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THE VANCOUVER EDITION 2026

Vancouver’s
media & entertainment industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping media & entertainment in Vancouver. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

Snapshot: Funding in USD
Illustrated cover for Media & Entertainment Industry Landscape of Vancouver
CA
COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Media & Entertainment illustration
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Vancouver’s media & entertainment leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Media & Entertainment company highlights in Vancouver, snapshot 3 September 2026
Company
Invictusinvictus-md.com$109.77M85
WONDERFILMwonderfilm.com$52.51M
Thunderbirdthunderbird.tv$25.78M
Beatdapp Softwarebeatdapp.com$22.75M27
FansUnitefansunite.com$19.97M64
CBM Asia Developmentcbmasia.ca$12.23M7
Ziva Dynamicszivadynamics.com$12.21M48
Playgonplaygon.com$12.05M13
bardel entertainmentbardel.ca10 roles500
Pixiesetpixieset.com8 roles133
GeoComplygeocomply.com7 roles600
Smoking Gun Interactivesmokingguninc.com7 roles68
Atomic Cartoonsatomiccartoons.com5 roles19
Daily Hivedailyhive.com5 roles88
great pacific mediagreatpacifictv.com5 roles
thinkingboxthinkingbox.com5 roles162
Investing Newsinvestingnews.com
Legiblelegible.com61
Miningmining.com966
OwlCrateowlcrate.com
Stockhousestockhouse.com2
The Provincetheprovince.com
VENERABLE VENTURESvenerableventuresltd.com
Wccftechwccftech.com24
24 featured companies

Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗

Company discovery

Recorded evidence only

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No company example met every recorded classification, independence and public-profile gate in this snapshot. The live directory may have newer qualifying companies.

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Media & Entertainment industry KPIs in Vancouver

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

3 September 2026
Hiring participation5.6%

21 of 376 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation10.1%

38 of 376 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share56.9%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$1.52M

Midpoint of 68 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 56.9% of disclosed capital, while 89.9% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Vancouver media & entertainment has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Vancouver media & entertainment
$0$27.26M$54.51M$81.77M$109.03M2016: $279.5K20162017: $25.01M20172018: $95.64M20182019: $65.77M20192020: $37.62M20202021: $31.07M20212022: $9.02M20222023: $2.95M20232024: $19.97M20242025: $3.27M2025
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Annual media & entertainment funding and company formation in Vancouver
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$279.5K224
2017$25.01M191
2018$95.64M156
2019$65.77M227
2020$37.62M215
2021$31.07M2210
2022$9.02M135
2023$2.95M123
2024$19.97M114
2025$3.27M53
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • Invictus33.2%
  • WONDERFILM15.9%
  • Thunderbird7.8%
  • Other companies43.1%

Funding by stage

78 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel21 26.9%
Series A–B3 3.8%
Series C+ / PE0 0.0%
Grants, debt & other54 69.2%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
10 cards

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Seed11/2020
QPqp.me$2.2M

Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

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Annual accounts availability

The measured Canada identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: world_filings_distributed exposes no reviewed Canadian national-ID key; none of the designated Canadian identities carried a CIK.; The measured Canada identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: world_filings_distributed exposes no reviewed Canadian national-ID key; none of the designated Canadian identities carried a CIK.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the Vancouver companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

13 of the 376 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (3.5%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 1,247,862 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
Pixiesetpixieset.com22,149,0115467.6%
Wccftechwccftech.com6,250,4275480.1%
GeoComplygeocomply.com4,757,2643490.8%
Daily Hivedailyhive.com4,591,1845483.5%
FilmFreewayfilmfreeway.com3,436,1975530.9%
Miningmining.com2,559,9484792.2%
Pixie Set Photographymypixieset.com1,247,8625048%
the georgia straightstraight.com677,6474376.4%
Castrcastr.com533,4644559.5%
The Tyeethetyee.ca338,2454559.9%

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

23 of these companies (6.1%) publish at least one Android app — 32 apps in all, carrying 49.7M installs between them.

