Strategic Intelligence: Social Media Sector Scorecard Q2 2025 Update

Although online safety for children is a relatively new area of regulation, a growing number of jurisdictions are putting detailed legislation in place targeting social media companies.

Different approaches are emerging to ensure that children stay safe online. The UK’s Online Safety Act and the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) impose unprecedented obligations on social media companies to protect underage internet users from harmful content. Australia introduced the world’s first ban on social media for children, although it is still unclear how it will be enforced. What is certain is that age verification methods will be critical to prevent children from accessing harmful online content. However, which technology is best suited to achieve that is still up for debate.

Scope

• This sector scorecard provides a top-down, comprehensive outlook for the key players in the social media sector over the next two years, based on the key themes set to transform their industry landscape.

Reasons to Buy

• Companies that invest in the right themes become success stories. Those that miss the important themes in their industry end up as failures.
• The analyst's thematic research ecosystem is a single, integrated global research platform that provides an easy-to-use framework for tracking all themes across all companies in all sectors. It has a proven track record of identifying the important themes early, enabling companies to make the right investments ahead of the competition and secure that all-important competitive advantage.
• The analyst has developed a unique thematic methodology for ranking all major companies in all major sectors based on their relative strength in the big themes that are impacting their industries.
• First, we identify the top 10 themes transforming a sector across four categories (tech, macro, industry, and ESG). We also rank themes in order of priority by examining activity levels across 200 million alternative data signals, including patents, jobs, deals, filings, social media, and news.
• Second, we research each theme in detail, examining the value chain, key players, and trends. Additionally, we examine the impact of each theme across the 20 industries we cover. Our 200 million signals help identify the leading adopters of a theme in each sector.
• Finally, using our sector scorecards, we rank the companies most likely to succeed in a sector over the next five years.