Highest-Grossing Media Franchises of All Time

About This Dataset

This chart ranks the ten highest-grossing media franchises by estimated total revenue in billions of US dollars, combining box office, merchandise, video games, home video and licensing. Figures are estimates compiled from multiple sources rather than audited company disclosures.

✨ AI Insight

Pokemon leads at an estimated 115 billion dollars, almost double second-placed Mickey Mouse & Friends on 61.2 billion and larger than the eighth, ninth and tenth franchises combined. Merchandise and licensing, not films, drive this ranking: Pokemon began as a video game and Hello Kitty at 33.5 billion has almost no film business at all, while the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the highest-grossing film series ever made, places only eighth at 35.2 billion. Disney is the strongest owner, controlling Mickey Mouse & Friends, Winnie-the-Pooh, Star Wars, Disney Princess and the MCU, five of the top ten. Longevity matters greatly: six of the ten franchises were created before 1980, and Winnie-the-Pooh dates to 1924.

Source: Wikipedia: List of highest-grossing media franchises

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

🏆

Pokemon leads with 115 in All Time.

📊

Average value in All Time: 50 · median: 42.

↔️

Gap in All Time: Pokemon is 3.4× larger than Hello Kitty.