Interactive

Sardine Productions launches Leon interactive comic book app

The Montreal-based animator is partnering with Societe Radio-Canada to finance and promote the apps for the Leon kids series.

Banff World Media Festival adds CBS execs to network lineup

CBC Entertainment president Nina Tassler (pictured) will deliver the opening keynote at the June event.

Canadian social TV top 3 – week of April 14

This week we see that The Borgias’ third season debut and Lost Girl‘s third season end both caused social media spikes but Big Brother Canada remained the one to beat.

Brad Pelman to shop CineCoup projects in Cannes

The ex-Alliance Films exec (pictured) will be looking to secure pre-sales for 10 short-listed film projects from the Vancouver-based film accelerator.

Manitoba extends industry tax credits, expands digital incentive

The tax incentives for film and video production and interactive digital media production have been extended to 2016, with four enhancements to the digital media incentive.

Teletoon Retro launches second-screen trivia game

The online cartoon trivia games, Toon Feud in English and Les P’tits Genies in French, are accessible via tablets, smartphones or computers.

Showcase promotes with partners and aliens

The Shaw Media channel has launched a multi-platform campaign, which includes a partnership with EB Games around Defiance and Continuum.

CineCoup down to top 40

Traffic reports from the film accelerator indicate over 100,000 views of video content on YouTube alone.

CBC expands digital presence with Microsoft partnership

A newly-launched Hockey Night in Canada app for Xbox Live will give Gold subscribers access to live game streaming and VOD content including Coach’s Corner.

Japanese game co Namco Bandai opening Vancouver studio

The game developer and publisher behind classics like Pac-Man is setting up a Vancouver subsidiary at The Centre for Digital Media (pictured) that will develop online social games.

Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Mar. 31

In this week’s installment, we see how a Big Brother Canada programming-cum-plot twist caused a spike in discussion of the property online.

Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Mar. 24

This week we see how an across-the-board increase in Facebook-based interactions influenced the social TV marketshare of Big Brother Canada, Degrassi and Republic of Doyle.