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

[Guy Hoskins]

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Apologies for cross-posting!

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


-  The Australia<https://gmicp.org/communications-media-and-internet-concentration-in-australia-2019-2022/> report<https://gmicp.org/communications-media-and-internet-concentration-in-australia-2019-2022/> was prepared by: Terry Flew, Professor, The University of Sydney; Scott Fitzgerald, Associate Professor, Curtin University; Cameron McTernan, Lecturer, The University of South Australia; Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate, The University of Sydney


-  The India report<https://gmicp.org/communications-media-and-internet-concentration-in-india-2019-2021/> was prepared by: Adrian Athique, University of Queensland; Vigneswara Ilavarasan, IIT Delhi; Vibodh Parthasarathi, Jamia Millia Islamia University; Tamanna Sharma, Esya Centre; Pradip Thomas, University of Queensland; M. Vyshakh, UQIDAR

These follow editions we have published in the last few months on the state of media and internet concentration in China, Brazil, 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.

In the India report, we can see that:

 - Between 2019-2021 the Indian media economy reached gross revenues of $US 66.5bn with core internet services showing staggering growth of 122%
 - The telecoms sector exhibits extreme concentration with a 2021 Pooled Average Concentration Ratio HHI reaching 2877.7, and Reliance Jio as the key player.
 - Media content markets, meanwhile, trend in the opposite direction, as they are shaped by regional language markets, with newspapers, in particular, moving towards lower concentration in the wake of the pandemic.

While the Australia report reveals that

 - Australia’s media markets have long been among the most concentrated in the world, with the newspaper and wireless sectors classified as highly concentrated and Foxtel enjoying a monopoly position in Pay TV.
 - While the market for telecoms services has seen steady growth - ISPs grew from $4.2bn in 2010, to approximately $6.6bn in 2022 - traditional media markets have, in the main, been stagnating or shrinking.
 - Although News Corporation Australia, is a key player in traditional media, controlling a significant share of newspapers, as well as stakes in streaming, online news and pay TV, public service media retains a significant role.

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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