Mobile Apps: Generating Economic Gains for Creative Media Industries in Ontario

Mobile Apps: Generating Economic Gains for Creative Media Industries in Ontario, conducted by the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC), explores the mutual impacts of Ontario’s mobile app and creative media industries. Based on stakeholder discussions and surveys of both app developers and representatives of the book, magazine, interactive, film, tv and music sectors, the study identifies: sources of financing for app developers, levels of adoption of mobile apps by other creative media industries, incremental employment and revenues attributable to mobile apps within these sectors, occupations engaged in app creation, challenges to greater adoption of mobile apps, and growth strategies for Ontario’s creative media and mobile app industries to continue to flourish. January 15, 2014.