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WIFT-T announces Crystal Award winners
Shaw Media’s Tara Ellis and Pink Sky Entertainment’s Anne Marie La Traverse (pictured) are among this year’s winners, in the awards recognizing achievements of Canadian women and men in the screen-based industry.
W Network gets personal with Property Brothers BroCam
To capitalize on the series’ strong social media following and viewership for the online space, the one-to-two minute webisodes on multiple online platforms will feature the brothers between filming and behind the scenes.
Breakthrough producing online games for Rocket Monkeys
The company’s digital division is producing a three-game suite for the web, targeting the upcoming series’ six- to 11-year-old demo, with the first game launching in conjunction with the premiere in January.
CMF launches transmedia resource with Screen Australia
The Transmedia Multiplatform and Convergent Resource Kit will provide Canadian and Australian digital media producers with market intelligence.
Responding to audience key to transmedia success: panel
Lalita Krishna, a producer with In Sync Media, says doc makers must know what they want out of the interactive elements before they start on a project, and be willing to build on existing content to meet changing audience demands.
Bill & Sons gets an app
The app, developed by Shawn Bailey, will let users watch the full series and access the web series’ toll-free customer complaint line.
MIPCOM12: The world according to YouTube
YouTube global head of content Robert Kyncl’s standing room only keynote presentation here highlighted the video portal’s ambitions in the original content arena, as well as its ads-are-optional strategy.
Seevibes launches social media geo-targeting tool
The Montreal-based metrics firm says the feature of its new TV Dashboard precisely pinpoints social media location clusters of program audiences.
Shaw picks up Defiance from NBCUniversal
The sci-fi series is currently in production in Toronto and also features a massive multiplayer online tie-in game (pictured).
Toon Boom wins Emmy, partners with Bento Box
In addition to the Engineering Emmy win, the Montreal-based company has teamed up with Burbank, Calif-based Bento Box to create a paperless digital animation pipeline for projects such as Bob’s Burgers.
Sardine Productions, Radio-Canada team with partners on Mia series
The children’s educational pre-school series is anchored to a mouse character brand of Montreal’s Kutoka Interactive.
TV still king of multi-screen Canada, but reign is under threat: study
According to the Media Technology Monitor, each week four-screen Canadians watch more than five hours of online videos and about two and a half hours of both online TV and Netflix.
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