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The CANAL+ group’s commitment to high-quality content and varied programming underpins its publishing strategy, designed to cater to every household member’s tastes and preferences.

In-house publishing of live channels and on-demand content

CANAL+ publishes 10 premium channels and 17 themed channels in France, spanning genres from premium sports and films to documentaries and children’s programming. CANAL+ has a unique sports offering, including over 10,000 hours of programming in 2023, featuring exclusive, multi-year access to premium sports.

The group offers a rich selection of French, European and US films, including works from major US studios (i.e. Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount Studios, Sony Pictures and Universal Studios) and a robust support of French cinema, making it the leading financial supporter of the French film industry.

The group benefits from exclusive television distribution rights post-theatre release, contributing to its unique position in the market.

It also offers a wide range of scripted series featuring upcoming and prominent French and international talent. The CANAL+-branded “Création Originale” include in-house premium original series, such as “Versailles”, “The Bureau”, “Spiral”, “War of the Worlds” and “Of Money And Blood”. The group also offers a wide range of documentaries, including its own CANAL+-branded original documentaries.

As a major producer of advertising-supported free-to-air television in France, the group operates three national channels: C8, CNEWS and CSTAR, offering a mix of general interest content, 24/7 news coverage, and entertainment focused on musical arts.

Third-party content acquisition and aggregation

CANAL+’s approach to third-party content acquisition and aggregation ensures a comprehensive content value proposition, allowing it to offer a unique and seamless experience to subscribers.

Third-party channels and platforms

The group aggregates top advertising-supported and subscription-based third-party TV channels, along with major streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+ and MAX, available both through direct integration on CANAL+’s OTT platform and app-to-app links. Benefits for subscribers include the convenience of finding their preferred content all in one place - a “one-stop shop” - and more attractive pricing through CANAL+ bundled services, compared to subscribing separately to each streaming service.

CANAL+’s OTT platform

CANAL+’s OTT platform is a state-of-the-art platform featuring over 200 live channels, on-demand content, and platform aggregation including deep integration of third-party content and aggregation of cultural non-video products such as press readers and audiobooks.

It provides the highest quality standards (4K, HDR, Dolby Atmos) and a wide range of features such as start-over, air-play, chromecast, download, multi-live and expert mode.

CANAL+’s OTT platform reflects the group’s strategy to extend the concept of subscription-TV to new OTT technology, with significant technology investments and capital expenditure, but optimised content budget.

In France, CANAL+’s OTT platform is now available on approximately 30 thousand types of devices and enables viewing up to 270,000 pieces of on-demand content (including 800 new pieces of content per day).

CANAL+ remains dedicated to providing the best possible subscription packages, tailored to diverse market demands and ensuring accessibility for the broadest audience. It offers some of the most attractive and varied content packages in the entertainment landscape.

The CANAL+ group stands out as the only entertainment platform in France providing cross-technology broadcasting capabilities, able to deliver its subscription packages through every available connectivity option, including OTT, IPTV, DTH and DTT.

While CANAL+, as a pioneer in the “Direct to Consumer” or “DtoC” approach, prefers direct contact with its subscribers, our wholesale distribution strategy and CANAL+ Brand Solutions advertising agency leverage extensive creative resources and data insights to enhance our reach and engagement.

CANAL+’s advertising sales agency, CANAL+ Brand Solutions, sells advertising both on the group’s FTA channels as well as on CANAL+’s OTT platform.

CANAL+ Brand Solutions manages both proprietary advertising inventory including in-house channels such as CANAL+, C8, CNEWS, CSTAR and CANAL+’s OTT platform, as well as third-party inventory, including channels like Eurosport, Discovery, RTL9, theatres such as UGC and the Grand Rex, and OTT platforms like MAX. CANAL+ Brand Solutions leverages the group’s creative expertise, renowned talent and extensive data insights.