Who owns Viaplay?
Viaplay is not wholly owned by any single company recorded here: Canal+ (France, LSE: CAN) holds a 29.33% stake.[1]
Evidence: CANAL+ SA Annual Report 2025, Canal+ SA. Last checked .
Key facts
- Largest stakeholder
- Canal+ SA (29.33% stake) reported
- Headquarters
- 🇫🇷 France, Issy-les-Moulineaux
- Origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden, Stockholm
- Category
- Internet & digital › Streaming & media › Streaming video
- Parent ticker
- LSE: CAN
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Viaplay
Viaplay is the Nordic region's leading entertainment provider, a publicly listed streaming platform based in Stockholm with 4.8 million subscribers, which also distributes free and pay-TV channels, radio channels and the Allente satellite service in Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Canal+ holds a minority stake in it rather than control, and its Viaplay Select branded content is carried in 30 countries.
Ownership timeline of Viaplay
Where Viaplay sits in Canal+
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Canal+
Canal+ controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in streaming video, and who owns them
The 37 brands in streaming video on Brandtree belong to 25 owners. The largest is AMC Networks, with 5.
About the owner: Canal+
Canal+ is a publicly listed company headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
Canal+ is a French pay-television and content group that was separated from Vivendi and listed on the London Stock Exchange on 16 December 2024. It took control of MultiChoice on 20 September 2025 and bought out the remaining shares by December, a deal that made it the largest media and entertainment provider in Africa and took the combined group past 40 million subscribers in more than 70 countries. Alongside the pay-TV business it owns the studio Studiocanal and the video platform Dailymotion.
🇸🇪 Viaplay and other Swedish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 129 brands that began in Sweden. 56 of them (43%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Viaplay among them.
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- Minecraft — Microsoft 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Viaplay?
No single company recorded here owns Viaplay outright. Canal+ holds a 29.33% stake.
Does Canal+ control Viaplay?
No. A 29.33% holding does not give control, so Canal+ shares ownership with others.
Where did Viaplay come from?
Viaplay originated in Sweden, in Stockholm.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] CANAL+ SA Annual Report 2025 — Canal+ SA, Annual report; retrieved 24 September 2026.
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