As a whole, the creative industries are worth £101.5 billion to the UK economy, generate £20 billion in exports, employ over 2 million people directly and are growing twice as fast as any other sector of the UK’s economy.
The audio-visual sector – film and television – is a key contributor to this success:
The creative industries, together with our technology businesses and service sectors, plus many others, are all underpinned by intellectual capital, making the UK one of only three countries in the world to be a net exporter of intellectual property (IP). This helps our economy grow, creates jobs, attracts investments from overseas and makes a substantial contribution to the UK’s cultural heritage, helping to project the UK’s cultural appeal to audiences around the world.