Canada is the Location of Choice for Media & Entertainment

Canada is becoming an increasingly attractive location for media and entertainment companies to film and complete post-production. In fact, major blockbusters such as X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Midway, and It: Chapter Two are just a few of the many projects that have based their operations in the country.

The Canadian Media Producers Association reported that foreign producers spent $4.86 billion in Canada in 2019. What makes the country so attractive? One on hand, Canada offers a wealth of financial incentives to foreign film producers, including tax credits. Many of its provinces and territories offer additional tax credits or rebate programs to attract film producers.

Canada also boasts several data center hot spots in Western Canada, the Greater Toronto Area and Quebec. These hotspots have attracted the top cloud providers that media companies lean on to support the levels of scalability and flexibility they need to store, manage and deliver reliable content.

That said, modern film production doesn’t take place in just one location. Over the past few years, a growing number of M&E companies have increasingly relied on their network performance to collaborate effectively with business partners across geographically dispersed locations. The ongoing digital transformation of the M&E sector is incentivizing companies to search for network solutions that improve production workflows, reduce expenditures, meet bandwidth requirements and enable a fast time to market. A strong network can help these companies produce efficiently and deliver massive amounts of media content to each other and their subscribers seamlessly.

As Canada’s largest communications company, BCE Global - USA is stepping up to the plate with access to its superhighway network that spans over 165,000 miles. Offering speeds up to 100Gbps and ultra-low latency capabilities, we are the service provider that M&E companies need in order to take their operations to the next level. Better still, we have multiple points of presence in the U.S., which enables our customers to transport the vital data they need from coast-to-coast and North to South. Plus, with our years of experience as a media and entertainment organization ourselves (through Bell Media) and the ongoing investments we make in our network, those in the M&E sector can count on us to keep up with the evolving demands of the industry.

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