Game software accounted for 25.2 percent of the online media content market in Japan in 2022. It was the largest medium within the market, followed by internet-original video-based content and internet-original text-based content. The total size of the online media content market amounted to about 5.7 trillion Japanese yen during that year.
Distribution of the online media content market in Japan in 2022, by medium
The online media content market consists of three different segments: video-based content, audio-based content, and text-based content. Video-based content includes movies, videos, terrestrial TV programs, satellite and cable TV programs, game software, and internet-original video-based content. Audio-based content includes music, radio programs, and internet-original audio-based content. Text-based content includes newspaper articles, comics, magazines, books, database information, and internet-original text-based content.
100 Japanese yen equal 0.67 U.S. dollars or 0.62 euros as of August 2024.
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Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan). (June 5, 2024). Distribution of the online media content market in Japan in 2022, by medium [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1200259/japan-online-media-content-market-share-by-medium/
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan). "Distribution of the online media content market in Japan in 2022, by medium." Chart. June 5, 2024. Statista. Accessed December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1200259/japan-online-media-content-market-share-by-medium/
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan). (2024). Distribution of the online media content market in Japan in 2022, by medium. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1200259/japan-online-media-content-market-share-by-medium/
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan). "Distribution of The Online Media Content Market in Japan in 2022, by Medium." Statista, Statista Inc., 5 Jun 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1200259/japan-online-media-content-market-share-by-medium/
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan), Distribution of the online media content market in Japan in 2022, by medium Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1200259/japan-online-media-content-market-share-by-medium/ (last visited December 22, 2024)
Distribution of the online media content market in Japan in 2022, by medium [Graph], Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan), June 5, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1200259/japan-online-media-content-market-share-by-medium/