Overview:

Parental control software is gaining prevalence among parents due to evolving digital habits of consumers and penetration of the internet and mobile devices including computers and smartphones. Parental control software is a content filtering software which is designed to allow parents monitor and control their children’s internet activity. This software is helpful in filtering out the malicious content and helps in protecting children from internet addiction, games, cyber bullying, inappropriate content, and from online predators.

In today’s media-heavy landscape, children are spending significant amount of time online using portable and handheld smart devices. The internet has become an indispensable medium for younger generation. The number of children accessing the internet is on a constant rise and preventing them from adult content has become a major concern for the parents. Parents have realized that exposing children to unlimited internet access can be dangerous. Thus, the need for an effective control and monitoring of children behavior over the internet is driving demand for such content filtering solutions.

Growing inclination of youth towards the internet, rising computer literacy, and increasing awareness among parents about child abuse are the major factors driving the global parental control software market. In addition, evolving internet infrastructure and increasing ownership of connected media devices in the house is further fueling the market growth. Installation of parental control software can cover every device in the family as a whole-network solution. For instance, Open DNS or Circle With Disney are the parental control solutions that perform content filtering at the router level and therefore the settings affect every device on the network. Increasing access to age-inappropriate content coupled with rising internet addiction among teens and pre-teens is expected to spur demand for parental control software during the forecast period (2018 – 2026).

In terms of geography, North America leads the overall parental control software market. The dominance can be majorly credited to proactive government regulations (like CIPA) promoting increased use of web content filtering and control solutions across schools and institutions to restrict access to offensive and inappropriate websites.

The global parental control software market is segmented on the following bases:

• Device Type
  • Television
  • PCs
  • Mobile
• Deployment Type
  • On-premise
  • Cloud
• Platform
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Windows
  • Others
• End-user
  • Residential
  • Educational Institutions
• Geography
  • North America
    • U.S.
    • Rest of North America
  • Europe
    • U.K.
    • Germany
    • France
    • Rest of Europe
  • Asia-Pacific
    • Japan
    • China
    • India
    • Rest of Asia Pacific
  • Rest of World
    • Middle East & Africa
    • Latin America

Key Players Identified for Parental Control Software Market include but are not limited to:

AO Kaspersky Lab, Avanquest Software, AVG Technologies, Bitdefender, Circle Media Inc., KidLogger.net, McAfee LLC, Mobicip, LLC, Net Nanny, Open DNS, Qustodio, SaferKid, Symantec Corporation, Verizon Communications, Inc., and Webroot, Inc. among others