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q3–2025Q2).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Book Tech231.8MPDF Reader & Editor: Xodo 31.8M
Ott Video616.3MFernanfloo 15.5M
Online Photos587.9KPixieset – Studio Manager 70.7K
Tech For Film & Tv254.1KActor App by Casting Workbook 53.9K
Radio Tech215.2KPodyssey Podcast Discovery App 10.6K
Social Platforms211KErtzyx 375
Online Travel32.4KPicThrive TV Slideshow 1.3K

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2022Q4: 22022Q4: 12022Q42023Q1: 12023Q1: 02023Q12023Q2: 12023Q2: 02023Q22023Q4: 12023Q4: 02023Q42024Q3: 12024Q3: 02024Q32025Q1: 12025Q1: 12025Q12025Q2: 22025Q2: 32025Q2

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 31 of 32 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2025Q2, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Vancouver media & entertainment market map

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Consumer digital189
Enterprise tech93
Enterprise software47
B2c e-commerce30
Saas28
Marketplaces22
Internet first news publishers13
Loneliness economy12
Spatial computing11
Blockchain in media and entertainment11
Media & entertainment saas10
Fintech10

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Consumer digital

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

189companies
3.2%have hiring activity

6 companies hiring · $41.75M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

Advertising183
Subscription172
Commission on transaction85
E-commerce - service76
Sponsorship76
Fee-for-service68
E-commerce - product30
Affiliate marketing16
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 10 dated reports
Funding roundsfansunite.com ↗

FansUnite Entertainment Inc. (OTC: FUNFF) (FSE: 4UY) (“FansUnite” or the “Company“), is pleased to announce the closing of a non-brokered private placement (the “Private Placement“) pursuant to which the Company issued 359,557,912 common shares (the “Common Shares“) at a price of CAD$0.005562 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of CAD$2,000,000.

Mergers & acquisitionsthunderbird.tv ↗

The deal is priced in total at C$89M ($63.2M), with Blue Ant paying in cash and shares for all common shares in Thunderbird.

Mergers & acquisitionsvenerableventuresltd.com ↗

Venerable Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: SCMI) (doing business as "Selkirk Copper Mines") (" Selkirk Copper " or the " Company ") is pleased to announce the completion of its acquisition of a 100% interest in the Minto copper-gold-silver mine (" Project ") located in the Yukon (the " Transaction ").

Funding roundsnetworkmediagroup.ca ↗

Network Media Group Inc. announces that it has completed the previously announced non-brokered private placement offering of convertible debentures with gross proceeds of CAD$650,000.

Mergers & acquisitionsadauris.ai ↗

Landbase has acquired Adauris, a specialist in content-driven lead generation, to boost its inbound marketing capabilities and unify them with its outbound automation tools.

Funding roundsjackpotdigital.com ↗

TSX Venture Exchange has accepted for filing the Company's proposal to issue 3,000,000 shares and 2,000,000 share purchase warrants to settle outstanding debt for US$ 300,000.

Funding roundsplaygon.com ↗

TSX Venture Exchange has accepted for filing the Company's proposal to issue 65,720,407 shares to settle outstanding debt for $657,204.10.

Funding roundslegible.com ↗

Legible announces an offering of units for gross proceeds of $2,100,000 by way of a non-brokered private placement

Mergers & acquisitionsesegaming.com ↗

ESE Entertainment Inc. (TSXV: ESE) (OTCQBSS: ENTEF) (“ESE” or the “Company”), is pleased to provide a corporate update following its acquisition of Bombee Global Entertainment Ltd. (“Bombee Americas” or “Bombee”), the North American arm of the premier gaming production and entertainment company, Bombee Event Production AB (“Bombee AB”).

Contractsinvestingnews.com ↗

Under the terms of the Agreement, INN will receive a one-time payment of CAD $51,000, payable in advance. The Agreement is for an initial term of one year.

Full recorded event mix

Top 9 categories among 80 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Leadership moves
26
Earnings
21
Funding rounds
10
Mergers & acquisitions
8
Contracts
5
Regulatory
4
Company announcements
3
Buyback
2
Lawsuit
1
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Contract wins

4 recorded customer wins

Customer: MetalSource Mining INC.Marketing

Stockhouse ↗

Customer: Walker Lane Resources Ltd.Marketing & Publishing

Stockhouse ↗

Customer: ajn resourcesMarketing

Legible ↗

Customer: camb.ai

Regulatory events

4 recorded events

Thunderbird ↗

approved final substantive court order for arrangementSupreme Court of British Columbia

permit approved

ESE ↗

subject to approvalTSX Venture Exchange

Thunderbird ↗

All matters approved by shareholders

Litigation

1 tracked suits

Company
Thunderbird Entertainment Group v blue ant media

Court order postponing final order hearing in plan of arrangement between Thunderbird and Civil · Ongoing

Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

3companies
25period observations
17.2%median reported growth

Median across 12 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
blue ant mediaThunderbird ↗Completed2026-01-27$89.0M
VENERABLE VENTURESMinto copper-gold-silver mineCompleted2025-10-29Not stated in snapshot
landbaseAdauris ↗Announced2025-10-24Not stated in snapshot
ESEBombee Global Entertainment Ltd.Announced2024-10-23Not stated in snapshot
ESEBombee AmericasPending2024-10-22$4.5M
VENERABLE VENTURESKapoose Creek Bio CorporationTerminated2024-02-20Not stated in snapshot

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

214 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 317-posting snapshot covers 19 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Producer10
Director Of Engineering7
System Administrator6
Senior Game Designer6
Staff Writer5
Engineering Manager5
1 internship postings

0 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

149 postings specify a level.

unspecified
168
senior
70
manager
57
lead
14
entry
7
intern
1
ADVERTISED PAY$69.7K/ year

Median across 50 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

125 founders and chief executives across 97 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

12 profiles with education records.

