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Media & Communications

98 organisations are counted with Media & Communications as their primary sector — 3% of everything with a sector on record, and the 11th largest of 16. A further 29 organisations work in it alongside another sector.

The count

98

organisations counted with Media & Communications as their primary sector, across the Bailiwick’s four inhabited islands.

127Work in it at all
8Sub-sectors on record
9Parishes represented
60With capabilities mapped
6Capability domains

How complete is this sector’s count?

98 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 67%

An estimated 67% of this sector’s organisations are counted — the 3rd-lowest measured coverage of the 16 sectors.

Every count in this chapter is a floor, never a total.

How coverage is measured →

Headline figures

#headlines ⧉

The figures you can quote

The figures in this chapter that clear the citable bar — coverage high enough, count large enough, denominator named. A figure that does not clear it appears further down as a chart, badged, or not at all.

Organisations working in Media & Communications at all127Counted over all 3,616 active organisations29 more than the 98 that call it their main line — counted in every sector they work in, so sector totals add up to more than the island does.
Media & Communications organisations with a website of their own82%Counted over all 98 active organisations80 of 98, against 67% island-wide — 15 points above the island rate, the 4th-highest own-site rate of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

What stands out

#signature ⧉

Photography leads on 24 — 1 in 4 of the sector

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector. Photography is 1 in 4 of it, ahead of Printing & Publishing (21) and Advertising & PR (19). Read this bar as a picture of the corpus as much as of the industry: photographers are the trade the census's own coverage checks find missing most often, and photography is the largest bar here. This sector's measured coverage is among the lowest of the sixteen.

Primary sub-sector#signature-composition ⧉

Media & Communications by sub-sector

Counted over all 98 active Media & Communications organisations

Photography24 24%Printing & Publishing21 21%Advertising & PR19 19%Graphic Design & Branding9 9%Video Production9 9%Signage & Vehicle Wrapping6 6%Telecoms6 6%Broadcasting4 4%

Counts each organisation's primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector. Read this bar as a picture of the corpus as much as of the industry: photographers are the trade the census's own coverage checks find missing most often, and photography is the largest bar here. This sector's measured coverage is among the lowest of the sixteen.

29 further organisations work in Media & Communications alongside another sector and are not in these bars: each is counted in the sub-sector of the sector it calls its main line. "Works in", never "is in".

St Peter Port holds 29 Media & Communications organisations

1 in 3 of the 83 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 2 on Alderney.

Media & Communications organisations by parish

A parish on record for 83 of 98 Media & Communications organisations (85%)

Organisations029
St Peter P…29St Sampson14Vale16Castel9St Saviour3Torteval1Forest1St Martin9St Andrew1

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

Guernsey parishes only; Alderney, Sark and Herm are counted in the island split above.

13 Guernsey organisations in this sector have no parish on record — a real gap, not an exclusion, and the map fills in as verification proceeds; a further 2 organisations trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Concentration#parishes-lq ⧉

Where Media & Communications is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 83 of 98 Media & Communications organisations (85%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.81St Sampson1.28Vale1.49Castel1.29St Saviour—Torteval—Forest—St Martin1.23St Andrew—

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

The same island, drawn on a location quotient: this sector's share of a parish against its share of the island. Hatched parishes hold too few of this sector to compare at all. Parishes holding fewer than 30 of this sector are drawn and tabled but never named in a sentence: a quotient over a handful of organisations moves on one new record, and a superlative that flips that easily is not one.

Founding years

#age ⧉

How old it is

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Founding era#age-eras ⧉

Media & Communications organisations by founding era

A founding year on record for 52 of 98 Media & Communications organisations (53%)

On record for 53% — indicative
01020pre-18001950–792000–09152020s

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Half of those with a founding year began after 2010. The island's median is 2006.

Founded in the 2020s15A founding year on record for 52 of 98 organisations (53%)Of those that publish a founding year at all.On record for 53% — indicative

Capabilities

#capabilities ⧉

The typical mapped organisation holds 3 capabilities, against 3 island-wide

61% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 6 domains, against 71% island-wide, the lowest capability coverage of the 13 sectors where it can be counted. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

Capability groups on record

A capability on record for 60 of 98 Media & Communications organisations (61%)

Marketing & design26 43%Photography & imaging16 27%Printing & publishing15 25%Signage & branded merchandise10 17%Broadcasting8 13%Film, video & audio production8 13%IT & technology8 13%Business consulting & advisory4 7%Recruitment, training & coaching2 3%Telecoms equipment & connectivi…2 3%Charity, community & membership1 2%

Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

42 of the 60 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (70%). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes.

