Le blogue Écran de veille du Fonds des Médias du Canada a déménagé! Vous pouvez maintenant nous suivre à même le site web du FMC, au http://www.cmf-fmc.ca/fr/a-propos/veille-strategique/ecran-de-veille/1/.
Au plaisir de vous y retrouver!
Le blogue Écran de veille du Fonds des Médias du Canada a déménagé! Vous pouvez maintenant nous suivre à même le site web du FMC, au http://www.cmf-fmc.ca/fr/a-propos/veille-strategique/ecran-de-veille/1/.
Au plaisir de vous y retrouver!
Canada Media Fund’s Trendscape blog has moved! You can now follow us directly on CMF’s webpage, at http://www.cmf-fmc.ca/about-cmf/industry-intelligence/trendscape/1/?setLocale=1.
See you there!
La journée d’ouverture de C2-MTL a été marquée par le dévoilement du IBM CEO Study 2012. Cette étude biennale sonde des dirigeants d’entreprises dans le monde afin de saisir les tendances du moment en gestion des affaires. Cette année, des entrevues ont été menées auprès de plus de 1700 acteurs du milieu. Marc Chapman, associé délégué aux services d’affaires mondiaux chez IBM, est venu présenter les résultats de la recherche à la foule enthousiaste rassemblée dans le New City Gas à Montréal.
Les résultats de la recherche s’articulent autour de trois grands pôles d’orientation stratégique que les dirigeants interrogés jugent cruciaux dans l’évolution de leurs entreprises au cours des prochaines années.
Les trois constats du IBM CEO Study 2012 ont pour dénominateur commun de mettre les gens au centre du succès potentiel des entreprises. La tendance s’oriente désormais vers une philosophie où les employés sont porteurs de valeurs de l’entreprise, où les individus s’approprient les marques et les produits, eux-mêmes idéalement personnalisables, et où les relations humaines sont tissées à l’aide de la collaboration et de la co-création.
—Gabrielle Madé, Brigade de veille FMC
Opening day at C2-MTL featured the unveiling of the IBM 2012 CEO Study. This biennial initiative surveys corporate leaders around the world to gauge the latest business management trends. This year, more than 1,700 chief executive officers took part in interviews. Marc Chapman, Managing Partner with IBM Global Business Services, presented the results of the study to an enthusiastic audience at the New City Gas building in Montreal.
The findings centre around three key strategic orientations that the individuals surveyed say will be critical to the growth of their companies in the coming years.
The three orientations presented in the IBM 2012 CEO Study share one common denominator: placing people at the centre of a company’s potential success. The trend is now shifting towards a philosophy where employees live-out the company’s values; individuals adopt brands and products, which in turn, ideally are personalized. Human relations are forged through collaboration and co-creation.
—Gabrielle Madé, CMF Watch Squad
Crowdfunding is fast becoming a serious alternative to traditional financing sources for the production of content. It’s an indisputable fact.

The Social media monthly covers crowdfunding in its May 2012 issue
For a number of months, Kickstarter, the applauded American crowdfunding platform, has been making the news. First came the Sundance Film Festival , which announced that 10% of the films in its official selection had been fully or partially funded by Kickstarter. Next, two video game producers grabbed the headlines in quick succession: surpassing $1 million in their financing quests. A more recent case is that of the fledgling company that designed the Pebble watch and raised an impressive $10 million in under 30 days becoming the “richest” project in the short history of crowdfunding.
What until lately was a relatively marginal phenomenon that enabled a certain number of project promoters to launch modest initiatives, crowdfunding can no longer be ignored. The recent decision by the U.S. Congress allowing start-up companies to access crowdfunding is one obvious example of the attention the practice has been garnering.
Closer to home, Canadian project developers are also hoping to benefit from this new funding mechanism. While crowdfunding platforms exist in Canada(Haricot, Smallchange, Touscoprod), many Canadians are drawn to high-profile Kickstarter. In fact the recent HOTDOCS conference offered a few tips to anyone considering this alternative.
