Analysis
NAICS 334610 is the 2022 national industry for manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media, part of 33461 (Manufacturing and Reproducing Magnetic and Optical Media). Census lists 26 example activities under it in the official index.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include audiotape, blank, manufacturing, blank tapes, audio and video, manufacturing, cassette tapes, prerecorded audio, mass reproducing and CD-ROM, software, mass reproducing, among 26 in all.
For example, designing, developing, and publishing software are classified in 513210 (Software Publishers) instead.
Census lists 2 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 513210 and 512. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.
County Business Patterns publishes no national count for it, either because the code is out of the survey's scope or because the figures are suppressed to protect individual businesses.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing optical and magnetic media, such as blank audio tapes, blank video tapes, and blank diskettes, and/or (2) mass duplicating (i.e., making copies) audio, video, software, and other data on magnetic, optical, and similar media. These establishments do not generally develop software or produce audio or video content.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
Index entries (26)
- Audiotape, blank, manufacturing
- Blank tapes, audio and video, manufacturing
- Cassette tapes, prerecorded audio, mass reproducing
- CD-ROM, software, mass reproducing
- Compact discs (i.e., CD-ROM), software, mass reproducing
- Compact discs, prerecorded audio, mass reproducing
- Compact discs, recordable or rewritable, blank, manufacturing
- Computer software tapes and disks, blank, rigid and floppy, manufacturing
- Diskettes, blank, manufacturing
- Game cartridge software, mass reproducing
- Games, computer software, mass reproducing
- Hard drive media (disk drive platters) manufacturing
- Head cleaners for magnetic tape equipment, manufacturing
- Laser disks, prerecorded video, mass reproducing
- Magnetic and optical media, blank, manufacturing
- Magnetic recording media for tapes, cassettes, and disks, manufacturing
- Magnetic tapes, cassettes and disks, blank, manufacturing
- Phonograph records manufacturing
- Prepackaged software, mass reproducing
- Prerecorded magnetic audio tapes and cassettes mass reproducing
- Software, packaged, mass reproducing
- Tapes, magnetic recording (i.e., audio, data, video), blank, manufacturing
- Video cassettes, blank, manufacturing
- Video cassettes, prerecorded, mass reproducing
- Video tape or disk mass reproducing
- Video tapes, blank, manufacturing