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Federal arbitrator releases paid time political broadcast schedule
Media | 07/15/2024 2:11 pm EDT
Broadcasting arbitrator Monica Song released the latest paid time political broadcast schedule for federal political parties in the coming election. The time will be assessed...
Stingray, Rogers bolstering FAST channel options
Media | 06/25/2024 12:27 pm EDT
Stingray Group Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. both announced new offerings of free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels Tuesday.
Stingray is “expanding” the array of ad-supported music it offers for free via Roku Inc. in Canada and the U.S., while...
Class action suit against SiriusXM announced following Competition Bureau fine
Media | 06/13/2024 1:29 pm EDT
A Toronto law firm is launching a class action suit against SiriusXM Radio...
Éric Forest defends CBC to colleagues in Senate debate
Media | 05/29/2024 7:10 pm EDT
Éric Forest of the Independent Senators Group took to the floor of the Red...
Billions of ad dollars leaving Canada through “tax loophole”: Friends of Canadian Media
Internet and Governance | 04/09/2024 8:11 pm EDT
Advertising on foreign digital media like Meta...
Rogers fires back at Competition Bureau over wireless plan investigation
telecom | 12/05/2023 5:47 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. is responding vehemently to the Competition...
CBC announces 600 jobs cut, decrease in programming
Media | 12/04/2023 6:48 pm EST
Canada's public broadcaster is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce and slashing some programming to deal with a $125 million budget shortfall.
CBC/Radio-Canada made the announcement Monday in a press release, adding that 600 union and non-union positions will be cut,...
Bell expands outdoor ad presence with Outfront purchase
telecom | 10/23/2023 2:02 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is increasing its footprint in outdoor advertising by buying the...
Feds, Cogeco, Quebecor, say goodbye to Meta
Internet and Governance | 07/05/2023 5:54 pm EDT
The federal government, Quebecor Inc., and Cogeco Inc., are pulling all their advertising investments...
Bell blames advertising, challenging regulatory environment, for its 1,300 layoffs and closed radio stations
Media | 06/14/2023 2:17 pm EDT
Approximately 1,300 BCE Inc. employees will be...
Proposed Quebec privacy law overhaul ‘concerning’: Bell lawyer
Media | 10/20/2020 6:17 pm EDT
Speaking Tuesday morning at an online event, Bell assistant general counsel...
Watchdog finds Telus ad on wireless prices misled consumers
telecom | 09/03/2020 4:04 pm EDT
Canada’s advertising standards body has found Telus Corp. made misleading...
Rogers profits down 53% in ‘most volatile’ quarter
Media | 07/22/2020 6:04 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. posted a 17 per cent fall in revenue and a 53...
Q3 ‘very tough’ for Corus as ad revenues plummet
Media | 06/26/2020 3:27 pm EDT
The financial impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to a “very tough quarter” for Corus...
Advertising market in ‘modest recovery’: Corus
Media | 05/27/2020 6:34 pm EDT
Canada’s television advertising market has moved to a stage of “modest recovery” after chapters of...
Calm before the COVID storm in Corus Q2
Media | 04/01/2020 5:14 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. has deferred the declaration of its dividends in response to the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 epidemic and its effect on the broadcasting industry, but the company has a “pretty good muscle memory on expense control,” according to Doug...
SCC simsub ban rejection a boon for Canadian performers: ACTRA
Media | 12/19/2019 10:15 am EST
The nation’s highest court has quashed a 2016 decision by the CRTC to ban...
Twitter lobbying on feds’ internet ad policy
Media | 11/18/2019 4:38 pm EST
Twitter Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on its internet advertising policy, following the social media company’s ban on political ads on its platform globally. The registration, effective November 1, seeks...
Quebec news funding will help with Google, Facebook dominance: Le Devoir
Media | 10/15/2019 5:56 pm EDT
As the Canada Revenue Agency considers how to administer $595-million worth...
