Media industries span eighteen orders of magnitude from per-stream payouts to derivatives markets.

Evidence

Using databases of intertextuality, it also offers a montage of extreme close-ups on the textual aspects of financialized media. From the 0.00348 a musician is paid per stream23 to the 1,200,000,000,000,000 (that’s 1.2 quadrillion dollars) of the financial derivatives market, the media industries oscillate at a scale of eighteen orders of magnitude. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 38