''Playback'' is an online Canadian
film,
broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting beg ...
, and
interactive media
Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user's actions by presenting content such as text, moving image, animation, video and audio. Since its early conception, various f ...
trade journal
A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry. The collective term for this ...
owned by
Brunico Communications
Brunico Communications is a Canadian magazine publishing company."Desktop tabloid publishing firm sports 2 publications and a profit". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 9, 1989. The company specializes primarily in online trade magazines serving medi ...
. It was previously published biweekly as a print magazine for the
Canadian entertainment industry. It is widely considered to be a "must read" amongst industry professionals.
History
The first issue of ''Playback'' magazine was published, in tabloid format, on .
The magazine has since begun to report on advancements in the online
digital media industry as well, specifically
web series
A web series (also known as a web show) is a series of scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet, which first emerged in the late 1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s. A single in ...
and
related events, media, and culture. The magazine also reports on funding resources for filmmakers, technical advancements in the industry, and
trends.
It is widely considered to be a "must read" amongst industry professionals.
In May 2010, ''Playback'' magazine stopped publishing its biweekly print edition and became an exclusively
online magazine
An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to being online only was the computer mag ...
.
References
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Biweekly magazines published in Canada
Broadcasting in Canada
Canadian film websites
Defunct magazines published in Canada
Film magazines published in Canada
Magazines established in 1986
Magazines disestablished in 2010
Magazines published in Toronto
Online magazines published in Canada
Online magazines with defunct print editions
Professional and trade magazines
Websites about digital media
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