[acc-cca-l] Global Media & Internet Concentration Project: Brazil & Switzerland reports out today!

[Guy Hoskins]

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Today the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project<https://gmicp.org/> is releasing two new reports that portray recent development and concentration trends in a swathe of communication, internet and media industries:


-  The Brazil<https://gmicp.org/communications-media-and-internet-concentration-in-brazil-2019-2021/> report<https://gmicp.org/communications-media-and-internet-concentration-in-brazil-2019-2021/> was prepared by: Guillermo Mastrini; Martín Becerra, Professors, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; Ana Bizberge, Professor, Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Ornela Carboni, Professor, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; Agustín Espada, CONICET; Florencia Sosa, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.


-  The Switzerland report<https://gmicp.org/communications-media-and-internet-concentration-in-switzerland-2019-2021/> was prepared by Gabriele Balbi, Professor; Michele Martini, Post-Doctoral Fellow; Petra Mazzoni, Riccardo Ferrigato and Ely Leuthi, all Ph.D. students, at the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, USI Università della Svizzera italiana.

These follow editions we have published in the last few months on the state of media and internet concentration in Canada, Italy, France and South Korea. Others will be out soon, with the end goal a library of regularly updated reports for all of the nearly 40 countries that make up the GMICP.

These reports allow us to detect trends across global media markets:


-   Both Switzerland and Brazil exhibit greater stability – or at least a slower decline – in the traditional media sectors than conventional wisdom suggests.

-   The Covid years represented stagnation overall in both countries, with big declines in advertising-supported media offset by growth in online media services

-   Concentration levels in the telecommunications and core internet services are remarkably high in Switzerland and Brazil

-  In both countries, just 3 companies make-up almost 90% of the wireless sector

Of course, sharp differences also abound:


-  Public service media are powerful actors in the Swiss network media economy with SSR SSG boasting the largest TV audience share, and Swisscom dominant in the telecoms and internet access services market

-  In Brazil, while public service media is negligible, family-owned media groups control much of the traditional media market, with the Globo Group predominant amongst them

And finally:


-  Please review any of our reports and the underlying data sets here<https://gmicp.org/reports-2/>.


-  We are delighted to be presenting our research at the ICA conference<https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ica24> in Australia in June, IAMCR<https://iamcr.org/christchurch2024> in New Zealand in July, and will be convening our own symposium<https://gmicp.org/event/sydney-symposium/> at the University of Sydney shortly afterwards.


-  Finally, we invite other researchers to contribute their expertise to our efforts – please reach out to us here<https://gmicp.org/contact-us/>.


Dr. Guy Hoskins
Post-Doctoral Fellow & Project Manager -
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project<https://gmicp.org/>
Course Instructor - Toronto Metropolitan University<https://www.ryerson.ca/next-chapter/>
Vice-chair - Communication, Policy & Technology section - IAMCR<https://iamcr.org/>
Ghoskins@<mailto:Ghoskins at ryerson.ca>torontomu.ca<http://torontomu.ca>
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