Bell and Stingray partner on targeted ads for radio, audio streaming
Media | 09/26/2019 5:05 pm EDT
BCE Inc. and Stingray Group Inc. have launched a targeted advertising platform that allows ads to be placed on their radio stations, audio streaming apps and podcasts. The companies said in a press...
Patrick Jutras in new role at Quebecor
Media | 09/03/2019 4:28 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. announced in a release Tuesday that Patrick Jutras would take over as senior vice-president and chief advertising officer of Quebecor and its TVA Group subsidiary. Jutras was previously vice-president of digital business development at Quebecor’s Videotron. Before that he did a long stint in sales and marketing at BCE Inc. and its RDS French-language sports network, according to his LinkedIn account....
Corus separately lobbied gov’t on journalism tax credits
Media | 08/28/2019 3:31 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. registered to lobby the government to promote the eligibility of broadcasters for a new journalism tax initiative announced by the federal government late last year. The...
Twitter bans pre-election political advertising
Media | 06/26/2019 6:20 pm EDT
Ending several months of uncertainty and speculations, Twitter Inc. has declared that it will join Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine in not selling any political advertisements in Canada in the...
Junk food bill S-228 left to die on order paper
Media | 06/24/2019 5:25 pm EDT
A bill aimed at improving children’s health by limiting the advertising of unhealthy foods to them,...
Facebook sets higher standards in guidelines than laws: Chan
Media | 05/10/2019 6:09 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said Friday the platform’s community guidelines, “in many respects,” go above what is currently prescribed in Canadian law, as the...
Ethics committee grills Google over political ads decision
Media | 05/10/2019 2:31 pm EDT
OTTAWA — In an at-times tense hearing of the House of Commons ethics committee, executives from the Canada office of Alphabet Inc.’s Google made the case that the company was technologically...
Corus’ turnaround partly propelled by ads returning to linear
Media | 04/05/2019 6:36 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it will see TV ad growth in the third quarter...
Facebook forms team for advice on ad registry
Media | 03/18/2019 2:39 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. will solicit the advice of an advisory group as part of its effort to ensure its ad registry captures key issues leading to the 2019 federal election. The group of five will include former NDP deputy leader Megan...
Bell launches system for targeted TV ads
telecom | 01/09/2019 2:37 pm EST
BCE Inc.’s media division has launched a tool allowing its TV advertising clients to more specifically...
MPs onside with alcohol ad standards
telecom | 12/13/2018 11:57 am EST
An industry group has created a code of conduct governing the content and application of beer advertising, which will affect how beer is advertised on TV, radio and online.
Beer Canada created the “Responsible Advertising and Marketing Code,” updated in late...
Accurate audience measurements for radio lacking, conference hears
Media | 11/09/2018 6:15 pm EST
TORONTO — The radio industry has a “big problem” with a lack of...
Corus expecting TV ad revenue to stabilize in a ‘handful’ of years
Media | 10/19/2018 5:57 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s wild ride through the unpredictable TV ad...
Ad sales up 6%, but CBC still wants out of ‘softening’ ad market
Media | 10/11/2018 4:14 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada saw a nearly six per cent boost in its total ad revenue...
Broadcasters’ association, Corus, add new lobby registrations
Media | 08/24/2018 11:33 am EDT
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters registered to lobby the federal government on its review of the Copyright Act in July, which was otherwise a sleepy month in telecom and media government...
Senate committee calls for study of online ad tax deductibility
Media | 08/21/2018 4:10 pm EDT
The Senate transport and communications committee said Tuesday the government should hold a full study into the issue of taxing advertising on foreign online platforms.
“Witnesses representing various segments of Canada’s media industry told the committee that...
Stingray buys digital media producer
Media | 08/02/2018 4:32 pm EDT
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has acquired digital media company Novramedia Inc., it said in a release on Wednesday. Novramedia develops and manages digital media products, like digital signage, software applications and...
