Under Article 24 (2) of the DSA, online platforms are required to publish ‘information on the average monthly active recipients of the service’ in the EU at the latest three months after entry into force of the DSA and every six months thereafter. This is for the purposes of determining whether an online platform is a ‘very large online platform’ (VLOP), reaching an average of at least 45 million users per month in the EU (i.e., representing 10% of the EU population). VLOPs are subject to additional requirements due to the role they play in the dissemination of content throughout the EU.
Article 24 (2) and other provisions of the DSA provide guidance for online platforms in calculating the number of ‘average monthly active recipients of the service’, including limiting this number to recipients located in the EU, excluding visits from automated bots and scrapers, and counting only unique visits, i.e., counting multiple visits by the same user to different sites or interfaces of the same platform only once in each month.
We have calculated the average monthly active recipients of our marketplace service in the EU based on the time period from April 30, 2023 to November 18, 2023, in accordance with Recital 77 of the DSA. Our conclusion is that during this period the average number of monthly active recipients of our marketplace in the EU was well below the 45 million user threshold for being designated as a VLOP.
We will continue to monitor the number of average monthly active recipients of our marketplace service in the EU and will publish updates in accordance with Article 24 (2).
Last updated: September 25, 2024