A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Canal+ in France — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Canal+ has an estimated audience of 8,988,151 people in France.
The average Canal+ fan in France is 40.0 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in Île-de-France.
The audience is concentrated in Île-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Top brand affinities include AlloCiné, Foot Mercato, Virginie Efira, with strongest over-indexing on AlloCiné (1.5× the country average).
Demographically, the Canal+ audience skews balanced with an average age of 40.0, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Patriotism, Spirituality.
Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 13 regions tracked by Rascasse.
The typical Canal+ fan in France is balanced, around 40.0 years old, with strong Patriotism tendencies and a notable affinity for AlloCiné.
The key figures that characterise the Canal+ profile in France.
45.0% are female, 55.0% are male, average age 40.0.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Female | 45.0% |
| Male | 55.0% |
| Average age | 40.0 |
| Estimated audience size | 8,988,151 |
| Age bracket | Share | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16-19 | 16% | |
| 20-29 | 22% | |
| 30-39 | 20% | |
| 40-49 | 19% | |
| 50+ | 23% |
of the worldwide Canal+ audience comes from France.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| France | 39.1% |
| Poland | 4.5% |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 3.6% |
Where the Canal+ audience in France is strongest.
| # | Region | Reach | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | ~1M | 1.25× | |
| 02 | Occitanie | ~1M | 1.23× | |
| 03 | Brittany | ~500K | 1.14× | |
| 04 | Pays de la Loire | ~600K | 1.04× | |
| 05 | Normandy | ~500K | 1.01× | |
| 06 | Centre-Val de Loire | ~400K | 0.99× | |
| 07 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | ~400K | 0.98× | |
| 08 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | ~1M | 0.96× | |
| 09 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | ~700K | 0.96× | |
| 10 | Hauts-de-France | ~800K | 0.93× | |
| 11 | Grand Est | ~700K | 0.86× | |
| 12 | Corsica | ~40K | 0.86× | |
| 13 | Île-de-France | ~1.5M | 0.83× |
The strongest cross-interests of the Canal+ audience — brands, topics and people combined.
| # | · | Interest | Category | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Virginie Efira | Movies & TV | 2.39× | ||
| 02 | Catherine Deneuve | Fashion & Accessoires | 2.03× | ||
| 03 | Didier Deschamps | Sports | 1.82× | ||
| 04 | Charles Leclerc | Sports | 1.81× | ||
| 05 | Michael Schumacher | Sports | 1.81× | ||
| 06 | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Movies & TV | 1.77× | ||
| 07 | Gilles Lellouche | Movies & TV | 1.75× | ||
| 08 | Jean Dujardin | Movies & TV | 1.71× | ||
| 09 | True Detective | Movies & TV | 1.68× | ||
| 10 | Pay television | Movies & TV | 1.64× | ||
| 11 | Alain Delon | Movies & TV | 1.64× | ||
| 12 | France Football | Sports | 1.62× | ||
| 13 | Mediapart | News | 1.61× | ||
| 14 | Jim Carrey | Movies & TV | 1.60× | ||
| 15 | Foot Mercato | Sports | 1.55× | ||
| 16 | Eurosport | Sports | 1.54× | ||
| 17 | France Inter | Music & Radio | 1.54× | ||
| 18 | Jean Reno | Movies & TV | 1.53× | ||
| 19 | AlloCiné | Movies & TV | 1.50× | ||
| 20 | Marion Cotillard | Movies & TV | 1.50× |
Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patriotism | CONSERVATISM | 1.17× | |
| Spirituality | BALANCE | 1.05× | |
| Tradition | CONSERVATISM | 1.05× |
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price Sensitivity | PREMIUM | 0.80× | |
| Individualism | JOY | 0.81× | |
| Creativity | OPEN | 0.85× |
Canal+ has an estimated audience of 8,988,151 people in France, concentrated in Île-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
45.0% of Canal+ fans are female, 55.0% are male, with an average age of 40.0 years.
Canal+ fans show strongest brand affinity for AlloCiné (1.5×), Foot Mercato (1.55×), and Virginie Efira (2.39×) over the country average.
Canal+ fans in France are most concentrated in Île-de-France (reach ~1.5M), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (reach ~1M), and Nouvelle-Aquitaine (reach ~1M). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.
Beyond Canal+ itself, the audience over-indexes on Foot Mercato (1.55×), Virginie Efira (2.39×), Eurosport (1.54×), and France Inter (1.54×) compared to the France average.
Related profiles, rankings and the same audience in other markets.
Audience size is the estimated number of people in France who actively search for Canal+. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.
This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across France. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.
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