Digital music downloads and online streaming sales have now overtaken sales of CDs and records for the first time, underscoring just how fundamentally the internet has changed the way we consume.
HBO’s Game of Thrones simultaneously holds the record for being the most expensive (grossing an average of $6m per episode), most successful (with 18m weekly viewers in the last season) and yet the most pirated TV series in history.
It used to be so easy to be a video consumer. You just put rabbit ears on your television set and watched whatever two or three channels you could pull in. Things got a bit more complicated when cable television arrived, but even then the choice was really only whether to keep the rabbit ears or pay for the only cable service that ran through your neighborhood.
There are hidden, and serious, ethical issues in the news media. It has become an industry in which editors and journalists routinely select the most disturbing and shocking news for our daily, or even hourly, consumption.
Editors may make such decisions on the assumption that “bad news sells”, but the discourse of journalism suggests that it takes for granted that good news is frivolous and distracts from the serious events such as wars, famine or child abductions.
Whether you’re a hardcore fanatic or simply a fan of action movies, this infographic is a collection of interesting facts about comic books and the movies based on them – from the top-selling comic book in recent years, to a comparison of lone-wolf superheroes and superhero teams.
In celebration of Superman’s 75th anniversary and in time for the next Silver Screen blockbuster Man of Steel, check out this infographic that pays homage to the original son of kyrpton and how much it has grown as a business franchise though the years.
Since swooping into the comic book industry and taking America by storm in the 1930s, Superman has been both a superhero in action and a super source of revenue.
