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Digital Publishing Award nominees announced

The Digital Publishing Awards, now in their fourth year recognizing Canadian digital publications and creators, have announced this year's nominees. CBC News leads the nominations...

Online & Digital Media News – Vice Media consolidating online brands

  Vice Media is consolidating its online brands like Noisey, Munchies, and Motherboard and bringing all of its content under Vice.com as feature sections like...

Tech giant Hootsuite cuts dozens of staff in Vancouver

Hootsuite has laid off dozens of staff in Vancouver. The social media and marketing management company declined to reveal the exact number of staff let...

Online & Digital Media News – Amazon launches new ad-supported, free music streaming service

Amazon has launched a new ad-supported, free music-streaming service, available to customers with Alexa-enabled devices. Similar to the Amazon Music streaming service, that’s free...

Online & Digital Media News – Final season premiere of Game of Thrones draws 2.9M Canadians

Bell Media says 2.9 million Canadians tuned in to the final season premiere of Game of Thrones across Crave’s linear, on demand, and streaming...

Online & Digital Media News – Canadians have less trust in social media as a news source: poll

A Canadian Journalism Foundation-commissioned poll, conducted by Maru/Matchbox, shows that while social media is a top news source for both Canadians and Americans, it...

Glacier Media sells interest in Fundata, acquires Kelowna’s Castanet

Vancouver-based Glacier Media Inc. has announced the sale of its interest in Fundata Canada for $55 million, and its subsequent acquisition of Castanet Media,...

Online & Digital Media News – DAZN acquires Canadian rights to Premier League

DAZN has acquired the exclusive rights in Canada to all Premier League matches for the next three seasons, starting in Aug. 2019. In addition...

Corus acquires lifestyle entertainment digital creator network Kin Canada

Corus Entertainment has announced that it has acquired the Canadian operations of multi-platform lifestyle entertainment company Kin. Kin has been partnered with Corus since 2014...

Canadian Screen Awards recognize Digital Storytelling

The Canadian Screen Awards: Gala Honouring Digital Storytelling took place in Toronto Thursday night recognizing Canadian, digital content creators in 13 categories. New categories...

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