[acc-cca-l] Global Media & Internet Concentration Project - Canada report out today!

[Guy Hoskins]

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We are delighted to announce the release of the 14th edition of Canada’s Network Media Economy: Growth, Concentration and Upheaval, 1984-2024 (available here<https://gmicp.org/canadas-network-media-economy-growth-concentration-and-upheaval-1984-2024/>).
Now drawing upon 40 years of data, this report places some of the most significant recent developments in the Canadian media and communications landscape – across markets, technologies and policies - in their proper context, identifying what is recurrent or novel, transitory or stable.  It also draws upon the latest data from the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project<https://gmicp.org/>, to see where Canada sits by international comparison across key revenue and concentration metrics.
In a constant quest to improve, this year’s edition introduces some innovations:

-            Restructured across the entire report, this edition is leaner and more accessible

-            The 2025 edition introduces cloud computing as a standalone sector, while also integrated into the overall analysis

-            The efforts by US ‘Big Tech’ firms to roll back platform regulation in Canada and internationally is a core area of analysis
A selection of headline findings include:

-            The network media economy in Canada is now defined by a Goliath vs Goliath clash between vertically integrated domestic firms – ‘big telecom’ –                      and global digital conglomerates – ‘big tech’ – that constrains consumer choice and competition.

-            Total revenue across the network media economy is $130.7 billion – an increase of a third over five years.

-            Rogers’ takeover of Shaw has driven up concentration nationally in the mobile wireless, internet access, and broadcasting distribution markets, while             its post-takeover revenue increased by one third

-            Sweeping changes to Canada’s Competition Act – partly informed by the Rogers-Shaw deal - mean that stricter, bright line rules now apply to                        mergers presumed to be anti-competitive

-            BCE remains the top company by revenue.  As it was in 2023.  And also in 1984.

-            In ten years, the market share of the big three US ‘big tech’ firms in Canada has risen from just under 5% to 20% without cloud services, or 29%                          factoring them in.

-            The crisis of journalism is real: the number of full-time journalists fell by another 1,600 in 2024

-            Three-quarters of Canadian households subscribe to a streaming (SVOD) service, although that is a drop for the second year running.
This Canada report follows editions we have already published on the state of media and internet concentration across the world, including Spain, China, Brazil, South Korea and the United States, producing a library of regularly updated reports for all of the nearly 40 countries that make up the GMICP.
Please review any of these reports and the underlying data sets here<https://gmicp.org/reports-2/>.
We invite other researchers to contribute their expertise to our efforts—please reach out to us here<https://gmicp.org/contact-us/>.
Professor Winseck – the report’s author - can be reached at dwayne.winseck at carleton.ca<mailto:dwayne.winseck at carleton.ca> or 613 769-7587 (mobile).

Dr. Guy Hoskins
Post-Doctoral Fellow & Project Manager -
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project<https://gmicp.org/>
Course Instructor - Toronto Metropolitan University<https://www.ryerson.ca/next-chapter/>
Vice-chair - Communication, Policy & Technology section - IAMCR<https://iamcr.org/>
Ghoskins@<mailto:Ghoskins at ryerson.ca>torontomu.ca<http://torontomu.ca>
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