The data displays the share of different media's total revenue generated through digital sales. In 2015, 60% of games revenue was digital.
Digital sales in media industries
Digital sales account for more and more of the revenue generated by leading media industries worldwide. Digital distribution plays a major role in the games industry, where 42% of global revenue in 2011 could be attributed to digital sales, up from 39% in 2010. Digital distribution was also essential to the music industry. Industries slower to implement digital distribution for profit were newspapers, books and movies.