Numeris’ new digital measurement a ‘necessary step’: expert
Media | 07/16/2018 5:07 pm EDT
Broadcasters with multiplatform properties are expected to benefit from a...
Broadcast revenue bleeding got worse in 2017: CRTC
Media | 07/09/2018 8:30 pm EDT
According to the latest data from the CRTC, the Canadian broadcasting and broadcast distribution...
Twitter lobbying on online ads in wake of proposed elections bill
Media | 07/09/2018 1:17 pm EDT
Twitter Inc. wants to make sure the government understands how online...
Canadian broadcasters drawn by ‘ton of momentum’ in podcasting
Media | 07/06/2018 11:11 am EDT
In early May, the Liberal government faced questions in the House of...
Media sector, senator back change to ad tax exemption
Media | 06/06/2018 3:47 pm EDT
OTTAWA — A proposal to eliminate a tax exemption for advertising on foreign digital media received...
Apple takes aim at targeted ads with browser privacy features
Media | 06/04/2018 5:07 pm EDT
During its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, Apple Inc....
Bell to sell ad space for online video company
Media | 05/31/2018 3:39 pm EDT
Online video production and syndication company WatchMojo Inc. has signed an advertising sales deal with...
CraveTV price increases to help make up for advertising pressure: analyst
Media | 05/25/2018 3:53 pm EDT
Increasing prices for BCE Inc.’s CraveTV will help improve the performance of Bell’s media division, National Bank analyst Adam Shine said in a Friday note.
The cost of...
Balsillie-led Centre for Digital Rights registers to lobby
Media | 05/25/2018 12:33 pm EDT
A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...
Optics for gov’t could hamper tax on foreign ads proposal: Friends
Media | 05/22/2018 5:15 pm EDT
OTTAWA — A media advocacy group calling for changes that would upend the...
Rogers, Bell add junk food bill concerns to lobby efforts
Media | 04/25/2018 2:54 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. have registered to lobby the...
Senate committee to look into issue of tax on foreign ads
Media | 04/24/2018 5:58 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The chairman of the Senate transport and communications...
Changes coming to Facebook advertising programs: eMarketer
Media | 04/23/2018 8:36 pm EDT
Advertisers on Facebook Inc. should expect changes — like less reliance on third-party data and better consent tools — to the platform after the privacy breach revelations this spring, says industry group eMarketer Inc. In a Monday report, the advertising group said changes to how the social media company handles the data it collects are the consequences of high profile privacy scandals and approaching European Union data regulation. “Facebook has begun a top- to-bottom review of data practices on its platform, which is leading to major changes for advertisers,” read the report....
Corus plans TV ad tech test next month
Media | 04/05/2018 6:29 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. is “accelerating” its transformation into a more data-centric company, its...
Ad complaints on TV highest, despite trust in medium: Ad Standards
Media | 04/04/2018 5:42 pm EDT
Despite the impact of cord-cutting on the conventional television space in...
Treat Facebook as broadcaster in 2019 election: professor
Media | 03/14/2018 5:35 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Treating social media companies, such as Facebook Inc., as...
Data, programmatic ads benefit in telecoms’ media ownership: Moody’s
Media | 02/23/2018 12:53 pm EST
Data insights and programmatic advertising that could disrupt digital...
Ad-supported VOD rising as OTT grips TV market
Media | 02/02/2018 6:54 pm EST
OTTAWA — More competition in the over-the-top (OTT) space is driving a trend of more ad-supported...
Canadian media industry still behind on data, conference hears
Media | 02/01/2018 7:57 pm EST
OTTAWA — The Canadian television industry is behind the curve when it...
Supreme Court denies Bell’s request for stay on simsub ban
Media | 01/26/2018 4:55 pm EST
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has denied BCE Inc.’s request for a...
Bill on junk food ads for kids could do ‘significant damage’: Corus
Media | 01/24/2018 4:20 pm EST
Proposed legislation intended to combat the marketing of unhealthy food and...
