Category: Media structure

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Digital is the norm – new media subsidies and the role of podcasts in Sweden

The media landscape is undergoing major changes – new media subsidies, restructuring of the TV network, and upcoming licensing periods for public service, commercial radio, and terrestrial TV coincide with an increasingly digital audience and shifting revenue models. All of this and more is analysed in the report MedieSverige 2025.
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New EU database of media ownership

The EU-funded research project European Media Ownership Monitor just released a new database with media ownership data of 15 EU member states.
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Increased digitalisation and ownership concentration in the Swedish media landscape

A growing share of the Swedish population is turning away from traditional media, reduced advertisement revenues could affect citizens’ access to local news, and the ownership of the newspaper market has been concentrated to a few regional newspaper monopolies. The report MedieSverige 2023 [Media Sweden 2023] gives the reader an up-to-date and broad overview of today's Swedish media landscape.
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Call for papers: Ownership and regulation of news media

This special issue of Nordicom Review will focus on the ownership and regulation of news media and digital platforms in Europe. The deadline for extended abstracts is 2 May 2023.
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New factsheet: The ten largest newspaper companies in the Nordics 2021

Measured in turnover during 2021, the Nordic region's four largest newspaper companies come from four different countries. The biggest player is the Swedish media company Bonnier's news media division: Bonnier News. A new factsheet from Nordicom presents the list of the ten largest newspaper companies in the Nordics in 2021.
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Telenor and Spotify top the list of the 25 largest media companies in the Nordics 2021

The latest factsheet from Nordicom presents the list of the 25 largest media companies in the Nordics. The list covers a large variety of businesses with regard to geographic location, age, and ownership structure, as well as business focus and profitability levels.
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Who owns the media in the EU? Nordicom participates in new project

What does media ownership look like in the EU? A new pilot project, Euromedia Ownership Monitor, will seek to answer this question and explain in a future database.
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New factsheets from Nordicom

Nordicom presents a new factsheet series on media in the Nordic region. Find out about the top 25 media companies, the largest newspaper companies, and what differs in terms of VAT rates in the Nordic countries.
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Digital trends and challenges in the media landscape 2021

The development of the media landscape continues to be characterised by digitalisation. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to more people turning to professional news media, while their advertising revenues continue to decline. The fourteenth edition of Nordicom’s recurring publication MedieSverige provides the reader with lots of facts and information about the Swedish media landscape.
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Challenging times for the Swedish media market

Digital advertising platforms dominate, the newspaper market has reached a new bottom and the corona pandemic caused a socioeconomic breakdown with severe consequences for the advertising market. These are some of the results from the 2020 edition of Medieutveckling – Medieekonomi, an annual report about media economics in Sweden, published by the Swedish Press and Broadcasting Authority.