In August 2023, RTL Deutschland launched Germany’s first multimedia app, RTL+, which offers video, music, podcast, audiobook and magazine content in one app. With more than 55,000 program hours of video and TV entertainment, more than 120 million music titles, over 100,000 audiobooks and radio plays from top publishers and authors, several thousand podcast formats and around 200 successful in-house productions, RTL+ is the leading German entertainment offering in the streaming market. The most-watched programs in 2023 included original reality shows such as “Das Sommerhaus der Stars” (“The Summer House of Stars”) and “Temptation Island” as well as fictional series such as “Sisi” and “Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl” (“New Tales of Pumuckl”). The year’s most popular documentaries included “Sterben für Anfänger” (“Dying for Beginners”) and “Zverev – Der Unvollendete” (“Zverev – The Unfinished”). The soccer match between AS Monaco and Bayer Leverkusen was also a major audience magnet for RTL+ in 2023.

Successfully told stories that become the talk of Germany: Stern was the big winner in the latest “ma Pressemedien” 2024 reach analysis published by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Media-Analyse e.V. (agma). With 3.88 million readers, the magazine was clearly ahead of Spiegel (3.60 million) and Focus (3.11 million), making it, once again, the biggest over-the-counter consumer magazine. Its expansion progressed apace in the digital realm as well. By 2025, around 80 million euros are to be invested in RTL Deutschland’s reorganized publishing business with the core brands Stern, Geo, Brigitte and Gala, of which 30 million euros alone will be invested in the expansion of Stern+’s paid content offering. To mark its 75th anniversary, Stern published a compilation of pictures looking back over the past 75 years and a special anniversary edition in September.

In France, Groupe M6 secured a number of attractive sports rights in 2023, including live matches from the Women’s World Cup, the Rugby World Cup in France and the NFL. In 2024, Groupe M6 will share the free-to-air TV rights for 25 matches of UEFA Euro 2024 with TF1 and will broadcast 13 of these matches, including the final. In 2023, viewers were treated to innovative formats: In addition to the premiere of “Destination X” on M6, a new adventure reality format originally from Belgium, Groupe M6 introduced a digital interactive platform on 6play.fr and in the 6play app to give viewers a way to actively participate in the adventure.