Published on 15 July 2025
Basic research
The Swiss media and communications landscape is currently undergoing a profound process of structural change. By having these changes monitored and analysed, OFCOM provides political decision-makers and interested members of the public with a sound and proven basis for making well-informed media policy decisions. Public service provision, media structures/media economics and the digital public sphere.
Public Service
The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Public Service Media (2022)
Financial situation of licensed local radio stations and regional television 2016–2019 (2021)
Financial situation of licensed local radio stations and regional television 2015–2018 (2020)
Working conditions of licensed local radio stations and regional television in Switzerland (2019)
Public service online? Qualitative analysis of Swiss regional television's web content (2018)
tvsvizzera.it: Conformity in line with the service agreement (2016)
Benefits of the fee-financed public service in the media sector (2016)
Economic effects of the fee-financed public media service (2016)
Prospects for regional Television (2015)
Public service in an international comparison (2015)
Financing of public broadcasting monitoring report (2013)
Private broadcasting licensing monitoring report (2013)
Media funding monitoring report (2013)
Media Structures
Online news services from SRG SSR and the private media (2025)
"Abusive" complaints against Swiss journalists (2024)
Structure of online media services (2023)
The media literacy of the Swiss population (2022)
The online advertising market in Switzerland (2021)
Recognising and evaluating native advertisements (2021)
Online media monitoring (2021)
Staying informed during a health crisis (2020)
Promotion of online media in different countries (2020)
Information and communication behaviour during the Corona crisis (2020)
Use of audiovisual online content and information sources by offline users in Switzerland 2019 (2019)
Contribution to the free formation of opinion and information in the federal elections (2019)
Promotion of online media in different countries (2019)
Online media monitoring 2019 (2019)
Online media monitoring 2019 (2019)
Evaluation of the annual accounts of private broadcasters (2018)
Media and opinion power (2017)
Streaming Media Monitor (2017)
Media usage research in international comparison (2017)
SSM project report on working conditions & satisfaction (2016)
Analysis of distortion of competition (2016)
Brief report on the scientific quality of the study ‘Private service. An analysis of private broadcasting programmes’ (2016)
Gender and media in the run-up to the Swiss federal elections (2016)
The financial situation of private broadcasting in Switzerland – update (2015)
The financial situation of private broadcasting in Switzerland (2014)
Working conditions and freedom of reporting in journalistic organisations (2014)
The Swiss media landscape (2014)
Political reporting in communes and districts (2014)
The financial situation of private broadcasting in Switzerland (2012)
Digital Public Sphere
A picture hurts more than 1000 words? Characteristics and governance of hate images on the internet (2024)
Governance of AI in journalism (2024)
Building a Benchmark Dataset for Robust German Hate Speech Detection (2024)
Governance of Digital Hate Speech from the Users' Perspective (2024)
Digital hate speech in Switzerland (2024)
Governance of disinformation in digitalised public spheres (2024)
The ethics of fighting disinformation (2024)
Algorithmic content selection in Switzerland (2024)
Typology of regulatory models for social media (2024)
Experimental evidence of sharing and reporting misinformation in Switzerland, France, and Germany (2024)
Platform Governance Survey (2024)
Overview of political Telegram communities in Switzerland and their role in spreading toxic speech (2022)
Misinformation on COVID-19 vaccination on YouTube (2022)
Digital hate speech in Switzerland (2022)
False information, alternative media and conspiracy theories (2021)
Media Observatory Initiative (2020)
How to Reach Swiss Digital Natives with News (2020)
Assessment of Existing Regulatory Standards and Regulatory Options Regarding Intermediaries in Switzerland (2020)
Governance of information intermediaries – challenges and solutions (2020)
Opportunities and threats in relation to the impact of tech-information intermediaries on the Swiss public (2020)
The changing public realm: Considerations from the perspective of fundamental rights (2020)
Constitutional principles of a possible regulation of public online debates (2020)
Functional and dysfunctional public in a democracy (2020)
Artificial intelligence, media and public sphere (2019)
Artificial intelligence, intermediaries and the public (2019)
The public relations role played by social media in radio, TV and press journalism (2019)