Media e-commerce revenue 2027

In 2022, the books, movies, music, and games segments generated a total e-commerce revenue of 181.1 billion U.S. dollars worldwide. The Statista Digital Market Outlook estimates that by 2027, books, movies, music, and games e-commerce will generate over 230 billion U.S. dollars globally.

Books, movies, music & games e-commerce revenue worldwide from 2017 to 2027 (in billion U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Revenue in billion U.S. dollars
2027	230.3
2026	217.9
2025	204.4
2024	193.8
2023	182.7
2022	181.1
2021	176.3
2020	153.1
2019	116
2018	98.61
2017	75.42

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Release date

June 2023

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2017 to 2027

Supplementary notes

*Forecast
The e-Commerce market encompasses the sale of physical goods via a digital channel to a private end user (B2C). Incorporated in this definition are purchases via desktop computer (including notebooks and laptops) as well as purchases via mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. The following are not included in the e-Commerce market: digitally distributed services (see instead: eServices), digital media downloads or streams, digitally distributed goods in B2B markets nor digital purchase or resale of used, defective or repaired goods (re-Commerce and C2C). All monetary figures refer to the annual gross revenue and do not factor in shipping costs and returns. *Forecast

In-scope: Physical media (e.g. books, DVDs, CDs, Blu-ray discs, computer/console games)

Out-of-scope: Digital media (e.g. video-on-demand, music downloads, eBooks)

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