The busiest nodes#capability-nodes ⧉

What the most organisations are on record for

A capability on record for 60 of 98 Media & Communications organisations (61%)

Digital marketing15 25%Graphic design15 25%Commercial & product photography12 20%Branding11 18%Web design & development11 18%Video production10 17%Wedding photography & film10 17%Commercial & digital printing8 13%Portrait, family & newborn phot…8 13%Content marketing7 12%Event photography7 12%Large-format & display printing7 12%

An organisation on two of these is counted on both, so the rows add up to more than the number of organisations.

What goes with what#capability-pairs ⧉

Capabilities held together

A capability on record for 60 of 98 Media & Communications organisations (61%)

Organisations010
Digital mark…Graphic desi…Commercial &…BrandingWeb design &…Video produc…Wedding phot…Commercial &…Portrait, fa…Content mark…Event photog…Large-format…Digital mark…Graphic desi…Commercial &…BrandingWeb design &…Video produc…Wedding phot…Commercial &…Portrait, fa…Content mark…Event photog…Large-format…

Each cell counts the organisations on record for both capabilities; the diagonal is blank on purpose. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

How central is it?#capability-roles ⧉

Is this what they do, or one of many things they do?

A positioning note on record for 56 of 98 Media & Communications organisations (57%)

On record for 57% — indicative
Core to the business37 66%This is what they do33 59%One of many services22 39%A sideline5 9%

The roles overlap: one business can be “this is what they do” for one capability and “a sideline” for another, so these rows add up past the number of businesses.

Online presence

#digital ⧉

82% of Media & Communications organisations have a website of their own

Against 67% island-wide — 15 points above the island rate, the 4th-highest own-site rate of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. The gap is the robust part: the sector’s own rate is measured over the organisations we have found, and the ones still missing are disproportionately the web-invisible.

Sector against island#digital-vs-island ⧉

Digital presence, this sector and the island

Counted over all 98 active Media & Communications organisations

Media & CommunicationsThe island
0%50%100%Has a website67%82%Website on a .gg domain17%27%Links a social account of any kind46%50%Links a Facebook page41%47%Links an Instagram account23%34%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between media & communications and the island is in the table view. Measured in share of organisations.

Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

Each row is a share of all organisations counted, in the sector and island-wide — not a share of those with a website, so the rows are comparable with one another.

Media & Communications organisations with a website of their own80Counted over all 98 active Media & Communications organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain21%Counted over all 98 active Media & Communications organisations17 of 80, against 40% of the 2,432 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.17 organisations — too few to headline

Opening hours

#hours ⧉

The sector’s working week

Seven days, twenty-four hours#hours-clock ⧉

Media & Communications organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 38 of 98 Media & Communications organisations (39%)

On record for 39% — indicative
Organisations open037
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

13% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 24% on a Saturday. The median week runs 42 hours. Published opening hours only; a business that does not publish hours is not counted as closed. 42 hold hours of some shape, of which 38 resolve to a weekly grid and 4 are seasonal or per-site prose that must not be half-parsed.

Newly verified

#pulse ⧉

The last 90 days

+43
Media & Communications organisations added to the register (discovery, not openings)
2
recorded as no longer trading in the window

Use these numbers

#use ⧉

Free to reuse, with attribution

Every section has a stable anchor and every count traces to published evidence — licence CC BY 4.0, credit “Island Graph” with a link.

Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Media & Communications, Q3 2026 edition, island.gg/census/2026-q3/media-communications — frozen 30 September 2026.

The whole Q3 2026 edition →

How this chapter counts

#method ⧉

The bases every figure here divides by

This chapter counts over the 98 active organisations whose primary sector is Media & Communications — 3% of the 3,582 with a primary sector on record; the wider 127 who work in Media & Communications at all are counted in every sector they work in, and are used only where a sentence says “works in”. Each module then divides by what is actually on record for it — a parish for 83, a founding year for 52, a capability resolved to the graph for 60, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 38 — and those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 67% on 30 September 2026, by capture–recapture against Google's business listings for the Bailiwick, with every organisation that was itself added from those listings left out of the comparison so the two counts stay independent. Every count above is a floor.

This chapter’s row on the evidence map — what each module here may and may not claim →

Full methodology — populations, tiers, biases and how coverage is measured →