Who owns Viu?
Viu is not wholly owned by any single company recorded here: Canal+ (France, LSE: CAN) holds a 37.32% stake.[1]
Evidence: CANAL+ SA Annual Report 2025, Canal+ SA. Last checked .
Key facts
- Largest stakeholder
- Canal+ SA (37.32% stake) reported
- Headquarters
- 🇫🇷 France, Issy-les-Moulineaux
- Origin
- 🇭🇰 Hong Kong
- Category
- Internet & digital › Streaming & media › Streaming video
- Parent ticker
- LSE: CAN
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Viu
Viu is a streaming platform with more than 16.1 million subscribers that ranks among the top three subscription and advertising-funded video services in South-East Asia by revenue. Canal+ announced a 36.8 per cent holding in June 2024 and reported 37.32 per cent at the end of 2025 after contractual adjustments; it holds an option to take the stake to 51 per cent, which it had not exercised.
Ownership timeline of Viu
Where Viu 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.
🇭🇰 Viu and other Hong Kong brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 47 brands that began in Hong Kong. 6 of them (13%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Viu among them.
- Air Hong Kong — Cathay Pacific 🇭🇰
- BSX — Giordano 🇭🇰
- CLP Power — CLP 🇭🇰
- COSCO SHIPPING Ports — COSCO SHIPPING Ports 🇭🇰
- Café de Coral — Café de Coral 🇭🇰
- China Merchants Port — China Merchants Port 🇭🇰
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Viu?
No single company recorded here owns Viu outright. Canal+ holds a 37.32% stake.
Does Canal+ control Viu?
No. A 37.32% holding does not give control, so Canal+ shares ownership with others.
Where did Viu come from?
Viu originated in Hong Kong.
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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