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Bell Media Digital was carried out of 2011 on the momentum of strong year-over-year gains and rankings, ending the year as one of the biggest properties in the Canadian online landscape. In the past year, Bell Media was second only to YouTube (Google Sites) in Canada for total Video Views, third in total time spent viewing video, and was fifth overall among all properties online in Canada, following Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo! Read the rest of this entry »

iSIGN Media Solutions Inc., using Intel Corporation’s Audience Impression Metric software is working with 5^th Screen Digital Services, Inc. of Scott’s Valley, California to generate unique metrics to measure the effectiveness of in-store promotional campaigns in iSIGN’s digital signage network in Mac’s Milk. These metrics confirm, in real time, audience measurement, gender and age to increase effective brand advertising and generate higher revenues and ROI on the Mac’s network. Read the rest of this entry »

Hot on the heels of Valentine’s Day, fans can get set to celebrate their love for DeGrassi as the Emmy®-nominated original Canadian series returns to MuchMusic with a one-hour special TV event, February 24 at 9 p.m. ET. Kicking off the second half of Season 11 with two, back-to-back episodes, the kids of DeGrassi are sure to heat things up this winter with 14, all-new, half-hour episodes. Read the rest of this entry »

Discover how to target your customers through mobile channels. Learn strategies for successful mobile web design, content and marketing, or the emerging area of mobile commerce. Taught by leading industry professionals, the UBC Continuing Studies Tech courses are held in the evenings at UBC Robson Square. Read the rest of this entry »

Bravo! has announced the highly-anticipated return of one of history’s most intriguing and infamous families, with the Season 2 premiere of the Canadian original series The Borgias, Sunday, April 8 at 10 p.m. ET. On and off the screen, some of Canada’s finest creative talent have helped rank The Borgias as the most successful new series in Bravo!’s history. Read the rest of this entry »

Corel® announced late yesterday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Roxio® product line from Rovi Corporation. With this deal, Corel will expand its product portfolio to include Roxio’s broad range of digital media and security solutions. The acquisition includes Roxio® Creator®, the industry’s most popular digital media suite and Roxio® Toast®, the leading optical burning software on the Mac® platform. The deal is expected to close in February. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. Read the rest of this entry »

Roaring Penguin Software Inc. will be presenting the CanIt family of email filtering and archiving solutions during an SMB Nation-sponsored Webinar on January 26th at 10:00 p.m. PST.  The core of the presentation will focus on stopping spam at the gateway prior to its entry into your network.  Read the rest of this entry »

Ontario is supporting 15 projectsthat will help drive innovation and increase partnerships among the entertainment and creative sector while ensuring our place as a leader in the creative economy. Through the Entertainment and Creative Cluster Partnerships Fund, Ontario is helping promote capacity building, marketing, innovation and skills development in the book and magazine publishing, film and television, music, interactive digital media and commercial theatre industries. Read the rest of this entry »

This year, three Canadian documentaries are among the 12 documentaries selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival (January 19 to 29, 2012). They are Yung Chang’s China Heavyweight, James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot’s Indie Game: The Movie, and Jennifer Baichwal’s Payback. In addition, Telefilm’s Pitch This! winning documentary Leone Stars is among the 29 recipients of a Sundance Institute grant for feature-length documentaries. Read the rest of this entry »

iSIGN Media has developed a new data collection solution that will improve the quality of metrics businesses collect and help them apply that data to measure campaign effectiveness in real time, better engage consumers and generate sales, all while respecting consumer privacy. iSIGN will be exhibiting this new solution at Dx3 Canada in Toronto on January 25-26, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »