Market map · Canada

Media & content in Canada_

As of 4 November 2026, 26,431 media & content companies are based in Canada: 323 with 51+ employees, 80 hiring right now, led by news & content portals and Toronto.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
26,431
51+ employees
323 · 1%
Hiring now
80 · 34 new in 30 d
Largest segment
News & content portals · 10,234
Top city
Toronto · 1,035
Running cold outbound
10
26,431media & content companies in Canada
323with 51+ employees
80hiring on their own career site today
34opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Media & content in Canada, by segment

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By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
News & content portals
10,234 · 32
User content aggregator platforms
5,341 · 18
Visual art galleries & prints
3,044 · 0
Writers & independent publishing
2,023 · 0
Music & radio
1,967 · 6
Books publishing & retail
1,697 · 0
Travel blogs guides
1,524 · 2
Creator channels & influencers
1,220 · 2
Television broadcasting
1,167 · 4
Games development & publishing
603 · 17
Food recipe blogs
564 · 1
Academic & professional publishing
506 · 3
Digital assets & stock media
85 · 0
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
18,765 · 10
2-10 employees
4,978 · 26
11-50 employees
2,365 · 21
51-200 employees
229 · 11
201-500 employees
56 · 8
501-1000 employees
21 · 3
1001-5000 employees
8 · 0
5001-10000 employees
3 · 1
10,001+ employees
6 · 0
By city
companiesshare
Toronto
1,0354%
Montréal
8733%
Québec
5962%
Vancouver
2871%
Calgary
2731%
Ottawa
2161%
Downtown Toronto (Richmond / Adelaide / King)
2151%
Downtown Toronto (CN Tower / King and Spadina / Railway Lands / Harbourfront West / Bathurst Quay / South Niagara / YTZ)
1831%
Victoria
1621%
Edmonton
1290%
Downtown Toronto (Rosedale)
1040%
Downtown Toronto (Berczy Park)
980%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest media & content companies in Canada

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

26,431 media & content companies in Canada; 80 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of media & content in Canada

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26,431 media & content companies are based in Canada: 323 with 51 or more employees, 80 hiring right now (34 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by news & content portals and Toronto. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/media_content/canada)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Media & content in Canada: questions

How many media & content companies are there in Canada?

26,431 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 323 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to media & content?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which media & content companies in Canada are hiring?

80 have an open role on their own career site today and 34 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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Yes: filter on media & content and Canada, add size, city or technology, and export with verified e-mails. The first 20 largest companies are on this page.

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