Craig Chapple - DEVELOP - Organisation calls on developers to help evaluate sector's size, composition and economic impact
The Entertainment Software Association of Canada is calling on developers to help it complete a study on the state of the Canadian game industry.
Working with Nordicity, the survey has been designed to help evaluate the size, composition and economic impact of the industry on Canada’s economy.
Read More +UK - Develop returns to Canada to ask what UK devs can learn ahead of the introduction of UK games tax breaks.
Read More +TORONTO – Music Canada tabled a new report Thursday identifying programs and public policies to stimulate the development of Canada’s commercial music sector. [...] “Tax credits have been very effective as a creative industry stimulus,” said Peter Lyman, senior partner at Nordicity. “Properly enhanced, they could power even more growth in the music sector and its spin-offs in the economy at large. For instance, music could take a leaf from success in the film and TV business – and leverage foreign as well as domestic investment in Canada through tax credits.”
Read More +TORONTO – March 2013 – Nordicity and the Entertainment Software Association of Canada (ESAC) have launched a study of the video game industry in Canada.
Read More +Jennie Punter, Variety.com Canadian Film Centre CEO Slawko Klymkiw’s average day is about engaging with the many moving parts of a career and biz-accelerating hub [...]. A recent economic impact study conducted by Nordicity found that since 2006, 171 alums have started media companies that have generated $101.8 million in incremental production volume — a stat that pleases Klymkiw.
Read More +OTTAWA - Rita Trichur and Steve Ladurantaye, The Globe and Mail
Industry Minister Christian Paradis announced Thursday that Ottawa is tweaking key rules to ensure at least four cellular carriers are able to compete in each region of the country after a pivotal auction of wireless spectrum takes place later this year [...]. “The industry has been holding its breath for almost a year,” said Geoff White, senior manager and regulatory consultant at Nordicity. “Now the question is: Are we hearing sighs of relief or gasping at the rules?”
Read More +David Farrell, www.newcanadianmusic.ca
Between 2011 and 2012, Canada's top ranked artists* grossed in the region of $400-million from concerts, merchandise, airplay and record sales. Cumulative career record sales top 300-million worldwide.
That's a lot of dosh, none of which is included in a new study that attempts to quantify the economic impact of the independent music sector in Canada.
Read More +TORONTO – Corus Entertainment Inc. is poised to spend almost $500-million in a series of deals that will significantly expand its footprint in the French-language television market as part of the spillover of BCE Inc.'s effort to clear the regulatory path for its acquisition of Astral Media Inc
Read More +OTTAWA – "A ruling from Canada's telecommunications regulator is bringing certainty to what independent players will pay to rent access to major Internet providers' networks, but offered little clarity on the ultimate effect on consumers' monthly bills"
Read More +Etan Vlessing, playbackonline.ca, Jan 14, 2013 Western Canadian provinces are underfunded when it comes federal subsidy pools such as those provided by the CBC, Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board of Canada (...)
Read More +WINNIPEG – January 2013 – Nordicity’s analysis of public funding of screen-based production in Canada shows that the Prairie Provinces get lower than average funding on a per-capita basis when compared to the national average.
Read More +Dan Oysey, Financial Post December 11, 2012 A study by Nordicity released in the spring showed that when asked about how likely they were to hire foreign professionals, 58% of employers said it was unlikely they would do so (...)
Read More +WINNIPEG – November 2012 – New Media Manitoba (NMM) has published The New Media Census: a groundbreaking three-part initiative for the new media industry in Manitoba, developed by Nordicity.
Read More +Karen Fournier, Financial Post, Oct 18, 2012 In a time when governments across Canada are exploring the best ways to support business innovation, one government-supported organization has found a way to prove its worth (...)
Read More +Catherine McLean, ROB Newspaper, Oct 04, 2012 Far away in distant lands, some of Canada’s most beloved cartoon characters such as Franklin the Turtle and Benjamin Bear rule the airwaves (...)
Read More +OTTAWA – October 2012– In a keynote presentation in Ottawa, Peter Lyman, Senior Partner of Nordicity, demonstrated an impressive $3.26 return on investment for each dollar the Centre for Commercialization of Research (CCR) receives in government funding, as found in the report titled The Economic Impact of the Centre for Commercialization of Research, produced by Nordicity and The Evidence Network.
Read More +TORONTO – October 2012 – In December of 2011, Nordicity completed an assignment for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Radio-Canada that sought to assess the impact on the CBC/Radio-Canada and on the wider Canadian broadcasting system if the CBC/Radio-Canada were to remove advertising from its television offerings. The report, entitled Why Advertising on CBC/Radio-Canada is Good Public Policy is available on Nordicity’s website under “Reports.” In September of 2012, Barry Kiefl posted a critique of this report on this “Canadian Media Research” blog. Nordicity’s response to Mr. Kiefl’s response follows below.
Read More +Andrea Wahbe, CDMN, Sep 19, 2012 Canadian content creators, just like startups and entrepreneurs, face challenges when seeking capital to get projects off the ground (...)
Read More +VANCOUVER – August 2012 – Crowdfunding in a Canadian Context: Exploring the Potential of Crowdfunding in the Creative Content Industries, a study conducted by Nordicity with The Canada Media Fund (CMF) was launched at Vancouver's GROW conference in August.
Read More +TORONTO – The OMDC has commissioned Nordicity, in partnership with Castledale, to determine the economic impact of the Canadian-owned, Ontario-based book publishing industry - an update to a similar OMDC-supported report published in 2004.
Read More +WINNIPEG – May 2012 – Nordicity and Manitoba Music have launched SoundCheck: An Economic Impact Study of Manitoba's Music Industry, in collaboration with a national study simultaneously led by the Canadian Independent Music Industry Association (CIMA).
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