One in every of Europe’s main industrial tv networks, TF1 Group, unveiled secure monetary outcomes for the primary half of 2025 with €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) in consolidated income, on par with final 12 months.
The largest supply of development for TF1 Group throughout the first half of the 12 months got here from digital promoting revenues, which have been up 41.4% to €92 million ($106 million), bolstered by its AVOD service TF1+. That helped the general promoting turnover of the corporate attain €782 million ($903 million), solely down 2.5% on 2024.
In unveiling its outcomes, the corporate, which incorporates six TV channels and an on-demand service TF1+, stated it maintained its outlook for 2025 regardless of a “tougher promoting market than anticipated, and with visibility remaining very restricted.”
TF1 Group, nonetheless, noticed its web revenue fall from €96 million ($110 million) to €78 million ($90 million), a drop of 18%, throughout the first six months of 2025. The corporate blamed the drop in web revenue on the distinctive surtax on company earnings launched by the French authorities this 12 months for very giant corporations whose annual turnover in not less than €1 billion.
The group’s chief monetary officer Pierre-Alain Gérard informed AFP that surtax is “anticipated to weigh between €20 million ($23.1 million) and €25 million ($28.9 million) on the complete 12 months 2025” and pointed that the group’s revenue would have been unchanged with out it.
TF1 Group’s president Rodolphe Belmer additionally argued U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive commerce coverage and tariffs threats triggered uncertainties that “weighed on advertisers’ investments.”
Whereas linear audiences are declining in all places, TF1 Group stored its rankings management in France throughout the first half of 2025 with a 33.7% market share. Its flagship channel TF1 garnered a 20.3% market share — up 9.2 factors in contrast with industrial community M6 Group. Its highest rated sequence stands as “HPI,” the French procedural sequence starring Audrey Fleurot, which has been remade by ABC as “Excessive Potential,” and lured as much as 7.8 million viewers. Whereas TF1’s on-demand service is gaining traction, the majority of TF1 Group’s audiences (79%) continues to be on linear.
The group’s movie manufacturing and distribution division, Studio TF1, can also be a supply of development. Its revenues have been up 6% to €128 million ($147 million) throughout the first half of 2025. The division is behind some excessive profile French exhibits lately launched, notably “Tout pour la Lumiere,” Netflix’s first French day by day cleaning soap.
TF1’s share worth rose by 4,81 % to €8.5 ($9.8) on the Paris inventory change after unveiling its monetary outcomes on Tuesday.
TF1 Group lately made waves with a first-of-its-kind cope with Netflix, which is able to see the latter carry TF1’s 5 free-to-air channels and on-demand content material beginning in the summertime of 2026. The TF1-Netflix alliance marks the primary time a number one industrial channel opts to be carried on a world streamer.