As its TV ad revenue drops, Corus says ad tech is the future
Media | 01/10/2018 6:05 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives emphasized their optimism about future plans in the advertising technology and programmatic ad space as the company reported quarterly results Wednesday that showed its television advertising revenues fell to the tune of four per cent in...
As programmatic ads grow, GDPR could pose a problem: expert
telecom | 01/04/2018 6:16 pm EST
Automatic, data-based advertising has grown significantly over the years...
Automated advertising set to grow in Canada: report
Media | 12/19/2017 3:22 pm EST
Canadian programmatic digital ad spending will account for two-thirds of display advertising by 2018, says a recent report from market research company eMarketer Inc. released on Tuesday. Programmatic ads are purchased and...
Tech giants increasing grip on advertising in Canada: report
Media | 11/21/2017 3:57 pm EST
While the total amount of advertising money flowing to Canadian media has...
Potential described video costs ‘exorbitant’: TVA Group
Media | 11/10/2017 3:27 pm EST
Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Group has requested the modification of a condition...
Facebook to test more transparent ads in Canada
Media | 10/30/2017 5:01 pm EDT
Canada will be the testbed for Facebook Inc.’s new advertising transparency policies, according to a blog post on Oct. 27.
In November Canadian Facebook users will be able to see more information about advertisements found on a brand’s Facebook Page, the post said....
Rory Capern hired at Pelmorex
Media | 10/25/2017 4:39 pm EDT
In a press release on Wednesday, Pelmorex Corp. announced that Rory Capern will join the company as...
Facebook to hand over Russia ads to Congress
Media | 09/22/2017 2:25 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. will cooperate with the U.S. Congress on its investigation into Russian meddling in the...
Bell Media promotes Stewart Johnston as Stuart Garvie departs
Media | 09/07/2017 2:13 pm EDT
BCE Inc.’s media division announced Thursday three of its executives...
Facebook to penalize false news disseminators
Media | 08/29/2017 6:41 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. is escalating its war against false news by banning the purchase of advertisements by...
Bell files Part 1 against Super Bowl simsub order
Media | 08/01/2017 5:28 pm EDT
With six months until kick off, BCE Inc. and its supporters are asking the CRTC to put a freeze on its...
Gerry MacKrell to head Canadian Broadcast Sales
Media | 07/27/2017 3:25 pm EDT
Gerry MacKrell will be the new head of the country’s biggest radio sales company as of Sept. 1,...
TNW Wireless, iFramed sold to U.S. company
Media | 06/28/2017 5:05 pm EDT
Investel Capital Corp.’s TNW Wireless Inc. has been sold to an American holding and management company, United American Corp., the Florida-based company announced in a Wednesday press release. TNW Wireless, which serves...
Corus sees revenue, profit boost in Q3
Media | 06/27/2017 12:46 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported increases in both revenues and profit Tuesday, numbers that reflected its purchase of Shaw Communications Inc.’s media division last year. For the three months ended May 31, the...
‘Level playing field’ for foreign digital news services: committee
Media | 06/15/2017 4:52 pm EDT
OTTAWA — After a year of study and hearing from 131 witnesses, some of them multiple times, the House of Commons’ heritage committee delivered a report aiming to tackle a...
ISED suspends CASL lawsuit rules
telecom | 06/08/2017 11:53 am EDT
The federal government is suspending rules in Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL) that would make it possible to for lawsuits to be filed against individuals and organizations for breaking the rules. In a press release...
Rogers Media Sales signs with weather, food brands
Media | 06/06/2017 4:26 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Tuesday its media sales division had signed two deals that “expand reach and deliver brand-safe, premium-content environments to advertisers.” In a press release, the company said the...
CBC privatization bill dies in House
Media | 05/04/2017 8:04 pm EDT
A private member’s bill to privatize CBC/Radio-Canada met a decisive defeat Wednesday night, after members of Parliament voted 260-6 to send it to the legislation graveyard. Saskatchewan MP and Conservative Party...
