Every cinema and theatre release sold through Samfa, Iran's national e-ticketing system, since 2017: weekly ticket sales for the whole country and sales in each province. Where annual yearbooks give the big picture, this dashboard follows the same market film by film and week by week.
602KTickets sold last week 26 chartsUpdated Oct 2026 Cafe Bazaar: Iran's mobile games marketSome 115,000 games on Cafe Bazaar, Iran's largest Android app store: installs, revenue models, licensing and abandonment.
7.7%Share of games with a Shamad licence (digital trust mark) 9 chartsUpdated Sep 2025 Iran book publishing: titles, print runs and pricesFour decades of books published in Iran, from 1982/83 to today, by subject: titles, print runs, translation, reprints and prices.
837 copiesAverage print run per book in 2025/26 24 chartsUpdated Oct 2026 Iran's cultural budget: topics and institutionsIran's national cultural budget over three years, by topic and by agency. The largest share goes to religious and cultural promotion, followed by media and sport; the arts, books and handicrafts together receive less than five percent.
28%Share of "religious and cultural promotion" in the national cultural budget 10 chartsUpdated 2024/25 Persian-language YouTube channelsAbout 66,000 Persian-language YouTube channels with some 214 billion views and 13 million videos: how attention is spread among them, what they are about, and how many are still active.
42%Share of all subscribers held by the top 1% of channels 21 chartsUpdated Oct 2026