CPDonline.ca

Name

CPDonline.ca

Legal name

CPDonline.ca Ltd.

Website

https://cpdonline.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Continuing Legal Education

NAICS

Motion Picture and Video Distribution (51212)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111), Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro primary industry

Legal & Compliance (CLE, Paralegal CE) (EDAAALAB)

Keywords

• Continuing legal education
• CPD video library
• Legal professional development
• Private video hosting
• Accredited CPD content

Headquarters

HQ city

Ottawa

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Annual Subscription Plan: Annual subscription giving access to ALL CPD content in the library. Priced at $699 per year (value of $1,200). This is the primary revenue stream offering unlimited access to the video library for professional development requirements.
2. Individual Video Purchase: Pay-per-video option allowing users to purchase specific CPD videos as needed rather than committing to an annual subscription.
3. Private Video Library Hosting: Per-video, per-year charging model for law firms hosting their own in-house CPD content in a secure private section of the site. Provides training to firm administration on video recording requirements.
4. Association Partnership Royalties: Revenue sharing with law associations where CPDonline videotapes and posts association content. Associations earn up to $5,000 per video posted via royalty schedule. For Option Two (associations self-tape), revenue sharing agreements are established per video.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

CPDonline.ca operates an on-demand video streaming platform distributing Law Society accredited continuing professional development (CPD) content to Canadian legal and finance professionals. The platform aggregates videos from leading Canadian law associations, judges, and senior counsel, sold via annual subscriptions ($699), individual video purchases, and private hosted video libraries for enterprise law firms.

Product overview

CPDonline.ca operates as a single on-demand video platform providing continuing professional development content for legal and finance professionals. The core offering is the video streaming platform with accredited CPD content, complemented by a Private Video Library service for law firms seeking to host proprietary content, and an Annual Plan subscription tier providing all-access to the content library.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CPDonline.ca Video Platform On-demand video streaming platform distributing Law Society accredited continuing professional development (CPD) videos for Canadian lawyers, paralegals, and finance professionals. Content is sourced from leading Canadian law associations, judges, and senior counsel, covering Professionalism and Substantive topics with programs ranging from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. Users register for free, then access content via annual subscription or à la carte video purchase.
• Private Video Library Service Secure, password-protected private video hosting service for law firms that record their own in-house CPD content and need to distribute it externally to select clients while maintaining controlled access. CPDonline.ca provides hosting, training to firm administration on video recording requirements and uploading, access control, supplemental materials support, and usage tracking. Charged per video per year.

Quantifiable outcome

• Annual plan valued at $1,200 available for $699

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCCLA is a key content provider partnership where CPDonline video-tapes and makes available CPD content from CCLA conferences and events including civil litigation conferences, criminal law conferences, and various professional development programs.
• Toronto Lawyers Association (TLA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTLA provides CPD content through CPDonline including ethics and professionalism programs, alternative careers panels, and various practice area nutshells. TLA members receive 20% discount on TLA content.
• Middlesex Law Association (MLA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMLA provides content including videos from the MLA Straight from the Bench Conference and Small Claims Court programs. MLA also has its own CPD programming including Equality, Diversity & Inclusion seminars.
• Frontenac Law AssociationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocated in Kingston, ON, Frontenac Law Association serves more than 200 members with regularly scheduled CPD seminars. CPDonline video-taped their 1000 Islands Conference and makes it available to Canadian lawyers.
• Trial Lawyers Association of British ColumbiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with TLABC to source speakers and provide CPD content for legal professionals across Canada.
• Osler LLPcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFirst major law firm to adopt CPDonline's private video library service. Osler's internal firewalls prevented external professionals from accessing Osler-sponsored video-taped CPD content, so they created an external private site to share content with select clients.
• Law Society of British ColumbiaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as affiliate partner on website.
• Federation of Ontario Law Associations (FOLA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFOLA bi-annual plenary conferences are hosted with CPDonline having an informational booth. CPDonline.ca provides on-demand CPD Law videos and online CPD Learning Management System & Private Video Libraries.
• Ontario Association of Black Paralegals (OABP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOABP programs on topics like Navigating Racism in the Workplace are hosted on the platform.
• The Advocacy ClubminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as affiliate partner on website.
• Write to ExciteminorOthersListed as affiliate partner on website.
• KPA LawyersminorOthersListed as affiliate partner on website.
• Cunningham Swan LLPminorOthersListed as affiliate partner on website.
• Waterloo Region Law AssociationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as affiliate partner on website.
• DroitVeloxminorOthersListed as affiliate partner on website.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Barbri: Barbri is a major legal education provider best known for bar exam prep but also offering CLE and on-demand legal training. Barbri's video-based, accredited content model for legal professionals is structurally similar to CPDonline, though anchored to the US bar prep market.
• National Business Institute: National Business Institute (NBI) provides continuing education seminars and on-demand programs for attorneys, accountants and other professionals. NBI's combination of recorded video, live seminars and accreditation-tracking maps closely to CPDonline's hybrid delivery model.
• Practising Law Institute: Practising Law Institute (PLI) is a longstanding US-based provider of live and on-demand continuing legal education for attorneys. PLI mirrors CPDonline's model of streaming accredited CLE video content to lawyers, with a subscription-based library of programs from expert practitioners. PLI is the closest international direct comparable.
• American Law Institute CLE (ALI CLE): ALI CLE produces high-end continuing legal education programs featuring authoritative speakers and accredited hours, delivered live and on-demand. The premium-speaker positioning and accredited CLE library are directly comparable to CPDonline's emphasis on eminent speakers and judges.
• Lorman Education Services: Lorman Education Services provides on-demand and live continuing professional education across legal, accounting, HR and other regulated professions in the US. Its multi-vertical subscription model and topic breadth make it a direct comparable to CPDonline's lawyer-plus-finance CPD offering.

Broad incumbents

• LexisNexis (Legal News & CLE): LexisNexis bundles legal research, news and CLE through Martindale-Hubbell and Lexis Learning into subscriptions purchased by virtually every Canadian and US law firm. As a broad incumbent with deep existing relationships, LexisNexis is the principal bundled competitor that could pressure CPDonline's standalone subscription economics.
• Thomson Reuters (West LegalEdcenter): Thomson Reuters operates West LegalEdcenter, providing on-demand CLE alongside its Westlaw and Practical Law platforms. Like LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters can bundle CLE into research subscriptions, posing a structural pricing threat to independent CLE platforms like CPDonline.

Regional players

• Osgoode Professional Development: Osgoode Professional Development, part of York University's Osgoode Hall Law School, is a leading Canadian provider of CLE for lawyers. It offers in-person and recorded programs accredited across Canadian provinces and is the most direct Canadian institutional peer to CPDonline, though it competes primarily in the in-person/livestream tier.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CPDOnlineCanada
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/cpdonlineca
• Facebookfacebook.com/737354692950616
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cpdonline-ca
• Instagraminstagram.com/cpdonline.ca

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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