Digital Legacy Global Market Report 2026

Digital legacy encompasses the digital information, assets, and online presence a person leaves behind after death, including social media profiles, emails, digital photos, cryptocurrency, and cloud-based documents. Its main purpose is to manage, preserve, or transfer these digital assets in line with an individual's wishes, ensuring privacy, continuity, and proper access for heirs or designated beneficiaries.

The primary categories of digital legacy include social media account management, digital asset management, online memorial services, and digital estate planning. Social media account management involves organizing, transferring, or closing a person's social media accounts and associated data after death or incapacitation. This service is delivered through web-based platforms and mobile applications, offering storage capacities ranging from up to 500 MB, 500 MB-5 GB, 5-10 GB, to 30 GB or more. Offerings include one-time services, subscription models, and customized solutions, serving sectors such as media and entertainment, healthcare, banking and financial services, retail, and others.

Tariffs have a limited direct impact on the digital legacy market but indirectly influence costs related to imported data center hardware, cybersecurity infrastructure, and advanced encryption technologies. Service providers in North America and Europe face moderate increases in operational expenditure, while Asia-Pacific experiences higher costs in hardware-dependent cloud services. These factors can affect pricing and storage scalability. However, tariffs are also accelerating cloud-native architectures, domestic data hosting investments, and software-centric legacy management solutions with reduced hardware dependency.

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The digital legacy market size has grown rapidly in recent years. It will grow from $21.86 billion in 2025 to $25.63 billion in 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.2%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to growth of digital asset ownership, expansion of social media usage, increasing reliance on cloud storage services, rising awareness of digital inheritance issues, availability of secure online platforms.

The digital legacy market size is expected to see rapid growth in the next few years. It will grow to $47.88 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.9%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to increasing adoption of blockchain-based inheritance solutions, rising regulatory focus on digital asset rights, expansion of subscription-based legacy services, growing integration with financial institutions, sees rising demand for secure digital vaults. Major trends in the forecast period include increasing adoption of digital estate planning platforms, growing demand for secure cloud-based asset storage, rising integration of blockchain for asset transfer, expansion of automated legacy management tools, enhanced focus on data privacy and access control.

The increasing adoption of cloud storage solutions is expected to drive growth in the digital legacy market. Cloud storage allows users to access data, applications, or computing resources remotely without relying on on-site infrastructure. Its popularity is growing due to scalability and flexibility, enabling businesses to adjust resources on demand without significant upfront costs. Cloud storage supports digital legacy management by providing secure, centralized platforms to store digital assets, making them easily organized and accessible for future beneficiaries. Backup and recovery options further reduce the risk of data loss, ensuring preservation and transfer of important personal and professional information. For example, Eurostat reported in December 2023 that 45.2% of enterprises purchased cloud computing services, up from 41% in 2021, reflecting increasing adoption.

Companies in the digital legacy market are increasingly focusing on blockchain-enabled platforms to ensure safe and tamper-resistant digital inheritance. Decentralized digital inheritance platforms use blockchain technology to securely organize, encrypt, and designate access to digital assets for future beneficiaries. In September 2024, Belgium-based SafeTech Labs launched Inheriti 2.0, enabling users to create secure, lasting digital inheritance plans for assets ranging from social media accounts and cryptocurrencies to personal documents and family recipes. The platform features advanced encryption protocols, backup planning, multi-interface accessibility for both blockchain and non-blockchain users, and compliance with international privacy regulations, offering a comprehensive framework for transferring digital assets safely.

In October 2024, Precoa LLC, a US-based funeral insurance and prearranged funeral services company, acquired Everplans for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition strengthens Precoa's digital offerings by integrating Everplans' comprehensive digital life-planning and legacy management platform, expanding services to include secure management and transfer of digital assets for clients. Everplans specializes in providing digital life-planning and legacy solutions for individuals and families.

