CANAL+ has announced that it will remove PassPresse from its offers at the end of the year. This will result in the Prisma Media application completely disappearing.
The Prisma Media press group had the idea of bringing together its around 200 press and special titles in a digital kiosk application, PassPresse.
Strong codependence between CANAL+ and Prisma Media
A good idea and which made it possible to offer it to subscribers of the sister company, CANAL+. However, the encrypted channel announced the disappearance of the kiosk from its offerings at the end of the year.
The shutdown will take place at the end of the year for CANAL+ subscribers and subscriptions will cease to be sold to individuals during the first half of 2025. The application will be maintained and annual subscriptions will run out over the course of the year. year before the complete disappearance of PassPresse.
If the decision seemed strange given the proximity between the two groups, it would above all be financial according to L'Informé.
Both companies are part of the Vivendi group but CANAL+ still had to pay for access to the kiosk for its subscribers. A cost which would be far too high compared to the actual use of the service according to our colleagues and this is why the channel decided to stop the offer.
And without CANAL+ paying money for the application, it is no longer at all profitable for Prisma Media, which has decided not to maintain it.
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