MEDIA & DIGITAL PLATFORM MARKET INQUIRY: PROVISIONAL REPORT LAUNCHED

MEDIA & DIGITAL PLATFORM MARKET INQUIRY: PROVISIONAL REPORT LAUNCHED

• 24 February 2025
• Trade, Industry & Competition
• SA Legal Academy

Please note: The provisional report was eventually published well after normal working hours on the day of its launch, along with a summary of the inquiry’s findings and recommended remedies; 2) On 17 April 2025, a notice was gazetted announcing that the final report is now expected to be available on 22 August 2025. 

Although the Competition Commission’s launch of a provisional report on its media and digital platform market inquiry took place as planned, at the time of writing the report itself had not yet been published. Neither had a media statement been issued. However, according to a presentation document apparently circulated at the launch, recommended remedies include:

• restoring referral traffic through algorithm adjustments to support South African news media and reduce foreign platform bias
• measures allowing media to opt out of AI summaries without losing search traffic
• prohibiting the imposition of extra fees on third party advertisement exchanges
• collective media negotiation on AI compensation deals
• YouTube, Meta and X-specific interventions
• tax breaks and committed government advertisement spending to sustain independent media, and
• compensation from Google for lost revenue (R300-500m over three years).

Please click the link below to access the launch presentation document:

• presentation

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