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At the Heart of Discoverability: Where Are We At?
An update on the Alliance des producteurs francophones du Canada (APFC)’s At the Heart of Discoverability research project on digital discoverability.
This project introduced last...
At the Heart of Discoverability: Innovating, Creating and Retaining French-Canadian Audiences in the Age...
In cultural settings, and particularly in audiovisual, discoverability has become the new skill to master to ensure the emergence of local products through the...
First Portrayal of Quebec’s Digital Creativity Industry: Fast-growing Sector in Search of Qualified Professionals...
Jointly with Yuani Fragata and Francis Gosselin of Groupe Sage Consulting, our collaborator conducted the study titled First Portrayal of Quebec’s Digital Creativity Industry...
The CRTC’s Latest Communications Monitoring Report Provides a Window on a Future That Is...
In its 2018 Communications Monitoring Report, the full version of which was released last February, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), among other...
The State of Mobile 2019 by App Annie: The Digital World at the Tip...
In 2018, there were more than 4 billion mobile devices – both smartphones and tablets – in circulation worldwide. In mature markets, many people...
The State of the Digital World: Major Internet Trends in 2018
The Internet Trends Report is the industry bible, eagerly awaited each year by hordes of investors, researchers, and technology journalists who depend on it...
Out to Conquer Canadian TV Viewers: Online Television Vs. Conventional Television
Canadians can now subscribe to 25 online television services, from Netflix to Sportsnet Now and everything in between. Brahm Eiley, president of The Convergence...
CRTC’s 2017 Communications Monitoring Report: the Steady Rise of Internet TV
For the first time this year, the CRTC’s Communications Monitoring Report presents data on revenues generated from Internet services. One thing is clear: the...
Illegal Downloading: What Role do Search Engines Play in Piracy?
The following data may surprise you: 35% of the traffic to piracy sites come from a search engine, in second place after direct traffic...
Is blockchain the next disruption?
Blockchain has become one of the biggest buzzwords in the IT world in 2016. While the technology is very promising, its applications are still...
Machines that Predict What You Want to See
This is the third of a series of three posts that further examine subjects covered in Discoverability: Toward a Common Frame of Reference. This third post...
The Attention Economy: Conquering Minds
This is the first of a series of three posts that further examine subjects covered in the research report Discoverability: Toward a Common Frame of...
Financing Methods: Old Outdated Models
At the beginning of 2015, the Wall Street Journal threw a spanner in the works: “YouTube,” the headline read, “1 Billion Viewers, No Profit.”
In 2009, Time...
To each their own content
Cristos Goodrow, YouTube’s director of engineering for search and discovery, said in July 2015: “We believe that for every human being on earth, there’s 100 hours...
New creators: when public interactions become financial interactions
YouTube was already a social phenomenon in its very first year thanks to an explosion of content, unprecedented viewing stats, and the viral take-off of certain...