RTL Group has reported that Q1 revenue was down 2 per cent to €1.2 billion mainly attributed to lower content revenue from Fremantle and lower TV advertising revenue, partly offset by higher streaming revenue. Group revenue was down 5.6 per cent organically. RTL Group’s total advertising revenue remained stable at €685 million (Q1 2024: €685 […]

Thomas Rabe, chief executive of German media giant Bertelsmann, says he hopes to revisit his plan to merge France’s two biggest privately owned broadcasters – M6 and TF1 – which was abandoned in 2022 as a result of regulatory opposition. Rabe told the FT that a tie-up between Bertelsmann-owned M6 and its larger rival TF1, […]

For the 2024 financial year, French broadcasting group M6 Group generated consolidated revenue of €1.31 billion, which it described as “stable” compared with the previous financial year. On a like-for-like basis, the Group’s advertising revenue totalled €1.06 billion, also stable (up 0.1 per cent) in relation to 2023, including €912.3 million of Video advertising revenue, […]

In 2024, for the first time, smartphones outnumbered TV sets in French households, with 92 per cent owning at least one smartphone, versus 90 per cent for a TV set, 87 per cent for a laptop, 72 per cent for a connected TV and 48 per cent for a tablet, according to Médiamétrie’s TV year […]

Henri de Fontaines will take over the operational management of French streaming platform M6+ in March. Julien Smadja, currently Deputy Managing Director in charge of streaming activities, will leave Groupe M6 on the same date. De Fontaines joined M6 Group as Strategy Policy Officer in 2003. Appointed Company Secretary of Studio 89 in late 2006, […]

M6 Group is continuing to develop its M6+ streaming platform and is extending its accessibility to connected televisions receiving DTT, thanks to HbbTV technology. M6+ will be accessible in France via the M6, W9 and 6ter channels and will provide free access to the entire programme catalogue. Compatible with HbbTV 2.0 televisions (post-2021), the service […]

smartclip, RTL Group’s adtech business, and M6 Publicité, the advertising sales house of Groupe M6, have announced a strategic technology partnership. smartclip’s advanced adtech solutions will progressively be integrated into M6 Publicité’s adtech stack, supporting Groupe M6’s ambition to triple its streaming revenues to €200 million by 2028. Similar to the recently announced technology partnership […]

The French broadcasting groups France Télévisions, M6 and TF1, alongside the main rights management associations (Adami, SACD, SACEM and SCAM) and producers’ associations (AnimFrance, SPI and USPA) have met at TF1 corporate headquarters to formally establish a new trade body known as LaFA – short for ‘La Filière Audiovisuelle’, or ‘the audiovisual industry’. At a […]

M6+ and Pluto TV have announced the signing of a commercial and editorial partnership that will expand their free streaming and digital businesses in France.   The partnership aims to mutually enrich the streaming platforms M6+, Groupe M6’s AVoD platform used by 26 million unique users, and Pluto TV, Paramount’s FAST service. In all ecosystems, […]