However, its close proximity to the US allows Canadian companies - particularly web-based ones where borders are somewhat moot - to prosper. Think Stumble Upon who last year sold for $75M to eBay, or Research In Motion, whose Blackberry handheld devices own the market… or many others, like Cirque Du Soleil, which founder Guy Laliberte has turned into a billion dollar entertainment behemoth.

This week I realized that we were the biggest Director (professional content producer) on YouTube Canada (and not too shabby either in YouTube Worldwide - a top 25 rank). Anyway, to get a gauge of how strong or weak this actually was, I compared us to CBC, or the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Here are the numbers and how we size up:

If I dare say so, we kick ass. I sorted the data a bit differently to see how we stack up:

Even better. I had no clue… Not to pile it on, but if you combine our initial old account and our new one, I’d say we kick even more ass.

Anyway, back to conquering the world.