
Power of Media
Global media platforms, with access to over 3.8 billion people consuming their content daily, have unique opportunities to leverage their scale for positive societal impact. From the way ...
Identifying new business models for content and distribution, transforming the way consumers are informed and entertained around the world.
Media, entertainment and sport have been radically disrupted over the last decade through the introduction of the internet, social media, user-generated content, video streaming and various other technological breakthroughs. Business models have been upended and entire industry systems have been transformed or disappeared completely. What remains is a weakened media ecosystem, vulnerable to failure and abuse.
Together with our Members and Partners, we are creating a new media system between content creators, distributors and consumers. Our Platform enables business, government and civil society to work together and reinforce key areas affected by the current era of digital disruption – addressing the value in media, from the stability of the content supply chain to responsible data and secure consumer privacy and protection. A new understanding of the value created in media is essential to meet the growing demands of the public, which increasingly expects free access to any type of content, wherever and whenever they want.
Our Platform aggregates solutions to major industry disruptions while driving greater social cohesion and helping companies remain accountable to their responsibility for global social good.
Our Partners comprise the world's 1000 leading companies, developing solutions to the world's greatest challenges.
Global media platforms, with access to over 3.8 billion people consuming their content daily, have unique opportunities to leverage their scale for positive societal impact. From the way ...
With nearly 3.8 billion people online, the world is increasingly connected, and yet the increase in dangerous, hateful, disruptive and fake content online risks threatening our global com...
Safety by Design puts user safety and rights at the centre of the design and development of online products and services. Rather than retrofitting safeguards after an issue has occurred, ...
This report assesses the state of diversity across content and creative production in five key sectors: gaming, TV and film, news and publishing, advertising and sport and sport media, an...
The paper invites governments, industry, academia and civil society to drive collective action through the newly launched Global Coalition for Digital Safety.
This report outlines long-term implications for the media ecosystem, including changes to industry structure, user experience, monetization and data practices. The report highlights six i...
The purpose of this report is to identify and drive forward practical actions for advertisers, publishers, agencies and platforms to improve the media ecosystem in this phase of “building...
In the first of a series of papers on what COVID-19 will mean for the media and entertainment industry, this report, in collaboration with Accenture, explores the role of the industry in ...
In an age of fake news and misinformation, good quality content is more valuable than ever. So who’s creating it, who’s paying for it and who's controlling its production? As the world ba...
Artificial intelligence, augmented/virtual reality and blockchain are changing the way the content is produced, distributed and consumed. The impacts are not just changing the creative ec...
This research provides insights on public understanding of the concepts behind personal data and areas of digital media use that cause strains in trust between end users and industry.
The New Vision for Education project examines the role that technology can potentially play to improve education for the future. In phase II, we investigated innovative ways to help stude...
The Digital Media and Society report is a main output of The World Economic Forum’s The Shaping the Future implications of Digital Media for Society project. The report explores our chang...
The internet has had a significant impact on the media, entertainment and information industry. Constantly evolving technologies and the accelerating pace of innovation will require more ...
In 2013, The Media, Entertainment and Information Industries community of the World Economic Forum took a deep look into intellectual property issues in the digital age. \"Norms and Value...
Norms and Values in Digital Media report seeks to help the major stakeholders – governments and policy-makers, businesses and private citizens – better understand the impact of actions to...
Blockchain gaming and cryptocurrencies are no strangers to ecological controversy with the rise of NFTs putting the issue into the spotlight. But is Blockchain gaming on the greener side ...
It is important for us to define and build the metaverse. Here is what seven business leaders had to say about which challenges we need to focus on and what areas to highlight.