The University of British Columbia
5
University of Waterloo
3
Grenoble Ecole de Management
1
The University of Edinburgh
1
University of Chicago
1
University of Oxford
1
Erasmus University Rotterdam
1
Columbia University
1

Prior employers

4 profiles with prior-work records.

Microsoft
2
Amazon
2
Cisco
1

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

34,095 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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34,095articles in the measured year
9,709articles in 2026Q1
76.7%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Media & Entertainment coverage tagged Vancouver · articles per complete quarter

03,1336,2659,39812,5302021Q2: 6,7022021Q22021Q3: 7,2132021Q4: 5,3452022Q1: 6,7272022Q2: 6,2312022Q22022Q3: 5,4722022Q4: 7,2712023Q1: 6,2802023Q2: 6,8002023Q22023Q3: 7,2642023Q4: 7,5222024Q1: 8,3392024Q2: 9,9682024Q22024Q3: 7,9812024Q4: 10,2542025Q1: 10,8962025Q2: 8,1152025Q22025Q3: 8,3492025Q4: 8,8892026Q1: 9,7092026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q26,702
2021Q37,213
2021Q45,345
2022Q16,727
2022Q26,231
2022Q35,472
2022Q47,271
2023Q16,280
2023Q26,800
2023Q37,264
2023Q47,522
2024Q18,339
2024Q29,968
2024Q37,981
2024Q410,254
2025Q110,896
2025Q28,115
2025Q38,349
2025Q48,889
2026Q19,709

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
15,960 positive · 232 neutral · 4,625 negative
2022
19,906 positive · 752 neutral · 5,009 negative
2023
21,374 positive · 304 neutral · 6,154 negative
2024
28,433 positive · 552 neutral · 7,499 negative
2025
27,769 positive · 652 neutral · 7,789 negative

Leading coverage topics

Media & Entertainment coverage tagged Vancouver · ranked by full-period article count.

Administrative And Political Subdivisions4,184,437 articles in the full recorded period
899,080 recent · 769,874 prior
Geographic Naming Conventions And Etymology81,222 articles in the full recorded period
44,913 recent · 8,626 prior
International Sports Competitions40,823 articles in the full recorded period
10,284 recent · 10,188 prior
Trade Policies And Agreements34,527 articles in the full recorded period
10,544 recent · 20,198 prior
International Political Relations29,340 articles in the full recorded period
9,297 recent · 7,890 prior
Olympic Games Coverage24,001 articles in the full recorded period
5,905 recent · 6,159 prior
Professional League Updates22,416 articles in the full recorded period
3,901 recent · 4,117 prior
Sports Broadcast Rights Updates18,803 articles in the full recorded period
2,496 recent · 3,936 prior
Sports Governance And Policy Changes17,672 articles in the full recorded period
3,252 recent · 3,407 prior
Security And Defense Policies17,028 articles in the full recorded period
4,851 recent · 4,288 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

Canada comparison coverage

KeywordRecentPriorChange
multilateral diplomacy1,07572947%
angel investors1,033385168%
ice sports878229283%
international cups83859641%
wto rulings75939393%
investment deal72144163%
conceptual rock albums656501212%
national security strategy63839562%
share price60443140%
public offering59742042%
tariff negotiations6,31315,322-59%
free trade deals3,1366,388-51%
trade dispute mechanisms2,9324,668-37%
bilateral trade1,9243,509-45%
preferential tariff1,2943,315-61%

Event and signal lenses

Canada comparison coverage

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

597,787 classified articles

tariff negotiations, free trade deals, trade dispute mechanisms

35.1% critical · 35.7% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

158,713 classified articles

angel investors, investment deal, trade deficits fx

27.7% critical · 42.6% positive
Rising

Growth

226,214 classified articles

league expansion news, nba expansion teams, earnings report

26.5% critical · 46.6% positive

Media & Entertainment coverage tagged Vancouver. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Media & Entertainment in Vancouver: key questions

Clear definitions for making better comparisons.

What does this landscape measure?

It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.

Can segment counts be added together?

No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.

What does a missing figure mean?

A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.

Company ecosystem snapshot: 3 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.

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