delivery  
Apple, Inc. Mobile Content, Distribution & Delivery  
Aptara Inc. Content Creation  
Aquafadas Content Creation, Mobile Content  
Atex Web Content Management  
Attensity Analytics  
Attivio Analytics  
Author-It Software Copr. Content Creation  
Automattic Inc Web Content Management, Content Creation  
Brightcove Inc. Distribution & Delivery  
Cengage Learning, Inc. Distribution & Delivery  
Cision US, Inc. Analytics  
Cloudera, Inc. Big Data  
Cloudwords, Inc. Content Globalization & Localization  
CognitiveScale Big Data  
Connotate, Inc. Big Data  
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. Content Commerce, Distribution & Delivery View From The Top Profile
CoreMedia Corp. Web Content Management  
Crafter Software Corp. Web Content Management View From The Top Profile
CrownPeak Web Content Management  
CSG International Content Commerce  
Cxense ASA Digital Marketing Technologies  
Digimind Analytics  
DNN Corp. Web Content Management  
EBSCO Industries, Inc. Distribution & Delivery  
Elsevier B.V. Distribution & Delivery  
Ephox Corporation Content Creation  
Episerver Web Content Management  
e-Spirit Inc. Web Content Management  
Facebook Social Media, Distribution & Delivery  
Fiksu, Inc. Analytics  
Google, Inc. Content Creation, Analytics, Content Globalization & Localization, Mobile Content  
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Web Content Management, Big Data  
Hippo B.V. Web Content Management  
HootSuite Social Media  
Hortonworks Inc. Big Data  
Hubspot, Inc. Content Creation, Digital Marketing Technologies  
IBM Corp. Big Data  
iCopyright, Inc. Content Commerce  
Impelsys Distribution & Delivery  
InboundWriter Digital Marketing Technology, Analytics  
Infor Digital Marketing Technologies  
Ingeniux Corporation Web Content Management View From The Top Profile
i-on Interactive, Inc. Digital Marketing Technologies  
IXIASOFT Web Content Management  
Kaon Interactive, Inc. Digital Marketing Technologies View From The Top Profile
Kenshoo, Ltd. Digital Marketing Technologies  
Kentico Software Web Content Management  
Krux Digital Inc. Big Data  
Lexalytics Analytics  
Lingotek Content Globalization & Localization  
LinkedIn Corp. Social Media  
Lionbridge Technologies Content Globalization & Localization  
MadCap Software, Inc. Content Creation  
Magnolia International Ltd. Web Content Management  
Marketo, Inc. Digital Marketing Technologies  
MarkLogic Corporation Big Data  
MediaPass Content Creation  
MongoDB, Inc. Big Data  
Netflix Distribution & Delivery  
OneSpot Digital Marketing Technologies, Analytics  
Open Source Matters, Inc. Web Content Management  
OpenText Corp. Web Content Management  
Oracle Corporation Web Content Management, Big Data, Digital Marketing Technologies  
Pandora Media Inc. Distribution & Delivery  
Placed Inc. Analytics  
ProQuest LLC Content Commerce, Distribution & Delivery  
PublishThis (Ultra Unlimited Corp.) Content Creation  
Quark Software Inc. Content Creation  
Reprints Desk, Inc. Distribution & Delivery  
Salesforce.com, Inc. Digital Marketing Technologies, Analytics  
SDL Plc. Content Globalization & Localization, Web Content Management  
SiteCore Web Content Management  
Siteworx, LLC Content Creation  
Skyword Inc. Content Creation  
Smartling, Inc. Content Globalization & Localization  
Snapchat Social Media  
Splunk Inc. Big Data, Analytics  
Spotify AB Distribution & Delivery  
STAR AG Content Creation  
Sysomos Analytics  
Teradata Corp. Digital Marketing Technologies  
TERMINALFOUR Inc. Web Content Management View From The Top Profile
ThinkAnalytics Ltd. Analytics  
Transifex Web Content Management  
Transperfect Content Creation  
Twitter, Inc. Social Media  
VigLink Content Commerce  
Vimeo LLC Distribution & Delivery  
Wazee Digital Content Commerce  
Webtrends Analytics  
Wingify Digital Marketing Technologies  
Zumobi Inc. Mobile Content