Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Video games Audience in Canada

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Video games in Canada — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Video games has an estimated audience of 11,845,093 people in Canada.

The average Video games fan in Canada is 39.8 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in Ontario.

The audience is concentrated in Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec.

Category: Games · Type: Topic · Subtype: Gaming genre

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-10.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Video games profile in Canada.

Audience size
11.8M
in Canada
Gender
45.0%
55.0% male
Age
39.8
average years
Country rank
#79
Topic in Canada
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+23%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Video games fans

45.0% are female, 55.0% are male, average age 39.8.

Fig. 02

Gender split

45.0%
Female
55.0%
Male
Demographic split for Video games audience in Canada
MetricValue
Female45.0%
Male55.0%
Average age39.8
Estimated audience size11,845,093
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 39.8
average years
Age distribution of the Video games audience in Canada
Age bracketShare%
16-1919%
20-2919%
30-3919%
40-4920%
50+23%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

2.2%

of the worldwide Video games audience comes from Canada.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Video games
CountryShare
United States19.5%
India5.7%
Brazil4.3%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Canada average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Video games audience in Canada is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Video games fans by region: top regions in Canada
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Ontario~6.5M1.29×
02Alberta~1.5M1.19×
03British Columbia~2M1.17×
04Manitoba~500K1.10×
05Saskatchewan~400K1.07×
06Nova Scotia~400K1.07×
07New Brunswick~300K1.03×
08Newfoundland and Labrador~100K0.77×
09Prince Edward Island~40K0.77×
10Quebec~2M0.71×
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Canada who actively search for Video games. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Canada. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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