The UK creative industry

• Provides 1,808,000 jobs across the uk 

• generates £76.9BN a year to the uk economy 

• 94.000 jobs in the east midlands alone

• An increase of 5.5% since 2013

• The UK computer games industry employs 19,000 in 2013 up from 15,000 in 2012

• UK films industry contributes over £4.6 billion to the UK

• JAGEX is a leading games developer which created Runescape and has over 40 online games and 470 staff 

• Runescape was awarded Guinness Book of World Record for the worlds most popular online MMO 3 years running.

• The uk has the highest percentage of adspend invested in digital media

• Of the estimated £20bn spent on the UK advertising in 2015 , £6.3bn is predicted to have been digital including £1bn being mobile