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Kirstine Stewart upped to VP role at Twitter

The Canadian head of operations has been named VP of North American media at the company.

September 19, 2014

Canada ripe for new streaming option: Sandvine

Netflix has more than doubled its evening traffic from three years ago, according to the broadband and network solutions company.

September 18, 2014

TIFF ’14 Industry: Shareability tops Conde Nast’s video wish list

Jed Weintrob, head of production at Conde Nast Entertainment, discusses what the company wants from factual content for its online brands and partner sites.

September 10, 2014

WFF launches project incubator for female directors

The program, from the Whistler Film Festival and the Creative Women Workshops Association, aims to help eight mid-career female director develop their projects.

August 27, 2014

Tessa Sproule wants to burst your Vubble

The former CBC exec (pictured) discusses her new digital media project, a service co-created with fellow ex-Ceeb staffer Katie MacGuire.

August 19, 2014

Twitter boosts focus on video ads

The Promoted Video feature is designed to make it easier for brands to upload and distribute video.

August 13, 2014

Games get top coin in CMF latest experimental stream

The fund distributed $4.3M across 18 projects to support development, with further investment targeted to marketing efforts for 12 other digital media projects.

July 31, 2014

Key takeaways from the JFL pitching session

Canadian web series creators Nadine Djoury and Aurora Browne win an option with Defy Media in a feedback-packed pitch session at the laugh fest in Montreal. (From Stream).

July 30, 2014

CBC and the new kid viewers

Kim Wilson, creative head at Kids’ CBC, discusses how budget cuts are less of an issue for her team than keeping up with the changes in how children consume media.

July 21, 2014

Guidestones goes from web experiment to feature thriller

Guidestones: Sunflower Noir puts more focus on narrative elements in the second season, and can now be repackaged as a TV show and feature film.

July 11, 2014

Blue Ant Media opens New York sales office

The Toronto-based media company opens a NYC unit to support its recent investment in L.A.-based music MCN Omnia Media.

July 9, 2014

CTV expands Extend slate with WIGS’ Blue

The network has acquired the Canadian rights to all three seasons of web series, which is carried by Hulu, Fox.com and WIGS in the U.S.

July 8, 2014