Interactive + Digital Media

Some of the “culture industries” as defined by Statistics Canada contribute to more than one creative industry, therefore these NAICS cannot easily be attributed to a single creative industry, nor can their business activities be proportionally allocated. In these cases, their economic contributions have been aggregated into CIERA™’s Multi-Creative Industry figures. Outlined bullets below are Multi-Creative Industry Services that do contribute to some extent to this value chain. See Multi-Creative Industry Services impacts.

The interactive and digital media industry is the only value chain with an iterative value chain process. Products are published then evolve based on consumer engagement, console and platform evolution and other factors to which the value chain responds. For the purposes of the CIERA™ tool, only the video game NAICS were mapped and Statistics Canada data related to these areas was integrated to the measurement results. This decision was made based on the fact that new codes for evolving technologies such as VR/AR have not been specifically defined and at this time it is not possible to isolate impacts relevant to these emerging industries. Creative BC will ensure to evolve the tool as new information and data specific to those industries evolves.

See full annual CIERA™ tables and multiple years of data here.

 

 

DigiBC is a non-profit association that promotes, supports and accelerates the growth, sustainability and competitiveness of B.C.’s creative technology industry, which includes the video games, VFX, animation, VR/AR/XR, and virtual production sectors.

The VRARA Vancouver chapter is the leading voice of VR/AR in British Columbia and represents the coming-together of brilliant minds across the VR/AR/MR ecosystem, from original content creators & creative distributors to innovative hardware companies and ambitious researchers.

The Frontier Collective is the first organization to formally represent and advance the interests of the region’s fastest-growing technologies, including Web3, the metaverse, VR/AR, AI, climate tech, and creative industries such as eSports, NFTs, VFX, and animation

Vancouver ACM Siggraph is a non-profit society serving researchers, professionals and artists who are involved in the fields of computer graphics and interactive techniques.

The Spark Computer Graphics Society organizes SPARK conferences & festivals and promotes and fosters the local computer graphics community in B.C.

ESAC is the voice of the Canadian video game industry. Their annual report, Essential Facts, provides important economic, demographic and public opinion data about Canada’s video game industry.

The interactive digital media tax credit (IDMTC) is for eligible registered corporations that develop interactive digital media products in B.C. after August 31, 2010 and before September 1, 2023.

The Canada Media Fund fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.