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L&D leaders are drowning in content sourcing. Aggregation is the lifeline they need.
If you're spending hours each week hunting for training content, you're not alone. According to Go1’s latest research, 93% of L&D leaders dedicate at least an hour a week to sourcing and managing content—and nearly three-quarters spend over three hours. That’s valuable time that could be spent building strategic programs or engaging teams.
The culprit? A fragmented content ecosystem. 40% of organizations are managing five or more content providers, with 14% using ten or more.
Most L&D leaders don’t take this approach lightly—they’re doing it to meet the diverse needs across their workforce, trying to make sure there’s something for everyone. But in trying to serve everyone else, they often pay the price themselves. The result is too often the opposite of what they hoped for: lost time, reduced impact, and growing frustration.
The hidden cost of content chaos
It’s not just about the hours spent switching tabs. Nearly 80% of L&D leaders say they’re satisfied with their content. Yet 78% admit that at least 10% of their L&D budget is wasted on ineffective or unused material. More than half estimate that waste could be as high as 25%.
This gap points to a deeper issue. Satisfaction doesn’t equal effectiveness. Without clear visibility into engagement, utilization, or business impact, it’s easy to mistake quantity for quality.
At the same time, L&D leaders are navigating a growing list of challenges: low learner engagement, limited budgets, incomplete content fit, and difficulty tracking training completions across systems. Layer on the complexity of compliance, shifting business priorities, and minimal integration between platforms, and the result is a content strategy that feels more like triage than impact.
Too many providers, too little visibility
The more content providers you manage, the harder it becomes to understand what’s truly working. Most teams rely on a central system like an LMS or LXP to track and report on learning—but when each provider feeds in data differently, it’s nearly impossible to get a clear, consistent view. Metrics don’t align. Formats vary. And without a way to compare content performance consistently across providers, L&D leaders are left piecing together incomplete insights instead of making confident, data-driven decisions.
It’s no surprise that many L&D leaders report spending more time managing content than actually enabling learning. It's frustrating and unsustainable in the long run.
Consolidation as a smarter path forward
When content is scattered, so is your time, your data, and your impact. That’s why more L&D leaders are looking to consolidate content vendors—not just to simplify workflows, but to regain control of their programs. Bringing content providers under one umbrella can significantly reduce daily complexity while improving the learner experience.
Here are five reasons consolidation makes a difference:
1. Less admin, more strategy
With fewer vendor relationships to manage, your team can spend less time coordinating and more time curating programs that support business goals.
2. Clearer data, better decisions
When content comes from one place, or is managed through a single platform, you can compare stats more effectively. Consistent data means clearer insights and smarter optimizations.
3. Faster content discovery
An all-in-one content platform often enables more powerful search and curation tools, helping you match content to learner needs quickly, without hours of manual sorting.
4. More consistent learner experience
Reducing the number of platforms and formats your learners interact with creates a smoother, more intuitive experience, boosting engagement and completion rates.
5. Easier budget management
Fewer vendors can also mean fewer contracts, simplified procurement, and clearer visibility into what you’re actually spending—and where it’s paying off.
A content aggregator is one way to achieve this. By centralizing access to a wide range of high-quality content, aggregators can deliver the scale, flexibility, and simplicity today’s L&D teams need.
That’s exactly what Go1 was built for. With over 80,000 courses from 250+ global providers, integrated into your existing systems and backed by real support, Go1 gives you one less thing to juggle.
And more time to do what you do best: help people grow.
Stop managing content. Start driving impact.
Discover how Go1 can help you consolidate providers, reclaim your time, and deliver learning that works.
