Nearly half - 46 per cent - of industry revenue is generated through two task categories:
Game Design and Development, and
Website Design and Development
Download the report:
http://www.ciaic.ca/"The 2008 Canadian Interactive Industry Profile clearly shows the future potential of this fast-growing segment of the knowledge economy," said Ian Kelso, President of the CIAIC and President and CEO of Interactive Ontario. "We believe that the story of Canada's interactive digital media and its contribution to our country's GDP, employment base and global competitiveness has only just begun to be told."
Companies participating in the 2008 edition of the CIIP, which is at present the only national study of Canada's interactive media industry, reported that revenue from interactive digital media work grew a remarkable 50.9 per cent between 2006 and 2008, and a respectable 17.4 per cent rate of growth in revenue from all sources over the same period.
Other national-level statistics of note from the 2008 CIIP include:
1. The vast majority - 85 per cent - of companies are wholly Canadian-owned;
2. 60 to 70 per cent of interactive media projects are based on original intellectual property;
3. Nearly half - 46 per cent - of industry revenue is generated through two task categories: Game Design and Development, and Website Design and Development;
4. A full third of respondents said they performed work in five or more interactive digital media task categories.
