Canadian Heritage committee  The revenue sources for the Canada Media Fund come from the department, as well as contributions from cable and satellite providers. Up until now, we've benefited from that. The revenue source from the BDUs has increased year over year as their revenues have increased. We've been

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, the funding comes in toto, and then we allocate it. It's a board decision on how we allocate it among the funds, but the whole pot has grown over the last few years.

Canadian Heritage committee  Since the experimental stream has launched, we have definitely seen more demand than we have been able to fund, up until now. There certainly is demand in this sector for financing from the Canada Media Fund.

Canadian Heritage committee  Some of the metrics we are looking at include such things as unique individuals, new individuals, sessions, downloads, streams, video starts, user actions, page views, and time spent consuming content. Those are the standard metrics we are going to try to apply to each project.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. When we select the jury we have to try to gather people from the various parts of the digital media industry to be able to evaluate these projects. Then, as Nathalie has mentioned, we have a number of jurors look at each project to evaluate it. We don't establish up front a

Canadian Heritage committee  We've just established the digital media measurement framework. It's a framework to measure the impact of the digital media projects we fund. As in television, where there's a standard for average median audience, etc., it's to come up with a measurement to compare one project ag

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. It is very much a starting point for us. It likely will evolve over time, and we've established what our advisory committee has agreed is a good place to start. We're actually applying it against a number of projects this year and we will look at those results to see if it a

Canadian Heritage committee  The primary criterion in the experimental stream is innovation. As Nathalie mentioned before, that's where we engage an international jury to assist us in going through and evaluating all the projects to assess and rank them and determine which ones are deemed eligible for fundin

Canadian Heritage committee  That is under the experimental stream, yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  I was just going to add something. You asked about the consultation with the industry which is a very important piece for us. When the fund was first announced, we did a number of cross-country tours, landing in every province and territory and meeting with members of the industr

Canadian Heritage committee  The fund was created in March 2009 and was a combination of re-branding and revision of the Canadian Television Fund and the Canada New Media Fund. That was the birth of the Canada Media Fund. The mandate is to champion the creation and promotion of successful innovative Canadia