Canada triples streamers’ required content payments to 15%

The immediate effect is a larger mandatory carve-out from Canadian streaming revenue: large online services must now send 15% of Canadian revenues to Canadian content. That raises the compliance burden for American-based streamers operating in the market, because the regulator has tripled the prior contribution level. For the broader streaming ecosystem, this is a clear example of domestic content funding rules tightening around online platforms rather than traditional broadcasters. The next concrete signal to watch is how much revenue Canadian streamers disclose as subject to the 15% requirement, and which services are classified as “large online streaming services.”