Digital ads only in their infancy, Google’s Gingras says
Media | 04/13/2017 9:01 pm EDT
MONTREAL — Digital advertising will continue to evolve into new forms we can’t yet predict, Richard Gingras, vice-president of Alphabet Inc.’s Google News,...
Mobile ad spending on the rise: report
Media | 04/12/2017 4:53 pm EDT
Canadian advertisers are catching up to their American counterparts, with the market share of digital ad spending on mobile platforms forecast to hit 77.6 per cent by 2021, according to research firm eMarketer Inc. This year, that share is expected to be 59.1 per cent of digital ad spending, with an estimated $2.82 billion spent on mobile, compared to an expected 70.3-per-cent share in the United States. By 2021, eMarketer is predicting that gap will shrink, with Canada experiencing a 40 per cent growth rate, leading to it sitting less than two percentage points behind the American 2021...
Bell says retroactive regulation can’t be basis for simsub ban
Media | 04/11/2017 9:11 pm EDT
The CRTC can’t retroactively apply regulations established almost a year after the fact to justify its prohibition simultaneous substitution during the broadcast of the National Football...
Ad pulls from YouTube show money shift to TV: Corus CEO
Media | 04/06/2017 8:05 pm EDT
The fallout from Alphabet Inc.’s placing of advertisements next to unfavourable content is in line with an ongoing trend of some advertisers shifting money from digital back to traditional...
Karine Moses and Debbie Drutz move up at Bell Media
Media | 04/05/2017 3:29 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has announced two new appointments in its Bell Media division. Karine Moses, president of advertising arm Astral Out of Home (AOOH) since July 2016, is having her role in the company expanded to...
Google to change ad policy after U.K. controversy
Media | 03/21/2017 7:08 pm EDT
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will give companies that advertise on its platforms more control over where their ads are placed, the company said in a blog post Tuesday. “Recently, we had a number of cases where...
Corus to sell cookie data to advertisers
Media | 03/06/2017 10:11 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. is now selling to advertisers users’ cookie data to better target audience members, the company announced Monday. In a press release, Corus said it’s the “first major Canadian...
Facebook, Google not ‘arbiters of truth,’ committee hears
Media | 02/15/2017 12:24 am EST
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada told members of Parliament Tuesday they don’t see themselves as “arbiters of truth” in...
Bell Media cutting jobs
Media | 01/31/2017 6:04 pm EST
BCE Inc.’s media division is “reducing a number of positions” across the country, spokesman Scott Henderson confirmed Tuesday, though he declined to specify the number of people that will be affected. The job cuts are part of a “restructuring that includes local...
Bell plans viewer contests, Letterkenny broadcast for Super Bowl
Media | 01/26/2017 8:17 pm EST
BCE Inc. has given more details about its broadcast plans for the upcoming National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl, including pointing fans to a resource where they can watch American ads in...
Reform tax laws, tweak CBC to bolster media landscape: PPF
Media | 01/26/2017 5:46 pm EST
Phasing out CBC/Radio-Canada’s sale of digital ads and tweaking tax laws to prevent companies from claiming exemptions for advertising on foreign digital platforms are among the recommendations put forward by the Public Policy Forum following a six-month study on the state of Canadian news media. In a report released Thursday, the Canadian think tank made a dozen recommendations “aimed at ensuring the news media and journalists continue in their role as the watchdogs over our elected representatives and public institutions and the connective tissue within our...
Tax deduction change would boost ad revenue $250-$450M: Friends
Media | 01/23/2017 9:24 pm EST
Removing tax deductions for advertising on non-Canadian online media outlets could help the beleaguered local media and news sectors, while saving the government money, according to a new paper from...
Bell, NFL file appeal of Super Bowl simsub rules
Media | 01/03/2017 8:41 pm EST
BCE Inc. and the National Football League (NFL) have filed appeals in federal court arguing that the CRTC lacks the authority to ban the use of simultaneous substitution for the Super Bowl. The latest appeals, filed Dec. 28,...
