80 Examples of Services

John Spacey, August 07, 2021

Services are products that offer mostly intangible value. These represent the bulk of the GDP of developed nations due to a long term economic trend known as service economy whereby physical products represent a smaller portion of economic activity with each passing decade. At present, around 65% of world GDP is the value added by services†. The following are common examples of services.

Accounting Services	Agents & Brokers
Banking	Business Services
Cafes	Catering
Childcare	Cleaning Services
Cloud Computing	Clubs
Construction	Consulting
Creative Services	Customization of Products
Data Services	Delivery
Design Services	Ecommerce
Electricity	Entertainment
Environmental Remediation	Events
Financial Services	Gyms
Hospitality	Hotels
Information Security Services	Information Services
Information Technology Services	Infrastructure
Insurance	Investment Banking
Investment Products (e.g. Mutual Funds)	Lab Services
Landscaping	Leasing
Legal Services	Maintenance
Manufacturing as a Service	Markets
Media	Media Production Services
Medical Services	Mobile Apps
Movies	Music
Nightclubs	Outsourcing
Payment Services	Personal Services
Private Schools	Product as a Service
Professional Services	Public Services
Pubs	Renovation Services
Rentals	Repair
Restaurants	Retail
Social Media	Software Applications
Software Services	Software Systems
Spas	Sports Facilities
Standards & Certifications	Streaming Media
Subscriptions	Technology Platforms
Telecom Services	Theme Parks
Tours	Training
Transportation (Freight)	Transportation (Passenger)
Travel	Utilities
Video Games	Waste Management

Public services are services provided by a government. As with the private sector, governments are shifting towards a service model.

Infrastructure such as a road, bridge or internet connection can be viewed as a service.

Some of the examples above are sold as both physical products and services. For example, a video game that is sold a cartridge and as a software download.

Product as a service offers a good that is traditionally sold as a product as a subscription service. For example, a city that offers convenient bicycle rentals billed by the minute at a very low rate.

80 Examples of Services

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