Interactive media includes digital products and services that respond to user input through various forms of multimedia content. The interactive media industry is worth billions annually and employs over 43,000 people, accounting for 22% of the total creative media industries. Interactive media is becoming integrated across many industry sectors. Twitter is a social networking website launched in 2006 that allows users to post short messages and has over 500 million registered users. Facebook is also a large social media website with over 1 billion users that generates $5 billion annually in revenue. Miniclip is an online gaming website launched in 2001 that is one of the largest privately owned websites and has profitable turnovers exceeding $20 million in recent years.

1. Media sector
Interactive Media

2. What is interactive media?
• Interactive media is normally products and services on digital computerbased systems, technology which responds to the user’s actions by
presenting content such as text, Animations, video, audio, Graphics and
Games; Game websites such as Miniclip and other social networking sites.

3. Size, Shape and structure
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The interactive media industry is worth several billion pounds yearly and
it employs around 43,000 people, indicating approximately 22% of the
total Creative Media Industries. Interactive media is not so much a sector
as a discipline, as its creation and use is increasingly becoming part of
everyday activity across all sectors of industry in general.

4. Twitter
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Twitter is an online social networking websites. Users can access Twitter through
the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc is based in San
Francisco and has offices in Boston, San Antonio and New York city. Twitter was
created in March 2006 by a man named Jack Dorsey and by July 2006, the site was
launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 500 million
registered users in 2012, who posted 340 million tweets per day. The service also
handled 1.6 billion search queries per day. Twitter is now one of the ten most
visited websites along with Facebook and YouTube ETC. It has also been described
as “the SMS of the Internet”. It’s subsidiaries with Vine; Vine is a mobile app
owned by Twitter that enables users to create and post short video clips.

5. Facebook
• Facebook is another social networking website, user can access this
website from IOS, Smartphone or from a PC. They have a current revenue
of $5billion (2012) and 5,299 (June 2013), they have over a billion users.
They’re subsidiary with Instagram.

6. Miniclip
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Miniclip – An online gaming website that was launched in 2001, it has a large varied assembly
of games. It is actually the worlds largest privately owned website. The website was started
by Robert small (CEO) and Tihan Presbie (Presidents), they had a budget of 40,000 and the
website grew astoundingly fast. In 2008 The company valued at a whopping 200 million,
having being profitable for six years with turnovers exceeding at 20 million in the past 2
years. There are also applications you can get on any smart phone or IOS. Also you can get it
on Android.