TORONTO – A YouTube channel showcasing classic Canadian content like Due South and The Littlest Hobo is catching on with Canadian audiences.
Just over a month since its launch, Encore+ now boasts over 10,000 subscriptions on YouTube, and users have viewed videos over 272,000 times, totalling more than 41,000 hours of viewed content. To date, the three top-viewed videos on the channel are the first three episodes of the first season of La Petite Vie. In the English language market, the top-viewed videos are Due South (season one, pilot), The Littlest Hobo (season two, episode one) and Are You Afraid of the Dark (season one, episode one).
Encore+ currently offers over 450 videos with more content being added weekly. New titles this month include shorts such as Hemingway: a portrait; feature films like 100 Days in the Jungle, Bethune: The Making of a Hero, Cannibal Girls, When Night is Falling, Lillies, and Varian’s War; the second season of Little Mosque on the Prairie and the third season of The Littlest Hobo.
The channel also stocks a curated bundle of some of the National Film Board of Canada’s most renowned short films, documentaries and feature films of the past 25 years, including By Woman’s Hand, The Boys of Saint-Vincent, The Company of Strangers, The Danish Poet, The Ernie Game, Ladies and Gentlemen…Mr. Leonard Cohen, Ryan and The Stratford Adventure.
Encore+ is spearheaded by the Canada Media Fund (CMF) with support from Google Canada, Bell Media, BroadbandTV (BBTV), and Deluxe Toronto. Telefilm Canada is also a key partner in this endeavor, providing financial and promotional support.
