The decision is part of the CRTC’s implementation of the Online Streaming Act, which requires streamers like Netflix to contribute to the Canadian content system.
The platforms will have to give the CRTC their name, address and contact information, the location where they’re incorporated and where their head office is, and “the broadcasting services offered by the online undertaking.”
“The Commission’s objectives in regard to collecting the information…include being able to contact those undertakings that have registered, keeping track of online undertakings operating in Canada, and gathering basic but essential information to better understand the Canadian online broadcasting landscape more generally,” the CRTC said.
The regulator said it’s “clear at this point that social media platforms play a large and increasingly dominant role in terms of the Canadian online broadcasting advertising market. This alone would seem to point towards a need to register such services to enable the Commission to gather further information and monitor their impact, where necessary.”
