Consultation: Guidance on qualifying worldwide revenue - online safety fees and penalties
Published: 18 July 2025
Last updated: 27 October 2025
Ofcom is publishing a consultation on guidance for providers of regulated services (under the Online Safety Act 2023) to help them calculate their qualifying worldwide revenue (QWR) for the online safety fees and penalties regime.
Online safety regulatory documents and guidance
Published: 23 October 2025
Latest versions of Ofcom’s online safety regulatory documents and guidance, as well as links to previous, superseded versions.
The Online Safety Act and gaming: know the risks, the rules, and how to comply
Published: 14 October 2025
Guidance for the gaming industry on how the Online Safety Act applies to these services, the risks gaming could present to users, and what to do to comply with the rules.
Ofcom issues update on Online Safety Act investigations
Published: 13 October 2025
Ofcom has today provided an update on our enforcement activity under the Online Safety Act.
DStorage's compliance assurances to take measures to prevent users from encountering or sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
Published: 13 October 2025
On 17 March 2025, we opened an enforcement programme to assess the measures being taken by providers of file-sharing and file-storage services that present particular risks of harm to UK users from image-based CSAM to ensure users do not encounter, and offenders are not able to disseminate, such content on their services.
Wojtek's compliance assurances to take measures to prevent users from encountering or sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
Published: 13 October 2025
On 17 March 2025, we opened an enforcement programme to assess the measures being taken by providers of file-sharing and file-storage services that present particular risks of harm to UK users from image-based CSAM to ensure users do not encounter, and offenders are not able to disseminate, such content on their services.
Call for evidence: Third phase of online safety regulation
Published: 25 March 2024
Last updated: 13 October 2025
We are seeking evidence to inform the codes of practice and guidance that Ofcom produces to implement the third phase of online safety regulation.
Enforcement programme into measures being taken by file-sharing and file-storage services to prevent users from encountering or sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
Published: 17 March 2025
Last updated: 13 October 2025
Ofcom has opened a programme of work, or ‘enforcement programme’, to assess the measures being taken by providers of file-sharing and file-storage services that present particular risks of harm to UK users from image-based CSAM to ensure users do not encounter, and offenders are not able to disseminate, such content on their services.
Consultation on draft Guidance: A safer life online for women and girls
Published: 25 February 2025
Last updated: 13 October 2025
Ofcom is consulting on draft Guidance for a safer life online for women and girls. The consultation is aimed at providers of regulated online services and other relevant stakeholders including Ofcom’s statutory consultees for the draft Guidance - the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner.
Investigation into the provider of Yolobit and its compliance with duties to protect its users from illegal content
Published: 10 June 2025
Last updated: 13 October 2025
We are investigating whether the provider of Yolobit has failed/is failing to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act 2023.