The 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 0.7 U.S. dollars or 0.61 euros as of June 2025. Values have been rounded.
Terrestrial TV programs accounted for more than *** trillion Japanese yen of the media content market size in Japan in 2023. The category constituted the largest medium within the market, followed by game software and newspaper articles. The total media content market size amounted to around **** trillion Japanese yen during that year.
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Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan). (June 19, 2025). Value of the media content market in Japan in 2023, by medium (in billion Japanese yen) [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 24, 2026, from /statistics/1199889/japan-media-content-market-size-by-medium/
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan). "Value of the media content market in Japan in 2023, by medium (in billion Japanese yen)." Chart. June 19, 2025. ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Accessed July 24, 2026. /statistics/1199889/japan-media-content-market-size-by-medium/
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