During a presentation entitled “Best Practices in Canadian Crowdfunding,” Richard Hanet, a partner at Lewis Birnberg Hanet LLP, recommended the following:
Le sociofinancement («crowdfunding») est en voie de devenir une alternative tout à fait sérieuse aux sources de financement traditionnelles dans le secteur de la production de contenus. Qui pourrait s’en plaindre?

Le Social Media Monthly a fait du sociofinancement son sujet du mois de mai 2012 :
Kickstarter, la célèbre plateforme de sociofinancement américaine ne cesse de faire les manchettes depuis quelques mois. D’abord, il y a eu Sundance qui a annoncé que 10% des films de sa sélection officielle étaient en tout ou en partie financés par Kickstarter.
Ensuite, coup sur coup, deux entreprises de jeux vidéo ont fait les manchettes pour avoir dépassé le cap d’un million de dollars lors de leurs levées de financement. Et, plus récemment, le cas d’une jeune entreprise qui a conçu la montre Pebble a amassé l’impressionnante somme de 10 millions de dollars en moins de 30 jours devenant du même coup le projet le plus « riche » de la récente histoire du sociofinancement.
Jusqu’à récemment un phénomène relativement marginal qui permettait à certains promoteurs de projets de lancer des initiatives modestes, le sociofinancement ne peut plus être ignoré. La récente décision du Congrès américain qui permet aux entreprises en démarrage d’accéder au sociofinancement en est un exemple patent.
Plus près de nous, les créateurs de projets canadiens souhaitent également profiter de ce nouveau mécanisme. Bien qu’il existe des plateformes de sociofinacement oeuvrant au Canada (Haricot, Smallchange, Touscoprod); certains Canadiens sont tentés par l’incontournable Kickstarter. À ce sujet, une récente conférence aux HOTDOCS a permis à tous ceux qui considèrent cette alternative d’entendre quelques conseils.
Lors de cette présentation intitulée « Best Practices in Canadian Crowdfunding », Richard Hanet, partenaire du cabinet d’avocats Lewis Birnberg Hanet LLP a rappelé ces quelques principes :
This is an exciting moment for the Canada Media Fund: earlier this week, we launched the Digital Media Performance Measurement Framework.
It’s a product of extensive research that aims to simplify how we rate digital media success. We spent many months in back-and-forth consultation with industry stakeholders. We also developed a complete process to validate our classification and measurement methodology.
Speaking for both myself and Julie Look, Director of Research and fellow co-director of this project, I wish to thank all the content producers, broadcasters, industry associations, other funding agencies and analytics experts who were involved. The challenge we faced ranking success of digital media projects across our different groups was colossal, a fact we all knew from the start. While digital media lets us track and measure almost anything, there is no common language that we can use to interpret the resulting numbers. Nor is there a unique data source – something comparable to television’s BBM ratings – that can give us an industry-wide baseline for data collection.
We wanted to “keep it simple,” but the system had to be flexible enough to encompass all types of projects supported by CMF. We think the projects we fund – whether in the Convergent or Experimental Streams – are fairly representative of the digital media landscape. That means that projects from different genres are available to users across multiple access points, including PCs, tablets, consoles and smartphones. We also allow for various delivery formats, some content arriving online and others embedded in applications or as packages downloaded and run offline.
A classification system forms one part of the Digital MediaMeasurement Framework (DMMF). This helps producers define projects and lets the CMF compare different ventures through data segmentation. The other part is powered by five widely used metrics that are standard in analytics software. The CMF will use these metrics to calculate Key Performance Indicators based on audience and consumption.
Today’s release is just the first step, an encouraging move towards much needed common measurement practices for screen-based digital media. The DMMF must keep up with our fast-paced and ever-evolving industry. Consultations will continue throughout the year, along with ongoing optimization of the framework. We will also form working committees to continue the development of the DMMF.
For more information, please see the related Digital Media Measurement Framework documents.
Catalina Briceno
Director, Industry and Market Trends