Global social media statistics research summary 2022 [June

The total market value of the Esports industry exceeded $1 billion in 2021.

$300 billion,

shape up entertainment and culture.

People between 18 and 34 comprise 38% of gamers globally. (Statista)

UK’s Creative Industries contributes almost £13 million to the UK economy every hour

film and television industries, which contributed £45.4 billion and £20.8 billion to the economy respectively.

.7 per cent of the UK economy

2,040,000 jobs - 75 per cent of them outside London

2018 the creative industries grew jobs by 1.6 per cent, compared to the UK-wide employment increase of 0.8 per cent. Between 2011 and 2018, creative industries employment has mushroomed by 30.6 per cent, compared to the UK average growth of 10.1 per cent during that period.

94 per cent are micro-businesses employing fewer than 10 staff, and 87.6 per cent have a turnover of less than £250,000 a year.

66,000 worked in film and video production.

2019, 84,000 people were employed in the film industry,

elf-employed compared with 18% of the total UK workforce.

pornography had to wait until the 1950s and the advent of the mainstream porn magazine, especially Playboy.

first released in December 1953

1959, Playboy had a circulation of over one million subscribers.