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Dublin’s Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Video Games in Canada” report to their list of publications. The Video Games in Canada report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data 2006-2010, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. Read the rest of this entry »

Digital communications may once have been the domain of the young, but Canada’s senior citizens are increasingly crossing the digital divide, according to new research from Revera, a Canadian seniors’ accommodation, care and services.  Read the rest of this entry »

According to a report commissioned by Music Canada and released today at NXNE Interactive (NXNEi), Toronto is one of the greatest music cities in the world, and yet it could be doing much more to maximize the economic benefits of the music cluster. Read the rest of this entry »

PopCap Games has announced the results of its third survey of mobile games consumption which found an overall increase in the mobile games market, a broadening audience, new opportunities unlocked through tablets and new developments in play and spending habits. Read the rest of this entry »

The idea of living in a cashless society is gaining considerable momentum in Canada. A new survey conducted on behalf of PayPal Canada by Leger Marketing shows that 71 per cent of Canadians are comfortable with never having to handle cash to make a purchase, up 27 per cent from 2011. In fact, many Canadians are already embracing this shift – a full quarter (25 per cent) of survey respondents go more than a week without using cash. Read the rest of this entry »

Social media is gaining a foothold in Canada’s workplaces, with personal and professional use overlapping at work, according to the latest survey results from global workforce solutions provider Kelly Services®. Approximately 15 percent of employees approve of the personal use of social media during work hours, while many more view it as disruptive to workplace harmony. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced at the Banff World Media Festival the release of two new research projects. As a catalyst for the Canadian television and digital media industry, the CMF creates, aggregates and disseminates meaningful industry intelligence to assist in its policy decisions and to provide information to its partners and stakeholders. The new publications announced today, provide new perspectives on the convergence of television and connected platforms and the state of financing of the interactive media sector in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

A new poll of 400 Canadian business leaders by Queen’s School of Business reveals decidedly mixed feelings about social media.  While four in ten (39 per cent) bosses say social media is something they need to use—whether they want to or not —close to an equal number (35 per cent) say they use it heavily because it’s a good opportunity for the business, with the remaining 24 per cent saying it doesn’t add any value. Despite these divisions, a strong majority of executives (72 per cent) are planning to invest the same or more on social media versus last year. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian entertainment & media (E&M) market will grow faster than the U.S. to 2016 primarily because of higher spending on Internet access and TV subscriptions, says a new report from PwC. The Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2012-2016  shows Canada’s E&M market growing at a 6.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) compared to 5.2% in the U.S through 2016. Read the rest of this entry »

Organizations should act now to address the privacy risks associated with Big Data, and the analytics technologies used to make sense of these vast data sets, before such risks become realities. This, and other key recommendations, are detailed in a new joint report titled Privacy by Design in the Age of Big Data authored by Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, and IBM Fellow, Jeff Jonas. Read the rest of this entry »