France: YouTube main free animation offering
June 13, 2025
From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris
Along with linear television and SVoD, which has become the primary viewing platform for 4-14 year-olds in France, You Tube is also making inroads into French kids’ media consumption.
According to a study released by regulatory body Arcom at the Annecy Animation Film Festival, the platform has become the leading free of charge animation and kids offering in France. With 73.800 hours available in 2024, its animation line-up has grown 25-fold over the last 10 years.
“TV broadcasters, distributors and producers consider YouTube as a promotional window,” noted Arcom. Fifty-six per cent of the YouTube channels studied show animation works already available on a TV channel or a VoD platform. Ninety per cent of the videos are focused on children.”
Overall, 90 per cent of French viewers watch animation shows on YouTube, and 70 per cent of French parents say their kids watch animation series and French-speaking content on video sharing platforms, on YouTube mainly.
Other posts by :
- NAB vs CTIA on C-band release
- Laser terminals to operate at 100x faster
- Starlink success in Spain, but South Africa proves difficult
- RocketLab doubts over Mynaric bid
- IRIS2 free for government usage?
- Bank: AST SpaceMobile will orbit 356 satellites by 2030
- SpaceX launches 600th rocket
- Starlink: 10m customers and counting
- SES predicts end of ‘big’ Geo satellites