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The Guernsey Business CensusChapter 11 of 16

Media & Communications

95 organisations are counted with Media & Communications as their primary sector — 1 in 36 of everything with a sector on record, and the 11th largest of 16. A further 45 work in it alongside another sector.

As of 3 September 2026⧉ Cite this chapterBrowse the Media & Communications directory← The whole census
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 figure is a measurement, not a target: it comes from the same independent comparison the whole census is measured by, restricted to this sector’s rows.

Island-wide, the Bailiwick’s true trading population is estimated at 4,877–5,990, measured 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.

A sector’s coverage is published as a percentage only. The stratum carries no confidence interval, so a sector population would be a point estimate dressed as a range — and the organisations invisible to both the census and the comparison listing pull every such estimate down.

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

Numbers you can print

#headlines ⧉

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

The signature

#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".

Where it happens

#parishes ⧉

St Peter Port holds 27 of them

1 in 3 of the 80 whose parish is on record. Beyond Guernsey, Alderney 2.

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 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.

How old it is

#age ⧉

Half of those with a founding year began after 2009

The island's median is 2006. 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 95 Media & Communications organisations (55%)

On record for 55% — 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.

What they can do

#capabilities ⧉

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

59% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 6 domains, against 71% island-wide. 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.

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 production10 18%Wedding photography & film9 16%SEO & paid search8 14%Event photography7 13%Large-format & display printing7 13%Photography7 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…SEO & paid s…Event photog…Large-format…PhotographyDigital mark…Graphic desi…Commercial &…Web design &…BrandingCommercial &…Video produc…Wedding phot…SEO & paid s…Event photog…Large-format…Photography

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.

The sector online

#digital ⧉

78% of Media & Communications have a website of its own

Against 67% island-wide — 11 points above the island rate. 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 kind48%54%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.On record for 100% — indicative

When it is open

#hours ⧉

The sector’s working week

13% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 26% on a Saturday. The median week runs 42 hours.

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 ↑

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.

The register is alive

#pulse ⧉

The last 90 days

A census that was true in January is folklore by August. This chapter re-checks itself continuously.

+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

Journalists, researchers, sector bodies and officials are welcome to these figures. Every section has a stable anchor, and every count traces to published evidence. License: 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 3 September 2026.

The two files are the whole census, not this chapter; the figures here are this sector’s slice of them. The whole census →

Denominators, briefly

#method ⧉

This chapter counts over the 95 active organisations whose primary sector is Media & Communications — 1 in 36 of the 3,407 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 divides by what is actually on record for it: a parish for 80, a founding year for 52, a capability resolved to the graph for 56, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 38. 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.

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented. 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.

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