Bell asks gov’t for 600 MHz revenue fund for OTA
telecom | 01/03/2017 6:15 pm EST
BCE Inc. is asking the federal government to use part of the proceeds from its upcoming 600 MHz spectrum auction for a revenue fund to support local television. In a submission filed in response to...
CBC asks for 35% funding boost to go ad-free
Media | 11/28/2016 10:31 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada is asking the federal government for an increase in its funding so that it can eliminate advertising on its platforms. In a submission made as part of a government review of Canadian content in a digital...
Bernier would streamline CBC’s mandate, remove ads as CPC leader
Media | 11/23/2016 9:22 pm EST
OTTAWA — Conservative MP Maxime Bernier said Wednesday that if he is selected as the next leader of the federal Conservative Party and the next Canadian prime minister, he would move to make changes to CBC/Radio-Canada that would keep it from competing with the private sector. “Do we need a public broadcaster that runs bad Canadian copies of American popular shows?” Bernier asked, during a press conference on Parliament Hill, also questioning the need for CBC to air...
Ending CBC’s $25M in digital ads won’t help other media: Lacroix
Media | 11/22/2016 5:45 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada CEO Hubert Lacroix has responded to recent statements by the heads of some Canadian newspapers about the public broadcaster competing in the digital advertising space, writing...
CBC, Facebook digital ad sales hurting newspapers, committee hears
telecom | 11/18/2016 10:15 pm EST
OTTAWA — The Canadian government should review its mandate for CBC/Radio-Canada in light of the national broadcaster and foreign digital competitors taking away ad dollars...
Google not ‘grabbing’ media revenue, VP tells MPs
Media | 11/15/2016 9:53 pm EST
OTTAWA — Creating the oft-asked-for level playing field by making foreign digital services subject to Canadian sales tax would hurt smaller companies trying to break into the country’s market, a House of Commons...
Media companies looking to MCNs to reach younger audiences
Media | 11/11/2016 9:17 pm EST
Multi-channel networks (MCNs) have carved out a space in the online video ecosystem in recent years, leading traditional broadcasters to move into MCNs as a relatively low-risk way to reach younger...
Bell Media launches new online ad targeting tools
Media | 11/09/2016 6:01 pm EST
BCE Inc.’s Bell Media has made available to its online advertisers two new services that it says will enable ”expanded and more accurate targeting against Bell Media audiences.” Advertisers will be able to use...
Family Channel advertising OK ‘clearly positive’: Canaccord
Media | 11/03/2016 8:35 pm EDT
DHX Media Ltd. announced Thursday it received approval from the CRTC to allow broadcast advertising on its specialty Family channel, a move that one analyst describes as “clearly...
Court dismisses Super Bowl simsub appeal, Bell to re-file
Media | 09/06/2016 8:26 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed BCE Inc.’s appeal of the CRTC’s move to ban simultaneous substitution for the Super Bowl, deciding that the case, which was launched before...
CRTC tells CBC to drop ads on Radio 2, ICI Musique
Media | 08/31/2016 8:14 pm EDT
The end of August also marked the final day CBC/Radio-Canada could broadcast national advertising on its Radio 2 and ICI Musique stations, following a CRTC decision denying a request to extend their ability to air ads for another...
Snapchat facing patent infringement lawsuit
Media | 08/24/2016 4:34 pm EDT
A Canadian company is suing Snapchat Inc. alleging it is infringing on its patented technology. Vancouver-based Investel Capital Corp. filed a statement of claim in federal court Wednesday claiming that the social media giant is using its proprietary technology called iFramed that allows for the integration of advertisements into user-generated social media content, according to the court documents. The geo-location data gathered from users and resulting insertion of advertiser's content into posted picture and subsequent monetization to users is vital and key to the use of social...