How "hot" is the translation market?

Quite hot it seems, according to a video by Nataly Kelly, listing some 2012 facts and figures about our industry – the market may be worth more than US$33 billion and growing but the average price per word may be falling in most language pairs.
Interesting point: “Productivity is stagnating (about 2500 words per day is still the norm, even with CAT tools)” while “Machine translation use is growing (20.64 % of freelance translators have used it).”

Anyway, here’s the video.

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