Wrestlenomics shared some data regarding WWE house show business for 2022. WWE returned to performing live shows in 2022 for the first full calendar year since the COVID-19 pandemic. The company put on 147 non-televised live events last year, their lowest count since 2001.
In the last twenty years, a majority of WWE’s revenue has come from media sales, which further increased in the 2010s. Percentage of total revenue from live events declined over that same timeframe.
WWE ran about 147 house shows in 2022, in the company's first full calendar year back on the road since the pandemic, the lowest count of house shows for a year since 2001.
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WWE has gotten the majority of its revenue from media sales (think: video) since at least 2002, and increasingly so since the 2010s while a lower percentage of total revenue has come from live events.
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