I remember not too long ago hearing that the video game industry had passed the movie industry in worldwide sales. I found that very interesting. I thought it would be interesting to find out how much is spent in the various forms of entertainment in the USA.
Theres big money in this stuff. Entertainment is a huge industry in the USA and worldwide. According to PriceWaterhouseCoopers the worldwide spending on Entertainment and Media is expected to hit $2 trillion by 2011. In the USA the spending on E&M is expected to hit $754 Billion.
Below are a list of various industries and the amount spent in each for the U.S.A. The figures are in Billions of dollars.
| Video games | $19.7 | |||
| US Movie tickets | $10.0 | |||
| Book sales | $23.9 | |||
| Music | $10.4 | |||
| Radio | $16.7 | |||
| Newspapers | $37.9 | |||
| Magazines | $40.0 | |||
| Television | $80.0 | |||
| Live theatre | $2.0 | |||
| Fireworks | $0.9 | |||
| Toys | $21.2 | |||
| Candy | $17.0 | |||
| Greeting cards | $8.0 | |||
| Fabric, craft, sewing | $5.2 | |||
| Internet providers | $20.0 | |||
| Jewelry | $30.0 | |||
| Weddings | $86.0 | |||
| Bar and nightclub | $18.0 | |||
| Tobacco | $40.0 | |||
| Beer,Wine, Spirits | $100.0 | |||
| Pornography | $13.3 | |||
| Casinos | $30.7 | |||
| Total Gambling | $92.3 | |||
| Las Vegas Casinos | $5.5 | |||
| Atlantic City | $3.9 | |||
| Ski facilities | $2.0 | |||
| Sport and camp equipment | $3.5 | |||
| MLB | $6.2 | |||
| NFL | $6.0 | |||
| NBA | $3.2 | |||
| Pro Sports | $19.0 | |||
| Golf | $20.0 | |||
| Bowling | $3.0 | |||
| RV's | $20.0 | |||
| Horse industry '02 | $25.3 | |||
| Pets | $45.4 | |||
I also made up a bar chart to show how the the spending figures stack up to one another graphically:
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