AgentBee monitors and reports on the publicly available information on aggregator sub-agent networks, drawing on the information available on aggregator websites. This is our 2023 annual report.
The chart below shows the historical growth of the sub-agent networks of selected education agent aggregators up to December 2023. It covers only a selection of the main aggregators because including them all makes the chart too busy and difficult to read. The first chart includes LCI Group. Its reported sub-agent network of over 15,000 skews the scale of the chart, so LCI is removed in the second chart.
With LCI Group
…and without LCI Group
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There are now a significant number of businesses operating an education agent aggregator model. The table below adds those that we could not fit onto the charts above.
Aggregator TableJust a few years ago it seemed that the education agent recruitment market may come to be dominated by one, or at most a handful of big players. That outcome now seems less certain. Check out: Crossing the edtech moat: aggregator disaggregation.
Points to note…
- The sheer size of LCI’s agent network. At 15,000 sub-agents it is almost twice the size of the next largest sub-agent network (Adventus.io at 8,000). And it was even bigger at the start of the year. LCI’s reported agent network dropped from 20,000 to 15,000 between January and December
- ApplyBoard reduced its sub-agent network from 10,000 in July to 6,500 by the end of the year. See – ApplyBoard cuts 3,500 ‘Recruitment Partners’
- In the first half of the year KC Overseas reported a decrease in sub-agent numbers from 9,000 in January, to 3,000 in July. By December it reported a jump of 500, back up to 3,500 sub-agents. See – Ups and downs in aggregator sub-agent networks.
- Shorelight reported a significant drop in sub-agent numbers from 7,000 in January to 3,000 in July, and then remained steady at that level for the remainder of the year.
- Adventus.io added 1,000 sub-agents over the first half of the year (from 7,000 to 8,000) and now has the second-largest sub-agent network in the market.
No numbers…
Some aggregators do not provide information about the size of their sub-agent network on their website – or at least not that we could see. Aggregators in this group include:
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