{"id":151381,"date":"2025-09-17T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151381\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:00:08","slug":"upstart-french-soccer-subscription-streaming-platform-ligue-1-tops-1-million-subs-after-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151381\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstart French Soccer Subscription Streaming Platform Ligue 1+ Tops 1 Million Subs After One Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"single-featured-image\" alt=\"Upstart French Soccer Subscription Streaming Platform Ligue 1+ Tops 1 Million Subs After One Month\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ligue1plus.jpg\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/author\/egruenwedel\/\" title=\"Posts by Erik Gruenwedel\" class=\"author url fn\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Gruenwedel<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-date\">September 17, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Ligue 1+, the upstart branded subscription streaming service for France\u2019s top-flight LFP soccer league (\u201cLigue des Football Professionnel\u201d) has generated more than 1 million (1.026 million) paid subscribers after one month of service.<\/p>\n<p>LFP, which is operating Europe\u2019s first soccer league-based SVOD, says 72% of current Ligue 1+ subscribers have committed to the entire 10-month season at $17.77 per month. The SVOD aims to make up the fiscal shortfall when streaming platform DAZN dropped coverage of Ligue 1 in 2024, which amounted to a $455 million annual fiscal loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RichText_paragraph__1foT1\">The subscriber tally, which was initially set for the entire 2025\/2026 season, underscores a strong public affinity to the French Ligue 1 McDonald\u2019s championship and French clubs, as well as an immersive content offering supported by the LFP clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RichText_paragraph__1foT1\">In addition to games, Ligue 1+ offers match highlights, behind-the-scenes video regarding match preparations and interviews with the players. <\/p>\n<p class=\"RichText_paragraph__1foT1\">With its three links \u201cKick-off, 90+1,\u201d \u201cLigue 1+ Le Club,\u201d and the new digital movie, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tLpHRrr9cfI?si=IoFjprPyG3-fQbqi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Identit\u00e9<\/a>, about the Aug. 31 Olympique Lyon vs Olympique Marseille soccer match, the SVOD aims to target more than just hardcore French soccer fans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"RichText_paragraph__1foT1\">Ligue 1+ is distributed in part by Samsung, LG, Google, Apple and Amazon Fire TV\u00a0 via the Ligue 1+ app, and on DAZN, Prime Video, RMC Sport, Molotov, Orange, Free, SFR, Bouygues Telecom. The creation of coupled offers by partners and their marketing mechanisms have reinforced the penetration of Ligue 1+ in the market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/netflix-tops-10-million-french-subscribers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix Tops 10 Million French Subscribers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Netflix has reportedly topped 10 million subscribers in France. The streamer, which launched operations in the European country in 2014, struggled for years to build consumer traction, reportedly generating just 750,000 subs by 2015. The tally reached 7 million subs\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/global-streaming-households-tops-250-million\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Global Streaming Video Households Top 250 Million<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Households worldwide paying for streaming video services exceeds 250 million, according to new data from Strategy Analytics. The firm predicts the number of homes paying for SVOD services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video will reach about 300 million\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/french-svod-use-increases-in-the-new-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">French SVOD Use Increases in the New Year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Global adoption of subscription streaming video has been slow in France \u2013 until now. New data from NPA Conseil and Harris Interactive suggest French consumers are coming around to streaming \u2013 with SVOD use up 25% in the first weeks\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erik Gruenwedel September 17, 2025 Ligue 1+, the upstart branded subscription streaming service for France\u2019s top-flight LFP soccer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,80175,64481,17729,561,82,80176],"class_list":{"0":"post-151381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-french-pro-soccer","11":"tag-lfp","12":"tag-ligue-1","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-svod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}