Major companies operating in the digital legacy market are Trust And Will Inc, GoodTrust Inc, SafeBeyond Ltd, DeadSocial Ltd, Inheriti Ltd, My Life And Wishes Inc, DGLegacy Inc, Final Security LLC, IronClad Family Inc, PartingWishes Inc, Everplans Inc, Afternote Ltd, Cake Ltd, Tomorrow.me Inc, LifeSite Inc, Knotify.me Inc, PasswordBox Legacy Inc, SecureSafe AG, FutureVault Inc, Meminto Inc

North America was the largest region in the digital legacy market in 2025. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the digital legacy market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa.

The countries covered in the digital legacy market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

The digital legacy market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing services such as end-of-life digital consultation services, heir onboarding and training services, legacy storytelling assistance, AI-driven memorial creation services, and digital reputation management. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. The digital legacy market also includes sales of biometric authentication tools, encrypted digital lockers, decentralized identity solutions, blockchain-based legacy platforms, AI-powered content curation tools, and smart contract-based inheritance systems. Values in this market are 'factory gate' values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

Digital Legacy Market Global Report 2026 from The Business Research Company provides strategists, marketers and senior management with the critical information they need to assess the market.

This report focuses digital legacy market which is experiencing strong growth. The report gives a guide to the trends which will be shaping the market over the next ten years and beyond.

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The report covers market characteristics, size and growth, segmentation, regional and country breakdowns, total addressable market (TAM), market attractiveness score (MAS), competitive landscape, market shares, company scoring matrix, trends and strategies for this market. It traces the market's historic and forecast market growth by geography.

• The market characteristics section of the report defines and explains the market. This section also examines key products and services offered in the market, evaluates brand-level differentiation, compares product features, and highlights major innovation and product development trends.
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• The market size section gives the market size ($b) covering both the historic growth of the market, and forecasting its development.
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Scope

• Markets Covered:1) By Type: Social Media Account Management; Digital Asset Management; Online Memorial Services; Digital Estate Planning
• 2) By Platform: Web-Based Solutions; Mobile Applications
• 3) By Storage Capacity: Up To 500 MB; 500 MB To 5 GB; 5 GB To 10 GB; Up To 30 GB; Other Storage Capacities
• 4) By Offering Type: One-Time Services; Subscription Services; Custom Solutions
• Subsegments:
• 1) By Social Media Account Management: Account Deactivation Services; Account Memorialization Services; Profile Content Preservation; Multi-Platform Account Monitoring; Legacy Contact Management
• 2) By Digital Asset Management: Personal Data Archiving; Multimedia Content Preservation; Cloud Storage Management; Password And Credential Management; Digital Inheritance Transfer
• 3) By Online Memorial Services: Virtual Memorial Pages; Tribute Video Creation; Guestbook And Condolence Management; Memorial Event Streaming; Collaborative Storytelling Platforms
• 4) By Digital Estate Planning: Will And Trust Integration; Digital Asset Inventory Creation; Executor Access Management; Secure Data Vaults; Automated Asset Transfer Systems
• Companies Mentioned: Trust And Will Inc; GoodTrust Inc; SafeBeyond Ltd; DeadSocial Ltd; Inheriti Ltd; My Life And Wishes Inc; DGLegacy Inc; Final Security LLC; IronClad Family Inc; PartingWishes Inc; Everplans Inc; Afternote Ltd; Cake Ltd; Tomorrow.me Inc; LifeSite Inc; Knotify.me Inc; PasswordBox Legacy Inc; SecureSafe AG; FutureVault Inc; Meminto Inc
• Countries: Australia; Brazil; China; France; Germany; India; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Russia; South Korea; UK; USA; Canada; Italy; Spain.
• Regions: Asia-Pacific; South East Asia; Western Europe; Eastern Europe; North America; South America; Middle East; Africa
• Time Series: Five years historic and ten years forecast.
• Data: Ratios of market size and growth to related markets, GDP proportions, expenditure per capita,
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