Content Trust and Safety Business Process Transformation 2025– 2026 Market Insights™

December, 2025

This report identifies key demand-side trends in the content trust and safety business process transformation space to help enterprises fine-tune their operations. It provides an overview of key observations and business challenges that Avasant considers important to highlight in the content trust and safety outsourcing space.

Why read this Market Insights?

The content trust and safety market is being reshaped by ecosystem fragmentation, surging harmful content volumes, and a structural wellness crisis affecting workforce stability. Increasingly stringent global regulations are enforcing “safety by design” with severe penalties, while AI-driven automation is being widely adopted to streamline moderation and shift operations from volume to risk-driven precision.

The Content Trust and Safety Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 Market Insights™ aids organizations in identifying important market trends and expectations for any trust and safety projects that they engage in.

Methodology

The industry insights presented in this report are based on the following: our ongoing interactions with enterprise CXOs and other key executives; targeted discussions with service providers, subject matter experts, and Avasant Fellows; analyst insights from primary and secondary research; and lessons learned from consulting engagements.

Table of contents

About the report (Page 3)

Executive summary (Pages 6–10)

    • Definition and scope
    • Key content trust and safety trends shaping the market
    • Avasant recognizes 24 top-tier providers offering content trust and safety business process transformation services.

Content trust and safety: State of the market (Pages 11–15)

    • Fragmented ecosystems, transparency pressures, and automation demands are transforming trust and safety models.
    • AI‑first workflows now carry the moderation load; human expertise is concentrated where context, proportional enforcement, and auditability matter most.
    • The human cost of moderation has evolved into a structural wellness crisis and a severe operational challenge.
    • With online safety enforcement tightening the world over, investments in trust and safety are expected to continue globally.

Key contacts (Page 16)


Read the Research Byte based on this report. Please refer to Avasant’s Content Trust and Safety Business Process transformation 2025-2026 RadarView™ for detailed insights on the service providers and supply-side trends.

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