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The Guernsey Business CensusChapter 11 of 16Draft

Media & Communications

95 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 45 organisations work in it alongside another sector.

As of 4 September 2026⧉ Cite this chapterBrowse the Media & Communications directory← The whole census

The count

95

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

140Work in it at all
8Sub-sectors on record
9Parishes represented
56With capabilities mapped
6Capability domains

Coverage

#coverage ⧉

How complete is this sector’s count?

95 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 64%

An estimated 64% 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 all140Counted over all 3,680 active organisations45 more than the 95 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 own78%Counted over all 95 active organisations74 of 95, against 67% island-wide — 11 points above the island rate, the 5th-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 23 — 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 Advertising & PR (22) and Printing & Publishing (18). 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 95 active Media & Communications organisations

Photography23 24%Advertising & PR22 23%Printing & Publishing18 19%Video Production9 9%Graphic Design & Branding6 6%Signage & Vehicle Wrapping6 6%Telecoms6 6%Broadcasting5 5%

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.

45 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".

Parishes

#parishes ⧉

St Peter Port holds 27 of them

1 in 3 of the 80 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 2 on Alderney.

Headcount#parishes-count ⧉

Media & Communications organisations by parish

A parish on record for 80 of 95 Media & Communications organisations (84%)

Organisations027
St Peter P…27St Sampson16Vale15Castel7St 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 80 of 95 Media & Communications organisations (84%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.79St Sampson1.50Vale1.43Castel1.05St Saviour—Torteval—Forest—St Martin1.29St 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 49 of 95 Media & Communications organisations (52%)

On record for 52% — indicative
051015pre-18001950–792000–09142020s

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.

Capabilities

#capabilities ⧉

What they can do

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.

By group#capability-groups ⧉

Capability groups on record

A capability on record for 56 of 95 Media & Communications organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
Marketing & design22 39%Photography & imaging15 27%Printing & publishing15 27%Signage & branded merchandise10 18%IT & technology8 14%Film, video & audio production7 13%Broadcasting6 11%Business consulting & advisory3 5%Charity, community & membership2 4%Telecoms equipment & connectivi…2 4%Recruitment, training & coaching1 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.

38 of the 56 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (68%). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes. 59% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 6 domains, against 71% island-wide. The typical mapped organisation holds 3 capabilities, against 3 island-wide.

The busiest nodes#capability-nodes ⧉

What the most organisations are on record for

A capability on record for 56 of 95 Media & Communications organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
Digital marketing14 25%Graphic design14 25%Commercial & product photography11 20%Web design & development11 20%Branding10 18%Commercial & digital printing10 18%Video production9 16%Wedding photography & film9 16%Event photography7 13%Large-format & display printing7 13%Portrait, family & newborn phot…7 13%SEO & paid search7 13%

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 56 of 95 Media & Communications organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
Organisations010
Digital mark…Graphic desi…Commercial &…Web design &…BrandingCommercial &…Video produc…Wedding phot…Event photog…Large-format…Portrait, fa…SEO & paid s…Digital mark…Graphic desi…Commercial &…Web design &…BrandingCommercial &…Video produc…Wedding phot…Event photog…Large-format…Portrait, fa…SEO & paid s…

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 51 of 95 Media & Communications organisations (54%)

On record for 54% — indicative
Core to the business32 63%This is what they do31 61%One of many services20 39%A sideline5 10%

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 ⧉

78% of Media & Communications organisations have a website of their own

Against 67% island-wide — 11 points above the island rate, the 5th-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 95 active Media & Communications organisations

Media & CommunicationsThe island
0%50%100%Has a website67%78%Website on a .gg domain17%27%Links a social account of any kind45%52%Links a Facebook page41%49%Links an Instagram account23%31%

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 own74Counted over all 95 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 domain22%Counted over all 95 active Media & Communications organisations16 of 74, against 40% of the 2,470 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.16 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 95 Media & Communications organisations (40%)

On record for 40% — indicative
Organisations open037
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

13% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 26% 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

+44
Media & Communications organisations added to the register (discovery, not openings)
0
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.

census.csvsector × parishcensus.jsonevery aggregateAbout the dataFull methodologyPress desk
Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Media & Communications, island.gg/census/media-communications — as of 4 September 2026.

The whole census →

How this chapter counts

#method ⧉

The bases every figure here divides by

This chapter counts over the 95 active organisations whose primary sector is Media & Communications — 3% of the 3,406 with a primary sector on record; the wider 140 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 80, a founding year for 49, a capability resolved to the graph for 56, 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 64% on 3 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 →