Where does Periodical Publishers sit on the thin-tail industry band?

Periodical Publishers ranks #371 of 499 tracked industries by calendar-2024 contract dollars at $50.6M (LIGHT · INFO).

How much federal contract spending sits under Periodical Publishers?

USAspending.gov records show $50.6M in calendar-2024 federal contract awards under NAICS 513120.

Where does the INFO sector placement for Periodical Publishers come from?

Placement is computed from our USAspending.gov calendar-2024 extract ordered by total contract dollars descending (same basis as /industries/).

USAspending.gov · NAICS 513120 · Information

Periodical Publishers

Name: Periodical Publishers (NAICS 513120) - Federal Contract Data
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Thin-tail NAICS industry on the industries board — code 513120 in Information.

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CY2024 awards: $50.6M
Corpus rank: #371 of 499
Award plate: LIGHT
Sector: INFO · NICHE

Periodical Publishers federal industry awards

Periodical Publishers is a thin-tail industry on the NAICS board at $50.6M CY2024 (#371 of 499).

PlainFedContract attributes calendar-2024 contract dollars to NAICS 513120, not firm revenue. Stamp board: LIGHT · INFO. See /methodology/#naics.

Year-over-year change, 2023–2024

Across the calendar years on file, Periodical Publishers’s annual contract dollars rose from $30.6M in 2023 to $50.6M in 2024. 65.3% vs 2023

Periodical Publishers annual contract dollars, calendar 2023-2024

Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures use the same NAICS classification basis as the CY2024 headline above.

Source: USAspending.gov spending_by_category

How Periodical Publishers shows up on the thin-tail award band

$50.6M · #371 of 499 by CY2024 industry awards , thin-tail on the NAICS award board (same order as the industries listing). See methodology.

$50.6M under NAICS 513120 · #371 of 499 , LIGHT · INFO · NICHE · DRIFT. Nearest ABS peer: Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing at $49.6M (TRACE).

Calendar-2024 actions under NAICS 513120 count as opportunity size, not firm revenue. Sector weight is light within INFO. Populations, lag, and NAICS/SBA rules: methodology.

Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury

Thin-tail industry peers nationwide

Cross-sector peers from the USAspending NAICS extract: nearest thin-tail calendar-2024 award dollars and nearest sector-weight share. Not recommendations.

Closest CY2024 award dollars

Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Industry spending amounts are aggregated from contract awards and may not reflect the most current data. Always verify with official sources.

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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Compiled from USAspending.gov by the PlainFedContract editorial process.

Compiled by PlainFedContract, Government Agencies Editorial Process · August 14, 2026

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