Media sectors: Photo Imaging and Games

Photo Imaging is a small but popular sector in media, comprising of around 43,100 people. About 51% of these are based in the south of England. Around 68% of all these photo editors are independant or freelance.

The companies can be divided into these categories


Image producers
Photo retail
Picture libraries and agencies
Manufacturers
Support services

A few well known companies include Eastman Kodak, Fujifilm and Canon. One less known company is Spiratone.



Games are one of the most popular industries in media and the whole world. The first games were developed in the 1960s and 70s. Games like pac-man and others that have survived through time were developed in the 1980s, at that time gaming exploded into popularity. Today, game making teams and top of the range game titles, like EA and Rockstar North are developing games that now cost even more than movies. Games such as Grand Theft Auto 5 are now costing hundreds of millions of pounds to create and develop.

Some examples of game producers and makers include:

Visceral
EA
Rockstar
Bungie (before it stopped making the Halo series)
343 Studios (for Halo 4)
Activision