Welcome to this year’s report, which has been completely overhauled from previous versions and now comes in one volume. The overhaul was necessitated by the dynamic reality of media industries, learning from colleagues across 38 countries, and the heightened state of flux in media landscapes where gains and losses are unevenly distributed. Readers can find previous versions from the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project (GMICP) and older editions from the Canadian Media Concentration Project.

This report documents and explains the scale, scope, and structure of the network media economy in Canada, examining which media are growing, stagnating, or declining, and whether media are becoming more diverse and pluralistic or more centralized and concentrated. It focuses on telecoms, internet access, digital markets, and traditional media, highlighting the ongoing battle between Canadian telecom conglomerates and multinational big tech companies, streaming giants, and international media conglomerates. The goal is to provide a comprehensive analysis of these complex interactions and their implications for communications in Canada.

The original version of this report was released on December 14, 2024. We re-released it on January 7, 2025, after an editorial clean up to the original and corrections to specific data points. We are releasing it once again on April 15, 2025 after the report was professionally edited and to reflect the adoption of our new house style for all reports across the GMIC Project. For more information on updates to this report, please see page 3 of the dcoument.

Recommended citation: Winseck, Dwayne, 2024, “Canada’s Network Media Economy: Growth, Concentration and Upheaval, 1984-2023”, https://doi.org/10.22215/gmicp/2024.12.124. Global Media and Internet Concentration Project, Carleton University.