A strong finish to 2016!
DECEMBER 2016 – We finished 2016 on a strong note, translating 21.3M units. That makes December the third month in a row when our community has translated over 20M units – a first for Gengo! This is especially impressive as we usually see a drop in translator availability towards the ...
Our community, by the numbers 2016
2016 marked another year of growth and milestones for Gengo, thanks to the hard work of our 21,000-strong (and still growing) translator community. Together, we helped customers from all over the world overcome language barriers and businesses go global. As we welcome 2017, let’s take a look back...
Faces of Gengo: Damien
We’re excited to welcome Damien, another dedicated Gengo Wordsmith to our hall of fame roster. One of our English to French translators, he started learning English at a young age through video games and movies. Now a full-time Gengo translator, he shares some of the perks of freelancing and offe...
Guide to Global Sales #4: Delighting customers
In the third step of our Guide to Global Sales series, we reviewed ways to close the deal with your international customers. The fourth and final stage of the funnel involves keeping your global customers happy. Just because they’ve already spent money doesn’t mean you can forget about them. Smar...
How to say “Happy New Year” in 12 of the world’s most spoken languages
An astounding 7,097 languages are spoken in the world today, according to a recent report by Ethnologue. However, only 23 languages account for most of the world’s population and up to 90% will be extinct by 2100. We took a look at the 12 most widely spoken languages in 2016 and found out how dif...
Guide to Global Sales #3: Closing the deal
In the second step of our Guide to Global Sales, we reviewed key strategies for engaging visitors on your site. Now that you’ve attracted and interacted with your audience, you need to transform those leads into paying customers. But how can you accomplish this? If you’ve worked in the ecommerce ...


