Entertainment has significant impact on our daily life as it serves as a source of relaxation, enjoyment, and relief from the routine. It reflects in enhancing our emotional well-being, fostering creativity, and building connections with others. One of the major rols of entertainment is to provide a certain level of relief from the stresses and challenges of day to day life. Engaging in various activities like playing games, watching movies, reading can be found as the source entertainment.

Comparing from the decade ago where people do more extra-curricular activities for entertainment but in today’s scenario people have device like mobiles and laptop where they can have all the source of entertainment. If a person wants to watch a movie the they have variety of platform and source for it. They are lots of e-book present in the internet from where they can read. These things not only entertain us but helps to evoke a wide range of emotions within us. For instance, a movie can provide a purifying outlet for emotions whereas a comedy show can uplift our spirits and helps us to have a good laugh. Through movies, books, shows, we gain insights into the diversity of the world and develop a better understanding of people from various which helps to promote broader worldview. These sectors provide a window into different cultures, perspectives, and experiences. Watching a movie makes a person discuss it with their friend which create more communication within friends. Entertainment is necessary for a person as it has many benefits such as:

• Knowing different culture

• Wide range of education

• For emotional purpose

• Helps for socialization

• For cultural preservation

• To inspire oneself and aspire others

• To relief from hectic stress and kill boredom

It is essential for us to have entertain as it resolves mental stress too. From a long hectic day, if we can watch a feel free light movie at the end of the day, it helps to clear the stress which occur in the work time. If we look at Netflix which is the leading entertainment provider in the form of movie and shows we can see the subscriber has increased in upward trend which shows why people are directly influenced by entertainment. Not only this but in other gaming platforms, other online streaming platform, there is positive response which shows how much necessary thing is entertainment for a human life.

Fig: Number of Netflix paid subscribers worldwide from 1st quarter 2013 to 3rd quarter 2023(in millions)

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/250934/quarterly-number-of-netflix-streaming-subscribers-worldwide/

From the above chart, we can see from Netflix gained around 35 million subscribers to around 250 million subscribers within a decade. It shows how much one need entertainment. Not only Netflix, there are various new digital platform created for entertainment purpose. We can understand that these platforms have been created as the demand has increased. These high demand for the entertainment sector makes the more companies join here. Similar as Netflix, Amazon prime is also giant streaming platform gaining more subscription in later years. Other big streaming platforms are:

• Disney

• Hulu

• Youtube TV

• Apple TV

• Peacock

• Jio cinema

These platforms have similar qualities like Netflix and amazon prime.

Fig: Amazon Prime’s Growth Over Time

Source: https://explodingtopics.com/blog/amazon-prime-member-stats

Above graph shows how amazon doubled its member from 100 million in 2017 to 200 million in 2020 in the interval of 3 years.

Every platform which has online entertainment has gained more member in recent time which can be seen as the importance these entertainment field has in human. In this time, more technology is redefining entertainment such as virtual reality, augmented reality and AI which is going beyond the expectation for immense experience for gaming and other form of entertainment.

Hence, entertainment in all the forms will evolve more in the coming years which will surely push boundaries, offering new avenues for exploration, connection, and celebration in the library of human experience.